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D. mantura Hew. (36 g) may be recognized by the broad band across the end of the cell of the forewing mantura. 

 to the distal margin. In this it recalls some Thyridia and Aprotopos. Bolivia. 



D. loreta Hsch. (36 g), from Ecuador, is a similar, larger species, without the band in the hindwing. loreia. 



D. xanthophane Hpffr., from Peru, has narrower, dark margins and vivid sulphur-yellow veins in the ^^^°' 

 disc of the hindwing, as well as a yellow base on the underside of the wing. 



D. dero Hhn. (= celtina Burm.) (36g(;J, $) is somewhat smaller, with short, yellowish club to the dero. 

 antenna. The band across the middle of the cell of the forewing is somewhat curved. In the $ the margins and 

 bands are broader. Southern Brazil to Paraguay and Argentina ; very common. — rhoeo Fldr. is an allied form rhoeo. 

 from northern Brazil, with ochre-yellow colour, also on the veins, particularly in the hindwing. 



D. hugia Schaus, from Bolivia, is said to have yellow-grey wings with brown veins and margins, which hugia. 

 are broadest at the end of the veins; with yellow spots at the end of the cell and the distal margin. 



D. honrathi Srka. (36 g) is a rare species from Chanchamayo in Peru, with delicate, blackish margins, honrathi. 

 without spot through the cell of the forewing; with larger, whitish dots at the apex of the hindwing. 



D. vandona Hsch. (37 a) recalls the similar species .of Ceratinia, Napeogenes, etc., by the red-brown vandona. 

 patch at the inner angle of the hindwing. The wings are otherwise colourless except for the yellowish base of 

 the hindwing; the dark distal margins sharply defined. It flies together with ab. immaculata Hsch., in which immaculata. 

 the red-brown patch at the inner angle is absent, in the eastern Andes of Ecuador at the upper Pastaza Eiver. 



D. lorica Weym., from Guiana, is a smaller, colourless species with narrow, brown margins, without lorica. 

 band across the end of the cell of the forewing. 



The beautiful D. varina Hew. (37 a), from the eastern Andes in Ecuador, is a very distinct, brightly varina. 

 coloured and rare species. The base of the forewing and the hindwing are delicate red-brown; the apex of the 

 forewing black; across the end of the cell a broad yellow macular band with 3 dark spots: all semitransparent. — 

 In ab. partita Hsch. the yellow oblique band is broken up into separate spots by a black band across the end of partita. 

 the cell. 



D. pulcheria Hew., from Ecuador, has the hindwing and the base of the forewing orange-coloured, pulcheria. 

 The greater part of the forewing is blackish with yellow spots in and below the cell. 



D. euteles Ersch., from Cayenne, is not known to me. euteles. 



D. lenea Cr. ($ = melanida Cr.) (37 a.,^, $), from the north-east of South America, has in the hindwing le^iea. 

 a peculiar, blackish longitudinal band, which is interrupted at the apex. Between this and the dark distal margin 

 the colour is red-brown, proximally yellow in the (^, reddish in the $. The forewing has a yellow oblique band; 

 the base is red-brown, apex and end of the cell are black. — elvira Weym. is a very similar form, in which the elvira. 

 black and the red-brown band completely surround the apex. 



D. methonella Weym. (37 a) has yellowish wings with black margins and half-.band across the end of methonella. 

 the cell of the forewing. Behind the end of the cell of the forewing and in the disc of the hindwing the veins are 

 partly yellow-brown. In the $ the margins are much broader and in the cell of the forewing there is a triangular 

 spot at the median. It flies in southern Brazil and Paraguay. — xantho Fldr., from Central Brazil, is a similar xantho. 

 form with yellow-brown spot in the cell of the forewing, yellow-brown veins in the hindwing and stronger yellow 

 dusting. Larva according to W. Mullee on Solanum; the body is cylindrical, without appendages, greenish, 

 the head very large. The pupa is short, at the ventral side strongly convex, transparent green, the greater part 

 with a golden gloss. — D. hulda Fldr., from Venezuela, is said to be similar to xantho, but larger, with narrower hulda. 

 subapical spots in the forewing and without yellow-brown in the cell. 



In D. obfuscata Btlr., from the Upper Amazon, the base of the forewing is black. The spots at the distal obfuscata. 

 margin yellowish. Hindwing near the base of the inner margin with large, transparent brownish spot and 2 smaller 

 ones at the apex. 



D. zelie Guer., from Bolivia, is said to be allied to dero, with black margins and band across the end zelie. 

 of the cell. Veins at the base of the hindwing yellow. 



D. epidero Bates, from the Amazons, has on the hindwing from the costal to the distal margin a black epidero. 

 transverse band, like Thyridia confusa; in the cell of the forewing a triangular, black spot is placed at the median. 

 — In ab. signata ab. nov. Stgr. i. I. (37 b) there are red-brown spots in the black distal margin of the hindwing, signaia. 

 sometimes also at the base of the forewing. 



21. Genus: Epitliomia Godm. & Salv. 



This genus only contains a few forms, which were formerly placed in Dircenna. The species are distinguish- 

 able especially by the short hairy palpi, the S-jointed tarsi of the 9$, and also by the presence of the upper discocel- 



