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Genus RAPARNA. n , 
lype. 
Rayarna, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 177 (1882) ochreipennis, Moore. 
Raparna metaphaea, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and basal segment of abdomen ochreous 
slightly tinged with rufous, the rest of abdomen suffused with 
rufous ; antennae grey-brown, ringed with whitish towards 
base ; frons at sides and palpi except the 3rd joint black- 
brown ; fore and mid legs black-brown, the fore tarsi ochreous, 
the hind legs paler brown. Fore wing ochreous slightly tinged, 
irrorated and striated with rufous ; a black point on sub- 
costal nervure near base ; an antemedial dark brown point 
on costa ; a rather diffused red-brown discoidal spot ; faint 
traces of two or three waved lines beyond the cell, oblique 
below' vein 4, some black-brown points beyond them on costa ; 
traces of a waved rufous subterminal line ; a terminal series 
of black-brown points. Hind wing grey-brown, the cilia 
and termen narrowly at middle ochreous. Underside grey- 
brown ; fore wing with the costa ochreous with some dark 
points on it towards apex ; hind wing with small blackish 
discoidal spot and indistinct waved postmedial line, incurved 
below vein 2. 
Hah. Solomon Is., Choiseul ( Meek ), I <$ type. Exp. 28 
millim. 
Genus METALECTRA. 
Lype. 
Metal ectra, Hiibn. Verz. p. 342 (1827) prascisalis , Hiibn. 
Stimmia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 23 (1852) carveomacula , Guen. 
Homopyralis , Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 213 
(1874) quad rieignata . Walk. 
Metalectra pexiceras, n. sp. 
d 1 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown mixed w ith 
some grey, the last with some rufous at base of dorsum ; 
legs fuscous brown, the fore tibiae and the tarsi ringed with 
grey. Fore wing dark red-brown mixed with grey and some 
purplish red ; a broad dark brown subbasal band from costa 
to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinct, black, w'aved ; orbicular 
and reniform chocolate-brown, the former small, round, the 
latter defined on outer side by whitish ; an indistinct waved 
dark medial line ; postmedial line whitish defined on inner 
side by small black-brown spots, slightly bent outwards below 
costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some 
small flesh-red spots with black-brown between them beyond 
it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on outer side 
by dark red-brown, forming a patch at middle, angled outwards 
below vein 7, incurved at middle and excurved between veins 
