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93. Genus: Micrapatetis Meyr. 
Tongue well-developed; frons with rounded prominence; palpi upturned the second segment slightly 
scaled, the third short; antennae of ciliated; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; metathorax with 
spreading crest; tibiae slightly fringed with hair; forewing narrow and elongate; the apex rounded; the 
termen evenly curved; no areole: veins 7, 8, 9, 10, stalked from upper angle of cell; 11 from cell; hind- 
wing with 3, 4 and often 6, 7 stalked; 8 anastomosing with cell nearly to middle. Type M. orthozona 
Meyr. A genus of cpiite small species. 
M. tripartita Btlr. (21k). Forewing white, with a triangular blackbrown mark on costa near base; tripartita. 
lines black brown; inner line swollen at costa, angled outwards on median vein and inwards above vein 
1; outer line thick, its outer edge excurvecl below costa, at middle, and at vein 1, joined below costa 
by an oblique dark patch from costa, and confluent internally with a black lunule on discocellular; costa 
yellow towards i; apex; a black brown terminal band; fringe brown with 3 yellow patches; hindwing 
yellow, the terminal half fuscous; a dark cell spot; fringe yellow and fuscous. Queensland, N. Australia. 
M. orthozona Meyr. (21 k). Forewing yellowish white; a cupreous brown patch at base, its outer orthozona. 
edge sinous; a slightly curved cupreous brown middle band connected by a streak in the cell fold with 
the cupreous brown terminal area, which narrows off to a point at tornus; fringe yellowish white, 
mixed with brown at base; hindwing yellowish white suffused with brown; fringe yellowish white with 
brown line; in the $ the streak connecting the middle and terminal bands is wanting. Townsville, Queensland. 
M. leucozona Trnr. (21k). Forewing white; a bronze brown patch at base with the outer edge leucozona. 
oblicjue; a broad bronze brown middle band, its inner edge excurvecl, its outer nearly straight ; a bronze 
brown terminal band, angled inwards beyond cell and narrowing to a point at tornus; hindwing yellow¬ 
ish, suffused throughout with fuscous broAvn; the fringe yellower with a fuscous line. Queensland. 
M. albiviata limps. Forewing ochreous white, irrorated and suffused with bronze brown; the albiviata. 
costal area whiter as far as outer line; lines white; inner line waved, inwardly oblique; outer line inwardly 
oblique, dentate, excurved beyond lower angle of cell; subterminal obscure, white, twice excurvecl; fringe 
mottled white and redbrown; reniform stigma a minute white lunule with the centre rufous; hindwing och¬ 
reous white. N. Australia. 
M. glycychroa Trnr. (21k). Forewing ochreous suffused with purplish-red; basal area suffused glycychroa. 
and irrorated with fuscous, the costa and space before inner line remaining ochreous; an ill-defined fiery 
reel and black spot below costa represents the subbasal line; inner line waved, black, externally edged with 
fiery red; median area suffused and irrorated with fuscous, leaving an obscure cell lunule ochreous; 
outer line wavy, black edged with fiery red on inner side, angled outwards on vein 4 and acutely in¬ 
wards on submedian fold; subterminal line a series of ill-defined spots of fuscous irroration; 
terminal area fuscous except at each end, and angled inwards on both folds; some whitish points at 
base of fringe at middle; hindwing uniform fuscous. Thursday Island, Queensland. 
M. purpurascens Hmps. (21 k). Forewing pale purplish red tinged with ochreous; a triangu- purpuras- 
lar black mark at base of costa; a narrow blackish median band constricted on each fold, its outer edge cens - 
angled outwards at middle; two black spots on costa before apex; terminal area dusted with fuscous; a row 
of black striae along termen; hindwing fuscous, the fringe paler. Sherlock River, W. Australia. 
M. pyrastis Hmps. (21k). Forewing pale purplish red, the basal half tinged with ochreous; a pyraMis. 
median leaden grey band edged by black lines, constricted on the folds; some slight pale points on costa 
beyond it; fringe pale at base, with blackish tips; hindwing fuscous tinged with purplish grey; fringe 
whitish with a fuscous line through it. Gooty, Madras. 
M. flavipars Hmps (21 k). Forewing with the basal area ochreous yellow, limited by the fine black flavvpars. 
inner line, which is minutely waved and rather oblique; the base of costa with a brown streak; rest 
of wing dark redbrown with a silvery gloss; an indistinct diffuse redbrown outer line hindwing red- 
brown with a greyish tinge; a fine pale line at base of fringe. Bombay. 
