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976 PARPHORUS; VORATES; PHERAEUS; MOLO. By Dr. M. Draudt. 



M. carinna Schs. Wings dark brown with more reddish fringes. Forewing at the cell-end somewhat 

 darkened. Beneath the forewing is violettish-brown, the distal margin dusted with lilac, with a light brown 

 anal-angular spot; hindwing the same with a bent postdiscal row of small, lilac-white spots. Expanse of wings: 

 23 mm. Castro (Parana). 



M. iamaca Schs. is above dark brown, basally haired somewhat ochreous, with a small, semi-iliaphanoiis 

 postdiscal spot and 3 small subapical ones. Beneath lighter, only the cell and proximal margin of the forewing 

 darker, hindwing with a postdiscal row of small grey spots. Expanse of wings: 31 mm. Jamaica. 



M. coresceiie Schs. Dark brown with 3 subapical and 2 postdiscal small hyaline spots. Beneath 

 brown, forewing at the distal margin lilac, the broadest at the middle radial vein. Hindwing dusted with lilac 

 except the apex and a bent brown discal shade and some small antemarginal spots. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. 

 Castro (Parana). 



M. meiidica Mab. is above blackish-brown with a reddish lustre in the marginal area of the forewing, 

 the basal lialf is blackish as far as the cell-end, here bordered by an undulate line and indistinct yellowish clouds. 

 Hindwin" in the proximal part somewhat ferruginous-brownish. Beneath reddish-brown, the basal part of 

 the forewing blackish, the small yellowish clouds clearer than 7 small spots. Hindwing reddish-brown with a 

 bent demi-band through the disc. The y is darker, otherwise similar. Bolivia. 



154. Genus Parphoriis 6?. u. S. 



Distinguished from Megistias by its baie middle tibiae, more slender body and a thick stigma in the 

 (^, extending from the rise of the upper median vein to the submedian, filling up the angle of the base of the 

 lower median vein, and bordered by a striiDe of velvety-black scales. 

 sk>ra.i: P. storax Mab. (188 a). Blackish-brown, behind the stigma haired ochreous-yellow in the shape of 



3 small spots. Beneath lighter, at the costal margin and apex of the forewing, and on the hindwing with yellow 

 veins. Panama to Colombia, Venezuela and Guiana. Trinidad. 



155. Genus: Vorates G. & 8. 



Distinguished from the preceding genus by the different structure of the genitals and the scent-spot 

 of the 1^ consisting in a long scent-scale stripe on the middle of the median and a shorter longitudinal stripe. 

 decorus. V. decorus G. (fc S. (= tanaquilus Mschlr.'t, saturnus F.'!) (188 b). Blackish brown, with a darker 



stigma and 3 ochreous-yellow spots behind and below the cell, and a minute subapical dot. Beneath the same, 

 but the inner-marginal spot is absent; costal margin, subcostal and radial veins a well as the hindwing veined 

 yellow. Mexico to Brazil. 

 fjodmaiii. V. godmani sp. n.ov. entirely resembles the preceding, but the stigma is larger, and shaped as in 



Phlebodes liberius (187a). South America? 

 sapahi. V. sapala G. tfc S. (188 b) is likewise very closely allied, but the stigma is longer and below its upper 



part there is an oblong hyaline spot. Hindwing above moi'e olive ochreous. Beneath as decorus. Panama. 

 aiiristrif/a. V. aufistriga sp. nov. (188 b) is very well distinguished by the very long, narrow, orange stripe 



below the median with a continuation behind the upper median vein and a sagittiform subapical spot. Hind- 

 wing in the disc, as well as the forewing at the costal margin and submedianly with a somewhat ferruginous 

 reflection. Beneath like decorus, but with bright orange veins. Described according to 1 o from the Songo 

 (Bolivia) from the Coll. Fassl. 

 cotiso. V. cotiso Schs. (189 i). Above dark brown, costal margin as far as the middle olive, striped the same 



above and below the inner-marginal vein; below the median between the veins striped yellow, a small spot 

 distally above it, with a yellow subcostal dot. Disc of hindwing of a bright brown. Beneath as above, but the 

 veins in the marginal area striped yellow, on the hindwing in their whole length. Costa Rica (San Mateo). 



156. Genus: Pheraeiis G. u. S. 



Antennae somewhat longer than in the preceding genera, with a long and fine apex of the club. The 

 (J stigma is angular, thick, situate between the middle part of the median and the rise of the lower median vein. 

 Only one species: 

 epid:u(s\ Ph. epidius M<ib. (188 b) is very well distinguished bj- a long, yellow submedian stripe of the forewing; 



the hindwing is almost entirely reddish-yellow, with a darker margin. Hindwing beneath in the basal two 

 thirds yellow like the body beneath. Nicaragua, Panama. 



157. Genus: Molo G. d.' S. 



Apex of forewing more prolonged than in the affinities. Middle tibiae covered with few short spines. 

 The cj has no scent-organ. 



