72 AAIATILVE. 



2.92 a. Metarctia fulvia. (Plate IV. fig. 13.) 



Metarctia fulvia, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 170 (1901). 

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



S ■ Uniform fulvous yellow ; palpi, side of frons, and fore coxa? 

 and femora above tinged with fuscous. Fore wing with traces of 

 diseoidal spot ; the interspaces below vein 5 and hind wing some- 

 what paler. 



Ab. 1. pollens. Fore wing with diffused blackish fascia on 

 costal area to near apex and on vein 1 to tornus. 



Rah. Br. E. Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe {Betton), 3 6 type; 

 Angola, N'Dalla Tando {Ansorge), type f cS pattern in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker. Exp, 36-40 millim. 



292 b. Metarctia pallida. (Plate IV. figs. 14, 15.) 



Metarctia pallida, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 170 (1901). 



tS • Head and tegular brownish yellow ; palpi and lower part of 

 frons dark brown ; thorax brown ; abdomen and greater part of 

 pectus and legs ochreous. Fore wing grey brown with slight yel- 

 lowish brown streaks on costal and inner areas. Hind wing pale 

 ochreous. 



Ilab. Br. E. Africa, Kikuyu, Roromo, 1 c? , Nairobi 

 (Orawshay), 16 type, Uganda By., Mile 478 {Betton), 2 6 , El 

 Burgon {Betton), X tf^Njoro (Cholmlcy), 2 6- Exp. 32-34 

 millim. 



♦Subsp. 1. Head, tegula?, and abdomen fulvous yellow. 

 Blab. Gold Coast, Kumasi {Whiteside), 1 6; Abyssinia, 

 Dembratscha, Zegi Tsana, Addis Ababa {Beg en), 5 J. 



Genus Pseudapiconoma, insert : — 



BALACRA, Wlk. vii. 1721 (1856) type ceeruleifascia, 



which has priority. 



Megapisa, Auriv, Ark. f. Zool, ii, 4, p. 29 (1904) type nigripennis. 



*293 a. Balacra rubrostriata. 



Metarctia rubrostriata, Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. 1898, p. 185 ; Roths. Nov. 

 Zool. xix. pi. siv. f, 37, 



Hind wing with veins 4, 5 on a long stalk, 7 obsolete. 



5 . White ; frons between antennae, part of tegulse, and the 

 extremity of abdomen pale yellow ; antennae, palpi, and legs in 

 front black ; abdomen with dorsal red bands on 1st six segments 

 interrupted at middle, lateral, sublateral, and ventral black spots 



