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wings a rather narrow bright green band crosses the wing at about the middle and 
runs along internal margin to base ; it is edged on both sides narrowly with light red 
brown ; width of band about one-fourth the length of wing, a little narrower centrally 
from the brown outer border becoming broader at that point; the terminal space is 
slightly grizzled by pale scales. Expanse, 32 mm. 
Type, one female in the collection of Mr. Schaus, who says that 
this is the “ clitoris ” of the Biologia Centrali-Americana. 
\ 2. Fore wing with vein 10 stalked ( Enclea ). 
E. di versa Druce. (Semyra divers a D.) 
The figure in the Biologia is poor. The silvery line near internal 
margin should be a slender zigzag, produced a little along vein 2 and 
narrowly along vein 1 to base. The ordinary green of the genus is 
here replaced by dark brown. The pretty species seems to suggest 
some affinity with Monoieuca in markings. 
E. copac Schaus. (Neomiresa copac Sch.) 
A pretty dark gray species, with ovate, rounded wings. 
Genus Metraga Walk. 
1855— Metraga Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1129. 
Type perplexa Walk. This species is before me. The genus 
seems a good one, close to Euclea , but differing in the large palpi, 
which reach nearly to the vertex of head, and in the convex costa; 
vein 11 is distinctly curved toward vein 12 at base ; the discal vein is 
long forked and the cell closed by a cross-vein. 
Genus Miresa Walk. 
1855— Miresa WALKER, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1123. 
Type albipuncta H.-S. In this genus the discal vein is long-forked, 
the limbs connected by a cross-vein outwardly ; but often the upper 
limb is weak, so that the cross-vein practically replaces it, and the de¬ 
ceptive appearance of Hampson’s figure is produced (Moths of India, 
I, 386). 
M. argentea Druce. (.Eupalia argentea D.) 
The upper limb of the discal fork is quite strong and distinct; the 
palpi are a little longer than normal, just exceeding the front, and the 
pectinations of antennae are not sharply marked off from the simple 
portion, the serrations running to apex. This is a generalized species 
in all these characters, possibly separable generically from Miresa (it 
would fall in Asteria Feld). 
M. argentata Walk. (Nyssia argentata Walk.) 
