LEREMA. By Dr. M. Dkaudt. 



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brown, with lighter veins, the light spots connected more like a band : in the disc before them there are traces 

 of a similar band. Expanse of wings: 1,1 inch, Venezuela (Suapure). 



Ph. metonidia Schs. Above dark brown, basal half of costal margin of the forewing ochreous-yellow ; metonidia. 

 a postdiscal row of bright j^ellow spots, those between the radial veins being very small, below the cell proxi- 

 mally bent and bordering distally on the stigma. Hindwing with greenish ochreous hair, with a postdiscal 

 row of ochreons-yellow, small spots. Beneath the base and proximal margin of the forewing is blackish, the 

 costa and apex dark ochreous-yellow, spots as above, but darker. Hindwing ochreous-yellow, i^'ith yellow 

 veins, the small postdiscal spots very indistinct. Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Brazil (Tijuca). 



Ph. fartuga Schs. is above dark brown with reddish yellow fringes. Forewing with bright yellow spots farimja. 

 behind the cell and submedian, the latter and the two upper ones very small, that between the median veins 

 large. Hindwing without markings, with ochreous-brown haii'. Beneath the colour is violettish-bro"wn, the 

 veins ochreoiis-yellow ; fore\^'ing in the disc and at the proximal margin blackish, the submedian spot is absent. 

 Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Novo Friburgo. 



Ph. gulala Schs. Above dark brown with grey fringes; forewing at the costal margin above the cell f/nlala. 

 with yellow hair; behind the stigma there is a yellow diffuse spot; between the median veins and above them 

 there is one distally concave Iiyaline spot each. Hindwing haired olive, with a yellowish-patch behind the lower 

 cell-angle. Beneath olive-brown, proximal margin of forewing blackish, with a whitish submedian spot ; hindwing 

 with 2 small yellow spots below and behind the cell. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. Brazil (Tijuca). 



Ph. chittara Schs. is much smaller, other\A'ise above similar; the "yellow hairing of the costal margin cMHara. 

 is absent; the 2 postdiscal spots are whitish hj^aline, and a small round subapical spot. On the hindwing there 

 are 2 small, faint, yellow spots behind the cell. Beneath the costal margin and apex of the forewing are strewn 

 with a j^ellowish grey, hindwing entirely yellowish-grey with a small white spot at the lower cell-angle and 

 3 small round spots behind it, 2 analwards, one farther apically. Expanse of wings: 29 mm. Trinidad. 



Ph. unia Btlr. (187 b). Above dark brown with 3 small subapical and 3 larger postdiscal spots; hindwing unia. 

 with an ochreous-yellow wedge-shaped stripe bending round behind the cell towards the apex. Fringes at the 

 anal angle of the forewing, and the whole hindwing ochreous. Beneath the hindwing is yellow with small, indistinct , 

 brownish antemarginal spots, 2 larger, dark brown postcellular spots and 5 postdiscal white spots. Brazil. 



Ph. odilia Plotz (187 b) is very similar, above the same, beneath lighter, at the costal margin of odilia. 

 the forewing and apex red-brown and lighter grey; the hindwing is very light reddish sand-coloiu-ed, without 

 the white spots of the preceding. Brazil. 



139. Genus: liereiua Scddr. 



Antennae shorter than half the costal margin; club with a long reverted apex. Last joint of the palp 

 short, conical. On the forewing the middle radial is basally onlj- slightly bent. Middle tibiae spLned. The scent- 

 scale spot of the cJ consists of a thick, indented, interrupted stripe extending from tlie rise of the upper median 

 vein to the submedian. 



L. accius Abb. d- Smith. (= monoco Scddr., nortonii Edw., punctella Gi't. <£• Rob., ceiamina H.- 

 Schdff., pattenii Scddr., phocylides Plotz) (187 b). The upper sxirface is blackish-brown with 3 white, subapical 

 small spots and 3 somewhat larger, but more or less dark dusted or blurred postdiscal ones. Beneath the costal 

 margin of the forewing is ochreous, the apex and hindwing grej^ish brown with a slight lilac reflection, and a 

 postdiscal and an antemarginal band of dark spots; the uppermost proximal spot is removed far inMards, Some- 

 times the colour of the hindwing is also mixed a little with red-brown. North America to Brazil. — f. dido Plotz 

 is a form from Venezuela, beneath more variegated, tinted ferruginous-red. 



L. mooreana Dyar is similar to accius (187 b), but the $ has a white, not transparent spot above 

 the submedian, and a quadrangular one above it. Beneath tinted ochreous, disc of forewing black; on the 

 hindwing there are 5 small, light postdiscal spots in an oblique line, the uppermost being removed inwards. 

 Expanse of wings: 28 to 30 mm. British Guiana. It was bred from larvae on the sugar-plant. 



L. parumpunctata H.-Schdff. (187 c) is much larger, the c? only with minute subapical dots above and 

 one postdiscal dot at most. Beneath the hindwing is more variegated, in the costal-marginal half cerise, mixed 

 with feiruginous-brown and lilac, witha postdiscal band, the antemarginal band being absent. Venezuela, Brazil. 



L. leptosema Mab. Blackish-brown, fi-inges dark grey; the stigma is distally brightened up by j^ellow. iepto.se»ta. 

 Beneath more reddish, in the proximal half of the forewing blackish, in the middle yellowish-grey, the broadest 

 between the median veins. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. Rio Grande. 



L. lochius Plotz (= bipunctata Mab., asell-A H.-Schdff.) (187 c) vevy much resembles parumpunctata; lochius. 

 above only with 3 white subapical dots, fringes yellowish-grey. Beneath much daiker and less variegated, 

 without any red and ferruginous yellow tints, similarly coloured and marked as accius. Venezuela. 



L. peneia G. & S. (187 c) differs from accius by 2 small ochreous-yellow spots behind the stigma; pcneia. 

 the stigma itself is narrower. Panama. 



L. coyana Schs. (187 d). Dark brown, with a faint green reflection towards the base; stigma dark coyana. 

 grey; on the forewing with a small postdiscal and a minute subapical spot. Beneath reddish-brown, towards 



dido. 



mooreana. 



paruin- 

 puncfata. 



