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above red, beneath black; hindwings carmine, towards the proximal margin more orange with a black marginal 
band. Expanse of wings: 22 mm. Brazil. 
M. invarda Schs. (34 b) differs by the considerably broader black marginal band of the hindwing; invarda. 
the red abdomen exhibits on the 1st ring a purple brown dorsal spot, of the same colour are the two last rings 
and the underside. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. French Guiana. 
M. postrubida Rothsch. is larger, with narrower forewings exhibiting a metallic blue lustre, like the postrubida. 
whole body does. Hindwing red, with a black marginal band, proximal margin and basal part. Expanse of 
wings: 26 mm. Colouring similar to that of Nodozona cocciniceps, AscaptesiMe purpurascens, Talcira lepida etc. 
Panama. 
M. atriloba Dogn. (34 b) has a still broader black inner-marginal area. Body and forewings of a atriloba. 
plain blackish-brown. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Colombia. 
M. cuprea Schs. (34 b). Head and thorax dark greyish-brown, abdomen carmine, at the base more cuprea. 
orange, beneath black. Forewings coppery golden, hindwings pink, with a brown apical spot. Expanse of 
wings: 24 mm. Brazil. 
M. similis spec. nov. (34 b) looks entirely like postflavida described above, but it has narrow hindwings similis. 
without any scent-distinctions and a scarcely extended anal angle, but instead the abdomen, on the first ring, 
exhibits lateral yellow hair-tufts. The colouring is exactly like there, but the abdomen is also above blackish- 
brown, and the hindwing exhibits a black marginal band. Described according to 2 $<3 from the Rio Negro 
(Colombia) from the Coll. Fassl. 
M. diaxantha Hmps. (34 g) is a deviating species in which the $ has no extended anal angle of the diaxantha. 
hindwing. Forewing brown with a coppery lustre and with a long, irregular, yellowish-white longitudinal stripe. 
Hindwing brown, only at the base pink. The anterior body is brown with a coppery lustre; the only specimen 
known is destitute of its abdomen. Expanse of wings: 14 mm. Amazon. 
37. Genus: Aeozana Hmps. 
Proboscis developed; the slender, porrect palpi project beyond the forehead. Antennae of the $ at 
the base thickened by accumulated scales, ciliated. Forewing narrow with a round apex, in the veins not different 
from Arhabdosia, except the uppermost radial vein rising from the upper cell-angle, not from below it. On 
the hindwing the middle radial is present, the upper one rises on a long pedicle with the subcostal vein. Only 
1 species: 
N. germana Rothsch. (34 g). Head and thorax light yellow, abdomen carmine, anteriorly and germana. 
posteriorly yellow. Forewings light golden yellow, with yellow spots and stripes; hindwing light red, at the 
costal margin yellowish, with a small black apical spot. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Peru. 
38. Genus: Arhabalosia Dyar. 
Distinguished from Metalobosia by still shorter palpi; on the forewing the upper median and lower 
radial vein rise from the same place, whilst on the hindwings they are petioled; the middle radial is absent, the 
upper one anastomoses with the subcostal vein. Only 1 species: 
A. subvarda Schs. (34 h) is dull brown on the anterior body and forewings; abdomen and hindwings subvarda. 
are carmine, the latter with a black marginal band. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. French Guiana. 
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39. Genus: Illice Wkr. 
A very numerous genus of small, often very similar species, mostly marked yellow and red. Pro¬ 
boscis well developed; palpi slender, erect, not extending as far as the vertex. On the forewing the upper median 
vein rises before the lower angle, the middle radial above it; the upper radial from above the upper angle; the 
3 lower subcostal veins are petioled, the two upper ones terminate separately into the costal margin. On the 
hindwing the upper median vein rises close at the cell-angle, the middle radial above it; the upper one is petioled 
with the subcostal. The larvae, as far as they are known, exhibit long hairs on tubercles, and live on lichens. 
I. sexalata spec. nov. (33 a) is greatly distinguished by the inner-angular lobe being split as far as sexalata. 
the base. Forewings with a blackish-blue lustre. Median and its branches orange; behind the middle an indis¬ 
tinct, ochreous-yellow band, at the costal and proximal margin of a brighter orange. Hindwing carmine-rosy 
with a black apical spot and anal lobe. Head and thorax blackish-blue, vertex, collar, and shoulder-covers 
striped orange; abdomen carmine with very long, orange-yellow hair-tufts on the dorsum of the first abdominal 
rings. 1 J from the Rio Songo (Bolivia) (Fassl). 
I. dives Schs. (33 a). The has, like in the following species, the proximal angle of the hindwing dives. 
extended very long in the shape of a lobe. Anterior body brown, abdomen carmine, collar, chest and legs yellow. 
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