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broad, almost square, in the two lower angles and in the upper distal angle one fine white dot each, very rarely 
with a fourth in the proximal upper angle, above it a dark costal-marginal shadow-like spot and another at 
the beginning of the two transverse lines; undulate line very close at the lighter margin; before the centrally 
shaded fringes a row of black crescents. Hindwing of a pure white, at the apex very slightly smoky. According 
to several specimens from Mexico (Guerrero, Orizaba, Misantla, Zacualpan, Tehuacan). Type in the Coll. 
Draudt. 
M. dasarada Drc. (42 a). Forewing light ochre-yellowish, strewn with brown, at the costal margin dasarada. 
suffused with red-brown and as far as the posterior transverse line with olive-brown, the anterior line being 
absent, both the maculae being marked by black dots, the posterior transverse line runs obliquely and is 
ochre-yellowish, distally accompanied by a fine brown line; the whitish undulate line is proximally bordered 
with brown and begins in the apex. Hindwing yellowish-white. Just as variable as the preceding. — The form 
dasaradella Strd. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) is reddish-brown on the forewing, not with an olive tint. — dasaradana damraddla 
Strd. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) is much lighter, whitish, hardly irrorated with reddish or olive. — dasaradoides Strd. ,la ^ rri ' lhl ^^ 
( = ab. 3 Hmps.) has instead of the dot at the cell-end a more or less complete ring. dasaradoi- 
des 
M. dacula Dyar (42 a) is similar to the preceding, the transverse lines run much more obliquely, dacula. 
the ground-colour is a darker, more reddish brown. Hindwing much darker. Panama, British Guiana. 
M. tecnion Dyar (42 a) is somewhat smaller than dacula and more distinctly marked, with broader tecnion. 
wings than the likewise very similar dasarada, the transverse lines not so oblique, before the less oblique median 
line with a slight brown shadow, the line itself is bent at the black punctiform reniform macula; the subterminal 
line beginning in the apex is here marked with a black streak. Hindwing light yellowish, lighter than in dacula, 
but not so white as in dasarada. Expanse of wings: 13 mm. Panama, March till May. 
M. costiplaga Sm. (38 b). Forewing light ochre-yellowish, irrorated with red-brown, with but feebly costiplaga. 
marked transverse lines, the posterior line being dentate, with a row of dots behind it; the ring-macula is a brown 
strigiform spot, the reniform macula is a triangular black spot in which there is a lighter one extending to 
the costal margin; the undulate line is proximally feebly shaded with red-brown. Hindwing light yellowish- 
brown. Arizona. — Mexican specimens are mostly larger, lighter, ivory-coloured white, collected by Purpus 
at Rascon (S. Luis Potosi), in the Berlin Museum, whereas specimens from Paradiso (Arizona) are more reddish- 
yellow. 
90. Genus: CramlxMles Gn. 
The genus contains but 2 slender species distinguished from the preceding by the admixture of hair 
on the thorax with a small loose tuft on the prothorax, small double tufts on the mesothorax and a loose one 
on the metathorax. The abdomen exhibits a tuft only on the first ring. 
C. talidiformis Gn. (= conjungens Wkr.) (38 b). Forewing reddish ochreous brown, at the costal talidifor- 
margin broadly darkened by blackish, with brown-striped veins and a red-brown cellular stripe, with double 
transverse lines, very long dentate, with a row of dots behind the distal line; the reniform macula is a narrow 
strigiform spot surrounded by white; the undulate line is dentate ,proximally shaded with red-brown, the fringes 
are speckled. Hindwing white, at the margin feebly brownish. Canada to Mexico. ■— The slender green larva 
has double white dorsal lines, a little strewn with red, and a red stripe below the stigmata. It lives on Verbena. 
C. lunata B. & McD. (38 b). Forewing dull brownish-black, a little strewn with black, the whole lunata. 
marking is very indistinct except a small white luna in the reniform macula, the coniform macula and the 
posterior transverse line are hardly visible, the latter particularly at the hind-margin, and behind it the veins 
are black-striped as far as the light undulate line. Hindwing smoky brown, at the margin darkened. Nevada. 
91. Genus: Platysenta Gd. 
Separated from the preceding by the thorax being purely clad with scales and exhibiting loose tufts 
in front and behind; the slender structure and the small tuft on the first abdominal ring correspond with Cram- 
bodes. The genus contains only three species being also in the exterior very similar to the preceding. 
P. temecula Barnes (38 c). Forewing red-brown, irrorated with blackish, with black veins and a temccula. 
dark shaded median vein, the apex being parted by a dark, above and below lighter shadow, the transverse 
lines are scarcely indicated, instead of the reniform macula there is a white streak with yellowish-white dots 
before and behind it, followed by some black internerval streaks. Fringes speckled. Hindwing light brown. 
Arizona. 
