new African Moths. 123 



antennae with the branches red-brown ; patagia red-brown ; 

 fore legs black-brown ; abdomen ochreous brown, with the 

 extremity of anal tuft black-brown. Fore wing red-brown 

 finely pencilled with fuscous ; a very oblique black streak 

 from below costa before middle to tornus j a slight waved 

 blackish antemedial line from cell to inner margin ; a fine 

 medial blackish line, forming a fork from below costa to 

 lower angle of cell, and another from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; an irregularly waved blackish postmedial 

 line incurved at discal fold ; a slightly waved and somewhat 

 diffused subterminal line and creuulate terminal line. Hind 

 wing pale ochreous brown. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Ashanti, Obuassi [Bergman), 1 £ type. 

 Exp. 34 mm. 



Genus Metarbelodes. m 



Type. 



Metarbelodes, Strand, Ins, 1909, p. 119 umtaliana. 



(1) Metarbelodes obliqualinea, B. -Baker, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 



Hist. (8) iii. p. 425 (1909). 



E. Africa. 



(2) Metarbelodes umtaliana, Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. 1901, p. 127. 

 Rhodesia. 



Genus Metarbela. m 



Jype. 

 Metarbela, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 535 (1893) stivafer. 



(1) Metarbela arcifera, Hmpsn. Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 133, 



pi. iv. fig. 64 (1909). 



E. Africa. 



(2) * Metarbela pagana, Strand, Iris, 1909, p. 118. 

 E. Africa. 



(3) *Metarbela onusta, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. xxii. p. 139 



(1896). 



W. Africa. 



(4) Metarbela triguttata, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. p. 41, fig. 



(1905). 



W. Africa ; Uganda. 



