. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PINACOPLtrS. MKTOrOPLtrS. 229 Genus PINACOPLUS, nor. Type, P. dich/moc/ramma. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, hardly reaching beyond the frons and moderately fringed with scales below ; frons with long shovel-shaped plate rather hollowed out above and with curved corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennte of female ciliated ; tiiorax clotlied with hair and scales mixed and without crests; ti bice slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibia with long curved claw from inner side ; abdomen without crests. For
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PINACOPLtrS. MKTOrOPLtrS. 229 Genus PINACOPLUS, nor. Type, P. dich/moc/ramma. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, hardly reaching beyond the frons and moderately fringed with scales below ; frons with long shovel-shaped plate rather hollowed out above and with curved corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennte of female ciliated ; tiiorax clotlied with hair and scales mixed and without crests; ti bice slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibia with long curved claw from inner side ; abdomen without crests. Fore vring with the costa nearly straight, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; fi from upper angle; '.) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars : 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastoniosinsr with the cell near base only. 40u3. Pinacoplus didyinogramma. Mycteroplus didipnogramma, Ersch. Fedtsch. Reis. p. 44, pi. 3. f. 43 (1874); Staud. 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_/^mogramma, 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. TaRKESTAK. Turcomania {Erschoff), 1 $, Ferghana. Exp. 40 millim. Genus METOPOPLUS. Metopoplus, Alph. Iris, vi. p. 92 (1892) Type. Proboscis aborted, minute ; pa
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