LYCAS; ORPHE; DAMAS; ORSES. By Dr. M. Draijdt 991 



189. Genus: liycas G: & S. 



The antennae attain the length of the cell of the forewing; the club is long and slender. Cell of foremng 

 of ^/j of the length of the wing and pointed at the apex. Body strong, middle tibiae spined. The cj has no 

 scent-scales. 



L. argenteus Hew. (191 a). Blackish-brown, base of forewing and proximal half of hindwing haired anjenteus. 

 ochreous-brown; in the disc there are 3 yellow hyaline spots in an oblique row, one of which is submedian; 

 in the cell there is a distally concave spot, subapically 3 dots. On the hindwing the apical half of the 

 costal margin and a submarginal spot are ochreous-yellow. Beneath the same, apex of forewing grey, anal 

 angle spotted whitish. Hindwing silvery with a chestnut-brown band from the middle of the costal margin 

 to the anal angle, being narrower or interrupted at the cell-end; distal margin red-brown. Fringes of hindwing 

 dotted ochreous-brown. Mexico to Brazil. 



L. godarti Latr. (= ceraca Hew.) (191 a) is similar, the basal half of the costal margin ferruginous- godarii. 

 brown. Beneath in the basal third of the forewing blackish-brown, apex and costal margin more reddish, in 

 the middle of the costal margin there is a yelloAv spot. Hindwing chestnut-red, at the distal margin lighter 

 with 2 oblique silvery bands. Panama, Guiana, Brazil. 



190. Genus : Orplie G. cfe- S. 



The long antennae reach to the cell-end, club slender; terminal joint of the palp short and hidden. 

 Middle tibiae not spined. The (J scent-stripe extends obliquely from the rise of the lower median vein to the 

 inner-marginal vein. 



0. gerasa Heiv. (= subcordatus Mob., milo Mob.) (191 a). Above black, scent-stripe silvery grey, gerasa. 

 fringes brownish ; forewing with a cellular spot and 4 postdiscal and 3 subapical small white spots. Beneath 

 duller blackish-brown, at the distal margin and anal angle of the forewing as well as at the margin and in the 

 disc of the hindwing tinted violet; before the margin of the hindwing with a black nebulous band beginning 

 broad at the costal margin and dying away towards the proximal margin. Colombia, Amazon. 



0. vatinius G. ds 8. entu-ely resembles the preceding except the stigma showing a very distinctly vatinius. 

 undulate upper surface, whereas in gerasa it is smooth, only at the lower edge with a ridge-like elevation. Guiana, 

 Amazon, Peru. 



0. porius Mab. It was impossible to find a description for this name. porws. 



191. Genus: I>anias G. ds 8. 



Antennae and palpi as in the preceding genera. Hindwing at the anal angle somewhat prolonged and 

 before it slightly concave. Body robust, femora very hairy and middle tibiae spined. The ^ stigma consists 

 of a triangular part in the angle where the lower median vein rises and a longitudinal stripe below it. 



D. clavus Erichs. (= ampyx Mab., corope H.-8chaff., angulis Plotz, cervus Mschlr.) (191 h). Blackish- davus. 

 brown, with a grey stigma, an oblong, yellow-hyaline cellular spot, 3 postdiscal and 3 subapical ones, which 

 may also be absent. Beneath the apical half of the forewing, and the hindwings are tinted violet. Panama 

 to the Amazon. 



192. Genus: Orses G. <k 8. 



Distinguished by very long antennae of more than ^/g the length of the costal margin, with a long, 

 slender club and a long reverted apex. Forewing with a slightly convex costa ; in the (J the iipper median vein 

 rises far before the lower cell-end, in the $ close at it, the submedian is in the cj somewhat angular. Hindwing 

 analwards prolonged. Middle tibiae without spines; in the (J a scent-scale stripe extends obliquely from the 

 rise of the upper median vein to the lower. 



0. cynisca 8nsn. (= catina Hew., poyas Beak.) (190f) is a very easily recognizable species. Above cynisca. 

 black, in the cJ with 3 yellow discal spots situate close together, in the $ with a white oblique band; frmges 

 and margin of the hindwing apically broad white, in the cj more yellowish-white. Beneath the same, but the 

 discal spots are prolonged yellow as far as the costal margin. Distributed from Mexico to Colombia and Brazil. 



0. iricolor G. cfc 8. (191 b) is above similar, but on the body and base of the wings haired bluish- iricolor. 

 green, particularly on the proximal margin of the hindwing. The under surface is quite different : on the hind- 

 wing with 2 oblique, parallel, sulphur-yellow bands from the apex to the distal margin and from the basal thuxl 

 of the costal margin to the anal angle; the hindwing is rather long extended. Venezuela. 



0. itea 8n.sn. (190 f, g) above entirely resembles cynisca (190 f), but the very large, in the (J yeUoM", Hea. 

 in the $ white discal spots are of a rounder shape. Beneath very easily recognized bj- the light grey, black- 

 veined wings, the hindwing showing 2 light yellow bands at the apical distal margin and from the base of the 

 costal margin to the anal angle. BrazU. 



