ME GALOP YGE. By Walter Hope. 
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and femora yellow or rufous brown, dark brown to blackish, the thorax mostly mixed with white and black, 
which mixture passes over to the basal area. Tibiae and tarsi black and white, with long hair. The insects 
easily lose part of the vestiture of their wings, especially the black lines, and the $$ look then uniformly light 
or dark brown, their anal ball being from light yellow to black. The larva is represented by mistake in Stoll 
according to the precise description by Dewitz; it lives in Venezuela, on a yellow-blossoming Gassia, and other 
plants. The larvae live unpupated in the cocoons for as long as 18 months and in this way sometimes reach 
Europe alive. Widely distributed: Guiana, Venezuela, Paraguay, South Brazil. Bolivia, Peru. 
M. krugii De ivitz (161 c) is similar to nuda, but much smaller. The black lines between the veins are krugii. 
broader but less distinct, the veins themselves with whitish hair. A black spot at the cell-end of the forewing 
is preceded by a brightening. Unlike nuda, the are here sometimes much lighter coloured than the 
Larva and cocoon according to Dewitz similar to nuda ; on Rosa. — Portorico, Cuba, Colombia. 
M. salebrosa Clem. (= agdamea Drc.) (161 c). A large, distinctly marked species reminding us of nuda salebrosa. 
by the fine lines of the middle part of the veins, although its colouring and marking forms a transition from 
nuda to the xanthopasa-gronp. Mexico, Guatemala. 
Lanata- group. 
M. lanata Stoll (= citri Sepp) (161 d) is one of the commonest, most widely distributed species, varying lanata. 
in size, colouring and marking partly individually, partly geographically. The head, 6 thoracal spots and the 
long femoral hair on one side are pinkish red, the abdomen dorsally with pink rings, the wings frequently with 
a slight pink hue, especially in the $. A white zone in the median area of the forewing, interrupting the marking, 
is sometimes very extensive (Venezuela). Mexican specimens are darker and more hazily marked, those from 
South Brazil mostly distinctly marked and sometimes very similar to urens Berg. There are also cases in which 
the CC assume the faded marking of the $$, or the $$ the distinct marking of the CS- A half-sided intersex 
or hybrid has become known from Sa. Catharina. Larva (figured by Sepp, biology by Jones) whitish, with 
dark red tubercles from which the long dark brown and the short blackish venom-hairs arise. It lives on 
numerous trees and shrubs, also on foreign ones, such as Mangifera indica. Citrus aurantium. 
M. urens Berg (161 d) is allied to lanata and exhibits all its details of markings. Only the colouring urens. 
is somewhat different, the dark brown tints are more blackish here, the light brown ones more whitish, the 
pinkish-red ones often reduced and smaller than in lanata. The $ of urens has the same marking and colouring 
as the (J. The larvae of the two species differ distinctly, especially in the hairs of urens being mostly spatulate 
and the tubercles yellowish or greenish instead of purple. The larva, according to Berg, lives on Feijoa sellow- 
iana Berg, but according to Bottrquin (in litt.) it occurs also on Citrus, Rosa and many other trees and shrubs 
of Argentina. South Brazil, L T ruguay, Argentina, Paraguay. Berg states also Venezuela, but this probably 
refers to perseae. 
M. perseae Dogn. (161 e) is distinguished by the light, yellowish-pink ground-colour of the wings and perseae. 
by plain, somewhat wedge-shaped dark stripes between the veins. The 2 has the same colouring and marking 
as the cJ. The cocoons of this species were found at the foot of the tree Laurus perseae L. Peru. Ecuador, 
Colombia, Venezuela. — The autor distinguishes from this another species —- tratlsluceris Dogn. with hyaline translucens. 
wings and the same, but less distinct markings, short black fringes, while the fringes in perseae are ochreous, 
interrupted by black. Vertex black ( perseae ochreous). From the Tolima and Quindiu, Colombia. 
M. torva Schs. (161 e) is a rare species, of which only the <$<$ are at hand so far. The type is from Costa torva. 
Rica, other specimens from Peru, one of which is figured. The species looks like a small Podalia fuscescens 
with indistinct postmedian markings of the forewing, or like a large M. albicollis with a slightly modified 
colouring and marking. It is characterized by the brownish colour of all the white markings and the whitish, 
distinctly defined, black-centred spot at the base of the forewing, as well as a double tuft of blackish-brown 
hairs at the base of the abdomen. The hair of the basal area of the forewing is undulate, and we may assume 
that the $$ exhibit distinctly curled white hair also at the costa of the forewing. 
M. tharops Stoll (= multicollis Schs.) (161 e). The problematical figure by Stoll seems to represent tharops. 
a badly preserved and ’wrongly figured $; the author himself remarks that the white stripes of the wings are 
somewhat transparent. Judging from multicollis Schs., the species is widely distributed: Guiana, Venezuela, 
Panama, Colombia, Amazons, Ecuador, Peru, Minas Geraes. The size of the specimens and the colouring varies 
considerably here, too; there occur such with entirely white hindwings, while the inner margin is generally 
brown. 
