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MET APIOPLA ST A; AUL OTAR ACHE By W. Warren. 
pointed at apex, its lower edge curved downwards below cell; tlie costa and inner margin brown-tinged; ter¬ 
minal area suffused with rufous and grey; median line oblique below cell, with diffused rufous beyond it; outer 
line marked by a black dot on costa and three beyond cell, then very indistinct and incurved; subterminal 
line indicated by white scales, excurved at middle, incurved in submedian interspace; a terminal series of black 
dots with white scales before them below apex and at middle ; fringe rufous and grey with white patches below 
apex and at middle; hindwing white ; the costal area and terrnen tinged with rufous; head and tegulae pure white; 
in the $ these are tinged with brown; the forewing is grey with diffused white subcostal streak, the outer 
half of median area except towards costa and the terminal area tinged with rufous; a faint sinuous inner line, 
with a rufous dot on median vein; hindwing wholly rufous. Karachi, Sind and Kutch, Bombay, also re¬ 
corded from Egypt. 
116. Genus: Mctnpioplasta Wlngm. 
Distinguished from Hoplotarache by the frons bearing a prominence produced to a flattened trilob¬ 
ate plate at middle, with a corneous plate below it excised in front; and by the costal and subcostal of 
hindwing anastomosing to the middle of cell. Type M. insocici Walk. 
insocia. M. insocia Walk. (= concinnula Walk., pyralina Walk., sinro Wlngm., cornifrons Auriv., porphyrea $ 
Btlr.) (27 b). d Forewing creamy white; subbasal line double, waved, brownish grey; inner line the same; 
orbicular and reniform stigmata small, with partial annuli of blackish scales, the former round, the latter ellip¬ 
tical with the centre grey; a brownish striga at middle of costa; outer line from a brown costal striga, black 
and minutely waved below 6, and strongly incurved below 4; terminal area purplish grey partly suffused 
with red brown, extending to before outer line beyond the reniform and below the cell; subterminal line white, 
interrupted; black terminal striae defined inwardly by white; fringe whitish above and below middle; hindwing 
yellowish white; the terrnen brown from apex to vein 2; head and thorax creamy white; in the $ these 
are tinged with grey; the fore wing with basal half suffused with grey, leaving some white beyond lower part of 
subbasal line, a quadrate patch from costa to between the stigmata, connected by a streak above reniform 
with a triangular patch beyond outer line; the inner line a single white line; hindwing brownish white 
darker terminally. A widely spread African insect, occurring also in Ceylon. 
burmana. M. burmana Swinh. (27 b). G Forewing creamy white; basal half of costal area olive-brown, interrupted 
by two subbasal white striae from costa and the white filling up of the double inner line; orbicular and reni- 
form stigmata very small, the former marked with brown above only, the latter with oval brown annulus; ter¬ 
minal area redbrown mixed with purplish grey; outer line shown by an oblique brown striga on the white area 
and a sinuous black brown line on the dark, very strongly incurved below vein 4; subterminal line yellowish 
white between black brown scaling; terminal black points with white striae before them; hind wing greyish 
suffused with redbrown especially towards terrnen; a dark cellspot; fringe white with a brown basal line; 
the $ has the thorax and basal area of forewing more suffused with grey. Beeling and Thayetmyo, Burma. 
117. Genus: Aulotarache Fmps. 
Distinguished from the two preceding genera by the frons having a rounded prominence, bearing a 
transverse groove with the edges raised across the middle, and a corneous plate below it. Type A. decoripennis 
Mob. Contains a single species only, occurring in Madagascar and India. 
decoripen- A. decoripennis Mab. d Forewing yellowish white; subbasal and inner lines waved, pale olive, the for- 
nis. mer double; orbicular and reniform stigmata very small, the former incompletely outlined, the latter with 
oval dark annulus; au olive striga from middle of costa; terminal area redbrown mixed with purplish grey; 
outer line marked by an olive striga on costa in the white area and an interrupted sinuous black line on the 
dark, strongly incurved below vein 4; subterminal line yellowish white, interrupted, twice excurved and in¬ 
angled on both folds, the angle double in lower fold; black terminal dots inwardly defined by white striae; 
fringe with white patches below apex and at middle; hindwing yellowish white tinged with redbrown; the 
terminal area suffused with redbrown; a brown cellspot; fringe brown with the tips white; in the $ the brown 
area of fore wing extends to the inner line on inner margin and to costa as a band beyond inner line. The 
subpallida. typical form occurs in Madagascar and Sind, N. W. India; the form from Kutch, Bombay, — subsp. sub¬ 
pallida subsp. nov. has the forewing whiter, less yellow; the markings of basal area grey; that from Cudda- 
brunneiceps. pah, Madras, a $, — subsp. brunneiceps subsp. nov. has the head, tegulae, and prothorax brown. 
