rniEOMOLIS. PRUMALA. 



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1216. Phaeomolis obscurata. 



Heritos ohscurata, Bntl. 111. Het.. 

 Cat. Jlet. p. 198. 



B. M. i. p. 51, pi. 17. f. 6 (1877) ; KirbV: 



2 ' Head and thorax brown mixed with yellow ; palpi fuscous 



above ; abdomen orange, 

 dorsally tinged with crim- 

 son towards base. Eore 

 wing yellow, almost en- 

 tirely suffused with red- 

 brown; two dark points at 

 base; traces of a darker 

 antemedial band recurved 

 in cell, of a dark discoidal 

 spot, and of a postmedial 

 band, curved from costa to vein 3, their retracted to lower angle of 

 cell ; obscure dark marks on termen at vein 5 and tornns ; cilia 

 brown. Hind wing yellow tinged with crimson. 



J/ab. Amazons, Prainha (Trail), 1 $ type. E.rj). 36 millim. 



Fig. 12. — Fkcsomolis ohscurata, (S . \ 



Genus PRUMALA. 



Kucyrta, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 4 (1874), non descr 



Sym/phlehia, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 9 (1874), non descr 



rrumala, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soo. iv. p. 136 (1896) .... 



Type. 



albicoUis. 



lophocampoidcs. 



Jamaicensis. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, reaching just above vertex of 

 head, the 3rd joint moderately developed ; tibise with the spurs short; ab- 

 domen dorsally clothed with rough hair towards base. Fore wing with vein 3 

 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9,. 

 10 stalked, 7 from 8 before 10; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 

 from angle of cell ; 4 absent ; 6, 7 stalked. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate; hind wing with vein 8 shortlv stalked 

 with 6, 7. 



A. Fore wing with two black streaks below costa and a 



series on veins of terminal area 



B. Fore wing without black streaks. 



a. Fore wing orange-yellow. 



a^. Fore wing with the postmedial band arising 

 from apex, the markings edged with scarlet ... 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial band arising 

 from well before apex, the markings not 

 edged with scarlet 



b. Fore wing red-brown 



arylUs. 



lophocampoidef^^ 



maculicincta. 

 jamaicensis. 



*1217. Pmmala aryllis. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 10.) 



Symjphlehia aryllis, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 136 (1896). 



$ . Orange ; palpi above, antennae, and inner side of fore legs 

 blackish. Fore wing with pale yellow subcostal fascia from near 

 base to beyond middle, with fine black streaks on each side of sub- 

 costal nervure, the one above it not nearly reaching base, a short 

 streak below base of median nervure ; a yellow fascia above vein 1 

 from near base to middle, with a fine black streak above the vein 



