OZARBA. 421 



5636. Ozarba semipurpurea. (Plate CLXI. fig. 12.) 



Metachrostis semipurpurea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 412 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax chocolate-red mixed with some grey and 

 fuscous ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous leaving slight grey 

 segmental lines, the anal tuft tinged with rufous ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen whitish irrorated with fuscous, the fore 

 tibiae and the tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing with 

 the basal half deep purplish red suffused with some fuscous oq inner 

 area ; subbasal line represented by two black points on costa ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; the dark area bounded 

 by a slightly curved black line with an indistinct line before it 

 excurved at middle ; the terminal half grey, tinged with brown 

 towards termen ; a slight black discoidal lunule ; postmedial line 

 double, slightly excurved from costa to vein 5, then almost straight ; 

 subterminai line grey defined on inner side by dark brown and with 

 dark patch before it on costal area, almost evenly curved ; a 

 terminal series of small black spots and a dark patch at discal fold; 

 cilia fuscous brown. Hind wing whitish wholly suff'used with red- 

 brown, the cilia paler ; the underside brownish grey thickly 

 irrorated with dark brown, a black discoidal point, curved post- 

 medial line, and traces of a diffused subterminai band. 



jUab. Transvaal, Piet Retief (CrawsJiay), 1 S ; ISTatal, Tugela E. 

 {Reynolds), 1 ^ ; Cape Colony, Annshaw {Miss F. Barrett), 1 J 

 type. Ex_p. 22-24 millim. 



5637. Ozarba consanguis. (Plate CLXI. fig. 13.) 



Metachrostis consanguis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 413 (1902). 



2 . Head and thorax rufous mixed with black-brown ; palpi, 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen greyish irrorated witn brown, the fore 

 tibiae and the tarsi black ringed with white, the dorsal crest 

 blackish. Fore wing with the basal half black tinged with grey 

 and with some rufous at base of inner margin, the terminal hai 

 pinkish shading to deep rufous before the subterminai line ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a black striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 black slightly defined on inner side by rufous, waved ; medial line 

 slightly defined on outer side by white, angled outwards in cell and 

 slightly incurved below it; a slight black discoidal lunule; post- 

 medial line only defined by the difference between the pink and 

 rufous areas, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminai line indistinct, pale, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and middle, some dark broAvn suffusion beyond it 

 at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of slight black 

 lunules. Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous brown ; the 

 underside ochreous white thickly irrorated with fuscous brown, a 



