410 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Hindwing bright orange, with black streak below base of cell and 

 black apical spot followed by short streaks to vein 2 ; cilia black, 

 white at tips at apex and middle. 



Hah. Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro). Exp. 22 mill. Type in 

 Coll. Druce. 



(5)*Mbtacheostis contempta, Wlk. xv. 1762 (1858). 



Hah. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett, Dr. Smith). 

 Exp. 24 mill. 



(6)*Metacheostis cinebea, Auriv. QSfv. af. k. Vetensk. Akad. Porh. 

 1879, p. 68. 

 Hah. Damaraland (De Vylder). Exp. 26 mill. 



(7) Metachrgstis heliastis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 below, pectus and legs whitish, the last marked with black and 

 brown ; abdomen orange suffused with brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing grey-brown suffused with purplish brown on 

 terminal half ; a fine straight antemedial line on a grey band ; the 

 reniform greyish 8-shaped ; the postmedial line oblique from costa 

 to beyond the reniform, incurved below it and slightly excurved 

 towards inner margin ; an indistinct irregularly sinuous pale sub- 

 terminal line ; cilia blackish, pale below apex. Hindwing orange ; 

 a diffused black costal fascia extending into the cell ; black streaks 

 in submedian fold and on inner margin not reaching termen ; an 

 apical black patch and fine terminal line ; cilia blackish. Under side 

 of fore wing orange with black discoidal point and apical patch. 



Hah. British East Africa, Machakos (Crawshay), Teita (Jackson) ; 

 Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 18-22 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



(8) Metacheostis vaeia, Wlk. xxxiii. 772 (1865). 

 Panemeria densa, Wlk. xxxiii. 773 (1865). 



Acontia acclivis, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108, f. 24 (1874). 

 Microphysa yerssoni, Wllgrn. CEfv. af. k. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1875 



p. 114. 

 Microphysa mustelina, Wllgrn. (Efv. af. k. Vet. Akad. Fdrh. 1875, 



p. 115. 

 Hah. Aden ; British East Africa, Machakos ; Mashonaland, 



Salisbury (Marshall) ; N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; Transvaal (Eoss) ; 



Bechuanaland (Alston); Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), Durban 



