ANNALS MEDEDELINGEN 
OF THE VAN HEX 
TRANSVAAL MUSEUM 
VoL. 8 Part 3 
NEW SOUTH AFRICAN HETEROCERA 
By Louis B. Prout, F.E.S., and A. E. Prout, F.E.S. London 
With plate 
The species described in this paper have been submitted, by the Transvaal 
Museum or by Mr A. J. T. Janse, for determination together with other 
interesting material at intervals during the past four or five years and 
now furnish a very substantial contribution to our knowledge of the fauna 
of South Africa. The types remain in the collections specified, but we 
take this opportunity of acknowledging the kindness whereby we have 
been enabled to keep paratypes and other valuable specimens in this 
country. 
It is unfortunately only possible at present to provide one plate in 
illustration of the paper, but it is hoped that the rest of the species may 
be figured on some later occasion. 
In some of the descriptions the convenient abbreviations have been 
adopted with which Mr Meyrick and his followers have familiarised the 
entomological world, the length of the palpus being expressed in terms 
of the diameter of the eye, length of antennal dilation or pectination in 
terms of the diameter of the shaft, length of tarsus in terms of that of 
the tibia. 
A. GEOMETRIDAE. By Louis B. Prout 
Sub-family Hemitheinae 
I. Metallochlora dyscheres sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 18). 
26 mm. Face deep red. Palpus short (about i), 2nd joint with appressed 
scaling, 3rd joint very small, though distinct; red, the projecting hair-scales 
beneath ist joint paler and more ochreous. Tongue probably not long (rolled 
in). Antenna almost simple, slightly lamellate, the dilation vestigial; pale 
ochreous, above slightly tinged with red, towards base more whitish. Crown 
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