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orange-yellow, the costa, median nervure, and terminal area pale 

 grey-brown. Hind wing orange-yellow; a grey-brown pateh on 

 termen from apex to vein 3. 



Hab. Cameroons, Ja R., Bitji (Bates), type f 6 palcemon in 

 Coll. Joicey; Coxgo, Kassai Distr., type in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus METARCTIA del. Balacra, Wlk. 



278. Metarctia lateritia. 



Ab. 3. Thorax and fore wing uniformly tinged with brown 

 more or less strongly. 



Abvssinia (Berjen), 5 8 . 



*27Sfl. Metarctia cameruna, n. n. 



Metarctia hcematoessa, Obertli. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. lxxix. p. 469, pi. 17. 

 f. 7 (1911), nee Holland. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; antenna? blackish, 

 brown at base and white at extremity. Fore wing pale red-brown ; 

 a scai'let streak below basal half of costa ; the cell and area just 

 below it suffused with scarlet; a scarlet spot below middle of cell, 

 a spot in end of cell, and rather curved bar beyond the cell. Hind 

 wing scarlet with the cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing with 

 the inner area scarlet to beyond middle, 



Hab. Cameroons (Conrad t). Exp. 48 millim. 



279. Metarctia invaria, insert (syns.) : — 



Metarctia rosacea, Beth.-Baker, A.M.N.H. (8) vii. p. 532 (1911). 



Angola, N'Dalla Tando (Ansorge), type f 6 rosacea in Coll. 

 Bethune- Baker. 



Metarctia erubescent, conradti, Oberth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. lxxix. p. 468, 

 pi. 17. f. 9 (1911). 



The typical brownish form. 



CameroOxs, Johann Albrechts Hohe (CoaraJf). 



Metarctia postrosea, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 187 (1913). 



A form with the markings of fore wing ochreous yellow ; hind 

 wing strongly suffused with rose-pink. 



S. Nigeria, Lagos (Bamborn), type f 2 m Mus. Oxon. 



*279a. Metarctia aurantiifusca. (Plate III. fig. 29.) 



Metarctia aurantiifusca, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 187 (1913). 



$ • Head and thorax fulvous orange, antenna' with the branches 

 blackish ; abdomen orange, the dorsum with a faint scarlet tinge. 

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