398 



36. Discocellulars biangulate . 

 Discocellulars not biangulate 



NovrrATES Zoologica^e XXV. 1918. 



29. Scea 

 28. Josia 



Genus I. Phaeochlaena. 



PhaeoMaena Hb. {Zutr. i. 18. indescr.). Yen. bek. Schmett. p. 176 (1822 ?) (type tendinosa Hb., 



Butl. sel., Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. 1878. p. 62). 

 Campylona lloschl., Verh. zaol.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. 658 (1877) (type bicolor Moschl.). 

 Neolaiirona Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Land. 1893. p. 292 (type hazara Butl.). 

 Clastognatha (Feld., Reise Norara, Lep. Ha. tab. 104. fig. 8. Erkl. p. 3. indescr.) (type Integra Feld.). 



Face with appressed scales. Palpus longish. Antenna in S pectinate, in 

 ? shortly ciliate. Pectus scarcely hauy. Femora glabrous. 



Forewing with cell long, DC developed, DC*"'^ inbent or straightish, SC 



from cell, R' from before middle of DC, M' remote from R'. Hindwing with 



cell rather long, DC straightish or sinuous, C closely approximated to SC for 

 some distance, thence gradually diverging, R= central or from nearer R' than 

 Ri, M' remote from R'. 



On the larva (of gyon Fb.) see Mabilde, Guia Pralica, p. 229. tab. 24. f. 8 ; 

 Bastelberger, Ent. Zeit. Guben, xxii. 66. 



Sect. I. — Palpus over t\^ice as long as diameter of eye ; forewing with 

 DC variable, DC shallowly inangled, R= before middle but rarely extreme 

 {Phaeochlaena = Cavipylona). 



1. gyon gyon Fb., Mant. Ins. ii. 105 (1787) (Zygaena) (Cayenne). 

 = tendinosa Hb., Zutr. i. 18. f. 89-90 (1818) (Brazil [Para ?]). 



= 1 remota Walk., List Lep. Ins. vii. 1649 (1856) (Actea) (type lost) 

 (" W. Coast of America "). 



(ab. ?) obtecta Moschl., Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. 657. tab. 9. fig. 26 

 (1877) (Surinam).* 



(ab.) ochrophanes Prout, ab. nov.f (Brazil). 



Widely distributed, Mexico to Peru and N. Brazil. Outer spot of forewing 

 large, whitish ; discal bands generally broad. 



la. gyon lampra Prout, subsp. nov. % (S.E. Brazil). 



lb. gyon fucata Prout, subsp. nov.§ (Goyaz). 



2. amazonica Druce, A7in. Mag. Nat. Hiit. (7) iii. 294 (1899) (Amazons). 



3. 6ran?iea Warr., Nov. Zool. xi. 500 (1904) (Campylona) (praec. form.?) 

 (Venezuela). 



4. solilvcis Butl., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878. p. 62 (Amazons). 



(ab.) subintruta Warr., Nov. Zool. iv. 421 (1897) {Erilyces) (Amazons). 



* The figure, as usual, worse than xiseless, the description exact. 



t Phaeochlaena gyon ab. ochrophanes ab. nov. cj, 35 mra. All the yellow markings ampler, 

 th^ proximal patch with the dark streak behind cell very slender and abbreviated, the discal band 

 broad, ending in a large clear spot behind M-, patch on hindwing reaching SC^ anteriorly. 

 " Brazil " (.•Vmazons ?). Type in coll. Joicey, ex Staudinger. 



t Phaeochlaena gyon lampra, subsp. nov. (J ?, 28 — 34 mm. Forewing with subapical spot 

 above reduced, ochre-yellow (not whitish), discal band generally narrow, its costal spot bright 



ochre-yellow, sharply defined, generally rounded. Hindwing with band often narrowed. 



S. Brazd, Paraguay, and Argentina. Type S from Castro, Parana (E. D. Jones) in coll. Joicey. 



§ Phaeochlaena gyon fucata subsp. nov. (J, 27-33 mm. Forewing above with the light parts 

 more reddish, the subapical spot small (as in gyon lampra), almost white ; discal band generally 



enlarged. Hindwing above and both wings beneath with the ochre-yellow colour changed to 



orange, varying between clear orange and cadmium orange. Rio Uraguaya, Prov. Goyaz, Brazil, 

 June 1906, 23 (Jo, July 1906, 1 (J (G. A. Baer), all in coll. Tring Museum. 



