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M. fimbriata Pldtz (187 f). Its position here is just as questionable. Easily recognizable by its orange- fimJirwtn. 

 red head and palpi, and orange fringes. It is much larger than Mastor bellm (lS7h) and is easily discernible 

 from it by the absence of tlie st'gma and the entu'ely red head. Mexico. 



M. monestes Schs. (188 a). On the dark brown forewing there is a very indistinct postcliscal row of ,ii(>nrsfcn. 

 small, grcyisii-brown spots. Beneath dark grey with blackish-brown markings: 2 oblong spots behind the cell 

 and 2 oblong marginal spots analwards and 2 subapical dots. Hindwing with a dark discal shade, the darkest 

 above the cell, traversed b}^ the veins, close behmd the cell there is a row of dark spots, behind them a light 

 brown shade; in the brown distal margin tliere are small, grey antemarginal spots. Expanse of wings: 

 28 mm. Novo Friburgo. 



M. miaba Schs. from an unknown habitat is above da-k brown with grey fringes; forewing with 2 uiinin. 

 minute postdiscal dots and a subapical one. Beneatli the forewing is blackish m the cell and at the proximal 

 lUf rgin, the costal margin, apex and distal ^nargin is light brown with yellowish veins, beside the small spots 

 of the upper surface with a light anal-angular spot; the light brown hindwing has yellow veins with a white 

 dot at the cell-end, and a series of white dots behind it. Expanse of wings: 29 mm. 



M. distigma Pldtz (== chula Schs.) (188 a) is above brown with grey fringes and greenish tinted iii.-:ii(iiii(i. 

 veins, with 2 white, hyaline postdiscal spots and a yellow one above the middle of the submedian. Hindwing 

 at the costal margin dusted with violet. Beneath dark brown, at the costal margin reddish-brown, the distal 

 margin lilac, the spots as above. Hindwing lilac-grey, at the costal marghi broad violet, at the proximal margin 

 reddish-grey with a round white spot at the cell-end and a bent row of indistinct, small, whitish postdiscal 

 spots. Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Petropolis. 



M. vanilia Schs. Above uni-coloured dark brown. Beneath light violettish-brown, at the costal margin i-aniiin. 

 greenish and at the proximal margin broadly grej-ish-black with a lighter anal-angular spot; a subapical yellow 

 dot. Hindwing at the proximal margin thickly strewn with yellow and^a yellow dot at the cell-end and small 

 yellow postdiscal dots. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Petropolis. 



M. gispara Schs. Dark brown with grey fringes and a postdiscal row of small, indistinct, grey spots; gispnm. 

 at the costal margin and apex scantily strewn with ochreous; the hindwing is baked somewhat lighter brown. 

 Beneath light brown, dusted ochreous-yellow, at the proximal margin of the forewing broadly blackish, the 

 hindwing with a b'ack dot behmd the lower cell-angle and one above it, behind both with a bent lighter patch. 

 Expanse of wings: 29 mm. Petropolis. 



M. vorgia Schs. (188 a). Above dark brown with grey fruiges with 2 small white hyaline postdiscal ron/ia 

 spots and 3 minute subapical ones. Beneath the forewing is blackish in the cell and at the proximal margin, 

 at the costal margin, apex and distal margin light reddish-brown; veins and small internerval stripes yellowish. 

 Hindwing reddisli-brown, with yellow veins and small, indistinct grey internerval .stripes, and 4 small whitish 

 postdiscal spots. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Castro (Parana). 



M. chao Mab. belongs hereto. Above coppery yellowish-brown; forewing with 3 blurred, small apical rliao. 

 spots and in the disc behind the cell 2 or 3 small transparent spots; fringes dirty yellow. Forewing beneath 

 yellowish with a reddish costal margin; basal half blackish, only the 2 lower spots are visible on the margin 

 of the black. Hindwing yellowish with a greenish lustie. Bolivia. 



M. xenos Mab. is .somewhat smaller than chao. Above dark brown; forewing with 3 hardly visible .rows:. 

 apical dots and 2 minute yellowish dots behind the cell; costal margin along the cell yellow. Hindwing in the 

 middle of the margin light yellowish. Forewing beneath grey with a lilac lustre, in the proximal half dull blackish, 

 the punctiform spots more distinct; in the cell there are grey clouds. Hindwing ash-grey with a reddish or 

 lilac lustre, strewn with white, with white veins ; a postdiscal row of small grey scale-spots with a pink lustre. 

 Before the greyish-white fringes there is a black line on both sides bordered with white. Bolivia. 



M. sulla Plotz (188 a). Above black with 3 subapical and 3 po.stdiscal whitish spots. Beneath light suiln. 

 grey, in the disc of the forewing black, on the hindwing with some fine black dots in and behind the middle. 

 Colombia. 



M. areas sp. nov. (188 a) is above dark brown with 3 postdiscal and 3 .subapical, small, hardly arca.<<. 

 lighter spots on the forewing. Beneath duller brown, on the forewing the small lighter spots are a little more 

 prominent owing to theu" being slightly surrounded by dark. Hindwing in the basal two thu-ds a little darker 

 than at the margin, in this marginal area near the margin of the darker discal area there aie 4 or 5 small, darker 

 eye-spots. Rio Songo (Bolivia). 



M. argus sp. nov. (188 a) beneath somewhat resembles Cobalus argiis (ISGa). Above uni-coloiu-ed „f,/».s. 

 brown, beneath lighter; behind the cell of the hindwing there are, between the somewhat lighter veins, 5 dark 

 spots distally bordered by somewhat lighter spots; that between the radial veins is the largest and quadran- 

 gular, and lies directly behind the lighter transverse vein before which there is yet a blackish transverse streak 

 in the cell. From Matagang (Upper Cauca Valley). 



M. sancoga Schs. Forewing above dark brown with an oblicpie dark shade from the lower inedian .tanroga. 

 vein to the apex. Beneath brown, dusted with ochreous; hindwing with a small brown postcellular dot and a 

 very indistinct brownish postdi.scal shade. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Petropolis. 



