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Fig. 59. — Apisa canescens, (S . 



aniennse with the branches brownish. Fore wing slightly suffused 

 with fuscous, the veins and costa darker. 



5 . Both wings wholly 

 suffused with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. A 5 from Sierra 

 Leone white like the c? • 



Ab. 2. A dwarf J 26 

 millim., from Zanzibar, 

 fuscous like 2 • Coll. 

 Mabille. 



Hab. Sierra. Leone (Fo.r- 

 croft); Natal [Gueinzius, 

 Hutchinson) ; S. Africa, 

 type. Exp., (S 32-42, 

 2 38-64 millim. Types f cinereo-costata and cana, Coll. Holland, 

 Ogove River, W. Africa. 



*274. Apisa melaleuca. (Plate V. fig. 16.) 



Anace melaleuca, Holland, Ent. News Pliilad, 1898, p. 13. 



c? . Head and thorax orange ; antennre whitish, the branches 

 fuscous ; legs and abdomen yellowish white, the latter fuscous 

 towards extremity ; wings yellowish white. Fore wing with the 

 apical half fuscous, its inner edge curved from costa before middle 

 to tornus, the veins crossing it darker. 



Hab. Cameroons, type t in Coll. Holland. E.vj). 28 millim. 



*27o. Apisa crenophylax. (Plate Y. fig. 18.) 



St/nto7nis crenophylax, Holland, Psyche, ri. p. 393 (1893). 



c? . Black; head, thorax, and abdomen with patches of metallic 

 blue ; frons white ; tegulae and patagia with orange-red patches ; 

 abdomen with orange-red dorsal band on 4th segment. Fore wing 

 hyaline ; the veins and margins black ; a black fascia on inner area 

 expanding at middle ; a fascia between veins 5 and 6 which are 

 approximated. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins black ; 

 the costa lobed at middle. 



Hah. W. Africa, Ogove H. {Good). 

 in Coll. Holland. 



Exp. 24 millim. Type t 



Genus METARCTIA. 



Type. 



Metarctia, Wlk. iii. 769 (1855) rufcscens. 



Zagaris, Wlk. v. 1096 (1855) crassa. 



Decimia, Wlk. vii, 1717 (1856) mdeus. 



Anace, 'WW. V\\. 1719(1850) perpusllla. 



Balacra, Wlk, vii. 1721 (1856) ccerulei fascia. 



Hehena, Wlk. vii. 1722(1856) latcritia. 



Hexancnra, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 164 (1860) rufcscens. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, hardly reaching beyond frons and clothed 

 •with hair ; antennae of male bipectinate, with long branches in male, of female 

 with very short branches or serrate ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with 



