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SYNTOMID^. 



279. Metarctia invaria. (Plate V. fig. 20.) 



Anace invaria, Wlk. \u. 1720 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 221. 

 Metarctia crubescens, Wlk. xxxi. 315 (1864)"; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 221. 

 Pleqapteri/x syntomia, Plotz, Stett. Eut. Zeit. 1880, p. 85; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p.' 221. 

 Plegaptcryx silacea, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1880, p. 86 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 221. 

 Thi/rctes mclinos, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. 37 (1890) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 103. 

 Metarctia par eclecta, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 395 (1893). 

 Metarctia lutea, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 396 (1893). 



Orange-red suffused with brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen 

 yellow below. Pore wing with brown at base of costa and in and 

 beyond cell, leaving red spots in end of and beyond the cell and 

 above base of vein 6 ; an antemedial brown band and a patch 

 between veins 2 and 3 extending more or less towards termen ; the 

 veins and cilia brown. Hind wing brown, reddish towards costa. 



Antennae of female with short branches ; palpi in female not 

 reaching beyond frons. Veins 4, 5 of both wings shortly stalked 

 or from a point. 



Ab. 1. eruhescens=pareclecta. Bright orange-red ; thorax tinged 

 with brown ; the brown markings of fore wing standing out 

 prominently : hind wing orange-red, the cilia fuscous. 



Ab. 2. Hind wing with the cilia yellow. — Opobo, Old Calabar, 



2 5. 



Ab. 3. lutea. Yellow ; fore wing sometimes with a fuscous bar 

 across submedian interspace at middle of vein 2. — Ogove E., Old 

 Calabar. 



Hal). W. Africa, type 5 i Ogove R., types f pareclecta and lutea 

 in Coll. Holland ; Sierra Leone {Foxcroft), 1 $ type eruhescens; Old 

 Calabar {Miss Kingsley). Exjp. 34-36 millim. Typet syntomia 

 in Coll. Staudiuger. 



.*280. Metarctia hsematoessa. (Plate V. fig. 17.) 



Metarctia hcematoessa, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 396 (1893). 



5 . Orange-red ; antennae white ; head and thorax sufi^used with 

 fuscous. Fore wing suffused with fuscous, leaving some red at base 

 of inner area and spots below origin of vein 2, in end of cell, and 

 beyond the cell above bases of veins 3, 4, 5 ; veins and cilia fuscous. 

 Hind wing pinkish red, the cilia fuscous. 



Hah. W. Apeica, Ogove E. (Good), type t 5 in Coll. Holland. 

 Exj). 48 millim. 



*281. Metarctia haematosphages. (Plate V. fig. 25.) 



Metarctia kesmatosphages, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 396 (1893). 



5 . Orange-red ; antennae white ; thorax with very slight fuscous 

 tinge ; wings with slight fuscous irroration, the veins tinged with 

 fuscous ; cilia fuscous. 



Hah. W. Apbica, Ogove E. (Good), type t $ in Coll. Holland. 

 Exj?. 42 millim. 



