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The species are very little known yet and their variability has not yet been examined. Some of the 
species quoted here may therefore only be races of others. The stages of development and the habits of the 
larvae are unknown. 
R e v i e w o f the Species. 
I. Apex of the forewing black without a light subapical band. Forewing on both sides with a curved, coherent, 
orange-yellow or reddish transverse band beginning a little behind the middle of the costal margin, gradually 
widening and reaching the proximal margin. On the hindwing beneath the light and dark rays of the marginal 
part are very long and reach at least the middle or usually the discal dots. 
A. Hindwing above as far as the base reddish-yellow or at least without a sharply defined dark basal area; 
the dark marginal band narrow, 3 mm broad at most. The reddish-yellow transverse band of the forewing 
much broader at the posterior margin than at the costal margin. 
a. The reddish-yellow transverse band of the forewing is moderately broad (in the middle about 3 or 
4 mm) and does not cover the base of the areas 1 to 3. M. charmian. 
(3. The reddish-yellow transverse band of the fore wing is very broad as far as vein 4, covers the base 
of the areas 1 to 3 and even projects into the discal cell. M. laeta. 
B. Hindwing above with a light median transverse band and a sharply defined, dark basal area; the marginal 
band usually more than 3 mm broad. 
a. The orange-yellow transverse band of the forewing much broader at the posterior margin than at 
the costal margin. The median band of the hindwing above unicolorous, orange-yellow or reddish- 
yellow. 
1. The dark marginal band of the hindwing above is about 7 mm broad in the middle and reaches 
the proximal margin. The reddish-yellow median band thereby almost equally broad. 
M. fulvaria. 
2. The dark marginal band of the hind wing above is at the apex of the wing about 4 mm broad, 
gradually tapering posteriorly and ending pointedly at vein 3 or 2, not reaching the anal angle. 
The reddish-yellow median band thereby grows much broader at the proximal margin than at 
the costal margin. M. par agora. 
(5. The orange-yellow transverse band of the forewing is at the costal margin just as broad or broader 
than at the posterior margin. The median band of the hindwing above entirely white or so at least 
at the proximal margin. M. eltringhami. 
II. The apex of the forewing with a light subapical band or almost quite light. 
A. Hindwing above as far as or almost as far as the base coloured light without a large, black basal area. 
a. Apical part of the foreAving above almost quite light without a distinct subapical band. 
M. dohertyi. 
fh Apical part of the forewing above black with a sharply defined light subapical band. Forewing Avith 
a yelloAv or reddish-yellow spot of the posterior margin. 
*. Subapical band of the forewing reddish-yelloAv merging into sulphureous-yelloAV. 
§. The (orange-)yellow spot of the posterior margin of the forewing does not cover the discal cell 
and usually neither the base of the areas 1 to 4. Hindwing beneath with long, dark, longi¬ 
tudinal rays in the marginal part. 
1. Hindwing beneath without a light median band, but with very long, black longitudinal 
rays proceeding from the margin and reaching the apex of the discal cell. 
M. landbecki. 
M. schuboizi. 
2. Hindwing beneath with a light yelloAv median transverse band separating the longitudinal 
rays of the marginal area from the basal area. M. apicalis. 
M. neurata. 
§§. The orange-yellow spot of the posterior margin covers both the base of the areas 1 a to 4 
and almost the Avhole discal cell. HindAving beneath with triangular marginal spots bordered 
with black. M. neokoton. 
**. Subapical band of the forewing white. The reddish-yellow spot of the posterior margin of the 
forewing is large, it covers the base of the areas 1 a to 4 and also the discal cell at least for the 
greatest part, and at the posterior margin it often reaches the posterior angle. Hindwing 
beneath yelloAvish, scarcely darker at the base. 
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