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B2. Eeniform stigma edged with white, subterminal line 

 angulated. M. hrassicce. 



A.". Fore wings velvety black ; reniform stigma conspicu- 

 ously white. M. pcrsicarice. 



1. M. Albicolon, ^?^&.— Expanse 1^ to 1| inch. Fore 

 wings pale brown, abundantly mottled and dusted with 

 umbreous ; reniform stigma very obscure but with a pair 

 of white dots at its lower outer corner ; subterminal line 

 composed of yellow dots; hind wings dull white, broadly 

 bordered with brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, finely ciliated, brown ; eyes 

 densely covered with minute reddish erect hairs; palpi 

 broadly tufted, black-brown, paler in front; head dark 

 smoky-brown ; thorax smoky-brown, dusted with white ; 

 collar and shoulder lappets rather raised; on the top an 

 exceedingly short minute crest ; at the back a much laro-er 

 one of three conspicuous tufts ; fascicles yellowish-white • 

 abdomen glossy pale brown ; on the basal segment is a 

 large and consj)icuous tuft or crest, pale brown, barred 

 with darker ; behind this are sometimes one or two similar 

 but smaller and rather fugitive crests ; the basal segments 

 also much covered with long pale hair-scales ; lateral tufts 

 small grey-brown ; anal tuft large and spreading, light 

 brown. Fore wings broad behind ; the costa curved ; aiaex 

 very bluntly angulated, almost rounded ; hind margin full 

 and decidedly rounded ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; 

 colour pale brown, dusted and rijDpled all over with dark 

 umbreous atoms which obscure most of the markings; 

 basal line indistinct, double, broken, dull black; first line 

 rather erect, faintly yellowish-brown, edged inwardly by a 

 series of indistinct brown clouds, outwardly by thick lunate 

 blackish streaks ; second line very obscure, pale brown, 

 edged inwardly, especially toward the dorsal margin, with 

 black ; subterminal line irregular and broken up into a series 

 of rounded or triangular yellow dots or small spots ; orbicular 



