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RACHEOSPILA. By L. B. Prout. 
jenna. 
salubris. 
calida. 
licada. 
torsilinea. 
hena. 
duplex. 
slacta. 
/ lor ifera. 
punctiseri- 
ata. 
multiseri- 
ata. 
rufipicta. 
epaphras. 
aturia. 
iisstigma- 
ria. 
scoto- 
cephala. 
R. jenna Dogn. (3k) is rather variable but cannot be confounded with any other species; unique in 
the development of a longitudinal dark patch on the costa of the forewing, extending from a postmedian 
comma-shaped marking to the apex. Ecuador to Bolivia. — salubris subsp. nov. is rather larger, strongly 
marked, a large obliquely placed cell-spot substituted for the cell-dot of the forewing. Colombia: Paso del 
Quindiu, Central Cordillera, 3500 m (A. H. Fassl). Type in coll. L. B. Prout. 
R. calida Dogn., of which the type from Loja, Ecuador, remains unique, recalls rufoseriata (6 k) but is 
a little smaller, without appreciable white dots accompanying the red-brown ones on the veins and lacks the 
fine red terminal line and the red edgings to the white abdominal spots. 
R. licada Dogn. agrees with calida in the absence of red borders of the wings and of the small abdominal 
spots, but is otherwise very different. A pretty, delicately-built species, the wings stippled with rather bluish 
green and whitish, cell-spot small, brown, the postmedian line of white dots oblique, incurved posteriorly. 
Hindwing rounded. Hindtibia of almost without terminal process. Palpus with terminal joint very short. Loja. 
R. torsilinea Warr., of which only the type is known, differs from small hena ab. duplex in having the 
cell-spots small and black, the ante-, as well as the postmedian row of dots double, no postmedian costal 
spot, some smaller markings on the abdomen after the large black one, etc. Paraguay: Patino Cue. 
R. hena Dogn. (3 k). Unmistakable through the large, composite cell-spot, large costal spot proximal 
to the postmedian and other characters. Colombia to Peru, the type from Ecuador. — ab. duplex ab. nov. has 
a series of dark lunules proximally to the vein-dots of the postmedian. Type a small <$ from La Merced, Chancha- 
mayo, in Mus. Tring. 
R. stacta sp. n. (3 k). Expanse 31 mm. Close to hena, but with the wings somewhat broader, of a rather 
more yellowish green, the rows of dots more strongly connected by deep lunules of a purplish-brown shade, 
the postmedian dots produced into dashes and tipped distally with white dots. Fringe strongly spotted with 
purplish-brown at the vein-ends. Antennal pectinations at longest scarcely over twice the diameter of the shaft. 
Colombia: Pacho, E. Cordillera, 2200 m (A. H. Fassl), 2 <$$, 1 $, the type in coll. Prout. 
R. florifera Prout (6 i). Smaller than hena, with more numerous rows of blackish dots, including a 
terminal series on the veins. Face darker, but with the lower part white. Vertex green, only slightly mixed 
with white. San Antonio, W. Colombia. 
R. punctiseriata Dogn. must, according to the description, be very similar to the preceding, but is said 
to have the face white, the large cell-spot of the forewing and the subcostal spot proximal to the postmedian 
dots apparently less well formed. Not improbably, however, florifera may prove to be an aberration of it. Alto 
de la Cruces, near Cali, Colombia, at about 7000 feet. 
R. multiseriata Dogn. is slightly larger than the two preceding and has three, instead of two distal 
series of dots, the last series small, interneural, quite near the termen. Face brownish. Bolivia: Rio Songo, 
at nearly 2500 feet; also from La Paz. 
R. rufipicta Prout (5 b). Very distinct from all the others in the pattern, and with the forewing more 
acute than in the three preceding, the hindwing minutely concave between the 1st radial and the tooth at 
the 3rd. Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, E. Peru, also known from E. Bolivia and ? E. Ecuador. 
R. epaphras Schaus. Expanse 28 mm. Face white, mottled with brown. Abdomen with 4 small white 
dorsal spots. Wings with some scattered darker green spots; forewing with cell-mark composed of 4 fuscous spots, 
antemedian line formed of smoky spots, postmedian of confluent smoky lunules; hindwing with a fuscous 
spot at base, a fine antemedian line, with a smoky spot at inner margin, the smoky outer shade nearer the 
termen from the 3rd radial hindward. Costa Rica. 
R. aturia Druce (5 b). The somewhat ventricose margin of the hindwing recalls the species of the 
pacificaria group, but the 1st median arises before the end of the cell. The markings are simpler than in the 
several species preceding it, consisting only of blackish cell-dots and red-brown dashes between the veins. 
Abdomen with a few small dark dorsal spots. Mexico (loc. typ.) and Panama. 
R. tisstigmaria Dyar (= magnidiscata Prout) (5 c) has the cell-spots larger than in aturia, and differ- 
particularly from it in the fuscous costa of the forewing and the presence of dark terminal vein-dots. Mexico 
(type), Guatemala and Costa Rica. — scotocephala Prout (3 k) from East Peru, also known from Colombia, 
is larger, the head more black-mixed, the forewing in general more heavily clouded costally in the region of 
the cell-spot and again at the subterminal. Hindwing slightly less bent at the 3rd radial than in tisstigmaria, 
antemedian line not, as in that, thickened at abdominal margin. A link to the next group. 
exertata- group. 
Hindwing with 1st median varying in position. Abdomen with a dark spot or blotch near base. Wings 
darkened at base and with the markings heavy, in places band-like (Blechroma Moschl.). 
