Pahl. !■:. I. 1'j:.'4. ZARIASPES: AELLA; PADRAUXA. By Dr. .M. Dkaidt. 945 



A. gagatina Mab. is more robust, smoky black, forewiiigs short and s()ua.t, liiiulwiugs rounded, sliort. f/iiiiailiui. 

 Disc of the forewing with a ferruginous-red reflection, fringes light brown. Beneath ferruginous bro\\'nish- 

 black, forewing with a row of faintly greyish spots lound the cell from the costal margin to the \ipper median 

 vein. Hindwing with a bent ferruginous-red patch between the upper median vein and upper radial vein. Thorax 

 with a metallic gix-en I'eflec'tion. Ventrum l)rown, antennae short as in sandarac. Brazil. 



A. halomelas Mab. has no stigma, and may therefore not belong hereto. Hindwing longer than in hiih,„i(li,s 

 mitdaritr. of a deej)er black colour, tlistal half of forewing ferruginous-brown, veins black; 3 niinute, yellowish 

 subapical dots are only to be seen with the lens, the two lower ones being transparent. Forewing beneath from 

 the base to the cell black, hindwing with a blacker shade in the middle. Body black, without a metallic lustre, 

 but with a slight bottle-green reflection; the two last abdominal lings are beneath yellow. Antennae ^ '4 longer 

 than in sdmlamc. Fringes black. From Pebas. 



106. Genus; Zariaspes G. ((■ .S'. 



Antennae siiorter than half the c(jstal margin. Palpi thickly scaled. Last joint conical, short, erect. 

 Apex of forewing pointed. Posterior tibiae with only one pair of >pnrs. The 3 has no scent-scale stripe on the 

 forewing. 



Z. simplex Fldr. (lS3d) is a very small species resembling Aucyloxvpha areiie {180c). Above uni- .sinitih-.r. 

 (■oloured pale leddish-yellow with a very fine black marginal line. Beneath the apex of the forewing is lighter 

 yellow, the proximal margin black almost as fai' as the anal angle, and the hindwing is strewn with a greenish 

 yellow exce])t the reddish-yellow inner-marginal part. From Mexico. 



Z. mys H/j)i,. (= dukohnn Blake, epictetus SU/r. nee F.) (183 d). Abovi' bright yellow bordered with '".'/•'-■. 

 black, with an oblique, black longitudinal stiipe being somewhat indented below the eell-end, or entirely inter- 

 rupted. Tile V i'"^ black with a yellow oblique stripe of the forewing and a discal spot of the hindwing. Beneath 

 yellow, forewing at the proximal margin and anal angle black. Mexico to Paraguay. 



Z, mythecus G. d-. S. (183 d) is larger than ?«2/'5- Lustrous ochreous-yellow ; costa of foi'ewing towards nii/lhrni.-t. 

 the apex, distal margin and proxinuil margin as well as a narrow discocellular line blackish-brown like the costal 

 margin of the hindwing. Beneath ochreous-yellow with a blackish-brown basal spot. The $ has also the hind- 

 wings bordered with blackish brown, and on the forewing an interrupted longitudinal band from the base through 

 the cell, and a triangular spot behind it blackish-brown. Mexico (Guerrero). 



Z. portensis Mnb. is doubtfully placed to this genus. Above reddish-yellow, forewing with a narrow jmr/riisis. 

 black border, at the proximal angle widened; veins black, at the cell-end widened into a black triangle. Border 

 of hindwing black, at the costal angle veiy broad, from where a tooth extends to the cell-end, at the distal margin 

 narrow, at the anal angle prolonged into 2 points: the basal par) is somewhat brownisli. Beneath \-cllow. base 

 of forewing Idackish with a dull l^lacliish border. Ex))anse of wings: 2S nini. Poito Rico. 



107. Genus: Aella Mub.' 



Antennae as in the preceding genus. Terminal joint of the palp slender, long aiul obliquely erect. On 

 the forewing the median is inflated in its basal third as wx'll as the first cj[uarter of the lower median vein. Tarsi 

 long and slender, the stout j^osterior tibiae with but one pair of sjjurs. Only one species: 



A. dryops Mab. Small; forewing bright yellow w4th a black border being expanded at the apex, and dijinps. 

 a black longitudinal band being narrowed in the middle, Avidening towards the apex in a quadrangular spot 

 with extended angles, touching the costal margin. Hindwing yellow, ruimarked, only at the base somewhat 

 blackish. Beneath yellow-, strewn with whitish. Fiom Brazil and Venezuela. 



108, Genus : Pailraoiia Mr. 



Antennal club rather huig with a short apex: palpal terminal joint short, slender, erect. On the forewing 

 the middle radial vein is curved at the base, very much nearing the lowei' radial. Hindwing near the anal angle 

 somewhat indented. Posterior tibiae with 2 pair of spurs. This genus containing mo.-^t ly Indo-.Vustralian represen- 

 tatives has also some American species. 



P. epictetus i^. (=ferrago Plolz, eudesmia Plotz) (183e) looks somewhat like Zr^r/rf.i^K'.s- //*//•«. Above lustrous ( pivtHnK. 

 reddish-yellow, broadly bordered with black with a broad, blaoJ<: longitudinal stripe of the forewing, being mostly 

 somewhat indented behind the cell-end beneath; the costal margin renuiins yellow. Beneath the forewing is 

 at the co.sta and apex and tlie whole hindwing feebly dusted with cinnamon-colovn ; the hindwing lias nu)stly 

 lighter yellow veins and a black longitudinal stripe along the inner-marginal fold. \\'idcly dis(ril)uted from 

 Mexico through South America. 



P. tryhana Kaye is very similar; bright golden yellow with a broad black distal margin and longitu<linal iri/haiKi. 

 stripe projecting towards the margin on the lower median vein and between the upper radial veins. Hindwing 

 more extensively yellow, beneath quite uni-coloined yellow. Expanse of wings: 3-1 nun. Trinidad. 



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