LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCEIiA. 775 



Genus 2. METOPONIA * 



Corpus sat gracile. Frons fasciculata. Proboscis mediocriter 

 longa. , Palpi graciles, porrecti, caput paullo superantes ; articulus 

 3us cylindricus, 2i triente non brevior. Antennas simplices, corporis 

 dimidio perparum longiores. Pedes sat graciles ; tibiae calcaribus 

 longis. Alse latiusculae ; anticae apud costam rectae, apice acuta?, 

 margine exteriore perparum convexo non obliquo. Mas. — Abdomen 

 alas posticas perpaullo superans. Fcem. — Abdomen alas posticas 

 non superans. 



Metoponia, Dnp. Cat. ; Guen. Noct. ii. 206. 

 Authophila, p., Treit. ; Boisd. 



Body rather slender. Head tufted in front. Proboscis mode- 

 rately long. Palpi slender, porrect, extending a little beyond the 

 head ; third joint cylindrical, about one-third of the length of 

 the second. Antenna? simple, very little more than half the length 

 of the body. Legs rather slender; hind tibiae with four long spurs. 

 Wings rather broad. Fore wings straight in front, acute at the tips, 

 very slightly convex, and not oblique along the exterior border. 

 Male. — Abdomen extending very little beyond the hind wings. 

 Female. — Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. 



1. Metoponia flavida. 



Alba, testaceo sub tine ta ; abdomen canescens ; alee anticce gutta 

 discali nigra ; posticce cinerece, ciliis albis. 



Noctua flava, H'ubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 453. 



Anthophila flavida, Ochs. Schmett. 81, 4. Treit. Schmett. v. 279. 



Dup. Suppl. iii. 537, pi. 45. Frey. Beitr. iii. pi. 227. 



Eversm. Faun. Volg-Ural. 338. 

 Agrophila flavida, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 175, 1401. 

 Tortrix Kcekeritziana, H'ubn. Eur. Schmett. Tort. 165. 

 iEgle flavida, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 257,2535. 

 Metoponia flavida, Guen. Noct. ii. 207, 972. 



Souih-East Europe. 



a. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



* Genus Dipterorum 



