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the orbicular round, the reniform narrow; hindwing olive fuscous, deeper towards termen; the fringe 

 amethyst. Asia Minor, Syria. Palestine, Mesopotamia. 



M. liturata Christ (= plusina Stgr.) (48 k). Forewing dull olive green, dusted with blackish, the lines liturata. 

 dull ochreous. broad, placed as in gloriosa, the submarginal parallel to the outer and equally plain; stig- 

 mata large, the orbicular round, the reniform oblong, dull green with broad ochreous outlines; a crenulate 

 narrow pale lint before the marginal lunules; fringe ochreous; hindwing dull pale greenish fuscous, with a faint 

 purplish sheen: a darker submarginal band; the base paler. — Syria, Persia, Mesopotamia, AY. Turkestan, Kashmir. 



M. kashmirensis Hmps. (48 k). Very near liturata, but rather smaller and paler; in particular, the \ m ^"''' 

 head and thorax are pale whitish ochreous. Kashmir. 



126. Genus: Azenia Grote. 



Tongue aborted, minute; irons with rounded prominence, having a large trilobate corneous plate at 

 middle and a corneous plate below it with straight outer edge; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, smooth; 

 thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, without crests; tibiae smooth; antennae of <$ typically lamellate. 

 Type A. implora Grote from N. America. 



Sect. I. Antennae of $ bipectinate. 



A. watersi Botlis. N. C. Forewing pale ochreous, suffused with brown, which forms a darker band watersi. 

 before the inner and beyond the outer line; inner line obliquely curved, indistinct; outer line wdrite, 

 slightly defined on inner side by white, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved; terminal line finely 

 brown; hindwing yellowish white. Egypt. 



127. Genus: Paraegle Hmps. 



Tongue present; frons with long pointed corneous process connected by a keellike joint with the 

 plate below it, which is produced to 3 points in front and 2 lateral points below; palpi obliquely porrect, 

 the second segment rough-haired; antennae of <J ciliated; thorax and abdomen without crests; tibiae 

 smooth; foretibia with a small claw at extremity on inner and outer side; in hindwing veins 3, 4 and 

 6, 7 are stalked. Type P. ochracea Ersch. 



P. ochracea Ersch. (48k). Forewing yellowish ochreous; faint traces of a curved brownish inner ochracea. 

 line; outer line brown, varying in width, from costa before apex, below costa slightly curved, oblique to 

 middle of inner margin; traces also of a submarginal band; the extreme termen fulvous; fringe brown grey; 

 hindwing of cJ j-ellowish, of ? brownish, paler towards base, with a curved outer line ; the form sub- subochracea. 

 ochracea Stgr. from Mardin, Mesopotamia, is smaller, with more effaced markings; the hindwings paler. 

 Found in Turcomania, Samarcand, and Fergana. 



128. Genus: Metaegle Hmps. 



Differs from Paraegle in having the frons with a large pointed process covered with hair, with 

 simply a trilobate plate below it; the fore tibia with a single minute claw on inner side only at extremity; 

 hindwing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 from angles of cell. Type M. pallida Stgr. 



M. pallida Stgr. (48 k). Forewing pale whitish ochreous, yellower towards termen; a faint oblique brownish pallida. 

 outer line from a brown spot before apex ; extreme termen and basal half of fringe brown ; hindwing paler. Mesopotamia. 



129. Genus: Aegie Hbn. 



Tongue present; frons produced into a flattened bifid horny process above the palpi; palpi porrect, 

 the terminal segment distinct; scaling smooth; thorax and abdomen without crests. Larva with 16 feet, 

 slender, smooth, living on Delphinium in autumn, pupating in a firm cocoon; the imago emerges the following 

 summer; the pupa, of the only species known, has the tongue-sheath projecting. Type Ae. koekeritziana Hbn. 



AE. vespertalis Hbn. (= vespertina Tr., vespertinalis Smb., matutinalis Bmb.) (48 k). Forewing vesperlalis. 

 pale ochreous, with the 3 lines, inner, median, and outer ochraceous, thick and diffuse ; the median widened 

 in cell and containing a dark brown point in place of reniform, the outer excurved round cell; submarginal 

 line rather darker, with dentate dark brown outer edge and a blotch at costa : a dark brown terminal line ; fringe 

 brownish grey: the $ is slightly paler them the $; hindwing flushed with ochraceous in $, in $ pale ochreous, 

 with curved outer lines; in ab. transversa ab. nov. (= ab. 1. Hmps.) (48 k) the median and outer lines are deep transversa. 

 brown and distinct, and the hindwing grey. A mediterranean species occurring in Spain, Portugal, Sicily, 

 Greece, Carinthia, Roumania; in Algeria; and in Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, and Taurus. Larva dull rosy 

 on the dorsum, with fine pale yellow subdorsal lines, conspicuous at the segmental incisions, and with 

 broad yellow spiracular lines edged on each side with dark brown; head small, yellowish brown; ? on Delphinium. 



AE. subflava Ersch. (48 k). Forewing in <J pale olive densely speckled with grey, the lines generally subflava. 

 hardly marked except by difference of tint, rarely chocolate brown and distinct; the inner sharply angled 

 on median vein hut plain only below middle, the basal area within it diffusely whitish; outer lino from 

 before apex, where it is curved, obliquely sinuous to middle of inner margin, joining a triangular costal 

 patch at apex, from which a submarginal band runs to anal angle, the terminal area being white; the 

 costa, the median vein, and the reniform stigma are also white; marginal line brown; fringe white flecked 



