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hiiidwing are dusted with a deep cerise colour, tlic silvery wliite band is bioad. ])roxinially somewhat dentate 

 and extends farther towards the black proximal margin. Guatemala to Colombia and Brazil. 



P. pauper Mab. (183 i, k) is above similar, but the .^ is without the stigma, and the band on the hind- i„nii,rr. 

 wing beneath is white not silvery, at both its ends reduced to spots: the hyaline cellular spot of the forewing 

 is small: the midulate, interrupted band beneath separates it also from nrm to which it is otherwise allied. 

 Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala to Colonibia. 



P. heterospila M'lh. is allied to the preceding. Forewing with a bciit band of yellow hyaline spots: luln-nspil,,. 

 3 subapical ones. 2 small ones below them and 2 larger ciuadrangular ones below them, the lowest being more 

 yellow. Hindwing unspotted. Beneath in the disc black, at the costal margin and apex reddish-brown. The 

 hindwing is yellowish red-brown with 3 white black-margined clots, one being situate at the costal margin 

 more remote from the others: in the cell of the forewing there is near the costal margin a small dark dot. From 

 Peru. 



P. luctuosa H.-S(injjj. (1,S3 k) is much large)', the eelhilai' spot reduei-d to a small dot. the other .spots i,i<lii<,s,i. 

 yellowish, the middle postdiscal spot distallj- deeply hollowed out. Body and base of wings haired brown. 

 Beneath similar as evndne.s, strewn with a dark red-brown, the white band proximally verj' convex, near the 

 anal angle the dark gro^md-colour extends far into it. Brazil. 



P. grapte Die. (183 k) is very closely allied to Inciuosa and also to pavper. In the cell-end of the i/niplr. 

 forewing there is a small, oblong spot beside the usual spots. Fringes light brownish-white, base of wings and 

 body ochreous. Beneath somewhat lighter, the spots as above, only the submedian spot larger and more blurred. 

 The hindwing exliibits a small, round, white spot in the cell; and behind it a white, bluish reflecting band, 

 pioximally sharply defined and convex, distally blurred; it begins pointed at the costal margin ancl grows 

 nnich l)roader towards the jiroximal margin. The distal margin is br(iwnish-gre\' with brown veins. From 

 Peru. 



P. philippina H.-Schafi. (183 k) is smaller, above with an intense green reflection on the body aiid ,,liirn,ii',,i(i. 

 base of the wings; the cellular spot of the forewing is entirely absent, the spots otherwise as in new. Beneath 

 the hindA\ing is cpiite uni-eoloiu-ed dark brown without a band. Panama (Chiriqui).^ 



P. ares Fldr. (=- coscinia H .-Schafj.) (183 k) resembles pMlipplnn above, but it is less green, with (ir(.-<. 

 a doul:)le cellular spot of the forewing. Beneath the hindwing is lilac-grey w itli a broad brown discal and marginal 

 liand and a round costal-marginal spot near the base. Mexico to Brazil and the West Indies. 



P. Cornelius Latr. (= ocola Edw., heceliolus Scddr., ortygia Mschlr., parilis Mab.) (184 a) is still smaller. (■onirliii>'. 

 more insignificant, without any green, without a cellular spot, all the spots smaller; hindwing beneath with a 

 rather indistinct band of \\hitish, small punctiform spots. From the South Eastern States through ]\Iexic(i 

 in almost the whole of South America as far as Peru; also in Trinidad. 



P. diduca ScJis. is a very small species, above dark broMn, the ends of the fiinges lilac-grey. The didnni. 

 forewing exliibits only a minute yellowish subapical spot. Beneath lighter brown, on the forewing the apex 

 is tinted lilac like the whole hindwing, on which there is a very small yellowish spot near the cell-end, behind 

 it a bent row of similar small spots, the lowest being the largest. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Petropolis, 



P. panoquin Scddr. (- wimico Plotz, ophis Edir.) (184 a) very much I'cscmbles corneUus, from which iimioiiiiiit. 

 it chiefly differs above and beneath by somewhat moie olive-greenish scaling, as well as an oblong white wedge- 

 shaped spot on the hind\\ing beneath between the radial veins; there is often another smaller one below the 

 median veins; the veins are somewhat lightei' than the gromid. Southern Atlantic States. 



P. panoquinoides Skinn. is beneath very much like panoquin and resembles it also above, but it is 

 here less and more indistinctly marked. It forms the transition from panoquin to Sfoinyles fusca and is smaller 

 and darker than the former, but larger and lightei' than fu.scii. From Key West in Florida and Texas. 



P. errans Skinn. Above exactly the counterpart of ocoln. beneath very much like panoquin and pano- cn-n. 

 quinoides. Above dark brown, forewing with 2 small, yellow spots. Hindwing beneath with 3 spots, the first 

 in the 3rd subcostal area, the 2nd in the 4th, the 3rd in the first median area. Expanse \^., inch. California 

 and Texas. — Larva green, the head marked black, with green feet, on herbs. Found in Sa. Barbaia. 



P. vala Mab. (= actor J/a?v., dania F/d/2?) (184 a). Above blackish-brown with a yelhiwish reflection ; rahi 

 forewing with a small apical dot, 2 small postdiscal s]5ots and a very small cellular diffuse spot. Fringes yello- 

 wish. Beneath lighter brown, forewing liglitcr whitish towards the anal angle, hindwing with a short, bent, 

 whitish discal band formed of dis]iersed scales. Ex]>anse of wings; 2(i mm. ^Mexico. Guatemala. Panama (Cliiri- 

 cpii), Brazil. 



P. valo Mab. is described according to but one i. for which reason its position is doubtful. Olive- rnlo. 

 brown; forewing with 3 hardly visible subajiical dots and two whitish spots behind the lower cell-angle; fringes 

 dirty grey. Forewing beneath lustrous grey, at the costal margin ashy-grey with an oblong-quadrangular, ash- 

 coloured, submedian lighter part, Hindwing more brownish grey with a short, lighter postdiscal band of 3 

 indistinct spots. Expanse of wings; 32 mm. Bogota. 



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