Pull. 5. VII. 1932. 
RACHEOSPILA. By L. B. Prout. 
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as in roseilinearia $ (3i). Face, occiput, palpus, strong cell-dots, broad costal and terminal lines bright rose- 
colour, the face with two large white spots at lower edge, the palpus with white tip; abdomen above simil¬ 
arly red, with a large white spot, or followed by one or more smaller (hind part broken off). 
R. roseilinearia Dogn. (3 i) is very distinct in having strong dentate red lines and red abdominal rozeiline- 
margin to hindwing. Ecuador (loc. typ.) and E. Peru. urta - 
R. pectinifera Prout (3 i). Superficially almost indistinguishable from molliculata except in its larger pedinifera. 
size and somewhat differently placed postmedian spot on R 2 , but with the antennal pectinations of the $ 
much longer, 6 to 8 times the diameter of the shaft. In none of the nearest allies are they much over half 
that length. Carabaya, S.E. Peru, mostly from Santo Domingo; a small specimen (? local race) from 
Chiriqui in the Tring Museum. 
R. molliculata Warr. (3 i). Distinguishable from purpureotincta by having the markings bright red molliculata. 
instead of dull purple, the cell-spot less large, the postmedian less sinuous, with the dots on the three radial 
veins of the forewing equidistant from the distal margin. antennal pectinations at their longest scarcely 
over twice the diameter of the shaft. Carabaya, S.E. Peru. 
R. liofftnannsi sp. n. (3 i) is intermediate between molliculata (3i) and purpureotincta (3 k), having nearly hoffmannsi. 
the coloration of the former, the antennal pectinations at least as long as in the latter (3 or rather more than 
3 times the diameter of the .shaft). Palpus a little longer than in either. The red costal edge of the forewing 
becomes fuscous on the underside, the cell-spot is rather larger than in molliculata, the costal spots enlarged, 
the dot on the 2nd radial very slightly more proximal than the neighbouring ones. E. Peru: Cushi (loc. typ.) 
and Huancabamba. — paegnia subsp. (? sp.) nov. differs in having the 3rd discocellular of the forewing rather paegnia. 
more oblique, so that the cell-spot assumes a strikingly oblique position; it also presents a more molliculata- 
like appearance of account of the smaller costal spots, brighter red markings and crimson rather than fuscous 
costa beneath. Oconeque, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 7000 feet, July 1904, 4 1 $ in the Tring Museum. 
R. dubiaria Oberth. (5 b), only known in 1 $, perhaps represents hoffmannsi in Venezuela, but the duliaria. 
hindwing is less bent and the vein-marks of forewing longer, even the antemedian becoming definite dashes. : 
Palpus over 2% times as long as diameter of eye, 3rd joint nearly as long as 2nd. 
R. jocularia Dogn. may prove identical with hoffmannsi or dubiaria, but I cannot quite reconcile the jocularia. 
description. Antennal pectinations as hoffmannsi. The head ( ? face with palpus) is said to be “rosy white”, 
the terminal line “rose brown” (in hoffmannsi and quotuliana it is bright red), the abdomen bears two large 
white red-ringed spots succeeded by two small simple white ones and the line of postmedian dots is perhaps 
different: “from costa at 3 mm from apex, nearer the margin on veins 6, 5 and 4, then receding on 3, 2 and 1”. 
Loja, Ecuador, 2 (JJ. 
R. quotidians sp. n. (4 d). I formerly regarded this as a colour-form of purpureotincta, chiefly charac- qaotidiana. 
teristic of Peru and Bolivia, but the discovery that it occurred together with true purpureotincta in S.E. 
Brazil induced me to investigate it. The distinctions in colour, less large cell-spots, etc., prove constant and 
the terminal armature of the $ valve is simpler (in purpureotincta the principal spine is accompanied by 3 
or 4 small subsidiary spines, which is not the case here). From molliculata, which it approaches in colouring, 
quotidiana differs in that the postmedian dot on the 2nd radial is more proximally placed than its neighbours 
and in the longer pectinations; from hoffmannsi also in the former character and in having less (or no) red 
on the lines of the hindwing, the dot on the median vein being in any case white (in hoffmannsi red). S.E. 
Brazil, the type from Novo Friburgo in Mus. Tring. Also distributed in E. Peru and E. Bolivia. 
R. inconspicua Bastelb. (5 b), founded on a rubbed from Jimenez, Cauca, Colombia, will possibly inconspi- 
supplant one of the preceding, but seems more like a weakly marked purpureotincta; I have seen no confirma- cua - 
tory material from the locality. It differs chiefly in the absence of the terminal line and in the uniform grey- 
green fringes. Postmedian dashes rather long, only weakly tipped with white. 
R. purpureotincta Warr. (3 k). Easily known by the purple-brown, not reddish, markings, the large, purpureo- 
externally diffuse cell-spot and irregular postmedian of the forewing and predominantly white lines of the 
hindwing. Generally rather small. Palpus shorter than in most of its relatives. Antennal pectinations about 
3 times diameter of shaft. Described from Venezuela, but widely distributed from Central America to the 
Amazons, rarer in Bolivia, Paraguay and S.E. Brazil. 
R. albociliaria H.-Sch. (5 b), also from Venezuela, can hardly be a large, heavily-marked $ of the albociliaria. 
preceding, as the evidently good figure shows a less irregular postmedian line, large cell-spot of hindwing, 
that wing as heavily marked with purple-brown as the forewing, terminal line thick, etc. I have seen nothing 
like it. 
R. rufiguttata Warr. (3 k) has the markings almost as dull as in purpureotincta and albociliaria but rufiguttata. 
much smaller, and is moreover a larger species than the rest of the group. Fringes creamy, very feebly spotted. 
Venezuela (type), Colombia and Carabaya. 
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tincta. 
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