. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PIIfACOPLirs. METOrOPLUS. 229 Genus PINACOPLUS, iiov. Type, P. didi/mofjramma. " Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, hardly reaching beyond Uie frons and moderately fringed with scales below ; frons with long sliovel-shaped plate rather hollowed out above and with curved corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenn£e of female ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibiae slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibia; with long curved claw from inner side ; abdomen without crests
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PIIfACOPLirs. METOrOPLUS. 229 Genus PINACOPLUS, iiov. Type, P. didi/mofjramma. " Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, hardly reaching beyond Uie frons and moderately fringed with scales below ; frons with long sliovel-shaped plate rather hollowed out above and with curved corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenn£e of female ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibiae slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibia; with long curved claw from inner side ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; fi from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Kind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 46u3. Pinacophis didyniogramma. Mi/cfcroplus dicli/vinqramma, Ersch. Fedtsch. Reis. p. 44, pi. 3. f. 43 (1874); Stand. Cat. Lep.'pal. p. 222. 2. Head and thorax white; palpi at tips, sides of frons, antennae and legs tinged with ochreous ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with ochreous on basal half. Fore wing yellowish white ; antemedial line double, rufous, rather diffused, the inner line indistinct, slightly angled outwards on median nervure ; postmedial. Fig. did//mo(/rainma, 5, \, line double, rather diffused, the outer line indistinct, oblique, slightly excurved beyond lower angle of cell and bent outwards to inner margin, the veins beyond it slightly streaked with rufous; cilia tinged with rufous. Hind wing white faintly tinged with yellow and with traces of curved rufous postmedial line. Hah. W. TuRKESTAif, Turcomania (tJischoff"), 1 $, Ferghana. 40 millim. Genus METOPOPLUS. Type. MetopopluR, Alph. Iris, vi. p. 92(1892) 'celsa. Proboscis aborted, min
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