METARCTIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
M. flavicincta Aur. ( — sarcosoma Hmps.) (6 d). Very similar to jlaviciliata, but hindwing pale honey- flavicinda. 
coloured. — In ab. contrasts B.-Bak. the body is of a stiJl deeper purple colour, in uniformis B.-Bcik. it is contrasta. 
ochreous-yellow, shaded with dark. West Africa to Uganda. uniformis. 
M. bicolora H.-Schdfj. (6 d). Body red with dark brown mesothorax, abdomen also in the $ with bicolora. 
black rings. Wings dark brown with yellow fringes, hindwing as far as beyond the basal half dingy white. 
Natal. 
IVL fulvia Hmps. (6 d). Body miniate, wings pale ochreous, forewing with dark yellow margins. East fulvia. 
Africa.'— In ab. pallens B.-Bcik. the costal margin and hind-margin are darkened by a sooty colour. Angola, pallens. 
M. nigriceps Aur. (6 f). Only the $ is known. Body and wings brick-coloured; through the forewing, nigriceps. 
before the centre, a bent, complete soot-coloured transverse band extends, and across the cross-vein a similar 
demi-band. Cameroon. 
M. pulverea Hmps. (6 g). Chestnut-brown, abdomen and hindwing somewhat greyer. Forewing with pulverea. 
yellowish-red fringe and small dark spots on the cross-vein and below the cell. Uganda. 
M. pumila Hmps. (6 c) is one of the smallest species; body light earth-coloured with darker markings, pumila. 
hindwing earth-brown, forewing much darker brown with distinct black veins. From Gondokoro on the 
White Nile. 
M. phaeoptera Hmps. (6 c), from the Upper Congo, is quite similar to pumila, but the forewing is phaeoptera. 
darker blackish-brown, so that the black veins are less conspicuous. Also the hindwing is of a darker tinge 
than in pumila ; abdomen with distinct black rings. 
M. pallida Hmps. (6 c) is coloured almost exactly like the preceding ones, but of a much clumsier pallida. 
structure, thorax much broader, abdomen in both sexes shorter and stouter. $ almost like pumila , but the 
forewing without the distinct neuration; $ more van Dyke-brown. The antennae are remarkably developed 
in both sexes, recalling the South American Laora antennata (Vol. VI, pi. 38 i) which also shows resemblances 
in the size and colouring, as some Metarctia anyhow recall the American genera Antarctia or J\Iallocephala. 
East Africa. -— In a form from the Gold Coast the body is of a more yellowish-reddish tinge: ab. kumasina Strd. kumasina. 
M. metaSeuca Hmps. (6 g) likewise resembles pallida and pumila , but it is more slender than the former, metaleuca. 
with a sooty grey hindwing. Liberia. 
M. benitensis Holl. (6 g) is similar to the preceding, but larger. In the $ all the wings are darker, benitensis. 
the forewing almost black; the hindwing in the $ whitish. Cameroon. Larva on bindweeds and other low 
plants. 
M. haematica Holl. (6g) is the smallest species of the genus. Thorax and forewing dark cinnamon- haematica. 
brown, abdomen and hindwing brownish dark pink. Wings without markings. East and West Africa. 
M. rubribasa B.-Bak. (6 h), from Angola, is uni-coloured light ruddle-red, hindwing miniate. rubribasa, 
M. haematosphages Holl. (6g). Uni-coloured ruddle-red; thorax and forewing feebly shaded darker, haemato- 
West Africa. sphages. 
M. rufescens Wkr. (— maculifera Wallgr.) (6 e). Dark red-brown, in some places with a slight ochreous rufescens. 
tinge. Forewing with a dark brown shadow round the cross-vein; hindwing light yellowish-brown, costal part 
tinged with ruddle-red. West Africa. -— The South-African ab. parernphares Holl. has yellowish-white hindwings parernpha- 
tinged with pink. 
M. lugubris sp. n. Gaede (ined.). ,,Similar to rufescens. Body and antennae lighter brown. Head black, lugubris. 
Forewing dark reddish-brown strewn with lighter scales. 30 to 36 mm. German East Africa.“ 
M. burra Schs. is slightly larger than lugubris ; the $ is light yellowish pinkish-brown, forewing with hurra. 
a dark brown shadow round the cross-vein; hindwing pale yellow. Also of this species a redder race occurs, 
with an obsolete shadow on the cross-vein. Sierra Leone and East Africa. 
M. haematricha Hmps. (6 h). Body ruddle-red, with intense blackish-brown markings. Forewing haemalri- 
of a deep dark chestnut-brown colour. Hindwing sooty-brown, somewhat lighter. Abyssinia. c ' ia - 
M. inconspicua Holl. (6 e). Smaller, thorax and forewing dark chestnut-brown, abdomen and hindwing inconspi- 
pale ochreous-brownish. Easily discernible by the yellow hairing of the prothorax. East and West Africa. cua - 
M. noctis Drc. (6 e) is almost exactly coloured like inconspicua, but the abdomen and hindwing are noctis. 
not lighter than the fore wing. Abyssinia. 
M, fusca Hmps. (6 h). Body and wings quite uni-coloured dark sooty-brown, but in the forewing fusca. 
there are 3 small light spots at the cross-vein and one above the centre of the hind-margin. East Africa to 
Uganda. 
M. bipuncta Joic. & Tcdb. is allied to fusca, but the wings are longer, and the small spots in the bipuncta. 
forewing are of a bright white colour. Forewing beneath tan-coloured, at the apex whitish. Rugege Forest, 
at an altitude of 8000 ft., captured in December. 
