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with black and grey middle lines; hindwing grey with the terminal area brownish. This description is made 
from a the as described by Hampson from the type and as figured, is, as usual, somewhat darker, 
with some bright red at base. The type from Kuranda, Queensland; the $ above described from Cedar Bay, 
south of Cooktown, Queensland. 
M. signifera Walk. (= subfixa Walk.) (25 k). Forewing in basal half whitish dusted with brown signifera. 
scales, and with a brown subbasal speck; in outer half brown with whitish patches on costa and inner margin, 
traversed by the white outer line, which is excurved round end of cell; the reniform stigma white, with two 
black spots at centre, and a black spot beyond it; subterminal line whitish, indented on each fold and angled 
at vein 7, with black streaks before it; hindwing greyish white, brownish at apex; in ab basitincta ab nov. basilinda. 
(25 k) the basal area is discoloured by rufous grey scaling, a distinct white line, however, preceding the 
median fascia; in subsp. rufigrisea subsp. nov. (25k), from Calcutta, the wliita basal area is discoloured, rufigrisea. 
A common species throughout India, in Ceylon, Burma, the Malay peninsula, the Andamans, and almost all the 
Malay Islands to Australia where it is found in 1ST. Australia and Queensland, in the palaearctic region it occurs 
in Kashmir, China, Japan, and Corea. 
M. baetica Swinh. (251). Fore wing ochreous white tinged with brownish in basal area; the costa baetica. 
brownish; inner line blackish, inwardly edged with white, oblique outwards from costa, indented basewards 
on median vein and vein 1; median area dark brown and rufous, paler towards inner margin; reniform an 
oblique figure-of-8 with white annulus and two dark spots at centre; outer line double filled in whitish, broadly 
outcurvecl above, incurved on submedian fold and angled outwards on vein 1; followed by whitish patches at 
apex and above inner margin; terminal area dark brown and fuscous, the subterminal line whitish, inwardly 
defined by dark scaling; a row of black terminal points; fringe dark with pale line at base; hindwing grey 
with some brownish suffusion. Sikkim and Burma. 
M. subterminalis spec. nov. (26 d). Forewing yellowish ochreous, with fulvous shading terminally; subtermina- 
the lines double, dark filled in with white; the inner angled outwards on median vein; the outer simply out- hs - 
curved beyond cell, preceded below middle by a broAvn median line; a whitish terminal space beyond cell 
below the fulvous apical cloud; subterminal line whitish, curved, preceded by an ochraceous shade and follow¬ 
ed by some grey scaling; a line of dark terminal striae; fringe grey with pale base; hindwing pale grey. Mt. 
Arjuno, Java. 
M. marginalis Walk. (= stolasa Swinh.) (25 k). Forewing ochreous white suffused with bright marginalis. 
rufous, especially on costal area and terminal half; inner line rufous, inwardly edged with white, inwardly oblique 
below middle; reniform stigma white, with two black spots at centre; outer line blackish, defined inwardly 
by white at costa and outwardly below middle; outcurvecl above and incurved below middle; an oblique blackish 
shade from apex to outer line at vein 6; subterminal line obsolete; a fine brown terminal line, with white 
band before it from apex to 4; hindwing reddish brown. Sikkim and Assam in the North, Madras in South 
India; Ceylon; Borneo; Pulo Laut; Java. 
M. vialis Moore (25 k). Forewing with basal and costal area nearly to apex ochreous white tinged vialis. 
with pale buff, the costal portions of inner and outer lines faint or obsolete; the outer area from before apex 
to middle of inner margin purplish brown and fuscous; inner line black edged inwardly with white, oblique in¬ 
wards from median vein to inner margin; a minute dark point in cell; outer line whitish, dark-edged, 
sinuous, from vein 6 to inner margin, marked by a white lunule on submedian interval; subterminal line 
whitish at costa, then yellow, preceded by a dark dentate shade and deeply indented on the folds, nearly 
touching termen below middle; a row of black terminal spots; reniform stigma marked by a black spot at 
lower angle of cell and another beyond it; hind wing whitish suffused with pale brownish grey; a terminal row 
of dark spots; in the subsp. khasiana subsp. nov. (— ab. 2 Hmps.) (25 k) the basal area of forewing is suffused khasiana. 
with olive grey; the hindwing greyer, with the terminal area and fringe yellowish grey. The type form from the 
Punjab, Sikkim, and Burma. 
M. picata Btlr. (26a). Forewing pure white; a dark brown streak near base of costa, followed picata. 
by a dot; inner line black, angled outwards above and below median vein, followed by a golden brown 
band, which emits a fork below cell curving upwards beyond it to vein 6; a black dot at each angle of cell; 
a dark dot on costa beyond middle; terminal area golden brown except towards tornus; subterminal line whit¬ 
ish, indented on the folds and angled on vein 7, with small wedge shaped black marks before it below costa 
