strigaria. 
venilineata. 
nigripes. 
sanguini- 
pundata. 
albilineata. 
thelys. 
mono- 
spilonota. 
pleni- 
jimbria. 
rhodonota. 
disci- 
puncta. 
liriata. 
dispilata. 
rufoseriata. 
vinocincfa. 
32 RACHEOSPILA. By L. B. Prout. 
a Ibociliaria-g roup. 
Both wings with 1st median arising well before end of cell. 
R. strigaria Schcms. A simple green species with whitish strigulae on the wings, superficially exactly 
like an African Prasinocyma. Expanse 29 mm. Face brown. Palpus moderate, with terminal joint short for 
a Racheospila Founded on a single $ from Turrialba, Costa Rica. 
R. venilineata Warr. (3 h). Hindtibia of $ not dilated. Face bright red. Abdomen with white dorsal 
spots. Quite characteristic are the white veins on both wings. Carabaya, S.E. Peru, at 9000—9500 feet. 
R. nigripes Dogn. (3 h). A rather large, broad-winged species, strigulated as in strigaria , but with 
dark cell-dots, red costal edge to forewing, and more or less developed reddish, white-edged vein-dots repre¬ 
senting the lines. Hindtibia not dilated. Colombia: Quindiu, at 11,500 to above 12,000 feet. 
R. sanguinipunctata Dogn. (3 i) has about the size of venilineata but is neither veined nor strigulated 
with white. Costal edge of forewing white; cell-dots red; lines white, not broken up into vein-dots, the post¬ 
median hardly sinuous. Argentina: Tucuman. 
R. albilineata Warr. $, 44 mm. Rather bright green, the veins finely white, a large oval reddish cell- 
spot, the lines white, the postmedian broad, almost band-like, slightly curved, more oblique than termen; 
fringes white. Limbani, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 9500 feet. Very handsome and unmistakable. 
R. thelys sp. n. (= inclusaria part. Druce nee Walk.). 31—32 mm. Rather delicately built, abdomen 
slender. Face rather bright red, below with moderate cream-whitish spots, which nearly or quite meet in the 
centre. Antennal pectinations about 3 times diameter of shaft. Hindtibia with terminal process, about % length 
of 1st tarsal joint. Abdomen discoloured, but showing in the type reddish, posteriorly pale-bordered spots 
on segments 3, 4 and perhaps 5. Wings paler green than in the succeeding members of the group. Forewing 
with costa above, and much more extendedly beneath, reddish, dark-suffused; cell-dot of forewing minute, of 
hindwing less minute and more red; both lines developed, creamy whitish, the postmedian strongly lunulate- 
dentate, the antemedian irregularly sinuous, much more proximal on hind-than on forewing; reddish terminal 
line extremely fine, interrupted; fringe cream-buff, with a slight reddish dot at apex of forewing. Underside 
whitish green, with costal region of forewing greener. Guatemala: Quiche Mountains, 9000—10 000 feet (type) 
and Totonicapan, 8500—10 500 feet; both in coll. Brit. Mus. 
R. monospilonota Prout. In size and shape near rhoclonota (3 i), but with the forewing slightly straighter- 
margined and more acute. Distinguished by having only one abdominal spot, placed on segment 1, large and 
almost black. Costal edge of forewing white, not red; no red terminal line nor fringe-spots; the dots on the 
wings more black than red. Monte Tolima, Colombia, only the type known. 
R. plenifimbria Dogn., unknown to me, is probably near monospilonota , but rather smaller, more pur- 
pureotincta- like; cell-spot of forewing large, lilacine, postmedian vein-dots not — as in monospilonota — ac¬ 
companied by white dots; no terminal line; fringe unicolorous, pale. San Antonio, W. Colombia. 
R. rhodonota Prout (3 i). Larger than purpureotincta (3 k), forewing with apex a little sharper, the rows 
of dots not arising from enlarged costal spots; fringes less sharply chequered; abdominal spots predominantly 
red, without, or with only small, white centres. Carabaya, S.E. Peru, at high altitudes (2700—3000 m.). 
R. discipuncta Wan., founded on an extremely worn $ from “La Paz” (E. Bolivia), nearly agrees in 
shape and structure with rhodonota (3 i), but the hindtibial process — unless damaged — is shorter. No markings 
are visible excepting the cell-dots, which are small. Must probably remain undeterminable until the genitalia 
or other anatomical characters of the group are thoroughly investigated. 
R. liriata Dogn. (= alboseriata Warr.) (3 h) differs from most of the neighbouring species in having 
the lines represented by white dots only, not by red and white pairs. Cell-dots small, terminal red line very 
slender, fringes white. Mexico, Colombia to Peru, Venezuela; described from Ecuador. 
R. dispilata Dogn., founded on a <$ from Medina, E. Colombia, 500 m, is said to differ from liriata 
only in having the palpus white (in liriata mixed with red) and in lacking the red terminal line. On the type, 
however, I remarked that the latter was “faintly marked with red”, and as I have a Colombian aberration 
of liriata in which the red colouring is very weak, I suspect that this, too, may be an aberration. 
R. rufoseriata Prout (6 k) has the same small cell-dots and slender terminal line as liriata, but differs 
in the shorter antennal pectinations and in having red dots (minute dashes) accompanying the white ones; 
from molliculata (3 i) it differs in the smaller abdominal spots and much reduced red markings, the costal edge 
narrowly white, only red at the extreme base. Huancabamba, E. Peru. 
R. vinocineta Warr. , founded on a $ from Chiriqui, Panama, which has not yet been matched, is 
perhaps an aberration of one of the neighbouring species, with the rows of dots obsolete. Palpus about as long 
