METARBELA. By M. Gaede. 
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by 2 divergent lines. The enclosed space somewhat greyer. At the cross-vein a dark streak. The notched 
submarginal line is concave behind the cell, inside finely edged with whitish. Hindwing brown. $ 30 to 
32 mm. Cameroon. 
M. rava Karsch. Greyish-brown. On the forewing a faded dark brown exterior line, somewhat dentate, raw. 
connected with a large spot behind the cell-end. Besides traces of an oblique dentate median line. Apex more 
acuminate than in other species. Hindwing somewhat more reddish. 28 mm. Cameroon. reticulosana Strd. ret'uulo- 
(78 g). The name may remain for a somewhat more distinctly marked form. At the costal margin of the 
forewing distinct dark dots, 2 streaks in the cell and the two lines more distinct than in the damaged rava. The 
postcellular spot is smaller. $ 28 mm. Spanish Guinea, bueana Strd. is only a badly preserved rava. 
M. fumida Karsch (78 g). Smaller and darker than rava. Marking in the very good specimen indistinct, fumida. 
At the cross-vein only a streak. Exterior line not different. Apex also pointed. Margin somewhat greyer, with 
black dots. Hindwing blackish-brown. 20 22 mm. Togo, Cameroon. 
M. funebris n. sp. (78 g). Fore wing dark reddish brown, without markings, apex pointed. Abdomen funebris. 
and hindwing somewhat more blackish-brown. £ 22 mm. Niger District. Type in the Tring Museum. 
The following species with a variable scheme of markings differ much more from the preceding ones. 
M. pygatula Strd. (78 h). Greyish-brown, at the thorax darker, with a dark brown marking. A broad pygatula. 
radial stripe from the base of the costal margin to below the centre of the distal margin. Median band notched, 
exterior band very dentate, above vein 5 far inward, otherwise from the apex to % of the inner margin. 
Hindwing reddish-brown. The type is very small, in the hindwing veins 6 + 7 on a short stalk (according 
to Strand not stalked). 20—28 mm. Cameroon, Spanish Guinea. 
M. cinereolimbata Le Cerf. Forewing reddish brown, black dots at the costal margin and vein 2. From cinereolim- 
the apex to the basal third a dark brown dentate shadow. Inner and distal margins somewhat grey. Marginal 
dots black. Abdomen and hindwing paler. $ 26 mm. East Africa. It may be the eastern form of pygatula. 
M. aliuaudi Le Cerf. Forewing slate-coloured, at the base of the inner margin black, the rest of the wing dlluaudi. 
except the basal area densely strewn with light dots. Hindwing pale grey with greyish-brown dots. Both wings 
thereby reticulately marked. $ 33 mm. East Africa. 
M. perstriata Limps. (78 h). Yellowish brown, thorax somewhat darker. Forewing reticulately covered perstriata. 
with numerous dark red-brown streaks. Heavier streaks at the middle and end of the cell. Hindwing without 
markings. ^ 20 mm. East Africa. 
The following species differ in their small size and more delicate body. 
M. micra Karsch (78 h). Forewing brown. At the costal margin and in the discal area as far as the micra. 
inner margin yellow and a few white circles edged with black. Below the apex a dark radial streak. Abdomen 
and hindwing somewhat lighter brown, d 18 mm. Togo. 
M. triguttafa Aur. (78 h). Forewing brown. Exterior line similar as in erecta, not dentate. Below the triguttata. 
base of vein 2 three small white spots (in a $ on the left side 4). Abdomen and hindwing lighter greyish-brown. 
17—21 mm. Cameroon. Lado, Bar el Ghazal. In this species vein 8 of hindwing anastomoses with the anterior 
edge of the cell. 
M. trisignata n. sp. (78 h). Body and forewing quite similar to triguttata, but the white maculae at trisignata. 
vein 2 removed as far to the margin as in quadriguttata. They consist of a fine streak near the distal margin, 
then follows a fine dot and a shorter thick streak inward. Hindwing hardly lighter than forewing. <+ 18 mm. 
South West Africa. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
The three following species, by their white marking, form the transition to the genus Arbelodes. 
M. albitorquata Hmps. Body golden brown with white scales. Forewing brass-coloured, dusted with albitor- 
red-brown. At the costal margin a row of blackish-brown and white dots. One white spot each at the base 
of the costal margin and in the submedian fold. At the inner margin the base is white-edged, at its centre there 
is a triangular spot. Costal margin from before the middle to the apex white, below it narrower white, then 
forming a bilobate spot and forked near the inner angle. Hindwing white, behind the cell golden brown, towards 
the anal angle only narrowly so. d 28 mm. Transvaal. 
M. flavicolor Jcinse. Thorax und forewing umber brown. Hinclwing and abdomen dark chromatic flavicolor. 
yellow. Forewing at the costal margin dark brown. A fine dark transverse line beginning at the cross-vein, 
semicircularly excurved, then straight to the inner margin, behind it as far as the margin glossy dark brown. 
A triangular white spot at the base in the submedian fold, before and behind it small nut-brown spots. A pear- 
shaped hazel sjjot in the centre of the wing below vein 2. Hindwing at the margin all round dark brown. 
C 34 mm. Natal. 
M. costistrigata Hmps. Body and forewing greyish white, suffused with blackish-brown, at the distal costistri- 
margin almost blackish. At the costal margin, and at the base of the submedian fold black streaks. Around 
