METAECTIA. 145 



277. Metarctia caeruleifascia. (Plate V. fig. 13.) 



Balacra cmruUifascia, Wlk. vii. 1721 (1856); Kirby, Cat, Het. p. 221. 

 Automolis elirmanni, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 535 (1893). 



5 . Head scarlet ; palpi, autennoe, and a band between antennae 

 brown; thorax brown ; tegulae edged with scarlet, patagia and patches 

 on meso- and metathorax scarlet; legs scarlet and brown ; abdomen 

 scarlet, with fuscous bands tinged with metallic blue scales. Fore 

 wing red-brown, with some scarlet marks at base of costa and median 

 nervure and some crimson at base of inner area ; small hyaline spots 

 in upper angle of cell, below base of vein 2, and a series of four 

 spots beyond the cell between veins 3 and 7, the two upper larger, 

 some red on terminal area near tornus. Hind wing yellow, crimson 

 towards base ; the cilia fuscous. 



Both wings with veins 4, 5 from a point. Antennae minutely 

 serrate. 



Ab. 1. ehrmanni : fore wing with the hyaline spots larger, 

 especially the spots below base of vein 2 and between veins 5 and 6 ; 

 hind wing uniform red. 



Hah. Sierra Leone, 1 $ type ; Liberia, type t $ ehrmanni in 

 Coll. Holland. Exp. 62 millim. 



278. Metarctia lateritia. 



Automolis lateritia, Hei-r.-Schaff. Aussereur, Schmett. f. 274 (1855) ; Kirby^ 



Cat. Het. p. 221. 

 Anace rubra, Wlk. vii. 1720 (1856). 

 Hehena venosa, Wlk. vii. 1723 (1856). 

 Hexaneura cinnamonea, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Men. iv. p. 164 (1860) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 433. 

 Automolis unicolor, Oberth. Ann. Mus, Genov. xv. p. 186 (1880); Kirby^ 



Cat. Het. p, 221. 

 Automolis keJleni, Snell. Notes Leyd. Mus. viii. p. 1 (1886); Tijd. v. Ent. 



xxix. p. 224, pi. 8. f. 1 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 221. 



Bright scarlet ; antennae and sides of palpi black ; tibiae and 



X tarsi black. Fore wing 



^^^^^ with the interspaces 



H. ^<^^C^:^^^^W ^ fuscous ; veins 4, 5 



from a point or shortly 

 stalked. Antennae of 

 female serrate. 



Ab.. 1. Fore wing 



with the fuscous in 



interspaces reduced or 



Fig. Z^^— Metarctia lateritia, S • t- absent. 



Ab. 2. 'kelleni. Thorax and fore wing much browner, leaving 



red spots on the former and the veins of the latter narrowly red. 



Eah. Galea Colntry ; Nyasaland (Crawshay) ; Natal (GoocJi, 

 Gueinzius, Marshall)', BECnrANALAND {Sir O.Metcalf)', Cape Colony, 

 type rubra. Exp. 44-60 millim. Type t venosa in Mus. Oxon. 

 VOL. I. ^ 



