PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

                                      Among

                           MET INVESTORS SERIES TRUST,

                          MET INVESTORS ADVISORY CORP.,

                     METLIFE INVESTORS DISTRIBUTION COMPANY

                                       and

                METLIFE INVESTORS INSURANCE COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA



         This  AGREEMENT is made and entered into as of the 12th day of February

, 2001, by and among MET  INVESTORS  SERIES TRUST,  a business  trust  organized

under  the  laws of the  State  of  Delaware  (the  "Fund"),  METLIFE  INVESTORS

INSURANCE  COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA (the "Company") on its own behalf and on behalf

of each of its separate accounts set forth on Schedule A hereto, as amended from

time to time (each an "Account"),  MET INVESTORS  ADVISORY CORP. (the "Adviser")

and METLIFE INVESTORS DISTRIBUTION COMPANY (the "Underwriter").



         WHEREAS,  the Fund is registered as an open-end  management  investment

company  under the  Investment  Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act")

and its shares  are  registered  under the  Securities  Act of 1933,  as amended

(hereinafter the "1933 Act"); and



         WHEREAS,  the Fund serves as an investment vehicle underlying  variable

life insurance policies and variable annuity contracts (collectively,  "Variable

Insurance  Products") offered by insurance companies  ("Participating  Insurance

Companies"); and



         WHEREAS,  the  beneficial  interest in the Fund is divided into several

portfolios of shares,  each  representing  the interest in a particular  managed

portfolio of securities and other assets; and



         WHEREAS,  the Fund has  applied  for an order from the  Securities  and

Exchange  Commission  ("SEC")  granting  Participating  Insurance  Companies and

variable annuity and variable life insurance  separate accounts  exemptions from

certain provisions of the 1940 Act and certain rules and regulations thereunder,

to the extent  necessary to permit  shares of the Fund to be sold to and held by

both variable  annuity and variable  life  insurance  separate  accounts of both

affiliated and unaffiliated  life insurance  companies  (hereinafter the "Shared

Funding Exemptive Order"); and



         WHEREAS,  the Adviser acts as the investment  adviser to each portfolio

of the Fund and is  registered as an  investment  adviser  under the  Investment

Advisers Act of 1940, as amended; and



         WHEREAS,  the Company has registered or will register  certain variable

life and/or variable annuity contracts under the 1933 Act, if required;



         WHEREAS,  the Company has registered or will register each Account as a

unit investment trust under the 1940 Act, if required;



         WHEREAS,  the Underwriter is registered as a broker dealer with the SEC

under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act"), and is a

member in good standing of the National Association of Securities Dealers,  Inc.

(the "NASD"); and



         WHEREAS,  to the extent  permitted  by  applicable  insurance  laws and

regulations, the Company intends to purchase shares of one or more portfolios of

the Fund (the  "Portfolios")  on behalf of each Account to fund certain variable

life and variable annuity  contracts (each, a "Contract") and the Underwriter is

authorized to sell such shares to each Account at net asset value;



         NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of their mutual promises, the Company,

the Fund and the Underwriter agree as follows:



1.       Sale of Fund Shares.

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1.1  Subject to the terms of the  Distribution  Agreement in effect from time to

     time between the Fund and the Underwriter,  the Underwriter  agrees to sell

     to the Company those shares of each  Portfolio  which each Account  orders,

     executing such orders on a daily basis at the net asset value next computed

     after  receipt by the Fund or its  designee  of the order for the shares of

     the Fund.  For  purposes  of this  Section  1.1,  the Company is the Fund's

     designee.  "Business  Day"  shall  mean any day on which the New York Stock

     Exchange is open for trading and on which the Fund calculates the net asset

     value of shares  of the  Portfolios.  The  Company  shall use  commercially

     reasonable  efforts to  communicate  notice of orders for the  purchase  of

     Shares of each Portfolio to the Fund's custodian by 10:00 a.m. Eastern time

     on the following  business day (the "Next Business  Day"),  and the Company

     and the Fund shall  each use  commercially  reasonable  efforts to wire (or

     cause to be wired)  funds to the other,  for the  purpose of  settling  net

     purchase orders or orders of redemption,  by 3:00 p.m. of the Next Business

     Day.



1.2  The Fund agrees to make its shares available for purchase at the applicable

     net asset value per share by the Company and its  Accounts on those days on

     which the Fund  calculates  its net  asset  value.  The Fund  agrees to use

     reasonable  efforts to calculate such net asset value on each day which the

     New York Stock Exchange is open for trading. Notwithstanding the foregoing,

     the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Fund  (hereinafter  the  "Board"  or the

     "Trustees")  may refuse to sell shares of any  Portfolio to any person,  or

     suspend or  terminate  the  offering  of shares of any  Portfolio,  if such

     action is required by law or by regulatory  authorities having jurisdiction

     or is, in the sole  discretion of the Trustees  acting in good faith and in

     light of their  fiduciary  duties under  federal and any  applicable  state

     laws, in the best interests of the shareholders of such Portfolio.



1.3  The Fund and the  Underwriter  agree  that  shares of the Fund will be sold

     only to Participating  Insurance Companies and their separate accounts,  or

     to other  purchasers of the kind specified in Treas.  Reg.  Section 1.817-5

     (f)(3) (or any successor regulation) as from time to time in effect.



1.4  The Fund agrees to redeem, on the Company's request, any full or fractional

     shares of the Fund held by the Company,  executing such requests on a daily

     basis at the net asset value next computed after receipt by the Fund or its

     designee of the request for redemption.



1.5  The Company  agrees that all purchases and  redemptions by it of the shares

     of each  Portfolio  will be in accordance  with the  provisions of the then

     current prospectus and statement of additional  information of the Fund for

     the respective  Portfolio and in accordance  with any  procedures  that the

     Fund,  the  Underwriter or the Fund's  transfer agent may have  established

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