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M. incerta Wkr. (= blanda Dr., surdus Rothsch.) (43 k) is marked similarly to a leucanioides (43 i), incerta. 
and l i k ewise with a somewhat straightly cut, though not inverted border of the forewing in the <$. The colour, 
however, is not greyish-red, but fiery brick-red, the hindwing, particularly in the anal part, of a brighter purple. 
From Panama and the Island of Trinidad through Colombia and Venezuela to Espiritu Santo, Peru and Bolivia. 
M. pumila Dgn. (44 c) is like a small incerta (43 k), with an expanse of only 19 mm. Forewings greyish- pumila. 
red, costal margin and fringes pink; near the base on the median a very small dot; hindwings yellowish, (list ally 
faintly tinged pink. French Guiana. 
M. flavipuncta Rothsch. (43 i) approximates pumila, but it is larger; also in the $ there is a larger flavipunda. 
yellow spot encircled by a dark colour on the submedian, near the base; the distal margin of the forewing is 
straightly cut off, the apex therefore very pointed. From Trinidad, Colombia and Surinam to South Brazil 
and Bolivia. 
M. quadripunctata Rothsch. (43 k as quadripuncta ) is like the preceding, larger; beside the small yuadripunc- 
yellowish submedian spot there are yet 4 reddish-yellow punctiform spots encircled by a dark colour on the tuiu - 
disc of the forewing. Peru. 
M. rubricata Dgn. (44 c) is immediately recognizable by the very bright red colouring of the fore- rubrkutu. 
and hindwings. In the disc of the forewing a group of about 10 to 12 small blackish punctiform spots. From 
French Guiana. 
M. asana Drc. (43 k). The is at once recognizable by 3 small postmedian hyaline dots situate at asana. 
the costa like large pricks of a needle, below each other, but not exactly in a straight line as in quadrina (43 i), 
but in such a way that the middle one extends a little farther towards the margin. The $ may be similar 
to the though larger, paler, more unicolorous. Usually, however, it has a small hyaline-white band situate 
at 3 / 4 of the costa, which is at the costa narrow, downward broader, or also somewhat crescentiform, running 
rather equally broad. The latter form is albogrisea Rothsch. South Brazil to Paraguay. — petropolidis alboyrisea. 
Strd. from South Brazil is somewhat larger, above the proximal margin larger yellow spots. petropvh-^ 
M. postica Wkr. is like asana (43 k), but the forewing with smaller costal spots, and from the cell- postica. 
end to the proximal margin extends a dark nebidous streak. From Guiana and Venezuela to the Amazon 
and Peru. 
M. castrena Schs. (45 i) is also like asana (43 k), slightly smaller, but the antennae are very finely casirena. 
serrate. On the yellowish-brown forewing a black cell-dot and one at the cell-end, near the base small purple- 
red rings on a buff ground, similar ones before the apex. Castro in Parana (Brazil). 
M. nigromaculata (44 c) Rothsch. Head and thorax light yellowish-brown, abdomen purple. Forewing niyromacu- 
pale yellowish-brown, tinted with a bright red. At the cell-end a costal spot and a second spot below it; in tain. 
the cell a black rectangle and a black dot near the base. On vein 3 a white spot and another one in the disc. 
Hindwings light pink. The border of the forewing is inverted as far as in amastris. Expanse of wings: 25to 
30 mm. Surinam to Central Brazil and Peru. 
M. babosa Dgn. (43 k). The $ differs from the asana-% by the hindwing being grey instead of pink babosa. 
and by the irregular small costal band being several times shortly dentated on the forewing. The is unknown 
to me. South Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. 
M. flavescens Joicey is somewhat larger than babosa ; the forewings light red-brown, striated yellowish; flavescens. 
at the base of the proximal margin below the cell, before the middle and end of the cell somewhat yellow; the 
hindwings (in babosa blackish-grey) are here white, the inner-marginal area suffused with yellow; beneath 
they are white, tinted yellowish; the scent-spot on the forewing beneath brown. Misiones in Argentina. 
M. klagesi Rothsch. (43 k) differs from babosa by the small, narrow, winding costal band and the klayesi. 
almost black hindwings. Surinam. 
M. chiriquensis Schs. (43 k) differs from the two preceding by the shape of the small costal band chiriquen- 
and by the hindwing being rosy-red in the basal half, sooty black in the distal half. Costa Rica and Panama. 
25. Genus: Bertholilia Schs. 
This genus contains about 20 very similar, extremely neat butterflies; there often occur transitions 
and all the species are characterized by a large vitreous spot extending from the middle of the costa almost 
to the apex, not reaching the border. The antennae are in both sexes bristly (in the with scarcely noticeable 
short cilia); palpi short, obtuse, bent upward. Proboscis strong; the $ with a small oval <$ spot beneath at 
the base of the median fold; the venation like in the allied genera. The butterflies are mostly common, like 
to come to the light, but seem otherwise to live hidden. In the resting butterfly the thorax shows mesiodorsally 
a distinct median hair-quill. 
