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PARPHORUS; VORATES: PHERAEUS; MOLO. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 



jamaca. 



core-scene. 



niendica. 



M. carinna Sclis. Wings dark brown with more reddish fringes. Forewing at the cell-end somewhat 

 darkened. Beneath the fore^ving is violettish-brown, the distal margin dusted with lilac, with a light brown 

 anal-angular spot; hindwing the same with a bent postdiscal row of small, lilac-white spots. Expanse of wings: 

 23 mm. Castro (Parana). 



M. jamaca Schs. is above dark brown, basally haired somewhat ochreous, with a small, semi-diaphanous 

 postdiscal spot and 3 small subapical ones. Beneath lighter, only the cell and proximal margin of the forewing 

 darker, hindwing with a postdiscal row of small grey spots. Expanse of wings: 31 mm. Jamaica. 



M. corescene Schs. Dark brown with 3 subapical and 2 postdiscal small hyaline spots. Beneath 

 brown, forewing at the distal margin lilac, the broadest at the middle radial vein. Hiiadwing dusted with lilac 

 except the apex and a bent bro^vn discal shade and some small antemarginal spots. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. 

 Castro (Parana). 



M. mendica Mob. is above blackish-brown with a reddish lustre in the marginal area of the forewing, 

 the basal half is blackish as far as the cell-end, here bordered by an undulate line and indistinct yellowish clouds. 

 Hindwing in the proximal part somewhat ferruginous-brownish. Beneath reddish-brown, the basal part of 

 the forewiiag blackish, the small yellowish clouds clearer than 7 small spots. Hindwing reddish-brown with a 

 bent demi-band through the disc. The $ is darker, otherwise similar. Bolivia. 



stora.x. 



154. Genus: Parphorus G. u. S. 



Distinguished from Megistias by its bare middle tibiae, more slender body and a thick stigma in the 

 cJ, extending from the rise of the upper median vein to the submedian, filling ap the angle of the base of the 

 lower median vein, and bordered by a stripe of velvety-black scales. 



P. storax Mob. (188 a). Blackish-brown, behind the stigma haired ochreous-yellow in the shape of 

 3 small spots. Beneath lighter, at the costal margin and apex of the forewing, and on the hindwing with yellow 

 veins. Panama to Colombia, Venezuela and Guiana. Trinidad. 



155. Genus: Vorates G. ds S. 



Distinguished from the preceding genus by the different structure of the genitals and the scent-spot 

 of the (J consisting in a long scent-scale stripe on the middle of the median and a shorter longitudinal stripe. 

 decorus. V. decorus G. <fc S. (= tanaquilus Mschlr.^., sat\u'nus F.^.) (188b). Blackish brown, with a darker 



stigma and 3 ochreous-yellow spots behind and below the cell, and a minute subapical dot. Beneath the same, 

 but the inner-marginal spot is absent ; costal margin, subcostal and radial veins a well as the hindwing veined 

 yellow. Mexico to Brazil. 

 .godm2>u. V. goditianl sp. nov. eutnely resembles the preceding, but the stigma is larger, and shaped as in 



Phlebodes tiberius (187a). South America? 

 sapala. V. sapala G. & 8. (188 b) is likewise very closely allied, but the stigma is longer and below its upper 



part there is an oblong hyaline spot. Hindwing above more olive ochreous. Beneath as decorus. Panama. 

 auristriga. V. auristriga sp. nov. (188 b) is very well distinguished by the very long, narrow, orange stripe 



below the median with a continuation behind the upper median vein and a sagittiform subapical spot. Hind- 

 wing in the disc, as well as the forewing at the costal margin and submedianly with a somewhat ferruginous 

 reflection. Beneath like decorus, but with bright orange veins. Described according to 1 q from the Songo 

 (Bolivia) from the Coll. Fassl. 

 cotlso. V. cotiso Sells. (189 i). Above dark brown, costal margin as far as the middle olive, striped the same 



above and below the inner- marginal vein; below the median between the veins striped j'ellow, a small spot 

 distally above it, with a yellow subcostal dot. Disc of hindwing of a bright brown. Beneath as above, but the 

 veins in the marginal area striped yellow, on the hindwing in their whole length. Costa Rica (San Mateo). 



epidhw. 



156. Genus: I*heraeus G. 



u. S. 



Antennae somewhat longer than in the precedhig genera, Mdth a long and fine apex of the club. The 

 (J stigma is angular, thick, situate between the middle part of the median and the rise of the lower median vein. 

 Only one species: 



Ph. epidius Mab. (188 b) is very well distinguished by a long, yellow submedian stripe of the forewing ; 

 the hindwing is almost entirelj^ reddish-yellow, with a darker margin. Hindwing beneath in the basal two 

 thirds yellow lilie the body beneath. Nicaragua, Panama. 



157. Genus: Molo G. & 8. 



Apex of forewing more prolonged than in the affinities. Middle tibiae covered with few short spines. 

 The (J has no scent-organ. 



