124 Sir G. F. Hampson on 



(5) Metarbela micra, Karsch, Ent. Naclir. xxii. p. 141 (1896). 

 W. Africa. 



(6) Metarbela cymaphora, sp. n. 



Head and thorax dark glossy yellowish brown ; abdomen 

 paler yellowish brown, with the crest at base darker. Fore 

 wing pale glossy yellowish brown with slight dark irroration ; 

 a rather quadrate blackish spot at upper angle of cell faintly 

 defined by whitish ; a slight dark line from vein 2 near its 

 origin to inner margin,, incurved and defined by whitish 

 below vein 2 ; two to four obliquely placed minute white 

 spots below vein 2 towards tornus, with a minute white spot 

 below them on inner margin ; some small alternating dark 

 and pale spots on costa towards apex ; a dark subterminal 

 line defined on inner side by whitish striae, excurved below 

 costa and at middle and incurved at discal fold. Hind wing 

 pale yellowish suffused and irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Rhodesia, Bulawayo (Marshall), 16 $ type. Exp. 

 24-28 mm. 



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

 W. Africa. 



(8) Metarbela dialeuca, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing grey- 

 white suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with 

 dark brown ; a diffused oblique whitish fascia on vein 2 from 

 cell to tornus ; two oblique dark striae across end of cell and 

 two divergent medial lines from submedian fold to inner 

 margin ; a diffused brownish spot just beyond the cell ; a 

 rather diffused oblique brown subterminal line. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with pale red-brown. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Mutito-wa-Ndei (Bettori), 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 24 mm. 



(9) Metarbela tuckeri, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 

 p. 400 (1875). 



Natal. 



(10) ^Metarbela nubifera, B.-Baker, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

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



E. Africa. 



