METASAUA. 257 



Genus METASADA, nov. 



Type, M. poli/cesta. 



Pr(jbo8cis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to vertex of head and fringed with scales in front and behind at extremity, the 

 ord short, porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibife slightly 

 fringed with hair, the spurs long ; abdomen with small dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen 

 evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9, 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with the termen crenulate ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; ft nearly fully 

 developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5388. Metasada polycesta. 



Zaffim Polynesia, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii. p. 120 (1902). 



(S . Head blood-red mixed with some whitish ; palpi whitish at 

 tips ; antennae whitish ringed with brown ; tegulse and prothorax 

 whitish, the rest of thorax rufous, the scales pale at tips ; pectus 

 and legs whitish suffused with rufous, the fore legs with fuscous ; 

 abdomen rufous with whitish segmental lines and some fuscous 

 suffusion towards extremity, the basal crest blackish, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing yellowish suffused with rufous and 

 sparsely irrorated with black, the veins with greyish streaks, the 



Fig. 71. — Metasada polycesta, (^ . \. 



costal area whitish, narrowing to a point just before apex ; ante- 

 medial line whitish, arising below costa, slightly bent outwards at 

 median nervure, then erect : orbicular a white point in upper part 

 of cell ; reniform grey incompletely defined by black, narrow ; 

 postmedial line brown defined on outer side by white, waved from 

 below costa to vein 4 where it is angled outwards, then incurved 

 and sinuous, a pale gre}' patch beyond it to subterminal line from 

 vein 3 to inner margin ; subterminal line white, dentate ; a 

 crenulate red-brown terminal line with dark points in the inter- 

 spaces ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellowish 

 suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with black on terminal 

 area ; postmedial line brownish defined on outer side by white, 

 sinuous, excurved at median nervules, a pale grey patch beyond it 

 from vein 3 to inner margin ; a subterminal series of white points ; 



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