Species of Pyralidae. 3 



Hab. Transvaal, Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 <$ type. Exp. 

 22 mm. 



(7 c) Metasia perirrorata, sp. n. 



Frons produced to a moderate rounded process. 

 <?. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish suffused with 

 brown ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; fore tibiae at 

 extremity and tarsi banded with blackish. Fore wing grey 

 thickly irrorated with brown; a dark spot at base of costa; 

 a dark antemedial line from cell to inner margin ; two 

 blackish discoidal striae, and a patch of dark suffusion beyond 

 lower angle of cell ; postmedial line diffused, dark brown, 

 excurved to near termen between veins 5 and 2 with some 

 dark suffusion on its outer side below costa ; cilia with a 

 series of small dark spots. Hind wing grey, thickly irrorated 

 and suffused with brown. 



Hab. N. Nigeria, Yorubaland, Ogbomoso {Carter), 1 <J 

 type. Exp. 14 mm. 



(10 c) Metasia tumidalis, sp. n. 



Abdomen of male dilated at extremity with large pro- 

 trusible genital tufts. 



Ochreous tinged with pale red,brown ; head and front 

 of thorax suffused with fuscous ; fore tibise banded with 

 black ; abdomen with dorsal black spots on last two segments. 

 Fore wing with the costal area suffused with fuscous to 

 beyond middle ; an antemedial black line very oblique from 

 costa to below median nervureand angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 a small amiulus in middle of cell aud discoidal luuulate 

 annulus ; the postmedial line angled outwards below costa, 

 inwards in discal fold, at vein 2 retracted to below end of 

 cell, then somewhat excurved again ; the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous ; cilia ochreous with a black line 

 through them and their tips fuscous. Hind wing with 

 minutely waved black line from discocellulars to & inner 

 margin above tornus ; the postmedial line angled outwards 

 at vein 5 and ending on termen. at vein 2; the apical area 

 suffused with fuscous down to vein 2 ; a waved black ter- 

 minal line and a line through the cilia, 



Hab. N. Guinea, Milne B., 2 <J type, Mailuj Fergusson I., 

 1 S ; Ron I. ; Goodenough I.; Woodlark; Queensland 

 Cedar B. (Meek), 1 ? . Exp. 22 mm. 



(12 a) Metasia sinuifera, sp. n. 

 Frons produced to a moderate rounded process. 

 <S . Head and thorax grey-white irrorated with fuscous ; 



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