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white with a faint rufous tinge. Underside creamy white, the hindwing with 

 the costal edge rufous. 



Hob. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Sanders), 1 c? type. Exp. 32 mill. 



Nearest to M. dialeuca Hmpsn. 



Metarbela vau-alba n. sp. 



(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed ■nith some ochreous and brown^ 

 the large bifid anal tuft deeper rufous ; antennae with the branches black streaked 

 with whitish above ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen tinged with 

 grey. Forewing rufous tinged in parts with brown ; a large indistinct oblique 

 discoidal lunule defined by brown, confluent with a yellowish white, V-shaped 

 mark on extremity of median nervure and base of vein 2 ; indistinct, shghtly 

 waved, and closely approximated brown postmedial and subterminal lines, 

 shghtly incurved at discal fold ; a terminal series of small triangular red-brown 

 marks on the veins ; cUia grey-brown with a fine brown line at middle. Hindwing 

 rufous finely irrorated with brown ; cilia grey-brown with whitish tips. Under- 

 side deep rufous. 



Hah. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 1 ^ type. Exp. 30 mill. 



Nearest to M. nubifera B. Baker. 



Metarbela costistrigata n. sp. 



(J. Head blackish mixed with grey, the antennae black, the shaft irrorated 

 with white and the branches streaked with white above ; thorax and abdomen 

 grey-white mixed with black-brown. Forewing grey-white suffused with fuscous 

 brown, the terminal area rather darker and irrorated with blackish ; a series 

 of black bars from costa from near base to the postmedial line ; an antemedial 

 black mark in submedian interspace, forking below the fold ; black bars before 

 and beyond the discocellulars, forming an incomplete, V-shaped mark ; a hoop- 

 shaped black mark on inner area below end of cell, filled in with black irroration 

 and with a white bar on its outer side ; postmedial line black, inwardly obUque 

 to vein 6, then erect and ending at vein 2 ; a terminal series of whitish striae 

 in the interspaces with small dark spots before them to vein 3 ; cilia grey at 

 base, chequered blackish and white at tips. Hindwing greyish suffused with 

 fuscous brown, the ciUa darker. Underside uniform greyish suffused with 

 fuscous brown. 



Hah. Transvaal, Johannesburg (Feltham), 1 o t.'vpe. Exp. 28 miU. 



Nearest to M. albitorquata Hmpsn. 



Teragra tristicha n. sp. 



(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright rufous, the last with a slight golden 

 gloss except the dorsal crests and anal tuft ; lower part of frons black-brown 

 at sides. Forewing bright rufous ; a series of slight black marks below costa 

 from near base to near apex ; a narrow rufous vitta faintly defined by black 

 in terminal half of lower part of cell, indenting a rounded discoidal spot distinctly 

 defined by black ; a black antemedial Une from cell to inner margin, dentate 

 inwards at submedian fold and vein 1 ; a waved black line from origin of vein 2 

 to inner margin ; some blackish suffusion below lower end of cell ; three silvery 

 white points defined by black just below middle of vein 2, with another below 

 them above inner margin and sometimes a shght mark before it on the margin; 



