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277. Metavctia cseruleifascia. (Plate V. fig. 13.) 



Balacra ranueifascia, Wlk. vii. 1721 (1850); Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 221. 

 AutomoUti ehrmamii, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. .535 (1893). 



$ . Head scarlet ; palpi, antenna?, and a band between antennae 

 brown; thorax brown ; tegulaj edged with scarlet, patagia and patches 

 on meso- and metathorax scarlet; legs scarlet and brown ; abdomen 

 scarlet, with fuscous bands tinged with metallic blue scales. Foro 

 ■wing red-brown, with some scarlet marks at base of costa and median 

 nervure and some crimson at base of inner area ; small hyaline spots 

 in upper angle of cell, below base of vein 2, and a series of four 

 spots beyond the cell between veins 3 and 7, the two upper larger, 

 some red on terminal area near tornus. Hind wing yellow, crimson 

 towards base ; the cilia fuscous. 



Both wings with veins 4, 5 from a point. Antennoe minutely 

 serrate. 



Ab. 1. ehrmanni : fore wing with the hyaline spots larger, 

 especially the spots below base of vein 2 and between veins 5 and 6 ; 

 hind wing uniform red. 



Hah. SiEREA Leon-e, 1 $ type ; Liberia, type f $ eJirmanni in 

 Coll. Holland. B.vp. 62 millim. 



278. Metarctia lateritia. 



AutomoUs lateritia, Herr.-Scliaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 274 (1855) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 221. 

 Anace rubra, Wlk. vii. 1720 (1856). 

 Hehena venosa, Wlk. vii. 1723 (1856). 

 Hexaneura cinnamonea, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Men. iv. p. 164 (1860) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 433. 

 Atitomolis unicolor, Oberth. Ann. Mus. Grenov. xv. p. 186 (1880); Kirbv, 



Cat. Het. p, 221. . 



Auto?notis Mleni, Snell. Notes Leyd. Mus. viii. p. 1 (1886) ; Tijd. v. Ent. 



xxix. p. 224, pi. 8. f. 1 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 221. 



Bright scarlet ; antennoe and sides of palpi black ; tibige and 



tarsi black. Fore wing 

 with the interspaces 

 fuscous ; veins 4, 5 

 from a point or shortly 

 stalked. Antennae of 

 female serrate. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing 

 with the fuscous in 

 interspaces reduced or 

 Fig. 60. — Metarctia lateritia, (^ . \. absent. 



Ab. 2. l:elleni. Thorax and fore wing much browner, leaving 

 red spots on the former and the veins of the latter narrowly red. 



Hah. Galla Cotjntey ; Ntasaland (Craivshaj/) ; 'N a.t A.h (Gooch, 

 Gueinzivs, Marshall); Bechtjanaland {Sir C.Metcalf); Cape Colony, 

 type ruhra. Exp. 44-GO millim. Type t venosa in Mus, Oxon. 



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