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

 red head and palpi, and orange fringes. It is much larger than Mastor hellus (187 h) and is easily discernible 

 from it by the absence of the stigma and the entirely red head. Mexico. 



M. monestes Schs. (188 a). On the dark brown forewing there is a very indistinct postdiscal row of monestes. 

 small, greyish-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 by the veins, close behind the cell there is a row of dark spots, behind them a light 

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

 28 mm. Novo Fribm-go. 



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

 minute postdiscal dots and a subapical one. Beneath the forewing is blackish in the cell and at the proximal 

 mfrgin, the costal margin, apex and distal margin is liglit brown with yellowish veins, beside the small spots 

 of the upper sm-face 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 behmd it. Expanse of wings: 29 mm. 



M. distigma Plotz (== chula Schs.) (188 a) is above brown with grey fringes and greenish tinted rfj.s/i^ma. 

 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 margin 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 vanilia. 

 greenish and at the proximal margin broadly greyish-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; gispara. 

 at the costal margin and apex scantily strewn with ochreous; the hindwing is haired 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 behuid the lower cell-angle and one above it, behind both with a bent hghter patch. 

 Expanse of wings: 29 mm. Petropolis. 



M. vorgia Schs. (188 a). Above dark brown with grey fringes with 2 small white hyaline postdiscal vorgia- 

 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 reddish-brown, with yellow veins aird 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 chao. 

 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 lustre. Bolivia. 



M. xenos Mdb. is somewhat smaller than chao. Above dark brown; forewing with 3 hardlj' visible .xenos. 

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

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



M. suila Plotz (188 a). Above black with 3 subapical and 3 postdiscal whitish spots. Beneath light sulla. 

 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 areas. 

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

 prominent owing to their being slightly surrounded by dark. Hindwing in the basal two thhds a little darker 

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

 eye-spots. Rio Songo (Bolivia). 



M. argus sp. nov. (188 a) beneath somewhat resembles Cohalus argus (186 a). Above uni-colom-ed nrf/"^. 

 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 quadi-an- 

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

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



M. sancoga Schs. Forewing above dark brown with an oblique dark shade from the lower median sancoga. 

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

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



