The Moths of South Africa. 411 



(Bowker, Gooch) ; Basutoland, Maseru (Crawshay) ; Cape 

 Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett, Dr. Smith). Exp. 20- 

 30 mill. 



(9) Metachrostis hypoxantha, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1860, 



p. 173. 

 Metachrostis vuUuosa, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) i. p. 224 (1898). 

 Hab. Transvaal ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), Verulam 



(Gooch); Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exjj. 



$ 18, ? 24 mill. 



(10)''' Metachrostis flavinia, n. sp. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow. Forewing yel- 

 lowish suffused with grey and with numerous ill-defined waved 

 rufous lines ; a diffused brown discoidal patch ; the postmedial 

 line more distinct, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, 

 angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; a ter- 

 minal series of rufous points ; cilia yellow. Hindwing yellow with 

 slight brown postmedial marks on vein 2 and inner margin. 



ILab. Transvaal, Potchefstroom (Ayres). Exp. 26 mill. Type 

 in Coll. Druce. 



(11) Metachrostis hypotonia, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1860, 



p. 173. 

 Hob. British East Africa, NaitoHa, Machakos, Eb. Urru; Natal, 

 Mooi Eiver, Victoria District (Gooch). Exp. 18-22 mill. 



(12) Metachrostis bolinia, n. sp. 



$ . Grey- brown ; forelegs banded with fuscous ; abdomen with 

 dorsal fuscous bands. Forewing with the basal half tinged with 

 rufous and bounded by a nearly straight dark line ; waved 

 antemedial and postmedial lines ; a diffused irregularly sinuous 

 subterminal line ; the termen tinged with rufous. Hindwing 

 sometimes blackish ; an obliquely curved antemedial line, defined 

 by whitish on outer side ; a nearly straight medial line ; a diffused 

 subterminal line expanding into a large black spot below vein 4 

 with two whitish spots beyond it or whitish subterminal band. 



Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Basutoland, Maseru (Craw- 

 shay) ; Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 20-22 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



(13) Metachrostis nigroviridis, n. sp. 



Head and fore half of thorax black, the hinder half apple-green ; 



