. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. API8A. METAKCTIA. 143. Fig. 59.—Apisa canescens, (S. aniennse with the branches brownish. Fore wing slightly suffused with fuscous, the veins and costa darker. 5. Both wings wholly suffused with fuscous. Ab. 1. A 5 from Sierra Leone white like the c? • Ab. 2. A dwarf J 26 millim., from Zanzibar, fuscous like 2 • Coll. Mabille. Hab. Sierra. Leone ( croft); Natal [Gueinzius, Hutchinson); S. Africa, type. Exp., (S 32-42, 2 38-64 millim. Types f cinereo-costata
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. API8A. METAKCTIA. 143. Fig. 59.—Apisa canescens, (S. aniennse with the branches brownish. Fore wing slightly suffused with fuscous, the veins and costa darker. 5. Both wings wholly suffused with fuscous. Ab. 1. A 5 from Sierra Leone white like the c? • Ab. 2. A dwarf J 26 millim., from Zanzibar, fuscous like 2 • Coll. Mabille. Hab. Sierra. Leone ( croft); Natal [Gueinzius, Hutchinson); S. Africa, type. Exp., (S 32-42, 2 38-64 millim. Types f cinereo-costata and cana, Coll. Holland, Ogove River, W. Africa. *274. Apisa melaleuca. (Plate V. fig. 16.) Anace melaleuca, Holland, Ent. News Pliilad, 1898, p. 13. c? . Head and thorax orange ; antennre whitish, the branches fuscous; legs and abdomen yellowish white, the latter fuscous towards extremity; wings yellowish white. Fore wing with the apical half fuscous, its inner edge curved from costa before middle to tornus, the veins crossing it darker. Hab. Cameroons, type t in Coll. Holland. ). 28 millim. *27o. Apisa crenophylax. (Plate Y. fig. 18.) St/nto7nis crenophylax, Holland, Psyche, ri. p. 393 (1893). c?. Black; head, thorax, and abdomen with patches of metallic blue ; frons white ; tegulae and patagia with orange-red patches ; abdomen with orange-red dorsal band on 4th segment. Fore wing hyaline ; the veins and margins black ; a black fascia on inner area expanding at middle; a fascia between veins 5 and 6 which are approximated. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins black; the costa lobed at middle. Hah. W. Africa, Ogove H. {Good). in Coll. Holland. Exp. 24 millim. Type t Genus METARCTIA. Type. Metarctia, Wlk. iii. 769 (1855) rufcscens. Zagaris, Wlk. v. 1096 (1855) crassa. Decimia, Wlk. vii, 1717 (1856) mdeus. Anace,'WW. V\\. 1719(1850) perpusllla. Balacra, Wlk, vii. 1721 (1856) cceruleifascia. Hehena, Wlk. vii. 1722(1856) latcritia. Hexancnra, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mo
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