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has unicolorously orange-yellow, not carmine wings. — The other extreme: conchyliata form. nov. (= ab. conch yliaia. 
1 Hamps.) has quite deep carmine wings without any traces whatever of the spots and stripes. The latter 
forms are found more in the islands of: Sumatra, Nias, Borneo, Philippines, and Java. 
M. tricolor Wil. <J head and thorax purple, the latter marked dark grey; abdomen ashy-grey, faintly tricolor. 
tinted reddish; terminal joint light oclireous-brown; forewings purple with yellow spots on the central and 
distal area and 4 dark grey transverse bands; the subbasal band and antemedian band bent towards each other, 
touching each other above the middle; postmedian line curved, scarcely separated from the curved and inter¬ 
rupted submedian band. Hinclwings light ochreous, suffused with reddish. 28 mm. Formosa; allied to M. 
cuneonotata Wkr. 
M. exclusa Btlr. (= trivittata Moore) (18 b) shows on the orange-red forewing an anterior transverse exclusa. 
line strongly distally angled in the cell and united with the middle line which is bent inward, the latter line 
turning distally on the submedian fold; at the cell-end a black dot. The posterior transverse line is very dentate 
on the upper and lower radials; an antemarginal, somewhat spotted, faded line; fringes black. The wings beneath 
are orange with a red tone. From the Andamans, Borneo, Java. 
M. convexa Wil. is allied to exclusa) forewings orange-red, costa and fringes black; basal dot and convexa. 
streak black, 3 black transverse lines, the 1st and 3rd bent outward, the 2nd bent inward touching the 3rd 
on both its ends or approaching it and united with the 1st above the middle; behind the 3rd line there is a 
series of 8 black vein-streaks, the 3rd and 5th longer than the others and touching the lines; in the cell a black 
dot. Hindwings lighter; fringes and a cloud at the distal margin towards the costa black. Beneath like 
above, but the markings- blurred. $ 23, $ 28 mm. Formosa. 
M. connexa Wil. is like convexa, differs, however, by the 1st and 3rd line being obtuse-angled below con nexa. 
the costa, and the 3rd being once more sharply angled before its end at the proximal margin; the black 
streaks at the distal area proceed from the 3rd line, and the 3rd and 5tli of them extend proximally to 
the black cell-spot. Beneath the black streaks on the forewings flow together towards the costa and form 
a blackish clond. 24 mm. Perhaps only an aberration of convexa. Formosa. 
M. rothschildi nom. nov. (= coccinea Roth-sch., nec Moore). antennae yellow, head and thorax rothschildi. 
orange-red with small black dots. Abdomen brownish buff. Forewings orange-red, two antemedian bands 
in the shape of a cross, a doubly angled, proximally bent postmedian band touching the arms of the cross at 
the costa and proximal margin, and three postdiscal stripes sooty blackish-brown. Hindwings salmon-coloured. 
Length of forewings: 11*4 mm ■ Khasia Hills, in October. 
M. intensa Rothsch. g antennae scarlet; head and thorax reddish-scarlet, bordered and spotted with intensa. 
a slaty greyish-black; abdomen buff-brown, with a dull scarlet hue. Forewings scarlet, marginal fifth of a deep 
crimson colour. Costa, border and the distal fifth of the proximal margin black with a large scarlet median 
spot at the costa, the basal fourth and the middle part of the distal half between veins 2 and 7 with an intense 
greyish slate-brown tinge; the middle cross-band with different stripes of dark slate-blue. Hindwings salmon- 
coloured, with a purple hue. Another $ has the dark bands and the hue very intense, whereas a third is much 
lighter and shows them very much reduced. Length of forewings: 16 to 19 mm. Mount Goliath, in March. 
M. cruciata Walk. (= gloriosa Moore) (18 c) is unmistakable by the two proximal transverse lines cruciata. 
touching each other in the shape of an X; it is a rather large, bright orange-yellow species; in the marginal 
area there are black rays; fringes black. — Sikkim, Assam, Sumatra, Borneo. 
M. subcruciata Rothsch. The <$ differs from cruciata by its smaller size, pink ground-colour, with a subcrudata. 
carmine hue on it, and very pale and indistinct bands in the disc of the forewing. Length of forewings: 11 y 2 mm. 
Little Key 7 . 
M. inflexa Moore (18 d) is much smaller, yellow, in the cell-spaces striped red; costal and proximal inflexa. 
margins as well as fringes blackish-brown; the markings are somewhat similar as in subcruciata, but the two 
proximal transverse lines approach each other and are united in a black spot. — Sikkim and Assam. 
M. euprepia Hmps. (18 c) is larger than inflexa-, the middle line is not so much bent angularly below euprepia.. 
the cell. Behind the postmedian transverse line runs another black line connected with the former on the veins 
by black streaks; the costal margin is black only as far as the anterior transverse line. Borneo. 
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