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beyond cell, met by a broad oblique streak from apex, and with the incurved outer line from cell to inner 
margin; terminal area irrorated with brown, with subterminal black points in cell fold and below veins 4 and 3; 
a terminal series of black dots; fringe pale lined and tipped with brown; hindwing brownish white, browner 
at termen. Union Islands, Dake of York Island; described from a single 
M. ruptifascia Hmps. (26b). Forewing pure white; costal edge ochreous towards base; two subbasal ruptifascia. 
black dots on costa and one in cell; a broad median black brown band with slightly sinuous edges, somewhat 
swollen at middle and towards inner margin; a black dot at lower angle of cell and a black mark on cell fold 
beyond the discocellular; an oblique wedge shaped black brown patch with irregular edges from apical part of 
costa to cell fold; a black brown subterminal bar at middle; a terminal series of black striae; fringe ochreous 
mixed with black on inner half; hindwing ochreous white tinged with fuscous; fringe ochreous with brown 
middle line and brown tips. Madras, S. India. 
M. thermozona Hmps. (26b). Forewing silvery white; costal area bright rufous at base, interrupted thcrmozona. 
by a slight white striga before middle; a black point in cell near base; an erect minutely waved black median 
line with broad bright rufous band beyond it, the outer edge minutely waved; outer line marked by a dark 
striga from costa and a sinuous black striga beyond cell; terminal area bright rufous, narrowing to tornus; sub¬ 
terminal line diffuse, blackish, curved with some white points on it; hindwing white, rufous tinged; terminal 
area rufous, except at tornus; fringe white. A $ from Port Darwin, North Australia. 
M. ritsemae Snell. (= vitiensis Btlr., albofusca Pag.) (26 b). Forewing white; costa at base golden ritsemae. 
brown, interrupted by a white striga before middle inwardly defined by black, bent inwards as a short 
streak in cell; a minutely waved erect black median line; the area beyond it golden brown to outer line; 
the reniform on it white, 8-shaped, with black points in both halves; outer line double, blackish filled in with 
white, the outer arm almost obsolete except beyond cell, oblique from costa to vein 6, inangled on cell fold, 
incurved below 4, and angled outwards on vein 1; terminal area golden brown, extending to outer line be¬ 
tween veins 6 and 4; a diffuse curved blackish subterminal line with a few white scales on it; fringe white 
mixed with brown scales, and with a dark middle line; the $ is always darker than the <$; hindwing whit¬ 
ish tinged with brownish, especially towards termen; fringe white with a faint brown line at middle; in the 
form from the New Hebrides. -—- subsp. inferrupfa subsp. nov., the median band is much narrower above interrupt. 
median vein and jbsolete below except for a dot on vein 1 and in some cases another on inner margin also. 
A widely spread insect, found in Borneo, Amboyna, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Australia, Fiji, Samoa, 
Cook’s Islands, Tahiti; in the ab. inaequifascia ab. nov. (26b) the median fascia is narrow at costa and swollen inaequi- 
at inner margin; in ab. angustifascia ab. nov. (26 b) it is evenly narrowed throughout. fascia. 
ctyigusii- 
fascia. 
M. quadripartita Walk. (26 b) Fore wing pure white; the costal edge black at base; a black dot in cell near quadripar- 
base; a broad black median band, the inner edge minutely waved, the outer slightly angled outwards below costa Ma - 
and at lower angle of ceil; terminal area with a large triangular black patch, extending on termen to just above 
tornus, with two white points on it at costa, towards termen tinged with grey, on which there is a series of black 
points; fringe greyish black, with two black lines near base; hindwing white tinged with fuscous; a dark ter¬ 
minal line and line through fringe. Occurs throughout India; Simla, Dharmsala, Kangra Valley, Jubbulpur, 
Manpuri, in the Punjab; Sikkim; Kutch, Bandra, Bombay, in Bombay; Gooty, Cuddapah, and the Nilgiris in 
Madras; Thayetmyo, Burma. 
M. sexpartita spec. nov. (26 b). Differs from quadripartita Walk, in the dark markings being bronzy sexpartiia. 
brown instead of purplish black; the base of fore wing with a triangular brown mark, the terminal dark area 
narrower, without the angled projection below costa; hindwing fuscous brown instead of grey; thorax deep 
bronze brown; vertex of head and dorsum yellowish. The type, a $, in Tring Museum, from Townsville, 
Queensland, January 1900 (F. P. Dodd). 
M. phaeozona Hmps. (= signifera Hmps. nec Walk.) (26 c). Forewing pure white sprinkled with a pliaeozona. 
few dark scales; costa at base black brown defined below by black, interrupted by a white subbasal striga; 
a dark brown median band, its edges defined by minutely waved black lines, the inner erect, the outer angled 
outwards beyond lower angle of cell, defining the lower part of the white reniform, which is constricted at middle 
and with a sinuous black mark on its outer edge before the very obscure double outer line; this is oblique 
from costa to vein 6 and incurved below 4, met by an oblique diffuse brown streak from apex; subterminal 
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