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TACHYPHYLE. By L. B. Prout. 
cilia. T. clita sp. n. (41) $, 35 mm. In size, shape and colouring similar to subscripts, but with many differences. 
Palpus very short, blackish. Tongue slight. Hindtibia without proximal spurs. Forewing with apex slightly 
less falcate; green area more restricted; grey area becoming more flesh-coloured outside the postmedian line, 
which is scarcely oblique outward behind fold. Hindwing with cell longer, median band more brownish, veins 
on pale area a little darkened, postmedian line brownish, comparatively regular, though deeply lunulate, the 
green border broadening a little posteriorly. Black cell-dots well developed above and beneath. Brazil: 
Blumenau, 1885 (Hetschko), type in Mus. Wien. Novo Friburgo, 1873 (Semper), paratype (smaller) in coll. 
L. B. Prout, presented by the Museum. 
flavidisca. T. flavidisca Warr. (4 1). Smaller than lepidaria. Hindwing with a dark basal patch, the succeeding 
space yellowish, the next line thick, black, irregular, absorbing the cell-spot; distal area more or less suffused 
with dull Indian purple. Carabaya, S. E. Peru. Also known from E. Colombia. 
■prasia. T. prasia Prout is close to flavicoma (4 1), forewing slightly narrower, rather duller, the two lines on 
hindmargin rather far apart, with stronger rosy suffusions between them, hindwing with the median line red, 
with only a few black scales and tin-owing out strong distal projections on the first two radials as far as the 
diffuse reddish postmedian line; hindwing beneath with the yellow patch less conspicuous, and with an elongate 
blackish cell-mark. Carabaya. 
flavicoma. T. flavicoma Warr. (4 1) may be distinguished by the width of the yellow patch of the hindwing, its 
sharp black distal boundary-line and the red-brown suffusion beyond. Described from Surinam, but found 
also on the Amazons and in S. E. Peru. Hindtibia with terminal spurs only. 
arietta. T. uricha Kaye (4 k), to which flavicoma was formerly sunk, seems to be a separate species, distinguish¬ 
able by the obsolescense of the black median line of the hindwing, the presence of yellow maculation between 
the red-and-grey shading and the postmedian line, and on the forewing by the absence of the reddish posterior 
maculation. Trinidad (type), also with flavicoma in Surinam and the Amazon country. 
baeogonia. T. baeogonia sp. n. (5 d). Smaller than the two preceding and rather paler, the distal borders, as well 
as the fringes, whitish; hindwing bluntly angled. Forewing with apex acute; no markings except the minute 
but rather sharp cell-dot. Hindwing with the basal green patch somewhat extended, perhaps as in prasia, the 
yellow consequently narrowed; median band well mixed with red, almost or quite reaching the postmedian 
line except posteriorly. E. Colombia: Upper Rio Negro, 800 m (Fassl), 2 <$$. Type in coll. Prout. 
intrapunc- T. intrapunctata sp. n. (4 1) differs from silena, of which it has been supposed a form, in having the 
tala. f r i n g e G f the forewing more strongly darkened at its posterior end, the median line of the hindwing anteriorly 
recalling that of flavidisca but red, the postmedian projecting a long, acute inward tooth between the 2nd and 
3rd radials and accompanied distally by reddish and grey shading, a small black dot in cell behind cell-fold. 
S. E. Peru: La Oroya, 3100 feet, 9 in Mus. Tring, 1 <$ in Mus. Brit. 
silena. T. silena Schaus (5 d). Similar to prasia, but with the postmedian line of the hindwing more concise 
and other differences. S. E. Brazil. 
phaeozona. T. phaeozona sp. n. 27 mm. Similar to a large silena (5 d), forewing perhaps slightly broader. Fore¬ 
wing posteriorly (except at termen) and hindwing between the postmedian and a narrow green terminal band 
suffused with brown (possibly due to discoloration?). Lines of fore wing darker, nearer together, strongly 
sinuous, closely approximated at fold. Hindwing with basal green patch less small than in silena, a dark purple- 
grey band between the median and postmedian, about 2 mm wide anteriorly, 3 mm posteriorly. Alto da Serra, 
Santos, 800 m (E. D. Jones), 1 d in Mus. Brit. I do not think this can be an extraordinary aberration of silena. 
pretiosa. T. pretiosa Th.-Mieg (5 e) is a beautiful and strikingly distinct species with the wings predominantly white. 
Shape about as in lepidaria (5 c). Very characteristic is the hindwing, with small green basal patch and very large, 
long-oval postmedian green patch about 4 mm wide, and 8 mm long, arising close to costa and cut by SC 2 
and R 1 which are white. Forewing green at base (bounded by a broad S-shaped white antemedian), at apex 
and most of termen, and with green subcostal and subterminal lines, the centre of the wing broadly w r hite. 
insignis. Both wings with black cell-dot. Santa Catharina (probably Joinville), I p 1 . — ab. insignis Dogn. seems, from 
the description, to have the centre of the forewing more suffused with green but may probably prove, on com¬ 
parison, to be an absolute synonym. Joinville, 1 LTnfortunately the $ is unknown; possibly a Tackyphyle, 
as Dognin assumes. 
flora. T. flora E. D. Jones (5 d). Apex less acute than in the other species, face less white (largely green). 
The large rosy patch on the ample yellow subbasal area is quite distinctive. Hindtibia with 2 spurs. S. E. 
Brazil: Castro, Parana. 
12. Genus: Tacliyphyle Butl. 
Antenna of d pectinate, of $ typically simple, but in several species pectinate. Hindtibia with the 
proximal spurs slight or wanting, the terminal very unequal; d with or without hair-pencil. Fore wing with 
