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■ Genus THYEETES. 



Type. 



Thyretes, Boisd. Voy. Delegorgue, ii. p. 596 



(1847) hippotes. 



Sect. I. Build stout ; frons with large tuft of hair ; femora and tibiae 

 fringed with long hair. 



A. Wings with the markings hyaline hippotes. 



B. Wings with the markings yellow inontana. 



(1) Thtbetes hippotes, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 286 A (1780). 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Trimen). Exp. ^ 36, ? 50 mill. 



(2)'-^'Thyretes MONTANA, Boisd. Voy. Delegorgue, ii. p. 597 (1847). 

 Hab. Zululand ; Cape Colony. Exp. 34 mill. 



Sect. II. Build slender; frons nearly smooth ; femora and tibiae slightly 

 fringed with hair. 



(3) Thybetes caffra, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 138 (1863). 

 Hab. Delagoa Bay (Junot) ; Cape Colony (Drege). Exp. ^ 38, 

 ? 42 mill. 



Genus APISA. 



Type. 

 Apisa, Wlk. iv. 916 (1855) canescens. 



Apisa canescens, "Wlk. iv. 917 (1855). 



Psychotoe pallota, Plotz. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 78 (1880). 



Apisa cinereo-costata, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 394 (1893). 



,, cana, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 394 (1893). 

 Hab. East and West Africa ; Natal (Gueinzius, Hutchinson). 

 Exp. $ 32-42, 2 38-64 mill. 



Genus METAECTIA. 



Type. 

 ITctorcim, Wlk. iii. 769 (1855) rufescens. 



A. Colour orange-red lateritia. 



B. Colour pale reddish and fuscous rufescens. 



C. Colour fulvous and fuscous. 



a. Wings fulvous yellow, the interspaces of forewing and 

 costal area of hindwing fuscous ; head and abdomen mostly 

 crimson flavivena. 



h. Wings fuscous ; forewing with a costal fascia and the cilia 



fulvous metexis. 



c. Wings fulvous yellow, slightly tinged with fuscous, the 



veins fuscous crassa. 



