396 IMITATOR; EPHARMOTTOMENA ; METOPONRHIS. By W. WAEftEN. 



64. Genus: Imitator Alph. 



Tongue present; palpi long, porrect, flattened; second segment well-scaled, the third about y 3 the 

 length of the second; antennae of $ ciliated; forewing elongate, triangular; hindwing ample; forewing with 

 an areole. $ semiapterous ; forewing lanceolate and narrow; hindwing very short; antennae simple. Type /. 

 ciliaria Men. 



ciliaria. I. ciliaria Men. (= dentistrigatae Alph.) (74a). <$ Forewing ochreous grey, the veins dark; the 



median vein always white, sometimes the inner margin; inner line often obsolete; a dark oblique oval reni- 

 form stigma, united by a black line to a punctiform orbicular; outer line dark, oblique outwards from costa 

 to vein 6, thence oblique inwards, irregularly dentate lunulate, inwardly diffuse, outwardly edged with paler; 

 subterminal whiter, more sinuous; hindwing silky white, with a more or less visible but mterrupted outer 

 dark line; the $ is semiapterous; the thorax, costa, and grey spaces of the $, bone white. Described origi- 

 nally from Bokhara; also occurring in Tura and the Hi district. 



■palpangu- I. palpangularis Pilng. Forewing uniform grey brown; the orbicular and reniform stigmata small, 



laris. ^rj^jj mac ]j outlines, the former laterally produced, the latter round, with a faint median shade beneath 

 it; inner line obsolete; outer outcurved above, then outwardly toothed, and forming an inward sinus be- 

 low; subterminal line lighter grey, bluntly denticulate; terminal line blackish; costa with some dark mark- 

 ing; hindwing brown grey, paler basewards, with a dark cell spot. Merv. 



65. Genus: £pharmottonieua Johns. 



Tongue well developed ; frons strongly rounded, without prominence, smoothly scaled ; antennae simple, 

 shortly ciliated; palpi upturned, the second segment thickly scaled, the third bare; thorax rough scaled; 

 dorsum smooth, without crests; a spreading wreath of scales behind the 7th segment; forewing narrow, 

 with blunt apex; the areole present; hindwing broad, termen rounded; vein 5 obsolescent; mid and hind 

 tibiae with bristly scales on outer side ; foretibia with short strong terminal dart on outer side. Type E. nana Stgr. 



nana. E. nana Stgr. (71a). Forewing brown grey; inner and outer lines black, conversely pale-edged, the med- 



ian space between them below middle blackish ; the stigmata generally obscure, outlined with dark ; the inner 

 line toothed inwardly, the outer slightly sinuous, faintly dentate, excurved beyond cell; hindwing dirty 

 whitish with a more or less obscure dark terminal border. Tura. 



66. Genus: OTetoponrhis Stgr. 



Frons produced into a snoutlike prominence with a roughened surface; palpi short and broad, 

 smooth, the third segment short; antennae simply filiform; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, without 

 crests. Type M. albirena Christ. 



allirena. M. albirena Christ. (= kisilkumensis Christ, nee Ersch.) Forewing pale olive brown, with some 



red scales below subcostal vein in basal area, around the stigmata, beyond the outer line below costa and vein 

 1, and before the black terminal spots; lines black conversely white-edged; the inner lunulate, projecting below 

 middle ; outer line squarely produced beyond cell, then inwardly oblique and lunulate dentate to vein 2, then 

 vertical; median area darker, with leaden purple patches in cell before orbicular and on each side of vein 1; 

 orbicular stigma olive brown with pale outline; reniform very large, dark with pale edge, its outer half a 

 long oval white patch with some ochreous towards outer edge; subterminal line white, deeply dentate, 

 preceded by black wedge shaped marks ; some yellowish buff towards anal angle ; terminal line dark, with white 

 dots at the vein ends; fringe olive brown in basal third, mottled olive brown and white in outer two thirds; 

 hindwing bright luteous tinged with grey; the veins dark; a dark cellspot, dark outer line edged with paler, 

 and broad fuscous terminal border, streaked with dark and broken up below middle. 



picturata. M. picturata Roths. (74c). Forewing ochreous white; costal streak dusted with dark; inner line fuscous, 



oblique, marked only below middle; space between veins 2 and 4 fuscous grey; outer line oblique, ful- 

 vous, between vein 2 and inner margin followed by a fulvous orange belt, which is seen again, but greyer, 

 above vein 4; reniform stigma a black mark followed by some blue scaling; subterminal line pale, edging 

 the fulvous fascia and followed by a slight grey shade; fringe chequered grey and white; hindwing dark 

 grey; fringe white. S. Algeria. 



