TRIFIDAZ 7 



A-\ Thorax and abdomen slender. 



B*. Fore wings ample, sharply divided, brown and white, 



or marbled with pale brown, or plain drab. 



M. fvruncvla. 

 B'\ Fore wings small, smoky-brown or smoky-red, with 



one faint, angnlated, pale band. M. captiuncula. 



1. M. liter osa, Ha v. — Expanse 1 inch. Fore wings 

 glossy pale rosy-purple or purple-grey, beyond the middle is a 

 broad, rather silvery-grey band, its inner edge straight ; hind 

 wings pale smoky-brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, minutely ciliated, purple- 

 brown ; palpi rather small, pale chocolate, the apical joint 

 rather small and porrected ; head tufted, purple-brown; 

 collar very pretty, purplish-white, with a slender, doubly- 

 arched, black transverse stripe above the middle, bordered on 

 the upper side with pale chocolate, and edged with white ; 

 remainder of the thorax purple-brown, the top crest distinct 

 and well divided, the back crest smaller ; fascicles yellowish- 

 white ; abdomen pale grey-brown, dusted with darker ; dorsal 

 crests very small but distinct on the three middle segments, 

 dark brown; lateral tufts inconspicuous; anal tuft rather 

 spreading, pale chocolate. Fore wings neatly squared ; costa 

 very nearly straight ; apex decidedly angulated ; hind margin 

 straight and very little oblique to below the middle, then 

 rounded off ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; colour dark 

 purple or reddish-purple, clouded with hoary-grey ; base pale 

 grey, faintly edged by a barely perceptible purple-brown, 

 double, curved basal line ; first line far from the base, dark 

 brown, double, enclosing a hoary stripe, formed into a broad 

 sweeping curve above the dorsal margin, and broadly preceded 

 by silvery-grey clouding ; second line removed from its usual 

 place, and apparently j^'i't'ccdinf/ the reniform stigma, appear- 

 ing as a black margin down the back of this stigma, continued 

 as a purple-black line almost straight to the dorsal margin ; 

 outside this line are two large faint silvery-grey blotches, in 



