Publ. 21. I. 1924. MOERIS; METRON; METROCLES. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 969 



L. lunus Ediv. Fore wing above dark brown with 3 semi-transparent', small subapical spots, a large, lunus. 

 hour-glass shaped cellular spot, and 2 postdiscal ones, the upper one being streak-shaped, the lower one large 

 quadrangular. Beneath dark brown, apex of forewing densely dusted with grey with the spots of the upper 

 surface. Hindwing only little dusted with grey, with 2 blackish spots in the middle, in the distal one there is a 

 fine white streak. Tne $ has somewhat larger spots and one more postdiscally. Arizona. 



L. deva Ediv. is very similar, the spots are smaller, beneath greyer, on the hindwing only one dark dsva. 

 spot without the white streak, fringes of the hindwing white, in lunus yellow. California, Arizona. 



L. altama Schs. has only the upper part of the scent-stripe at the rise of the upper median vein, the aliama. 

 position bemg therefore only provisional here. Above dark brown, beneath bluish-grey, on the forewing with 

 a small white stripe in the cell; from the posterior half of the cell a black shade extends between the median 

 veins to the proximal angle, proximal margin whitish. Hindwing along the proximal margin lUac. The $ 

 is lighter brown with a postdiscal band of white hyaline spots. Beneath more bluish, the inner-marginal 

 stripe of the hindwing more reddish. Expanse of wings: 34 to 40 mm. Castro Parana. 



140. Genus : Moeris G. & S. 



Distmguished from the preceding genus by a somewhat stunted apex of the forewing and the velvety 

 black ^ stigma not proceeding from the upper, but from the lower median vein, being otherwise shaped just 

 like in Lerema. 



M. striga Hbn. (187 d). Blackish-brown, at the costal margin of the forewing in the basal half scaled sMga. 

 ochreous-yellow. Beneath lighter, costa of forewing and apex broadly ochreous-yellow, marked chestnut-brown ; 

 hindwing marbled chestnut-brown, the costal margin towards the apex mixed with ochreous. In some specimens 

 there are about 3 small subapical dots, 3 small postdiscal spots, and occasionally also a cellular spot. From 

 Mexico to Argentina. 



M. hyagnis G. & S. is above blackish-brown; beneath the forewing is lighter towards the anal angle, hyagnis. 

 with a minute subapical dot. Hindwing with a whitish cell-end dot. Abdomen beneath whitish. It is also very 

 much like Mnasicles hicetaon (p. 985), but the stigma is broader, the last joint of the palp shorter and obtuser. 

 Mexico. 



141. Genus: Metron G. & S. 



Costal margin of forewing at the base somewhat convex. Veins little different, the middle radial at 

 its rise near the lower. Middle tibiae with long spines. The cj exhibits a little visible stigma of 2 parts: a 

 long stripe being situate on the median between the branches and being widened at its proximal end, a short 

 stripe below it and a third still shorter one in the middle of the submedian. 



M. chrysogaster Btlr. (— fasciata Mschlr., goza Hew., cuneata Plotz) (187 d). Blackish-brown with a chryso- 

 golden yellow costal margin, 3 ochreous-yellow subapical dots which may also be absent, and 3 postdiscal spots. gaster. 



Disc of the hindwing indistinctly ochreous-yellow. Beneath the forewing is lighter, the spots are whiter and 

 larger, the costal margin and apex tinted olive-yellow. Tne hindwing shows a straight, broad, whitish band 

 from the costal margin to the proximal margin. Anal angle broad blackish-brown, otherwise olive. Abdomen 

 beneath golden yellow. Mexico to the Amazon and Trinidad. 



M. hypodesma Plotz (187 e) is very closely allied to the preceding and differs by its somewhat larger hypodesma. 

 size and 4 postdiscal spots running in an oblique direction to the apex; the submedian one is small, that above 

 it is the largest and quadrangular; another, subapical, small spot; in the cJ the spots are more j'ellowish, in 

 the $ white. Hindwing without spots. Beneath like chrysogaster except the increased spots, bvit the abdomen 

 is brownish and not yellow. From Rio de Janeiro and Para. 



M. fascia sp. nov. (187 d). Above blackish-brown, on the forewing with a Avhite subapical dot, 2 fascia. 

 very small postdiscal spots and an ochreous-yellow submedian streak. Beneath somewhat duller brown, the 

 forewing marked as above; the hindwing shows a very broad, silvery white, greenish iridescent discal band 

 separated from the similarly coloured proximal margin by a black wedge-shaped spot; it is just as broad as 

 the distal margin in its middle. Colombia (Rio Aguaca Valley) in the Coll. Fassl. 



142. Genus: Metrocles G. & 8. 



Distinguished from Metron by the middle tibiae not being spined and an entirely different stigma; 

 a broad, bent, interrupted scent-scale stripe extends from the rise of the lower median vein to the middle of 

 the .submedian. 



M. leucogaster G. & S. (187 d, e) is very much like Metron chrysogaster, but the spots of the forewing leucogaster. 

 are white, the stigma is quite different, and placed more like in Lerema and Moeris. The hmdwmg shows beneath 

 a white band bordered with yellow. Abdomen beneath white bordered with yellowish. Panama, 



M. hypochlora sp. nov. (187 e) is allied to the following. Above blackish-broM'n with a narrow ochreous- hypocMora. 

 yellow band parted by the veins, and 2 subapical dots; hindwings iini-coloured. Beneath the forewing is blackish, 



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