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E. straminea Bang-Haas (71 a). Forewing pale to brownish ochreous, dusted and suffused in some straminea. 

 eases with blackish; a velvety black slightly curved streak from base along submedian fold; a round blackish 

 reniform, sometimes with a black dash through it; in the darker suffused specimens a dark curved outer 

 line is visible and a blackish praesubterminal shade; terminal lunules black; fringe whitish with grey lines; 

 hindwing white, with the veins terminally darker and a diffuse subterminal cloud ; fringe white. The Algerian 

 Sahara. 



61. Genus: Teinoptera Calb. 



Tongue well developed; frons with corneous prominence bearing a strong quadrangular projection as 

 in A. panaceorion, thickly covered with scales; palpi upturned, long, the second segment thickly scaled, 

 the third porrect, smooth, spatula te at extremity; antennae of <J simple; forewing narrow, elongate, with 

 produced apex; the costa sinuous; termen even, vertical above, obliquely rounded below; hindwing large, 

 elongate; vein 5 weak, well separated from 4; 6, 7 short stalked; costal anastomosing for some distance with 

 subcostal. Type T. culminifera Calb. 



T. culminifera Calb. Forewing pale bluish grey, whiter at apex ; costa and an oblique subapical streak culminifera. 

 brownish; lines absent; reniform stigma ill defined, whitish; an elongate black streak from base to termen 

 along submedian fold, broader in basal half, browner terminally, edged on both sides with white; a second 

 starting from reniform and ending at middle of cell 5; a third from middle of cell 6, running through cell 

 7 to termen, both edged with white streaks; a short black oblique streak on costa near base; veins black 

 dusted with white, lined with white streaks before termen; a row of black terminal dots, that in cell 3 large 

 and produced basewards as a line; hindwing brownish grey with dark cellspot. From the desert of El Arish, 

 Palestine. 



62. Genus: Metopistis gen. nov. 



Tongue present; frons roughly protuberant; palpi obliquely upturned, short; the second segment 

 thickly scaled, the third minute; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; antennae of $ simple, lamellate; 

 fore tibia with 4 bent claws on the outside ; f orewing elongate, narrow ; the costa slightly insinuate in middle ; 

 apex produced; termen oblique. Type M. erschoffi Christ. 



M. erschoffi Christ. (71a). Forewing grey brown, varied with ochreous; the lines black, thick, in- erschoffi. 

 wardly oblique; the inner indented on submedian fold; the outer strongly dentate, widely outcurved above 

 middle, then strongly incurved ; stigmata deep black, finely white edged ; the orbicular round, the reniform 

 oblong; terminal area purer brown; a row of pale grey, dark centred, lunules along termen; fringe mottled 

 brown and white; hindwing grey overlaid with pale brown; the fringe whitish; cellspot dark. Turcomania. 



63. Genus: OTarsipiophora Johns. 



Frons smooth, rounded, with a tuft of hair above; palpi short, the second segment obliquely asc- 

 ending, the third short, porrect; antennae of <$ simple, with short bristles; thorax rough scaled; dorsum 

 smooth; forewing with areole; hindwing with vein 5 obsolescent; mid and hindtibiae with tufts of spinous 

 hairs; fore tibiae short, with one strong terminal claw. Type M. christophi Ersch. The single species stands 

 quite by itself. 



M. christophi Ersch. (71 a). Forewing white, suffused in parts, especially towards termen, with olive christophi. 

 fuscous; the veins white; a black angled mark on costa close to base, another shortly beyond; a white 

 somewhat sickle-shaped mark in cell, preceded and edged above with black; an oblong white blotch near base 

 of submedian interval, with a longer narrower one above it, the interval around them velvety black; a 

 black streak on inner margin near base; median vein broadly white; an oblique row of black streaks from 

 costa to end of cell; a row of terminal black streaks in the interspaces; the inner margin, the anal angle 

 and a blotch on vein 3 white; fringe dark grey, rayed with white; hindwing white, with large round black cell 

 mark, and diffusely edged blackish terminal border; fringe pure white. Transcaspia. 



