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MIRESA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
alramenii- 
fera. 
albipuncta. 
decedens. 
lancensis. 
nivaha. 
asp era. 
bracteaia. 
burmensis. 
fulgida. 
kago- 
shimensis. 
demangei. 
inornata. 
Ps. atramentifera sp. n. (86 g). Body white, more or less dusted with brownish. Forewing white; a 
broad pale brownish transverse band near the base, distally bordered by a blackish undulated transverse line 
which extends through the origins of veins 2 and 11. Then follows a light brown transverse band from the 
inner margin to the anterior edge of the cell before the cell-end, and a broader greyish, more indistinct trans¬ 
verse band which is strongly excurved and sends a branch to the centre of the margin. A thick ink-black 
longitudinal blotch is situate on the posterior edge of the cell, proceeding from 2, a similar apical blotch cutting 
the fringe between 8 and 9, basally connected with the costal margin. Hindwing white; base, inner margin and 
part of distal margin dusted with blackish-grey, a black dot at the tornus. Under surface white, forewing with 
a black costal-marginal spot at the base and a black apical blotch, hindwing blackish at the inner margin. Expanse 
of wings: 28 mm. Khasis. <$ type in the Tring Museum. 
18. Genus: Miresil Wkr. (inch Miresopsis Mats.) 
Palpi short, porrect or feebly upeurved. Basal third of antenna strongly pectinated, then, gradually 
decreasing, serrated to the apex. Hind tibiae only with terminal spurs. 7—9 of forewing stalked, 10 stalked 
with the stalk or separated from it, 11 bent very near to 12. 6 -j- 7 of hindwing stalked, 8 anastomosing with 
the anterior edge of the cell near the base. I had no access to the description of M. muramatsui Kaw. (Formosa). 
M. albipuncta H.-Schdff. (= guttifera Wkr.) (90 a). Forewing brownish-red, more or less lighter yellow 
at the interior margin of the basal half, a silvery white dot outside at the lower cell-end is touched by a 
violettish-grey, feebly silvery postmedian line. Hindwing yellow. Expanse of wings: 32—46 mm. Larva green, 
with a brown lateral line and brown spots, in front and behind with 2 dorsal and 2 lateral spined appendages, on 
Butea. India, Ceylon. Rare, often confounded with the more common bracteata (90 b). 
M. decedens Wkr. (90 a) differs from albipuncta in its brownish ochreous hinclwings and mostly more 
distinct silvery postmedian line. Body above yellow as in the preceding species. $ silvery also at the distal 
and costal margins of the forewing. Expanse of wings: 35—50 mm. India, very common. — lancen-sis subsp. n. 
(90 b) has a small roundish silvery dot, absent postmedian line arid a distinct quadrangular reddish-yellow 
inner-marginal spot, hindwing beneath broadly brown at the costal margin, distal margin of forewing less 
oblique. Ceylon. type in the Berlin State Museum, paratype in the Tring Museum. 
M. nivalia Mr. (90 b) is only separated from decedens by the body being red-brown instead of yellow. 
They fly together, so that it may be merely a form of the other. Expanse of wings: 35—50 mm. India. 
M. aspera sp. n. (90 b). Distinguished from albipuncta (90 a) by the absence of the postmedian line and 
by the coarsely scaled ground-colour of the forewing, beneath which a yellowish ochreous ground-colour is 
more prominent. Fore wing larger and broader. Pectinations of gradually shortening from the middle, where 
they are still twice as long as the thickness of the antennal shaft (in albipuncta suddenly shortened at ( 3 , 
about as long in the middle as the antennal shaft is thick). Hindwing yellow. Expanse of wings: 38 mm. Ceylon. 
^ type in the Berlin State Museum. 
M. bracteata Btlr. (90 b). Body yellow, slightly mixed with rusty red. Forewing rusty red, with ex¬ 
tensive yellow colouring, particularly at the inner margin and distally to the postmedian line which is intensely 
silvery, expanded into a large triangular silvery spot between veins 3 and 5. Marginal band narrow silvery, 
silvery violet scales also in the costal-marginal area. No pure silvery marking in the cell. Hindwing yellow. 
Expanse of wings: 35—42 mm. — Larva (described as argentifera) dark green, with white and black lateral 
lines, 4 violet, basally orange appendages set with black thorns both in front and behind; on Cinchona 
and Coffea. 
M. burmensis sp. n. (90 b) is allied to aspera , antennae of <$ pectinated as in albipuncta , fore wing shorter, 
less rounded at the interior angle, coarsely scaled, very dark red-brown, postmedian line little marked, tri¬ 
angular silvery spot large, hindwing red-brown, yellow basally and at the costal margin, under surface brownish- 
red. Expanse of wings: 29 mm. Lower Burma. type in the Tring Museum. Easily separable from decedens by 
the wings being more coarsely scaled. 
M. fulgida Wil. (= orientis Strd.) (90 b) differs from burmensis in the following: cell of forewing filled 
with pure silvery, silvery postmedian line less incurved at the triangular silvery spot which is longer (in f. 
kagoshimensis Strd. parallel-margined and the points showing distally). Marginal silvery line indistinct. Ex¬ 
panse of wings: 35—40 mm. — Larva on Canarium album. Formosa, in April, May, and August till October. 
- demangei de Joann, differs little, the body is more mixed with red-brown, chiefly sulphur-coloured in the 
nomenclatural race, the inner margin somewhat less light reddish-yellow. Tonkin, South China. 
M. inornata Wkr. is a doubtful species. It is said to differ from albipuncta (90 a) in the absence of 
silvery markings and in the darker red-brown ground-colour of the forewing. Submarginal line indistinct, 
bent. Described from Bengal, but the habitat may be wrong and it is N. flavidorsalis Stgr. (Vol. II, pi. 49 k). 
Expanse of wings: 36—50 mm. Alleged to occur also in Japan and China. 
