PAIS. METAGARISTA. 591 



coxe in front, the tibiae, and rings on tarsi ochreous ; abdomen 

 orange, with black bands and dorsal spots, the ventral surface black 

 with pale bands. Eore wing ochreous, often more or less irrorated 

 with black ; the costa and inner margin black ; two oblique black 

 subbasal lines, the outer ending in a black-edged deep red spot 

 below the cell ; an antemedial black line incurved in cell, strongly 

 excurved below it ; a black-edged deep red figure-of-eight-shaped 

 medial spot in and below cell, each division often with ochreous 

 spot on it ; a black-edged elliptical discoid al spot with red centre, 

 with small ochreous spots above and below it, and with a red streak 

 from its lower extremity to the subterminal band ; the postmedial 



Fig. 256. — Pais decora, S . \. 



black line dentate inwards to the discoidal spot at vein 5, below 

 vein 3 retracted to lower edge of discoidal spot, then obliquely 

 waved to inner margin ; a sinuous red subterminal band, dentate 

 inwards at vein 5, and connected with the black terminal line by 

 streaks on the veins ; cilia ochreous, intersected with black. Hind 

 wing deep cupreous red, often with pale patch in cell, and two spots 

 or a lunulate patch beyond it, and sometimes some yellow spots on 

 termen ; cilia black at base, whitish at tips. 



Hah. Oeange Eiver Colony, Vaal E,. (Parijs), 1 c? ; Natal, 

 Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 c3* , 2 $ ; C. Colony, Algoa Bay (Burrows), 

 2(S,2 2 , Eerst R. (Trimen), 6^,22- Exp. 44-52 millim. 



MoldcenTcii was probably described from a dirty, greasy, or melan- 

 istic specimen. 



Genus METAGARISTA. 



Type. 

 Metagarista, Wlk. i. p. 60 (1854) triphcenoides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with long hair in front, the 3rd short and hairy ; frons with truncate conical 

 prominence with raised rim at extremity; antennae nearly simple and distinctly 

 dilated at extremity ; tibice fringed with hair ; hind tarsi with the first two 

 joints fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments ; 

 the male with lateral protrusible tufts at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

 close to angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle. 



A. Abdomen orange with black bands mcenas. 



B. Abdomen black with white bands triphanoidet^. 



