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METALOBOSIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
hierogly- 
phica. 
bifasciaia. 
pieiuraia. 
roseojuligi- 
nosa. 
endoxantha. 
anitras. 
ducalis. 
postflavida. 
clialcoela. 
elis. 
holophaea. 
varda. 
are striped black. Hindwings yellowish-red with a black apical spot. The anterior body is brown, mixed with 
white, the abdomen red. anteriorly more yellow. Expanse of wings: 14 mm. French Guiana. 
N. hieroglyphica Rothsch. (34 f) is twice as large as the preceding. Head, thorax, and forewings 
light golden-yellow; abdomen and tips of the shoulder-covers red; at the base of the costal margin there is a 
small black spot, at the proximal margin a red one; 2 antemedian, parallel, curved, black lines, from the exterior 
one of which a black streak extends to the strongly curved posterior transverse line; before the margin another, 
oblique, black line; there are yet red spots at the cell-end and before the border at the costal and proximal 
margins. Hindwings red with a small black apical spot. Panama to Ecuador. 
N. bifasciata Rothsch. (34 f). Anterior body and forewings golden-yellow, head, shoulder-covers and 
metathorax spotted coppery brown. Abdomen and hindwings scarlet, the latter with a minute apical spot. 
Forewings with 2 broad, black transverse lines suffused with a metallic blue; before and behind them the costal 
margin is likewise blackish-blue. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Peru. 
N. plcturata Schs. (32 nr) resembles pyrophora above, but the scent-spots beneath are entirely absent; 
the middle orange spot is much smaller, and before and behind it there are reddish-brown transverse lines. 
Hindwings of a pure white. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Costa Rica. 
N. roseofuliginosa Rothsch. (34 f) looks like an Ilice: anterior body and forewings blackish-brown; 
neck with red rings, collar white; abdomen above red with a brown dorsal stripe, beneath dark brown; forewing 
with 2 small, white, postmedian spots at the costal and proximal margins, the latter with a small continuation 
on the submedian fold, directed towards the base; at the base of the proximal margin a small red spot. Hindwings 
light carmine with a blackish-brown marginal band. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Brazil. 
N. endoxantha Jones (34 f) is a somewhat larger species with a brilliant orange-yellow body. The 
brownish-grey forewing exhibits a broad, orange inner-marginal stripe and a spot behind the middle of the 
costal margin. Hindwing orange with a rather broad, black marginal band. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Brazil. 
36. Genus: Metalohosfa Hmps. 
Differs from the multiform genus Illice by its shorter, porrect palpi. On the forewing the lower median 
vein rises nearer to the cell-end and is strongly curved, the uppermost subcostal vein anastomoses with the 
costal. Also on the hindwing the lower median vein is placed nearer to the cell-end; the upper one anastomoses 
with the lower radial vein, on the inner-marginal vein the hindwing of the is extended to a point. The abdomen 
shows thick hair-tufts towards the end. 11 pretty, small Lithosiinae are reckoned hereto, with dark forewings 
and mostly dark red, black-margined hindwings. 
M. anitras Dogn. (= postcaerulescens Rothsch. 2, nec $) is on the anterior body and forewings metallic 
golden green, in the $ bluish-green. Hindwings and abdomen blackish-brown, the latter with yellow hair-tufts. 
On the hindwing the exhibits beneath, above the inner-marginal vein, like in the 4 following species, a fold 
set with roughly scaled fringes. Expanse of wings: 24 to 30 mm. Ecuador, Peru. 
M. ducalis Schs. (34 f). Head, thorax, and forewings are blackish-brown, with a metallic green lustre; 
the upperside of the posterior femora and long hair-tufts on the posterior tibiae are pink. Abdomen carmine 
with a black apex and long, white hair-tufts on the 4 th ring. Hindwings deep carmine with a blackish-brown 
marginal band. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Costa Rica. 
M. postflavida spec. nov. (34 b) lias, like ducalis, in the lobular proximal margin of the hindwing 
beneath, fringes of long yellow scaly hairs; besides the cell is covered with scent-scales. Forewings and anterior 
body unicolorously brown with a brassy lustre. Hindwing yellow with a small, black apical spot; abdomen 
above yellow, beneath blackish-brown like the legs. Described according to a $ from the Rio Negro (Colombia) 
from the Coll. Fassl. 
M. chalcoela Dogn. (34 f). Head and thorax blackish with a bronze-green lustre, the forewing more 
silvery-green, at the base golden-brown. Abdomen and hindwing blackish-brown, the former with a metallic 
green reflection. Only 1 $ known. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Colombia. 
M. elis Drc. (34 b) is unicolorously blackish-brown, with a slight purple lustre, the hindwings some¬ 
what lighter brown. The abdominal hair-tufts are orange. The $ exhibits a bronze-green lustre in the inner- 
marginal half of the forewing and on the thorax. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Guatemala, Brazil. 
M. holophaea Dogn. (34 h) lias on the hindwing a deep indentation before the extraordinarily large, 
long fringed anal lobe, and exhibits in the cell beneath a black scent-scale spot and behind it grey scent-scales. 
Body and wings are blackish-brown, the latter with a green metallic lustre. Expanse of wings : 20 mm. Colombia. 
M. varda Schs. (34 b), like the following species, is without any fringes above the inner-marginal 
vein of the hindwing. Anterior body and forewings blackish-brown with a coppery and purple lustre. Abdomen 
