MERAGLSA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 997 
M. sidata Schs. is darker than politioides , intensely strewn grey and reddish-yellow, the transverse sidata.. 
lines of the same course as in politioides , filled with a somewhat greenish colour; fiinge yellowish. Hindwing 
dull brown with yellow fringe. Expanse of wings: 49 mm. Venezuela. 
M. thryeston Drc. is allied to sidata, but the forewing is silvery white strewn with black, with a yellow ihryeslon. 
basal spot surrounded by black, the transverse lines black, scaled yellowish, fringe white. Hindwing black 
with yellow inner margin and fringe. Expanse of wings: 50 mm. Peru. 
M. limosa Schs. has blackish forewings strewn with grey along the costal margin and apex, the trans- limosa. 
verse lines quite indistinct in the dark ground, only the submarginal line is somewhat more distinct; a short 
black longitudinal streak behind the cell. Hindwing whitish, dusted with black at the margins, with a small 
black anal spot. Expanse of wings: 48 mm. Brazil. 
M. submarginata Schs. (= julia Drc.) (152 i). Forewing greenish-grey strewn with dark brown, lighter submar- 
grey at the base of the inner margin, the double black transverse lines of the usual course, the posterior line ginala. 
distally shaded with grey, small grey submarginal spots bordered with dark velvety brown inside. Hindwing 
black, inner margin and fringe ochreous. Peru. 
M. mochosema Schs. Forewing reddish-olive strewn with blackish-brown, the vertical anterior transverse mochosemu. 
line blackish-brown, tw r ice interrupted on the veins, a double median line close behind it; a few black scales 
behind the white discal streak; the double subterminal line behind the fine postmedian line begins near the 
apex and is filled with dark olive between the costal margin and 6, and between 2 and 3; a feeble irregular 
shadow behind it; the brown marginal line bordered with white inside recedes below 6 and extends undulated 
to vein 2, from where it forms oblique marginal streaks. Hindwing brown with a double white-marked anal- 
angular line and white fringe. Expanse of wings: 41 mm. Teffe, Amazons. 
M. arida Schs. (= basifera Rothsch.) (152 h,i). Forewing greenish whitish-grey, strewn darker, with arida. 
a broad dark brown basal area enclosing 2 blackish transverse lines; a postmedian and submarginal transverse 
row each of small roundish white spots scaled yellow and black outside. Hindwing whitish, inner and distal 
margins smoky grey, quite brown in the $. Guiana, Colombia, Bolivia. 
M. arersosa Schs. Forewing dingy white, strewn with grey and light brown, especially at the costal arenosa. 
margin and in the median area, with a brown oblique basal shadow below the cell; dark brown lines at the 
cell-end and dusted reddish-brown lines between them are connected with a large brown costal-marginal 
spot before the apex, small brownish internerval spots on the margin, no transverse lines whatever. Hindwing 
scantily scaled, brown, yellowish-white at the inner margin and base. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. French 
Guiana. 
M. seitzi sp. n. (152 i) is near to arenosa, but much larger; forewing white, strewn with brown, most seitzi. 
densely so at the costal margin and in the median area basally below the cell with a blackish-brown triangular 
spot extending obliquely to the inner margin, with several double blackish-brown notched fine transverse 
lines, one also in the middle; a dark brown reniform macula at the cell-end is edged with white on both sides; 
a large blackish-brown costal-marginal spot behind the postmedian line extends pointed to the apex and forms 
a dent downward distally above the uppermost radial branch; 2 large blackish-brown spots above the anal 
angle, regular submarginal lunar spots distally filled with brown. Hindwing brownish-grey. Described from 
2 one from Paramaribo, the other from Bolivia, in Coll. Seitz. Type in the Senckenberg Museum. 
M. polycarpa Schs. is closely allied with arenosa Schs. Forewing white thickly strewn with reddish- polycarpa. 
brown, which is condensed to a dark shadow apically; subbasal line double, a grey spot behind it at the inner 
margin, both the transverse lines double, dark brown, the posterior line with long dents as far as the marginal 
line which is composed of black lunules, more of small spots towards the apex; fringe speckled white and brown. 
Hindwing reddish-brown, dark brown at the margin, fringe white. Expanse of wings: 34, $ 35 mm. Rio 
Purus (Brazil). 
M. phastioides sp. n. (152 k) is easily recognisable. The pale yellowish ground of the forewing is phastioides. 
densely strewn with blackish-brown, producing an olive impression; the double subbasal line together with 
the treble antemedian line in the basal third of the costal margin down as far as the median line forms a 
quadrangular blackish-brown spot by denser strewing, this spot extending shadow-like through the lower half 
of the cell as far as behind the postmedian line; a short dark streak at the cross-vein, a fine strongly curved 
line behind it; postmedian line threefold, from near the apex in a straight line obliquely to vein 3, receding 
a little below it, and curved almost to the anal angle, whitish in the interior portion, distinctly filled with light 
blue between 2 and 4, the exterior portion filled with blackish-brown between 2 and 4 and 6 and the costal 
margin; subterminal area much lighter owing to the very scanty strewing, the margin itself darker again, 
containing a somewhat punctiform marginal line. Hindwing red-brown, cell and costal margin above it lighter, 
a dark double streak filled with whitish at the anal angle. Fringe whitish. 2 SS from Rio Putumayo, Mocoa, 
Colombia; February 1921, in the Berlin Museum (Werner Hopp leg.). 
