444 ON LEPLDOPTERA FKOM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. [May 17, 



METACULASTA, gen. nov. 



Primaries elongate, subtriangular ; vein 2 remote from 3 ; 3, 4, 

 and 5 separate but emitted near together ; 6 from upper angle of 

 cell, 7 from centre of postdiscoidal areole, 8 and 9 stalked, out of 

 10, which forms front of areole ; 11 emitted well before end of 

 cell : secondaries with costa slightly angular at centre ; veins 2 

 to 6 as in primaries, 7 and 8 anastomosed to near end of cell : 

 thorax broad, flattened above ; head rather wide ; antennae smooth, 

 palpi directed obliquely upwards ; hind tibiae with two pairs of 

 spurs, inner spurs very long. Type M. dives. 



235. METACULASTA DIVES, sp. n. 



5 . Primaries above golden testaceous, longitudinally indistinctly 

 streaked with greyish and necked with blackish near the borders ; 

 a black dot at upper angle of cell ; a very oblique shining silver 

 streak towards the base, just entering the discoidal cell and not 

 extending below vein 1 ; a second slightly-waved arched oblique 

 streak commencing at about the basal third of inner margin (where 

 it is indistinct) and extending to apex ; a pale diffused flesh-tinted 

 band runs above the latter, almost filling the interval between the 

 two silver streaks on the lower half of the wing ; fringe with a 

 pale basal line : secondaries pearl-white, slightly huffish at costal 

 and outer margins : thorax ash-greyish ; abdomen whity brown, 

 nearly white. Primaries below whity brown, showing traces of the 

 upper surface markings through the wing : body below white ; 

 tarsi slightly brownish underneath. Expanse of wings 33 millim. 



Yoi, llth July, 1897. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



PLATE XXXII. 



Fig. 1. Pyrgus bettoni, p. 415. 



2. Baoris auritinctus, p. 416. 



3. Aloa bimttata, p. 417. 



4. Lacydes gracilis, p, 417. 



5. Bettonia ferruginea, p. 418. 



6. Lacipa impuncta, p. 427. 



7. Lopera monosticta, p. 428. 



8. Aclonophlebia flavinotata, p. 428. 



9. Niphadolepis auricincta, p. 437. 



10. Paryphanta bisecta, p. 437. 



11. Lembopteris puella, p. 438. 



12. Stauropiis dasychiroides, p. 433. 



13. Hameopis rudicornis, p. 435. 



PLATE XXXIII. 



Fig. 1. Goodia hollandi, p. 430. 



2. Trotonotus bettoni, p. 431. 



3. Arniocera chrysosticta, p. 439. 



4. ericata, p. 440. 



5. cyanoxantha, var., p. 440. 



6. imperialis, p. 440. 



7. sternecH, var., p. 441. 

 8, 9. Zitha varians, p. 441. 



10. Glyphodes stenocraspis, p. 442, 

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