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as well as a disoal row of black spots marked with white; at the proximal margin of this row of spots the ground 
of the wing is somewhat lighter. Hindwings somewhat lighter, dull brown and uni-coloured. Java. 
M. gynandra Swh. (32 b). $ dark red-brown, palpi, head and anterior part of thorax almost black, 
antennae reddisli-grey. Forewing with a light discal spot, behind it with a narrow, light transverse band being 
on both sides bordered with black and above the middle sharply flawed distally; discal area with 2 indistinct 
black, undulate transverse lines, and in the anterior part with 2 or 3 indistinct, dark, rectilinear transverse 
streaks, the postdiscal part lighter reddish as far as the dark, likewise undulate and white-spotted submarginal 
line. Hindwing somewhat lighter than forewing, uni-coloured. Under surface dark brown with 2 dark discal 
bands. Java. 
M. himerta Stull. (32 b). <$ light brown, abdomen above blackish-brown with a yellowish-brown anal 
tuft. Forewing with a black discal spot and 3 distinct, blackish-brown, rectilinear transverse bands being pre- 
cliscal, discal and postdiscal. Hindwing with an indistinct dark brown transverse band forming the continuation 
of the median band of the forewing, and a dark brown marginal part. Under surface of forewing lighter, only 
with traces of the two distal bands, hindwing with a somewhat reddish tint, the discal area hued whitish, with 
a subbasal line and a discal dentate line. Java. 
M. hades B.-Bak. (46 a). head and collar grey, thorax dark yellowish brown, abdomen dark brown 
with lighter bands. Forewing dark greyish-brown with a small white discal spot, scantily strewn with yellowish- 
grey scales, with an almost vertical, slightly bent, dark median line and an oblique, somewhat distally bent 
postmedian line, the part behind the latter lighter, with a row of dark submarginal spots. Hindwings uniformly 
greyish-brown. Brit. New Guinea: Ivebea Range. 
M. babooni B.-Bak. (46 a). <$ head and collar grey, thorax dark reddish-brown, abdomen black with 
yellowish-grey bands. Forewing dark red-brown with a small white discal spot and a broad light grey median 
and postmedian band, the latter irregular, distally bordered with a fine, grey, slightly dentate line; submarginal 
spots grey with black pupils, the marginal part behind them watered with grey. Hindwing dark red-brown 
with a lighter median band on both sides bordered with dark. British New Guinea: Babooni. 
M. mafala B.-Bak. (46 a). 2 head and thorax light chestnut-brown, patagia with yellow hairs, abdomen 
light brown. Forewing pale brown, strewn with yellowish scales and a yellowish discal spot; an antemedian, 
light transverse band bordered with dark, a postmedian, deep dark transverse line bordered with yellowish, 
followed by a similar line being slightly dentate below vein 7; submarginal spots in an irregular row, large, 
dark, bordered with yellowish. Hindwing pale brown, with a lighter base a rectilinear dark median line and 
an undulate postmedian line. British New Guinea: Mafala. 
M. poeciloptera Griinb. (33 a). $ body light greyish-brown, antennal pinnae and under surface of 
palpi dark brown. Forewing light brown, except a broad inner-marginal zone everywhere intermixed with 
dark brown scales, with a blackish-brown discal dot; on the middle of the w r ing an oblique, dark brown double 
band formed by 2 narrow single bands sharply rectangularly broken below the costal margin, the proximal 
one coherent and indistinct, the distal one composed of single spots; behind them a likewise double, quite recti¬ 
linear, dark brown postdiscal band extending parallel to the distal median line and ending at the proximal 
margin with a rhombic, dark brown spot. The submarginal line begins with 3 distinct white spots arranged in 
one line and distally bordered with black, then it grows very irregular and terminates with a distal white and 
black border of the dark brown inner-marginal spot. Hindwing and under surface of both wings uni-coloured 
light greyish-brown. $ not yet known. Sumatra. 
M. mediofasciata Griinb. (33 a). $ antennal pinnae dark brown. Head, palpi, thorax and forewing 
lighter or darker brownish-red, abdomen and hindwing greyish-brown. Fore wing with a broad, dark, towards 
the proximal margin narrower median band edged by two distinct white lines. Submarginal line very irre¬ 
gular, deeply dentate, formed by white spots incompletely bordered with black, of which, however, only the 
3 anterior, smaller ones are of a pure white. Marginal part dark like the median band. Under surface of both 
wings uniformly greyish-brown with a narrow, indistinct median band being almost rectilinear in the forewing 
and proximally bent in the hindwing. 2 not yet known. Kina Balu (Borneo). 
M. aequizonata Griinb. (33 a) differs from M. mediofasciata only by the everywhere equally broad, 
entirely parallel-margined, more proximally bent median band of the forewing. $ not yet known. West Java. 
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