TEIGOKOPHOEA. 487 



about to middle of frons and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; 

 frons smooth with large tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male witli 

 fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed with hair only ; the tegulte produced to a 

 dorsal ridge, the prothorax with triangular crest, the metathorax with large 

 paired spreading crests ; tibise moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen clothed 

 with rough hair at base, with dorsal crests on basal segments and lateral 

 fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex obliquely truncate, the termen and 

 cilia typically strongly dentate, the termen excised from vein 4 to tornus 

 veins o and o from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 

 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent froui below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 

 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen and cilia strongly dentate and the termen 

 strongly excised below vein 4. 



A, Fore wing with the V-shaped mark between orbicular and 



reniform filled in with dark brown mctmdosa. 



B. Fore wing witli the V-shaped mark between orbicular and 



reniform not filled in with dark brown iris. 



3347. Trigonopliora meticnlosa. 



Nociua meticidosa, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 513 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 

 p. 112, IF. 5-7: Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 67; Dap. Lep. Fr. vi. 

 p. 340, pl. 94. f. 3 ; Donovan, Brit. Ins. iv. pl. 139 ; Steph. III. Brit. 

 Ent., Haust. iii. p. 83 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. 



Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous ; palpi pale 

 red except ai tips ; sides of frons brownish red ; tegulae with fine 

 brown lines at middle and tips ; patagia with fine brown line near 

 base and slight streak on upper edge ; metathoracic crests bright 

 rufous ; pectus pule red ; legs pale brown, the spurs, extremity of 

 tibite and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 pale red on terminal half, the crests brownish, the ventral surface 

 pale red with fuscous sublatei'al points and ventral streak. Fore 



Fig. 96. — Trigonophora meticidosa, (^ . ]. 



wing with the basal area and costal area to beyond middle pale pink ; 

 the antemedial area with triangular pale red-brown patch from cell 

 to inner margin, the medial area rufous except towards costa, the 

 postmedial area ochreous white irrorated with pale brown towards 

 costa and inner margin, the terminal area pale brown except at 

 apex which is ochreous white irrorated with brown ; a brown striga 

 at base ; subbasal line double, brown, from costa to vein 1, a black 



