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. Hindwing greyish with dark lines and suffusion. 



a. Forewing greyish without apical blackish patch snelleni. 



h. Forewing whitish with blackish apical patch. 



a^. Forewing with ante- and post-medial triangular black 



spots on costa anticalis. 



ft'. Forewing without distinct black spots on costa . . . . rubripuiicta. 



(1) Metachrostis orthozona, n. sp. 



(? . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; pectus and legs orange 

 irrorated with fuscous and the forelegs streaked with fuscous ; 

 abdomen orange dorsally irrorated with fuscous. Forewing dark 

 greyish brown with nearly straight pale brownish postmedial band 

 with indistinct line on it ; a brownish spot on costa before apex with 

 traces of two irregular lines arising from it, the inner angled inwards 

 on discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of blackish points. 

 Hindwing orange ; some brown suffusion at base ; a terminal brown 

 band expanding widely on costa and not reaching tornus. Under 

 side of forewing with the band and a costal fascia from base to near 

 apex orange. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 24 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



(2) Matachrostis madanda Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108, f. 28 (1874). 

 Acontia dignata, Moschl. z. b. Wien. xxxiii. p. 297, pi. xvi. f. 12 



(1883). 

 Hah. Cape Colony, Uitenhage(Bairstow, Dr. Smith). ^xj:>. 24 mill. 



(3)*Metacheostis accincta, Dist. A.M.N. H. (7) i. p. 224 (1898). 

 Hah. Transvaal, Pretoria (Distant). Exp. 22 mill. 



(4)*Metachbostis cryptochrysea, n. sp. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish brown slightly 

 mixed with fuscous ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen 

 whitish ; tarsi black ringed with white. Forewing with the basal 

 area pale reddish brown with some black costal points and traces 

 of a subbasal line ; the antemedial line black, nearly straight, 

 shading off to red-brown towards the postmedial line ; an indis- 

 tinct waved medial line with black striga on it below costa, then 

 excurved ; reniform elliptical defined by black ; the postmedial line 

 double, obliquely curved from costa to vein 4, then erect and with a 

 black lunule beyond it between veins 4 and 7 ; an indistinct sinuous 

 subterminal line with black mark beyond it below apex ; a black ter- 

 minal line except towards tornus ; a white spot on cilia at apex. 



