Publ. 20. V. 1937. 
EPICLEA; MIRESA; SISYROSEA. By H. G. Dyar 
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with red stripes along the rows of thorns and undulate dark brown lines between them. It lives on many trees 
in forests and on shrubs. Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Texas. 
M. sulfurea Grt. (= erectifascia Dyar ) (165 d) differs from semifascia in the straighter finer line, the sulfurea. 
feebler dents not being silvery but light yellow. Expanse of wings: G 15 —18 mm; $ unknown. Florida. 
M. subdentosa Dyar (165 d) is very similar to semifascia, hut the silver line is narrow, twice very subdenlosa. 
strongly dentate, with reddish colouring before it. Expanse of wings: $ 24 mm; G unknown, Florida. 
M. angustilinea Dyar (165 cl). Forewing monotonously red-brown, the silver line straight, of a sulphur angusiilinca. 
tint, fine and of a somewhat oblique course, entering the cell before the origin of vein 2, and with faint reddish 
colouring before it. Expanse of wings: $ 23 mm; G unknown. Florida. 
M. obliqua H. Edw. Monotonously biown, the silvery line very oblique, almost from the base to the olliqua. 
apex. Hindwing much lighter than the forewing. Expanse of wings: d 1 16 mm; $ unknown. Florida. 
15. Genus: JEpiclea Dyar. 
Very similarly built as Zaparasa , but vein 10 of forewing stalked with 7 and 8; 9 absent. Hind tibiae 
without spurs. Only 1 species: 
E. elaea Drc. (165 d). Foreving light reddish brown, monotonous; a rather narrow straight v r hite line elaea. 
extends parallel with the distal margin from behind the middle of the inner margin to the cell-end. Hindwing 
light brownish wnod-coloured, dusted somewhat blackish. Expanse of wings: G 20 mm; 9 unk n own. Mexico; 
Panama. This description is based upon a specimen denoted as the “type" in the Coll. Druce. The specimen 
figured in the “Biologia” (pi. XXIII, fig. 14), now in the Berlin Museum, is Euprosterna eleaeasa Dyar. 
16. Genus: Mlresa Wkr. 
Spurs of hind tibiae present; forewdng with all the 12 veins. Palpi short, not reaching the frontal tuft. 
Basal thirds of G antennae pectinate, then shortly serrated decreasing apically. The genus is also represented 
by numerous species in the Indo-Australian Region and occurs also in the Palaearctic Region. 
Type: M. albipuncta H.-S. 
M. Clarissa Stoll (= argentata Wkr.) (165 d). Dark red-brown, of a variable tint; an undulate silvery Clarissa. 
postmedian line and small silvery spots at the margin; thorax more or less mixed with yellow. Expanse of 
wings: G 25—30, $ 35—40 mm. Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, Brazil. 
M. argentea Drc. (165 d). Dark red-brown, mixed with yellow, especially on the thorax; 2 fine brown argentea. 
lines, convergent towards the costal margin, the interior one strong and irregularly angled, the exterior one 
undulate and curved. The $ with more indistinct lines, the exterior one strewn with silver. Hindwing blackish, 
fringe yellow. Expanse of wings: G 26—28, $ 37 mm. From Mexico. 
M. fuscoflava Dogn. (165 d). Disc of forewing light brownish, blackened towards the apex, the apex fuscoflava. 
itself and the inner-marginal part yellow, some black scales subbasally; subapical yellow dots and black ones 
behind them. Hindwing light brownish. Body rather light, tegulae yellowish. Expanse of wings: G 31—34 mm; 
$ unknown. Ecuador, Colombia. 
M. venosa Dyar (165 e) is a small species. Forewing violettish grey, lighter towards the margin, with venosa. 
2 parallel dentate oblique postmedian lines. Hindwing light yellowish straw-coloured. Expanse of wings: 
20—22 mm; $ unknown. San Salvador. 
17. Genus: Sisyrosea Grt. 
Antennae of G bipectinate almost to the tips; palpi short, not reaching the vertex. Veins 2 and 3 of 
forewing arise separately; hind tibiae only with terminal spurs. Synonyms of the genus: Isa Pack., Sosiosa 
Ry., Sicyrosea Pack. Type: S. inornata G. <£■ R. 
S. diana Drc. Thorax and forewing dark rust-brown, passing over into black towards the margin, diana. 
Hindwing black, mostly scantily scaled in the disc. Wings rather narrow, apex produced. Expanse of wings: 
G 19—23 mm. 9 unknown. 
S. textula H.-Schdff. (= inornata G. & R.). Forewing lustrous light brown, scaled in a somewhat wrinkl- textula. 
ed way; G with a dark brown basal shadow and another submarginal one, reddish towards the inner margin. 
9 the same, but mostly lighter and with hardly any marking. Hindwing red-brown. Expanse of wings: d 1 7 
to 19, 9 18—23 mm. Larva very flat, the dorsal area strangulated, the subdorsal horns small, the lateral ones 
thin, fringe-like; green, a small red spot in the centre of the dorsal area. New York. Maryland, Virginia, North 
Carolina. 
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