API8A. — METAKCriA. 



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Fig. 59. — Apisa canescens, cJ • 



antennoe with the branches brownish. Fore wing slightly suffused 

 with fuscous, the veins and costa darker, 



2 . Both wings wholly 

 suffused with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. A 5 from Sierra 

 Leone white like the c? • 



Ab. 2. A dwarf c? 26 

 millim., from Zanzibar, 

 fuscous like $ . Coll. 

 Mabille. 



Hab. SiEREA Leone (FoA'- 

 croft) ; Natal [Gueinzius, 

 Hutchinson) ; S. Africa, 

 type. Exp., S 32-42, 

 2 38-64 millim. Types f cinereo-costata and cana, Coll, Holland, 

 Ogove Eiver, W. Africa. 



*274, Apisa melaleuca, (Plate V. fig. 16.) 

 Anace melaleuca, Holland, Ent. News Philad. 1898, p. 13. 



S . Head and thorax orange ; antennce whitish, the branches 

 fuscous ; legs and abdomen yellowish white, the latter fuscous 

 towards extremity ; wings yellowish white. Fore wing with the 

 apical half fuscous, its inner edge curved from costa before middle 

 to tornus, the veins crossing it darker. 



Hah. Cameroon's, typet in Coll. Holland. Exp. 28 millim. 



*27o. Apisa crenophylax. (Plate V. fig, 18.) 

 Synto7nis crenophylax, Holland, Psyche, tI. p. 393 (1893). 



S . Black ; head, thorax, and abdome 

 blue ; frons white ; tegula? and patagia 

 abdomen with orange-red dorsal band on 

 hyaline ; the veins and margins black ; a 

 expanding at middle ; a fascia between 

 approximated. Hind wing hyaline, the 



n with patches of metallic 

 with orange-red patches ; 

 4th segment. Fore wing 

 black fascia on inner area 

 veins 5 and 6 which are 

 veins aud margins black ; 



the costa lobed at middle. 



Hah. W. Africa, Ogove H. {Good). Exp. 24 miUim. Type f 

 in Coll. Holland. 



Genus METARCTIA. 



Type. 



Metarctia. Wlk. iii. 769 (1855) rufeacens. 



Zagaris, Wlk. v. 1096 (185.5) cms.sa. 



Decimia, Wlk. vii. 1717 (18i'>6) mdeus. 



Anace, Wlk. vii. 1719 (1856) -pcrpusiUa. 



Bnlncra, Wlk. vii. 1721 (1856) crendei fascia. 



Hehena, Wlk. vii. 1722 (1856) lateritia. 



Hexaneura, WUgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 164 (1860) rufescens. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, hardly reacliing beyond irons and elothed 

 witb liair ; antcnnje of ni;ile bi])cctiuiite, witii long brandies in male, oC female 

 with very short branches or serrate; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with 



