PHELLINODES. By L. B. Prout. 
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Widely distributed but not common; Colombia, Peru and (according to Guenee) Brazil. zapotensis subsp. zapok-nsix. 
nov. differs in that the white spot of the $ is proximally broadened, not pointed. Guatemala: San Geronimo, 
Zapote (Champion), 2 <$$, 2 $9 hi the “Biologia” collection. 
Ph. stabilinota sp. n. (2 f). $ forewing rather narrower than in uniformi.s, less contrasted, the ground- stabilinota. 
colour darker, the apical patch scarcely so dark, the white dots which proximally border it very small; other¬ 
wise exceedingly similar. $ with the excavation behind the apex much shallower than in that of satellitiata 
(2 d), apical patch much less bright, the orientation of the white spot different, its posterior side being parallel 
with the 2nd radial, its anterior oblique, the proximal angle of the triangle therefore in cellule 5, not in cellule 6, 
anterior dot as in satellitiata, no white dot in cellule 4. Both sexes without the pronounced dark antemedian 
streak from costa of forewing. Hindwing of <$ with the fovea in base of cell enlarged. Fonte Boa (S. M. Klages), 
5 S3, 2 9? in Mus. Tring, including the type Maroni River, French Guiana, 1 $ in Mus. Tring, 1 9 i n Mus. 
Prout. 
Ph. interrupta Warr. Only known to me in the 9, which is fully as large as the largest uniformis (2e); interrupta. 
paler, with the apical region little darkened; the white spot larger than in satellitiata (2 d), preceded at the 
costal margin by a more strongly whitish patch; underside much more mixed with white than in uniformis 
and its closest allies. Excavation behind apex scarcely so deep as even in the m ale of satellitiata. S. Javier, 
Rio Cachabi, Ecuador; also Colombia. — megalophysa Warr. is a small form apparently somewhat variable, megalo- 
In the name-type the white spot is subquadrate and the black cell-spot rather large, well isolated. — - In ab. physa. 
parornata Dogn. (2 g) the white spot is triangular, with rather extended dark shading proximally, which paromaia. 
reaches the (sometimes smaller) cell-spot. French Guiana. 
Ph. costilunata Prout. 44 mm. Coloration of interrupta; pale costal patch still more sharply defined, costilunata. 
beneath more buff; the principal white mark broken into a small spot in cellule 6 and a longer one (longi¬ 
tudinally) in cellule 5. Ecuador. 
Ph. muscerdata Feld. (2 f). White spots nearly as in costilunata, costal patch undeveloped; colouring muscer- 
above and beneath browner, with rather strong, though ill-defined, dark clouding on the forewing distally. data. 
Shape slightly different from that of the preceding group, forewing more produced at apex than at 1st radial. 
Amazons (type), Guianas, Ecuador and Peru. 
Ph. cascaria Schaus (2 e). This species and the 4 which follow are characterized by having a white cascaria. 
costal triangle (as in Hedyle) and generally an elongate blackish mark on the discocellulars of the forewing, 
often (as in cascaria) more or less interrupted in the middle. The large clear apical patch of the forewing and 
the rather uniform hindwing (with a slight wash of brown near the apex) distinguish the present species. De¬ 
scribed from Jalapa, Mexico and known from Costa Rica, but commoner in Venezuela. 
Ph. albifascia Warr. Rather larger and broader-winged, darker, the cell-mark strong and continous, albifascia. 
the white costal triangle dark-irrorated, a broad white, dark-dusted band obliquely from posterior half of 
distal margin to costa just proximal to the triangle. Carabaya, S.E. Peru. — expedita subsp. nov. (2 f) has the expedita. 
costal triangle reduced and virtually confluent with the white band, which moreover contains two conspicuous 
black spots close to the distal margin. Macas, Ecuador, a $ in coll. Seitz. 
Ph. hedylaria Warr. (2 f). Costal triangle long but not deep, a smaller whitish costal patch developed hedylaria. 
more proximally; the whitish posterior patch at distal margin contains .2 characteristic blackish spots. The 
type, like most of the known specimens, was probably from the Amazons; a few are also known from Colombia, 
Peru, Paraguay and Brazil. 
Ph. zikani sp. n. (2 g). 46 — 53 mm. Closely similar to conifera though larger and more heavily black- zikani. 
marked; hindwing in both sexes with distal margin regularly rounded, as in hedylaria; costal triangle in the 
3 shaped about as in hedylaria, but with some dark irroration, in the 9 almost reaching the 2nd radial mostly 
pure white. Itatiaya, May 1924 and January 1927 (G. J. Zikan), type and paratype in coll. Seitz. Alto da 
Serra, Sao Paulo, February 1923, 6 and 1 9 in Mus. Tring (R, Spitz), 2 £<$ in Mus. Brit. (E. D. Jones); 
also, without locality label, 1 9 in coll. Seitz. 
Ph. conifera Warr. (2 g). Recognizable by the shape of the white costal triangle (a little longer trans- conifera. 
verselv and purer white in the 9 than in the <$) and by the highly specialised $ hind wing, with concavity 
in distal margin, cell much narrowed at its end, the foveal contortions strong, Surinam (type), French Guiana, 
Central America, Amazons, Colombia and Peru, nowhere common. — gorgonensis subsp. nov. has the white gorgo- 
costal spot irrorated and strigulated in its anterior part (about to the 3rd subcostal) above and beneath. nensis. 
Gorgona Island, off W. Colombia (C. L. Collenette), 2 9? hi Mus. Brit., from the “St. George Expedition”. 
Ph. latiplex Dogn. is possibly a form of the preceding, with the costal triangle greatly reduced, indeed latiplcx. 
only indicated by a flattened mark in front of the 5th subcostal; but as the shape and distorted venation of 
the hindwing seem slightly more extreme, I conserve it as a species. I have before me 1 $ from Fonta Boa 
