148 . STNXOMID^. 



pink discocellular spot. Hind wing fuscous brown, with the inner 

 margin pinkish ; veins 4, 5 from a point. Antennoe minutely 

 serrate. 



Ah. 1. Hind wing pink.- — Congo, Mus. Stockholm. 



Hob. W. Afeica, Gaboon, 1 5 type. Exp. 52 millim. 



287. Metarctia rufescens. (Plate Y. fig. 6.) 



Mefarctia rvfescens, Wlk. iii. 769 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 221. 

 Hexanevra macidifera, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 164 (1860); Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 433. 

 Metarctia paremphares, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 395 (1893). 



c? . Head yellowish ; antennae and thorax dark brown ; abdomen 

 fiilvous yellow with a pinkish tinge, and with fuscous segmental 

 bands. Fore wing pinkish brown clouded with fuscous, and with 

 a fuscous discocellular spot. Hind wing pinkish fulvous ; veins 4, 

 5 from a point or shortly stalked. 



2 with the antennoe serrate. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing much more clouded with fuscous. 



Ab. 2. Hind wing also clouded with fuscous, the extremity of 

 abdomen sometimes also fuscous. 



Ab. 3. jynrempJiai'es. Fore wing uniform fuscous ; hind wing yel- 

 lowish white with a pinkish tinge. — W. Africa, Natal. 



Hab. W. Afeica, Ogove R. (Good), typef paremj)7iares in Coll. 

 Holland; 'Na.ta.'l (Gueinzius) ; Cape Colony (TVmen), type. Exp. 

 34-42 millim. 



288. Metarctia inconspicua. (Plate VT. fig. 11.) 



Metarctia inconspicua, Holland, Ent. xxv. (Suppl.), p. 93 (1892) ; id. P. 

 U.S. Mus. xviii. p. 250, pi. 8. f. 3 (1896). 



Head and thorax dark fuscous ; the hair on 1st joint of antennae 

 and tegula; pinkish ; abdomen pinkish, with slight fuscous segmental 

 bands and the extremity fuscous. Fore wing uniform dark fuscous 

 brown. Hind wing ochreous white with a slight fuscous tinge ; 

 veins 4, 5 from a point. Antennas with short branches. 



Hab. E. Afkica ; W. Africa, Loango, ; Angola, Kinsembo, 1 §. 

 Exp., 6 28, 2 40 millim. 



*289. Metarctia benitensis. (Plate V. fig. 27.) 



Metarctia benitensi% Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 395 (1893). 



2 . Uniform dark fuscous ; hind wing slightly paler. 

 S . Hind wing whitish. 



Hab. W. Africa, Cameroons ; Benita, type t in Coll. Holland. 

 Exp., S 30, 2 42 millim. 



290. Metarctia meteus. 



Spliin.r meteus, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 347. B (1782) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 220. 

 Decimia bicolora, Wlk. vii. 1718 (1856) ; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 220. 



