METASADA. 257 



Genus METASADA, nov. 



Type. M. poli/cesta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to vertex of head and fringed with scales in front and behind at extremity, the 

 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna? of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiae slightly 

 fringed with hair, the spurs long; abdomen with small dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen 

 evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and from near angle of cell ; from upper 

 ► angle; 9, 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with the termen crenulate ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully 

 developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5388. Metasada polycesta. 



Zagira polyresta, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. xxvii. p. 120 (1002). 



rj . Head blood-red mixed with some whitish ; palpi whitish at 

 tips ; antennas whitish ringed with brown ; tegulas and prothorax 

 whitish, the rest of thorax rufous, the scales pale at tips ; pectus 

 and legs whitish suffused with rufous, the fore legs with fuscous : 

 abdomen rufous wilh whitish segmental lines and some fuscous 

 suffusion towards extremity, the basal crest blackish, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing yellowish suffused with rufous and 

 >i'trscly irrorated with black, the veins with greyish streaks, the 





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Fig. 71. — Metasada jwlycesta, tf . J. 



costal area whitish, narrowing to a point just before apex; ante- 

 medial line whitish, arising below costa, slightly bent outwards at 

 median nervure, then erect : orbicular a white point in upper part 

 of cell; renit'orm grey incompletely denned by black, narrow; 

 postmedial line brown defined on outer side by white, waved from 

 below costa to vein 4 where it is angled outwards, then incurved 

 and sinuous, a pale grey patch beyond it to subterminal line from 

 vein 3 to inner margin ; subterminal line white, dentate ; a 

 :renulate red-brown terminal line with dark points in the inter- 

 spaces; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellowish 

 diffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with black on terminal 



; postmedial line brownish defined on outer side by w! 

 iinoous, excurved at median nervules, a pale grey patch beyond it 

 rotn vein 3 to inner margin ; a subtermiual series of white points ; 

 Tot. x. s 





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