414 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Japan; China; India; 

 Australia. Exp. 26-32 mill. 



(20) Metachbostis coeniculans, WUgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 173 



(1860). 



Erastria figurata, Wlk. xxxiii. 793 (1865). 



nyanza, Feld. Eeis, Nov. pi. 120, f. 6 (1874). 



Hah. British East Africa, Machakos, Kikuyu, Eb. Urru; 

 Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Natal, Malvern (Mar- 

 shall), Estcourt (Hutchinson), Victoria District (Gooch) ; 

 Cape Colony, Knysna (Trimen). Exp. 24-28 mill. 



(21) Mbtachrostis fusca, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 97, pi. 162, 



f. 9 (1893). 

 Hah. Natal (Gooch), Karkloof (Marshall), Durban (Leigh) ; 

 Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss P. Barrett), Grahamstown ; 

 Ceylon. Exp. 28 mill. 



(22) Metachrostis inobtrusa, n. sp. 



Dark chocolate brown ; abdomen fuscous brown ; pectus, legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen pale ochreous strongly irrorated 

 with brown. Forewing with indistinct waved antemedial and 

 medial lines ; a discoidal point ; the double postmedial line bent 

 outwards from below costa to vein 3 and slightly angled inwards 

 in discal and submedian folds ; an irregularly waved greyish sub- 

 terminal line ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing 

 fuscous brown. Under side with the costal area of forewing and 

 the hindwing pale ochreous strongly irrorated with brown and with 

 discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



One specimen has the thorax and forewing to the medial line 

 much greyer. 



Hah. Abyssinia; Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss E. Barrett). Exp. 

 24 mill. Type in B.M. 



(23) Metachrostis ph^ea, n. sp. 



2 . Dark chocolate-brown ; abdomen fuscous brown ; palpi below, 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous irrorated with 

 brown. Eorewing with indistinct waved antemedial and medial 

 lines ; a slight ochreous and black discoidal lunule ; the postmedial 

 line on a greyish ground, oblique from costa to vein 6 and angled 

 inwards in submedian fold ; an irregularly dentate grey subterminal 

 line. Hindwing fuscous brown. Under side with the costal area of 



