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a) Abdomen yellow for the greater part, not ringed with black*). 
M. peshwa Moore (3e). Head and thorax with yellowish white markings; breast, legs, abdomen and peshwa. 
a large abdominal area on the hindwing orange-yellow, abdomen ringed with black, upperside of tarsi and two 
spots on the fore and mid tibiae black. Forewing with 3 and hindwing with 1 yellowish white spot, between 
which there are metallic markings on the forewing. — North-West and North India, in the spring; comes to 
the light. 
M. albicilia Hamps. (3e). Similar to the preceding, but the yellow area of the hindwing paler, the ab- albicilia. 
domen not ringed with black and the mid tibia not distinctly spotted with black. — Burma. 
M. ceylonica Hamps. (3d). Much smaller than albicilia, the spot on the patagia more rounded, the ceylonica. 
first midtarsal segment for the greater part black, the yellow area of the hindwing beneath not whitish in and 
before the cell, cilia of the hindwing only somewhat white at the apex and anal angle. — Ceylon: Trincomali 
and Puttalam. 
M. postica Walk. (= tara Swinh.). The markings of both wings deeper yellow than in ceylonica ; patagia postica. 
without spot, the yellow area of the hind wing larger than in ceylonica, ground-colour of the whole fore¬ 
wing chocolate. — Singapore and Borneo. 
M. lombokensis. Frons black in the centre; thorax variegated with greyish yellow and black, without 
definite markings; breast, legs and abdomen almost entirely orange. Forewing black, forewing with l or 2 
cell-spots and a discal band, all whitish yellow; hindwing orange, with black costal and distal margins. Java 
and Lombok. — javana Roths. Forewing with 2 cell-spots, discal band broad. Lawang, East Java. — lorn- java no. 
bokensis Roths. (3e). Markings of forewing narrower, the discal band at most 2 mm. broad, in $ only i lombokensis. 
cell-spot present. Lombok, collected by Fruhstorfer in May — June at 2000 ft. 
b) Abdomen ringed with yellow and black, or black at the base and 
apex and yellow in the centre. 
M. perakana Roths. (3e). Thorax above with a broad white median stripe. The spots of both peratcana. 
wings entirely white, the median one of the forewing band-like, almost extending to the costal margin; 
the abdominal area cf the hindwing occupying % the length of the abdominal margin. — Perak, Singa¬ 
pore, Borneo and (teste Snellen) Java. 
M. econia Hamps. (3e). Smaller than the preceding species; the spots yellowish, smaller, the prox- econia. 
imal one of the forewing more transverse, the abdominal area of the hindwing shorter, more strongly round¬ 
ed distally. —- Christmas Island (to the south of Java). 
M. davidsoni Swinh. (3f). Blackish brown, the underside of the abdomen and the centre of its upperside davidsoni. 
orange. Forewing with only 2 yellow spots, which are both large, one being subbasal and rounded and 
the other discal and band-like; hindwing with an almost central constricted spot. — South India: Karwar. 
M. basalis Walk. (= hainana Jord.) (3f). Very similar to the preceding species, the head and basalts. 
thorax, as in davidsoni, being entirely black above and beneath. But the abdominal segments 2—6 have a 
black edge all round. The hindwing has usually a large triangular deep orange patch which reaches from 
the abdominal margin to the apex of the cell, but is often strongly reduced or even absent. — Cal¬ 
cutta, Sikkim, Hainan; comes to the light. Larva according to Horsfield greyish yellow, thorax slightly 
greenish, thin incomplete transverse bands black; head orange. On Dillenia. 
M. vilemani Hamps. A small edition of the Japanese persimilis. Spots of forewing smaller, the vilemani. 
two subapical ones more widely separate from one another. The black discocellular spot of the hindwing 
connected with the marginal border; the spot thus separated from the orange area as pale yellow as the 
spots of the forewing. — Formosa. 
M. vittata Bull. (3d). Head and thorax black, abdomen ringed with orange, apex black. Forewing vittata. 
with a yellowish white straight discal band; hindwing reddish orange, with broad costal and distal borders 
and black discocellular spot which is connected with the costal border. — Only 2 known (?), the name- 
type from Java in the British Museum and a second $ from Mt. Marapok, Dent province, in North Borneo, 
in Museum Tring. 
M. semyron H.-Sch. (= chrysospila Walk.) (3g). Head with a black median stripe; breast, legs semyron. 
and underside of abdomen for the greater part orange; abdomen ringed with black and orange, apex 
orange. Forewing with 5 (1, 2, 2) and hindwing with 2 yellowish white spots, the two distal ones of the 
forewing rounded and far apart. — Sumatra; Philippines: Luzon (January—Juni, October). The locality 
Sumatra given by Herrich-Schaffer requires confirmation; I consider the record erroneous. 
M. puciolia Druce {= fruhstorferi Roths.) (3d). Antennae with white scaling proximally to the yellow puciolia. 
apex; head with black median stripe; breast, legs and underside of abdomen almost entirely orange-yellow, 
abdomen above ringed with black and orange-yellow. Spots of forewing large, uniformly orange-yellow, 
*) peshwa excepted. 
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