PAROMPHACODES; PYROCHLORA; TACHYCHLORA. By L. B. Prout. 
9. Genus: l*aFOiii|>Iiaeodes Warr. 
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Pretty distinct in habitus, somewhat reminiscent of the African genus Omphax (Vol. 16, p. 34, pi. 4 b, c), 
but with not many outstanding generic characters. The chief are the very short palpus (also as in Omphax) and 
the rather strong anastomosis of the 1st subcostal of the forewing with the 2nd, as well as with the costal. Ant¬ 
ennal pectinations of the moderately long. Hindtibia of <$ not dilated, all spurs present. Hind wing with 
costal approximated to subcostal for a considerable distance. Both wings with 1st median well before end of 
cell. Only one species (Brazilian) really belongs here, though a second has been provisionally added. 
P. rubrimargo Warr. (4 i). Unmistakable in shape, the entirely unmarked forewing, predominantly rubrimargo. 
white hindwing and bright rosy costal edge and proximal fringe-line of the forewing, the latter present, but 
only posteriorly, on the hindwing. S. E. Brazil. 
P. (?) rubristellata Warr. differs structurally in the moderate (not short) palpus and superficially in rubristel- 
the rather less extreme shape and in the presence on the forewing of red vein-dots indicating the lines, the outer 
strongly incurved so as to approach the inner at the 2nd median vein, an elongate rosy cell-mark and a rosy 
terminal line. Hindwing and fringes white. Bogota, only the type known. In this, the 2nd subcostal of the 
forewing anastomoses with the 1st subcostal before the latter separates from the costal. 
10. Genus: I®yro<*laloFsi Warr. 
Face rather less smooth than in most Hemitheinae. Palpus moderate, little roughened, 3rd joint in d 
quite small, in $ little elongate. Antenna pectinate in both sexes. Hindtibia with all spurs, in the <$ with pencil 
and very short terminal process. Hindwing with termen scarcely rounded, tornus rather acute. Neotropical. 
Only two species known, different from Racheospila in shape and maculation and in the £ antenna. 
P. rhanis Cra?n. (= rhanisaria Stoll) (41). This well-known species was originally figured from Surinam, rhanis. 
but is distributed from Guatemala to Rio de Janeiro. Not particularly variable, nor apparently separable 
into races. 
P. majorcula Dyar (4 1) is generally larger, the white lunule of the postmedian at the fold enlarged into majorcula. 
a broad spot distally, also encroaching into the central area, etc. Hindwing broadly pale cinnamon-buff with 
the dark mottlings reduced, the terminal green borders contrasted. Cayenne and Para. 
11. Genus: TachychloFsi Prout. 
Differs from Pyrochlora in having the face broader and smoother, nearly always white, the palpus 
shorter, the hindtibia not dilated, in both sexes with the proximal spurs extremely short or wanting, the terminal 
ones extremely unequal, the inner being very long, the outer short. Except in pattern, and generally shape, 
they have much in common with Tackyphyle, but the latter often has the $ antenna non-pectinate. Range: 
Mexico to Brazil. 
T. amilletes sp. n. (4 k) has been determined in different collections as subscripta or as lepidaria. amilletes. 
From the former it differs very decidedly in the more concave termen of the forewing and narrower, less rounded 
hindwing, which moreover is paler, with much less clouding proximally and between the first lines, and has a 
narrower, more tapering, darker-mixed green distal border; from the latter, of which it may prove a race, in the 
maculation. Costa Rica and Colombia, the type from Orosi, Costa Rica, in coll. Prout. 
T. lepidaria Moschl. (5 c), from Surinam, is unknown to me. We reproduce Moschler’s figure, although lepidaria. 
this is evidently inexact in some details, at least in the presence of green patches on the hindwing. Appears 
different from amilletes in the more parallel lines of the forewing, more proximal and less zigzag postmedian of 
the hindwing and more broadly white posterior part of forewing beneath. 
T. explicata sp. n. (4 1). Also close to amilletes. Posterior part of fore wing a little paler, with the explicata. 
median dark line less bent. Hindwing rather fuller, termen appreciably bent behind middle; its buff part more 
whitish, less irrorated between the antemedian and median lines; postmedian rather nearer and more parallel 
to termen, much less inbent between radials 2 and 3 and much less incurved at fold; dark border scarcely 
reaching beyond the 1st median, the prong just before its end looking longer. Lower Amazon: Taperinha near 
Santarem, 21—30 June and 21—31 Jidy 1927 (Dr. H. Zerny), type <J in Mus Wien, paratype in coll. 
L. B. Prout, kindly presented bj- the discoverer. 
T. subscripta Warr. (41). Hindtibia of <J, as in the preceding group, with hair-pencil and generally subscripta. 
traces of the proximal spurs. Median band of hindwing more solid than in the three preceding, almost obliterating 
the cell-mark, border broader, more extended green; underside more weakly marked. Venezuela (type), 
Ecuador and Bolivia. Often the hindwing is suffused in almost the entire basal area. 
