408 NOVITATKS ZOOLOOICAE XXV. 1918. 



5. flavicapilla Hb., Samml. Exot. Schnutl. ii. [tab. 393. ed. Kirby] (1820-26) 

 {Atolmis) (Surinam ?). 



= pyraloides Walk., List Lep. Ins. ii. 525 (1854) (Amazons). 

 = unijormis Moschl., Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. 657. tab. 9. fig. 25 

 (1877) (Brachyghne) (Surinam). 

 Venezuela to French Guiana. 



6. discolor Warr., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxi. 412 (1906) (Brazil). 



7. nervosa leucophleps Warr., Nov. Zool. xvi. 74 (1909) (Costa Rica). 



7a. nervosa nervosa Schaus, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Sac. iv. 154 (1896) 

 (Venezuela) . 



Also from Colombia, the Amazons, etc. 



7b. nervosa intermedia Warr., Nov. Zool. xvi. 73 (1909) (Surinam). 



7c. nervosa nigrata Warr., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. 412 (1906) (French 

 Guiana). 



Also from Para. 



The races of this species are not at all sharply defined. 



8. vestigiata Prout, sp. nov.* (Ecuador). 



9. venata Butl., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878. p. 60 (Amazons). 

 S.E. Peru in coll. Joicey and Trhig Mus. 



10. longigntta Warr., Nov. Zool. xvi. 74 (1909) (Amazons). 



11. distingitenda Prout, sp. nov.f (Amazons). 



12. fulviceps fulviceps Feld., Reise Novara, Lep. Het. tab. 105. fig. 23 (1868) 

 (Cymopsis) (Amazons). 



= caresa Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1885. p. 535 [Pseudehessa) (Ecuador), 

 (ab.) quadripuncta Warr., Nov. Zool. xvi. 73 (1909) (Amazons). 

 12a. fulviceps ahstracta Prout, subsp. nov.f (British Guiana). 



13. fusciceps Warr., Nov. Zool. xvi. 73 (1909) (Amazons), 

 (ab.) obstrticta Warr., Nov. Zool. xvi. 73 (1909) (Amazons). 



Genu.s XIII. Tithraustes. 



Tiehraustes Druce, Biol. Centr. Amer., Lep. Het. i. 158 (1885) (type haemon Druce). 



Face slightly roughened or with slight conical tuft. Eye generally large 

 or moderate. Palpus scarcely roughened beneath. Antenna in <? and some- 

 times in ? pectinate. Pectus slightly hairy. Femora slightly rough-scaled. 

 Wings rather thinly scaled. 



Forewing with cell not quite one-half (in Sect. II and in chloris shortened), 



* Scotura vestigiata sp. now (J $, 32-34 mm. Similar to nervosa. Palpus less bright orange 

 (more mixed with drab). Ant?nnal ciliation of ^ rather longer. 



Forewing of cj with cell rather shorter, followed by a vague pale spot on upperside between 



the radials. Hindwing with abdominal margin more narrowly blackened. Sarayacu, Ecuador 



C. Buckley), 2 (J(J, 1 ?, in coll. Joicey. 



I Scotura distingiienda sp. nov. $, 35-30 mm. Larger than fulviceps, dark sepia rather 

 than black, 



Forewing with the pro.ximal white markings as in that species, the postdiscal white spot 



reaching R^, at least i^eneath (in fulviceps bounded anteriorly by R'). Hindwing with the white 



patch approaching the shape <»f that of longigutta ; beneath with abdominal margin whitish. Fonte 

 Boa, Upper Amazons, .\ugust 1907 (S. M. Klages). 2 $9 in Tring Mus. Jlay conceivably be a 

 remarkable ab. of longigutta, but there are no intergrades. 



+ Scotura fulviceps ahstracta subsp. nov. $. 



Forewiruj with both tlii" proximal white spots wanting. Hindwing with the white patch 



above blackened on the veins and in places dusted with blackish, much as in some examples of 

 nervosa nigrata Warr. Rio Demerara, British Guiana. Type in coll. Tring Mus. 



