luciviitata. 
Iclagesi. 
obsiructa. 
cellulata. 
nigri- 
macula. 
leptosiaia. 
napiaria. 
20 VENODES. By L. B. Pjrout. 
and 1 from Taperinha, near Santarem. fully agreeing with Dognin’s description of his type from St.-Laurent 
du Maroni. 
Ph. lucivittata Walk. (<J = absentimacula Warr.) (2 h). The largest species, the <$ almost unmarked 
except for the longitudinal whitish streaks, the $ in addition with a rather large white subapical spot. Amazons 
(loc. tvp.), Guianas, Colombia to E. Peru. A pupa, from which a $ was bred at Para by Rev. A. M. Moss, is 
extraordinarily like that of a butterfly (distantly resembling an Adelpha pupa), with a long cremastral plate, 
attached to a leaf by a silken pack a single thread as girth at base of abdomen, between two large, irregular 
composite dorsal humps, thoracic and abdominal; surface rather rugose, general coloration light brown. 
Ph. klagesi Prout. 50 mm. An obscurely marked species, connecting hedylaria (2 f) with obstructa. Fore wing 
shaped nearly as in hedylaria <$, or slightly more weakly bent behind the 1st radial, similar markings and 
colour-nuances traceable, but much weakened, no subterminal dark spot between the medians. Hindwing very 
similar to that of obstructa , but slightly more variegated beneath. Fonte Boa, 1 
Ph. obstructa Warr. is also only known from the type distinguishable from the closely similar 
nigrimacula (2 g) by the presence of two distinct white costal marks, shaped somewhat as in latiplex , the outer 
one the better developed, particularly clear on the underside. Pambilar, Ecuador. 
Ph. cellulata Dogn. is near obstructa, but with a lighter, semihyaline area in each cell, the whitish costal 
markings suppressed on the underside, where on the contrary the distal margins are whitish; cell-spots of 
forewing large. Ecuador. 
Ph. nigrimacula Warr. (2h). White costal marks vestigial above, absent beneath; the black markings 
strong, characteristic, particularly the obliquely elongate one in front of the cell-spot. Bolivia (the type), 
Carabaya and the Amazons. 
Ph. leptosiaia Feld. (2 g) differs from all the other species in having the distal margin straight at the 
end of the 1st radial. The only noticeable marking is the white apical suffusion. Amazons (type), ? Venezuela, 
Dutch and French Guiana. 
20. Genus: Veil odes Guen. 
Near to Phellinodes section Hypedyle, but with the antenna pectinate. Fore wing with distal margin 
not bent at R 1 , 3rd subcostal arising from the cell. Only one species. 
V. napiaria Guen. (2h). A simple yellowish-white species, the forewing with darkened veins. Only 
known from S.E. Brazil. 
Subfamilie: Hemitheinae. 
This beautiful subfamily, colloquially known in North America as “the Greens”, is well represented 
in the New World, especially in parts of South America, but does not extend into the Arctic regions nor — with 
the exception of one rather isolated Chilian species — into Chili and Patagonia; about 35° S. lat. seems to 
represent the limit of its southward range. The more archaic forms, and indeed the whole of groups I, II and 
III as classified in the “Genera Insectorum”, are entirely wanting and group IV is only represented by the 
genus Ehodochlora. There is therefore much less structural variation exhibited than in the Old World and 
the provisional classification which is at present adopted places nearly onehalf of them in two great genera, 
Racheospila and Oospila, which represent, with their outliers, two principal branches of group V. 
Apart from their almost invariably green colouring, the Hemitheinae may be known by the following 
structural characters. Face smooth. Antenna in the <$ very generally and in the $ not uncommonly bipectinate. 
Both wings with the cells generally short, 2nd radial fully developed, arising considerably before the middle 
of the discocellulars. Forewing with the 2nd—5th subcostals stalked, sometimes also the 1st, never with a 
true areole. Hindwing with the humeral angle highly developed, generally accompanied by a weakening of 
the frenulum, which in many 9$ and the most specialized disappears or becomes non-functional. The 
larvae, so far as known, belong largely to the Comibaena group, having strong processes to which, in many 
cases, are attached withered fragments of the foodplant, affording them a remarkable protective guise. The 
pupae are generally light-coloured, seldom if ever subterranean. 
In the geims Rhodochlora the humeral expansion of the hindwing has not advanced very far and the 
frenulum is developed in both sexes. In the group from Racheosjnla to Xanthoxena the expansion is more 
pronounced, the A frenulum begins to shorten or weaken and that of the 9 tends to disappear. In the remaining 
genera the frenulum is lost in both sexes, 
