The Moths of South Africa. 415 



forewing and the hindwing ochreous strongly irrorated with brown, 

 the latter with discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 20 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



(24) Metacheostis negeita, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 142 (1894). 

 Hah. British East Africa, Teita ; Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss 



P. Barrett) ; India ; Ceylon. Exp. 14-16 mill. 



(25) Metacheostis teitonia, n. sp. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous. 

 Forewing grey irrorated with black and purplish red scales, the 

 outer half of costal area tinged with purplish red; the lines 

 blackish ; the antemedial line angled inwards in cell and on 

 vein 1, outwards below the cell and above inner margin ; a black 

 discoidal spot placed on the medial line which is excurved from 

 costa to median nervure, then incurved ; the postmedial line 

 minutely dentate, excurved below costa and at median nervules, 

 angled inwards in discal and submedian folds ; an indistinct 

 irregular subterminal line. Hindwing grey suffused with fuscous 

 brown. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Umtali (Marshall). Exp. 38 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



(26) Metacheostis snelleni, WUgrn. GEfv. ak. k. Vet. Akad. Forh. 



1875, p. 113. 

 Epizeuxis athiops, Dist. Nat. in Transvaal, p. 239, pi. ii. f. 2 



(1892). 

 Hah. British East Africa, Machakos; Transvaal; Natal, 



Karkloof (Marshall) ; Basutoland, Maseru (Crawshay) ; Cape 



Colony, Transkei, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 22- 



30 mill. ■ 



(27) Metacheostis anticalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1202 (1865). 

 Hah. Natal (Plant). Exp. 22 mill. 



(28) Metacheostis eubeipuncta, n. sp. 



<J. Head and thorax black more or less strongly mixed with 

 whitish; legs whitish banded with black; abdomen whitish 

 dorsally tinged with fuscous brown. Forewing ochreous white 

 more or less completely suffused with leaden fuscous and 

 black, but leaving some whitish at base, beyond the antemedial 



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