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5730. Micrantha mirabilis. 



Erastria mirabilis, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xsx. p. 101 (1904). 



3- Head dark brown, the scales tipped with whitish; thorax 

 dark brown mixed with ochrcous ; tarsi dark brown ringed with 

 ochreous ; abdomen dark brown mixed with oehreons white. 

 Fore wing ochreous white, the costal area suffused with rufous to 

 the postmedial line, extending beyond the postmedial line to vein 2; 

 subbasal line represented by a slight striga from costa ; traces of an 

 erect antemedial line from costa to submedian fold ; medial line 

 oblique, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; reniform large, 

 whitish, tinged with rufous and defined by brown ; postmedial line 



Fig. 140. — Micrantha mirabilis, $ . f. 



double, strongly excurved, the inner line almost obsolete below 

 submedian fold ; terminal area black-brown with some rufous on 

 its inner edge, expanding toAvards costa and with wedge-shaped 

 pale mark on it from costa to discal fold just before apex ; cilia 

 greyish tinged with pink and with blackish lines at middle and 

 tips. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, a slight 

 discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and fine terminal line ; cilia 

 whitish with dark lines at middle and tips ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with brown, the postmedial line with minute dark streaks 

 on the veins. 



Hah. Brazil, Eio Janeiro (Wilsoii), 1 J. Exp. 20 millim. 

 Type t in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*5731. Micrantha janeir a. (Plate CLX1II. fig. 20.) 

 Pseudina janeira, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 163 (1904). 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with red-brown ; frons 

 blackish above ; tarsi blackish with pale rings : ahdomen ochreous 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish suffused in parts with 

 brown especially on costal area towards base and apex and 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the costa black towards 

 base ; subbasal line represented by a small black spot below costa 

 a wedge-shaped blackish patch in cell before the antemedial line, 

 which has a blackish spot below costa, then double, excurved am 

 waved to above vein 1 on which it is slightly angled inwards 

 orbicular and reniform indistinct, with whitish annuli, the forniei 

 rounded, the latter with dark point at upper extremity, its lowei 



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