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M. praeculta Stick. (142 e) has above a black border of the wings; across the wing there run besides praeculia. 

 3 black stripes the position of which is shoAvn in the figure. There is only 1 ^J before me from Fas.sl's collection, 

 having been captured on the Rio Songo in Bolivia, 750 m. 



M. zikla Hew. from Ecuador exhibits the white band of the forewing, which in reba (125 e) reaches zlkla. 

 only as far as to the centre of the Avings, running fi'om the costa as far as before the anal angle of the hind- 

 wings; the whole apical and distal marginal part of the forewings is black. Besides, however, the disc of 

 the forewing and the distal part of the hindwing are traversed bj numerous transverse stripes of different 

 thickness. — ozora Hew. (125 d) has fewer of such transverse stripes; on the forewing those before the eye- ozora. 

 spot are absent altogether, on the hindwing only 4 (instead of 5 or 6) are complete. The $ exhibits a very broad 

 white band of the forewing, beginning broad behind the middle of the costa and ending just as broad before 

 the end of the inner margin. Likewise from Ecuador. 



M. macrina Fldr. (= yaporogosa Mengel) (125 g). The ^ of this species differs from the reba-,^- by macrina. 

 another black stripe being placed about the centre between the black discal stripe and the distal margin. The 

 proximal discal stripe passes directly over into the small white band of the forewing; the latter appears beneath 

 much broader. In the $ (= mustela-$ Stick.) the small white band extends as far as to the inner margin not. 

 only on the forewing, but it may be also continued thinner on the hindwing. • — In mustela Hew. (142 a) the mustela. 

 small white band is in the$ scarcely stronger than in macrina-^ and is entirely absent in the ^, where it is replaced 

 by the continuation of the black proximal discal stripe. Moreover, the black discal stripes are here otherwise 

 thinner and duller, especially in the hindwing. Both forms are found in Colombia. 



M. myrmecias Stick. (142 a). ^ jet-black, in the costal marginal part and near the border brightened myrmecias 

 up by a lighter brownish-grey, the stripes and central eye-spots being indistinct, owing to the deep black. $ 

 brownish-grey, without the white band, the marking more distinct. In both sexes recognizable by the border 

 of the wings being greatly reduced below the pointed apex. Guiana, Bolivia. 



M. melpia Hew. (125 i). ^ above quite black so that almost only the pupils of the eye-spots of the melpia. 

 forewdngs are to be seen. Under surface lined with numerous transverse stripes; $ dark brown, on both sur- 

 faces similarly marked as the (J beneath. From the Amazon. cJ{J from Teffe have above a magnificent blue 

 reflection in the sunshine, being entirely absent in specimens from the Rio Madeira. The very complicated 

 marking of the under sm-face seems to vary somewhat in all the habitats from which specimens are known; 

 the lines are sometimes a little more stretched, sometimes slightly undulated etc. Not rare. 



M. vaporosa Stick. Wings above brown, forewing at the apex, all the wings in the marginal part vaporosa. 

 lighter, forewing otherwise like in coea Hhn., but without the whitish apical cloud; on the hindwing the sub- 

 marginal line and dot are dark brown. Under surface brownish grey, on the forewing the discal lines are double, 

 ciurved and enclosing a singly-pupilled spot. On both surfaces there is a brown third, innermost line forming 

 an elongate spot; the hindwings with 6 undulate brown lines, the middle ones thicker, enclosing 2 spots. Outside 

 a dull band, the row of submarginal dots likewise dark brown. Length of forewings 15 mm. According to a (J 

 from Para. 



M. ibycus Hew. (126 a). One of the smallest species, on both surfaces yellowish-brown with a small ibycus. 

 eye-spot on the forewing and dark stripes before it and behind it, as the figure shows. The eye-spot on the 

 forewing has only 1 white pupil — at least in the (J ■ — and the middle transverse stripes run in a straight 

 line. The type seems to occur only on the Upper Amazon. — parishi Drc. differs hardly from it. We figure parisJii. 

 it according to a specimen from Bartica (Brit. Guiana) in the Tring Museum. Quite equal specimens, however, 

 lie before us also from Cuyaba (Coll. Bang Haas), somewhat larger ones from Peru and transitions to ibycus 

 from the Rio Negro in Colombia (Coll. Fassl). In typical pariski the eye-spot is larger, with 3 Mhite pupils, 

 and the double median stripe of the hindwing is finely undulated, often also the discal lines of the forewings 

 are more irregular and the whole marking more inexact on account of the interspersed linear shades. Not rare. 



M. cippus Hew. (125 i). Considerably larger than the preceding, but coloured the same, the trans- cippus. 

 verse stripes more copious and regular, in the hindwing of the 9 ^I'^ct on the under surface almost zebra-like. — 

 sylvina Bat., described from the Lower Amazon, differs by the proximal line surrounding the eye-spot para- sylvina. 

 bolically being with both sides convergent towards the inner margin, and by the submarginal line being very 

 much undulated towards the apex, but on the whole more finely marked. Ihis line is finer also in the hindwing, 

 but with thicker knots before the middle of the border. • — synnephis Stick, from the west of Matto Grosso seems synncpMs. 

 to be neaj to the species; the central eye-spot has only 1 pupil, the parabola round the eye-spot does not converge 

 with its sides, but they stand about vertical on the inner margin ,and the anterior (proximal) part of the line 

 round the eye-spot is defined at the median. Hindwing with a cellular spot. It seems, therefore, to be a slightly 

 deviating ^ of the extremely variable cippus, though I know the form only from the description not giving 

 any differentiation with another species, cippus is a very widely spread species of a most characteristic 

 appearance. From Guiana and Colombia across the Amazon District as far as Peru, Bolivia and Central BrazU, 

 in the most districts common and greatly varying in the marking. 



