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PHLEBODES. Bv Dr. M. Draudt. 



purgis. 



riians 



E. cocoa Kaye is larger than the preceding, brownish-black, the basal half of the costal margin scaled 

 golden; postdiscally there are 3 j'ellowish hyaline spots, the lowest of which is the largest; in the continuation 

 there are 2 subapical dots. Hmdwing more intensely scaled greenish golden. Tlie forewing beneath is proxi- 

 mally blackish ; hind wing brownish, somewhat iridescent with an indistinct row of lighter postdiscal spots. 

 Expanse of wings: 34 mm. Trinidad. 



E. purgis Schs. Above iini-colom-ed dark brown, beneath the same. Hmdwing dark reddish-brown 

 with a small white patch at the cell-end and a similar one behind it below the lower median vein; before the 

 distal margin there is between the radial vems a large white spot and 2 smaller ones below it. Expanse of wings: 

 27 mm. Petropolis. 



E. ritans Schs. Wings dark brown; the scent-spot extends below the median to the upper median 

 vein. The under surface is liltewise dark brown, the hindwing dusted reddish with a small yellow postdiscal 

 spot near the apex and 2 others nearer to the anal angle. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Petropolis. 



138. Genus: Phlebodes Hb^i. 



Palpal terminal joint conical, very short; on the forewing the middle radial vein is strongly bent down 

 at the base. Hindwing at the anal angle somewhat prolonged. The scent-stripe extends from the rise of the 

 upper median vein to the middle of the submedian. 



tiherius. Ph. tlberius MscJilr. (= pertinax Wis. nee Cr.) (187 a). Above brown, the grey stigma is on both 



sides bordered with black; behind and below the cell of the forewing there are 4 spots in a bent row, the upper- 

 most is very small, or also enthely absent; besides there are 3 subapical dots, all of them ochreous-yellowish. 

 The under surface is lighter, the costal margin and apex of the forewing ochreous-yellow, the spots indistinct ; 

 the costal margin of the hmdwing is broad yellowish like a transverse row of spots behind the cell. Mexico to 

 Colombia and Guiana; Trinidad. 



■pertinax. Ph. pertinax Cr. (187 a, b). Above blackish-brown, with a white cellular spot, 2 postdiscal ones behind 



it and 2 subapical dots; besides a submedian yellowish patch. Hindwing anal wards with 2 or 3 lighter dots 

 near the distal margin. Beneath the apex of the forewing and the hindwmg shows a steel-blue reflection, with 

 fine j^ellowish veins and a postdiscal row of 5 small whitish dots. Surinam. 

 reticulata. Ph. reticulata Plotz (= melon Mab., suffenas Mob.) (187 a). Jet-black, costal margin of forewing as 



far as the cell-end, and the submedian space are light reddish-yellow ; an indented band extends from the apex 

 to the lower median vein, it is below gna^^■ed out and behind separated from the reddish-yellow colour by a 

 black streak. Hindwing black with a reddish-j'ellow, rounded discal spot separated by the vems. Beneath 

 the forewing is yellowish at the costal and distal margins, in the disc blackish, the oblique band only feebly 

 pronounced. Hind\^'ing dirty yellow, postdiscally darkened, in it a lighter band from the costal fold to the 

 inner-marginal fold, analwards more yellow. Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Teffe. 

 maiuia. Ph. matuta Plotz (187 b) is perhaps allied to reticulata (187 a) and differs by the orange band of 



the forewing being composed more of separate and smaller spots. The hindwing, however, is very much more 

 extensively orange, with fme black veins, and uniformly narrow black margins. Patria unknown. 

 vctula. Ph. vetula Mah. approximates pertinax Cr. (187 a, b). Blackish-brown, fringes grey. Beneath browner, 



disc of forewing blackish-brown, at the apex with yello\^' veins, at the proximal angle light. Hindwing blackish- 

 brown, with yellow veins. Brazil. 



voranus. Ph. voranus Mah. doubtfullj' belongs to this genus. Ferruginous black, the costal margin of the 



forewing as far as the cell-end reddish-yellow; at the apex begins a reddish-yellow band and expands to the 

 submedian, being divided by the veins into 6 dissimilar spots, proximally to it there is the black scent-stripe. 

 Hindwing ferruginous-brown with short reddish-j'ellow postdiscal spots. Beneath the forewing is light reddish 

 brown, in the middle and at the base blackish, the macular band lighter than above. Hindwing yellowish- 

 brown with a broad whitish-yellow band extending from the costal margin across the cell-end to the mner- 

 marginal fold. Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Colombia. 

 trehius. Ph. trebius Mab. Light brown with 3 small subapical dots and a white postdiscal spot behmd the 



cell; hmdwing with yellow hair. Forewing beneath brown, at the costal margin red-brown, the dots somewhat 

 larger and one more at the lower cell-end, the distal margm bemg lilac-grey. Hindwmg blackish, at the base 

 darker, towards the apex with 2 lighter quadrangular spots. Expanse of Aviugs: 27 mm. Bogota. 

 iheringii. Ph. ihcringii Mah. Above blackish or olive-brown, on the forewing with 3 white subapical hyaline 



clots and 2 small postdiscal spots. Fringes of the forewing brown, at the hindwing ochreous. Beneath the forewing 

 is blackish at the base, at the costal margin as far as the hyaline dots reddish, and below the discal spots lighter 

 yellowish. Base of hindwing blackish, in the marginal area yellowish or reddish-grey or also reddish -yellow, 

 alwaj'^s lighter. Expanse of wings: 27 to 28 mm. Rio Grande do Sul. 



mcngeli. Ph. mcngeli Weeks is doubtfully placed here. Above dark brown with 2 minute white subapical spots, 



a larger one behind the lower cell-end and below it 2 small ones next to each other. Stigma black. Hindwing 

 dark brown with 4 whitish, small indistinct spots towards the apex behmd the cell towards the anal angle. 

 Beneath somewhat lighter brown, near the anal airgle of the forewing dusted with whitish. Hindwing light 



