Metria permixta

Distribution:South & Central America; Antilles.
Type locality: Costa Rica.
E. Caribbean records: Guadeloupe; Martinique; Grenadines.
Grenadines records: Union (Daudin, July & Nov. 1997); Bequia, Battowia, Mustique, Canouan, Mayero, Union, Palm, Frigate, Petite Martinique (E.U. Exp., No 56).
Method of identification: adult & genitalia illustrated in colour on website on French Antilles Lepidoptera by Zagatti, Lalanne-Cassou & Le Duchat d'Aubigny. Illustrated in colour by Hampson (1913b) pl. 227, fig. 10.
Notes: misidentified by the Exeter University Expedition as ' Zale exhausta'.

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