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hiiidwing are dusted with a deep cerise colour, the silvery white band is broad, proximally somewhat dentate 

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



P. pauper 3Iab. (183 i. k) is above similar, but the cJ is without the stigma, and the band on the hind- pauper. 

 wing beneath is white not silvery, at both its ends reduced to spots; the hj'aline cellular spot of the forewing 

 is small; the undulate, mterrupted band beneath separates it also from nero to which it is otherwise allied. 

 Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala to Colombia. 



P. heterospila 3Iab. is allied to the preceding. ForeAving with a bent band of yellow hyaline spots: heterospila. 

 3 subapical ones. 2 small ones below them and 2 larger quadrangular 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 dots, 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.-Schdff. (183 k) is much larger, the cellular spot reduced to a small dot, the other spots hwiuosa. 

 yellowish, the middle postdiscal spot distally deeplj^ hollowed out. Body and base of wings haired brown. 

 Beneath similar as evadnes, strewn with a dark red-brown, the white band proximally very convex, near the 

 anal angle the dark ground-colour extends far into it. Brazil. 



P. grapte Drc. (183 k) is verj^ closely allied to luctuosa and also to pcmper. In the cell-end of the gmpte. 

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

 proximally sharply defined and convex, distallj^ blurred; it begins pointed at the costal margin and grows 

 much broader towards the proximal margin. The distal margin is brownish-grey with brown veins. From 

 Peru. 



P. philippina H.-Schdff. (183 k) is smaller, above with an intense green reflection on the body and phUipphm. 

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

 the hindwing is quite uni-coloured dark brown without a band. Panama (Chiriqui). 



P. ares Fldr. (= coscinia H.-Schdff.) (183 k) resembles philipjmia above, but it is less green, with ares. 

 a double cellular spot of the forewing. Beneath the hindwing is lilac-grey with a broad brown discal and marginal 

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



P. Cornelius Latr. (= ocola Ediv., hecebolus Scddr., ortygia Mschlr., parilis Mah.) (184 a) is still smaller, comeJius. 

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

 rather indistinct band of whitish, small punctiform spots. From the South Eastern States through Mexico 

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



P. diduca Schs. is a very small species, above dark brown, the ends of the fringes lilac-grey. The diduca. 

 forewing exhibits 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 verj^ 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 Edw.) (184a) very much resembles Cornelius, from which panoquin. 

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

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

 median veins; the veins are somewhat lighter than the ground. Southern Atlantic States. 



P. panoquinoides Skinn. is beneath very much like panoqimi, and resembles it also above, biit it is panoqui- 

 here less and more indistinctly marked. It forms the transition from ■panoqidn to Stomyles fusca and is smaller Jiofdes. 

 and darker than the former, but larger and lighter than fusca. From Key West in Florida and Texas. 



P. errans Skinn. Above exactly the counterpart of ocola, beneath very much like panoquin and pano- errans. 

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

 in the 3rd subcostal area, the 2nd in the 4th, the 3rd in the first median area. Expanse 1^2 inch. California 

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



P. vala Mab. (= actor ilfrafe., dama P/dte?) (184 a). Above blackish-brown with a yellowish reflection : vala. 

 forewing with a small apical dot, 2 small postdiscal spots and a very small cellular diffuse spot. Fringes yello- 

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

 whitish discal band formed of dispersed scales. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Mexico, Guatemala. Panama (Chiri- 

 C£ui), Brazil. 



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

 brown ; forewing with 3 hardly visible subapical 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- 

 coloru'ed, submedian lighter part. Hindwing more brownish grey with a short, lighter postdiscal band of 3 

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



