CATIA; OCHLODES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 



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margin haired golden brown. Beneath tan-coloured, basally black, at the proximal margin drab. Hindwing 

 almost golden orange, towards the proximal margin darker, with a dark brown marginal line. Expanse of wings: 

 28 mm. Venezuela (Suapure). 



P. lina Plotz (181 d) is a very dark species; in the ^ scarcely lighter spots project on the forewing, 

 the fringes are contrasting reddish-yellow; the $ is more distinctly spotted reddish-yellow, the hindwing also 

 exhibits a rufous postdiscal spot into which a black longitudinal ray extends from the cell. Hindwing beneath 

 yellow with oblong black marginal and cliscal spots. Colombia. 



Vina. 



82. Genus: Catia G. & S. 



Antennae half as long as the costal margin, club stout and short with a pointed, slender, bent apex; 

 palpal terminal joint stout, conical, upturned. Veins as in Thymelicus. The (J scent-scale spot consists of 4 

 parts : an oval velvety spot on the median between and often yet behind the rise of the median veins, on the 

 base of the submedian a small roundish spot, between both there is a broad, grey scale-stripe, and finally another 

 larger spot of modified scales. Middle and posterior scales stronglj' spined. 



C. druryi Latr. {= pustula Hbn., otho Bsd., egeremet Scddr., aetna Scddr., ursa Worth) (181 e) is druryi. 

 very similar to Thymelicus athenion (181 c), blackish-brown with a black stigma; on the forewing the costal 

 margin, sometimes the cell, a discal spot behind the cell, and 3 subapical dots reddish-yellow ; also the hindwing 

 often exhibits extinct discal spots. Beneath reddish-yellow, in the proximal half blackish-brown with 2 or 

 3 postcellular spots; hindwing with a row of light yellow dots near the distal margin. Eastern States, Georgia, 

 ]Mexico to Brazil. — The green larva with its brown head lives on Sisyrinchium and changes into a green pupa. 



C. ophites Mob. is larger than druryi. Forewing orange, at the apex and distal margin black with ophites. 

 an oblong-quadrangular inner-angular spot as far as the stigma which extends in a black oblique band to the 

 base; from the cell-end a black stripe extends to the margin. Hindwing the same, at the costal margin darkened, 

 as well as at the anal angle. Beneath reddish-yellow, the base of the forewing and spot of the proximal angle 

 are black, the proximal margin itself whitish. The ? is similar, more broadly bordered with black, beneath 

 redder. Brazil, Antilles. 



C. pudorina Plotz (= minaya ^S'cAs.) (181 e) is closelj^ allied. Wings dark brown, fringes grey ; forewing pudorina. 

 with an indistinct, very small, light spot behind the lower cell-angle, reddish-brown scales at the base of the 

 costal margin and an olive-haired proximal margin; the hindwings are haired the same. Beneath the forewing 

 is blackish with a grey proximal margin and a red-brown costal margin and apex ; beside the small spot of the 

 upper sm-f ace there is below it another one ; hindwing reddish-brown with a dark discal shade and a light cellular 

 spot before it; before the distal margin a lighter shade. Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Tijuca. 



C. jobrea Dyar (181 e, f) is above bronze-black; two thirds of the costal margin are broadly reddish- johrea. 

 yellow, as well as 3 small subapical spots; postdiscal spots as in pudorina, but more distinct. Hindwing in the 

 disc lighter, reddish-yellow, with traces of 2 or 3 small spots behind it. Beneath the forewing is reddish-yellow 

 above the blackish proximal margin; spots as above; hindwing yellow, dusted with reddish-yellow, with a 

 faint, light postdiscal band. In the $ the reddish-yellow costal margin is absent. Mexico (Guerrero). The 

 species was recently declared to be synonymous with otho = druryi by the author himself ! 



C. misera Luc. (= mago H.-Schaff.) (181 e) is larger, in the (J much darker, the light spots scarcely misera. 

 visible, the costal margin dark; the 9 with very small yellow postdiscal spots. Beneath likewise unicoloured 

 dark, only the proximal margin of the forewing somewhat lighter, grey, and the costal margin somewhat ferru- 

 ginous-yellow. From Cuba. 



C. gemma Plotz (= ravola G. & S.) (181 f). Above very bright reddish-yellow with a black apex gemma. 

 and distal margin and a black, postdiscal longitudinal stripe. Behind the stigma a large, grey scent-scale area. 

 Beneath almost uni-coloured reddish-yellow. Antilles, Dominica. 



C. vesuria Plotz (181 f) is perhaps a somewhat smaller darker local form of the preceding from resuria. 

 Jamaica; the distal margin is broader black, especially the hindwing is so broadlj^ bordered with black that 

 only a triangular, reddish-yellow discal spot remains. Beneath the hindwing is somewhat dusted olive-greenish 

 from which a lighter yellow postdiscal band projects. 



83. Genus: Oclilodes Scddr. 



Almost like Hylephila: the antennal club is somewhat longer; the cJ scent-scale spot consists of a linear 

 stigma, on both sides is an area of differentiated scales. 



0. nemorum £sd. (= yreka Edw.) (181 f) is above reddish-yellow with a jet-black stigma and a black nemorum. 

 distal margin into which the light veins extend somewhat, and a dark postcellular spot. Beneath very much 

 duller and lighter, in the inner-marginal part of the forewing black with a large light spot. Hmdwing strewn 

 with yellowish-grey, with an indistinct light postdiscal band. California. 



