MERAGISA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
da rida. 
dasra. 
pallida. 
wlitioides. 
mar cola. 
inalbata. 
albescens. 
innoxia. 
dejecta. 
exdhymia. 
caeca. 
montana. 
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margin; the usual black oblique submarginal streaks with small black marginal spots behind them. Hindwing 
brown with a reddish-yellow inner margin, a blackish-brown postmedian line and traces of a subterminal line, 
fringe white. Expanse of wings: 63 mm. Colombia (Buena Vista). 
M. darida Dogn. is more strewn with brown and discernible by a different course of the subterminal 
double line extending quite straightly between the veins 3 and 4, while in cloacina it forms a more clistally 
removed dent. Expanse of wings: 48—50 mm. Peru. 
M. dasra Dogn. (152 g) is smaller, with fragmentary transverse lines, the subterminal line forms a 
straight line between the veins 2 and 4. South-Eastern Peru. 
M. pallida Schs. ( 1 52 g) differs in its purer silvery white forewings which are sparingly strewn with 
black, the transverse lines only double at the margins, single in the disc. Hindwing lighter brownish-grey, 
still lighter at the inner margin and in faint traces of a postmedian line. Expanse of wings: 45 mm. Brazil 
(Castro, Parana). 
M. politioides Schs. (= politia Drc. part., proxima Schs.) (152 g). The greyish-white ground is strewn 
with brown and black, the black double lines are filled with yellowish scales, the marginal line is dusted with 
yellow inwards, like the ends of the veins. Hindwing blackish, yellowish basally. Erorn Mexico to Brazil. 
M. niarcata Dogn. (152 i) has purer white forewings, much more distinctly black transverse lines, 
small black round spots behind the distal line between the veins 2 and 3, and 5 and 6; the reniform macula is 
almost rectangularly bent in the middle and is composed of 2 fine black lines which are open above and 
below; marginal line dusted somewhat yellowish as in politioides. Hindwing grey. Expanse of wings: 48 mm. 
Colombia. 
M. inalbata Dogn. (152 h). Forewing silvery white with double red-brown transverse lines, the anterior 
one rather straight, the posteroir one from near the apex to the third quarter of the inner margin, removed 
clistally between the veins 3 and 4. Hindwing as in the preceding species. Expanse of wings: 46 mm. Peru. 
M. albescens Schs. (152 h) has white fore wings sparingly strewn with light brown, with double dentate 
transverse lines, the anteroir one black, interrupted below the cell, the interior part of the posterior line light 
brown, distally removed between 3 and 4; a dark brown streak at the cell-end, a very strongly dentate marginal 
line on the margin. Hindwing whitish-grey, yellowish in the basal half, a median line, a broad marginal 
shadow and the veins are darker brownish-grey. Costa Rica to West Colombia. 
M. innoxia Schs. is the only Meragisa without the double black marginal dots on the ends of the veins 
and thereby invariably to be determined; forewing olive greenish-grey, the dark double transverse lines similar 
as in all the others, filled with whitish, with another double almost straight basal and subbasal line, the space 
behind the postmedian line somewhat darker. Hindwing dark brown with yellowish fringe. Expanse of wings: 
46 mm. Mexico (Tabasco), Panama (Chiriqui), Costa Rica. 
M. dejecta Schs. has likewise greenish-grey forewings, but with the usual black double dots on the 
ends of the veins, the double black transverse lines filled with yellowish ochre, the anterior one extinct below 
the cell, another fine dark line before the posterior line, so that it becomes threefold. Hindwing brownish-black, 
yellowish at the inner margin and fringe. Expanse of wings: 54 mm. Costa Rica. 
M. euthymia Schs. differs from the similar innoxia and submarginata in its colour and white fringe; 
forewing white, thickly strewn with brown sand-cokmr, both the brown transverse lines double, the posterior 
one only traceable; the brown subterminal line is also double, it forms but one crescent between 6 and 4 and 
is interrupted inwards on 3; the blackish-brown broken marginal line is distinctly bordered with white inside; 
fringe white, a black punctiform line before it. Hindwing dark greyish-brown, reddish-yellow at the inner 
margin, with a dark curved line at the anal angle. Fringe white. Expanse of wings: 51 mm. Santo Domingo, Peru. 
M. caeca Dogn. Forewing lighter or darker slate-coloured, the black double transverse lines filled 
with brown, the posterior one bordered with brown also outside; white dusting before the oblique black marginal 
streaks, the ends of the veins are also white, finely bordered with black. Hindwing blackish, base and inner 
margin yellowish. Expanse of wings: 40 45 mm. South-Eastern Peru. 
M. montana Schs. is grey on the forewing, dusted with brown, with the usual double lines, the anterior 
one brown, the posterior one black bordered with ochre in its interior part, the exterior part brown clistally 
bordered with grey, with a brownish shadow in the upper half behind it; yellow and black scales on the cross¬ 
vein, the inner margin shaded somewhat brownish. Hindwing brownish-black, light brown at the base and 
inner margin. The $ shows blacker transverse lines, the anterior one faded and shaded with black below the 
cell. Expanse of wings: 50 mm. Peru. 
