METARCTIA. G7 



streaked with pale crimson. Fore wing ochreous suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; a wedge-shaped ochreous patch in middle of cell 

 and two small spots below the middle ; a lunule beyond the cell 

 and an oblique postmedial series of small lunules ; a subterminal 

 bind formed of ochreous patches in the interspaces. Hind wing 

 pile yellow faintly tinged with crimson, the cilia brownish ; the 

 underside yellow faintly suffused with brown. 



Sab. Cameboons, Ja 11., Bitje (Bates), type f $ in Coll. 

 Jokey. Exp. 04 millim. 



*280 b. Metarctia taymansi. 



Metarctia taymansi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 442 (1910), & xix. pi. xiv. 

 f. 43. 



c? . Head and thorax dark brown slightly mixed with ochreous ; 

 femora above and the tarsi pale crimson ; abdomen brown mixed 

 with ochreous, the ventral surface pale. Fore wing dark reddish 

 brown ; a subbasal ochreous white spot below the cell, a wedge- 

 si taped patch in middle of cell enclosing a brown spot, medial 

 spots below the cell and above and below vein 1, a spot above base 

 of vein 2 and spots beyond the cell and above base of vein 0, 

 a subterminal series of elongate rather wedge-shaped spots, those 

 above veins 4, 3 running to the cell and traversed by a faint brown 

 band ; a waved brown line before termen ; the termen and cilia 

 ocbivous white. Hind wing ochreous white. 



Hah. Congo, Kassai (Taymans), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. -50 millim. 



*281 a. Metarctia nigriceps. (Plate III. fig. 32.) 



Metarctia nigriceps, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4, p. 30 (1904). 



5 . Head brown ; palpi and lower part of frons scarlet with 

 some brown scales ; antenme white at tips, thorax and abdomen 

 scarlet, pectus and ventral surface of abdomen orange ; legs orange, 

 the tibia? brown, the tarsi brown with slight orange rings. Fore 

 wing scarlet irrorated with brown, the veins slightly streaked witb 

 brown, the costal edge brown ; an indistinct diffused curved ante- 

 medial line, an indistinct brown bar across the cell towards extremity; 

 an indistinct diffused curved postmedial line from costa to vein 3 ; 

 cilia brown. Hind wing scarlet, the veins streaked with brown 

 towards termen ; cilia brown. Underside of both wings largely 

 suffused with brown. 



Sab. Cameroon*, type f $ in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 44 

 millim. 



*283 a. Metarctia rubribasa. (Plate IV. fig. 1.) 



Metarctia rubribasa, Beth.-Baker, A.M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 533 (1911). 



J. Head crimson ; palpi fringed with brown hair in front, the 

 3rd joint and antenna' blackish ; thorax red-brown mixed witb 



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