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METARBELA. By M. Gaede. 
triangula¬ 
ris. 
ochracea. 
laiifasciaia. 
distincia. 
bijasciata. 
siivafer. 
nubifera . 
inconspi- 
cua. 
erecta. 
vail-alba. 
dialeuca. 
plagifcra. 
cremorna. 
raja. 
M. triangularis n. sp. (78 f). Thorax dark reddish-brown. Eorewing below the cell and vei n 2 just as 
dark, the broad distal margin parted by a light line and connected with the spot at the cross-vein is more 
violettish-brown. The remaining, almost triangular portion is lighter brown. Hindwdng and abdomen light 
greyish-brown. $ 26 mm. East Africa. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
M. ochracea n. sp. (78 g) resembles triangularis. From the light ochreous triangular area of the forewing 
a stripe extends to the inner margin. The streak at the cross-vein is distantly separated from the darker distal 
area which is also parted by a light line. Body and hindwing as dark brown as the dark places in the forewing, 
d 30 mm. Type in the Hamburg Museum. 
M. latifasciata n. sp. (78 g). Body and wings violettish-brown. On the forewing a spot in the cell-end 
and a broad band from vein 2 to below the costal margin and the slightly waved light submarginal line darker 
reddish-brown. Median vein and vein 2 somewhat lighter. Both wings with somewhat lighter fringe. $ 28 mm. 
East Africa. Type in the Tring Museum. 
M. distirs eta Be Cerf. (78 i). Flesh-coloured reddish. A dark band from the cell-end to the inner margin, 
in the middle connected with the broad marginal band in which there is a light partition-line. The whole 
marking is edged with black. Hindwing light brownish. $ 29 mm. East Africa. 
M. bifasciata n. sp. (78 g). Thorax and forewing orange red. An interior and exterior broad band 
formed by black notched distinct lines with a slightly grey interior area. Exterior line above vein 2 with an 
inward projection. Before the margin a faded dark line. Abdomen and hindwing light reddish-brown. d 32 mm. 
Niger District. Type in the Tring Museum. 
M. stivafer Holl. (78 g). Thorax rusty brown, abdomen yellowish-brown. Forewing golden yellow, at 
the margin violettish grey, with an indistinct brown marking. A curved interior line, at the cell-end an 8- 
shaped marking, dark. Submarginal line incurved behind the cell, then vertical to the inner angle, inside 
broadly edged with violettish grey and connected with a spot at the cell-end. A distinct white line at the base 
of vein 1, from there to vein 2 and then along the distal margin. At the inner margin beloAV it darker. Hindwing 
ochreous. d 30 mm. Sierra Leone, Spanish Guinea, Congo. 
M. nubifera B.-Bak. Forewing grey, especially dark below the cell. Exterior band broad and dark 
grey from the costal margin to vein 2 and above the latter inward to its base. Costal and distal margins 
dusted dark, only the veins paler. In the cell a dark rhomboid spot. Hindwing greyish-brown. d 32 mm. 
East Africa. 
M. inconspicua n. sp. (78 g). Thorax dark brown. Forewing greyish-brown. At the cross-vein traces 
of a dark streak. Ihe light exterior line slightly concave behind the cell, inside edged with dark, somewhat 
dentate. Hindwing lighter. d 28—32 mm. Angola. Type in the Tring Museum. 
M. erecta n. sp. (78 g). Thorax and forewing reddish brown. In the cell 2 dark streaks, at the cell- 
end a ring. The inner margin as far as the cell and vein 2 brightened, above it somewhat darker. Submarginal 
line dark, slightly concave behind the cell. Margin with fine black dots. Hindwing like the inner margin, 
on the forewing. In a somewhat red specimen there are traces of 2 dark streaks above the centre of the inner 
margin, d 28 mm. East Africa, Angola. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
M. vau-alba Hmps. Body and forewing rusty brown and brown. At the cross-vein a large oblique 
brown-edged luna, confluent with a Y-shaped marking at the median vein and vein 2. Before the margin 2 
indistinct dark lines close together, concave behind the cell. At the margin red-brown triangles at the veins. 
Hindwing of the same ground-colour, d 28 mm. Central Africa. 
M. dialeuca Hmps. Body and forewing pale red-brown, vein 2 faded white. Through the cell-end 2 
oblique dark streaks and from the submedian fold 2 divergent streaks to the centre of the inner margin. The 
oblique brown submarginal line is faded. ^ 24 mm. East Africa, Natal. 
M. plagifera n. sp. (78 h). Body and forewing orange, in the basal area browner, with indistinct lines. 
The fine exterior line is blackish, almost straight, slightly inbent behind the cell. Behind it in the centre of the 
marginal spot indistinct dark spots between the veins and smaller marginal dots at the ends of the veins. 
Hindwing whitish yellow, d 22 mm. East Africa. Type in the Berlin Museum. In the type veins 7+8 + 9 
of forewing stalked, but the scheme of markings exactly that of Metarbela. 
M. cremorna Hmps. Body and forewing yellowish white with brown patches. Costal margin rusty 
brown, behind the centre as far as vein 3 the same. Exterior line fine black, wavy, behind the cell and at vein 2 
incurved and very indistinct there, forming 2 streaks at the inner margin. Before the distal margin a line of 
dark scales, marginal dots black. Hindwing slightly reddish, d 30 mm. Gold Coast. 
M. rufa sp. n. Thorax dark rusty brown, abdomen lighter. Forewing dark red-brown, at the median 
vein and vein 2 whitish. A dark ring with its apex at the centre of the cell, followed towards the inner margin 
