Publ. 23. V. 1932. 
HEDYLE; LASIOPATES; MACROSOMA; PHELLINODES. By L. B. Prout. 
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16. Genus : Hedyle Guen. 
Antenna in both sexes pectinate. Abdomen extremely slender, elongate. Eoretibia with a long hair- 
pencil. Hindtibia with 2 short spurs. 
H. heliconiaria Guen. (= heliconaria Walk.) (2 b). Hindtarsus of with strong triangular swelling heli- 
on 1st joint, reaching the proximal end thereof. Further distinguishable from the two following by the reduc- comana. 
tion of the white parts. Venezuela, French Guiana (type), Amazons, Peru, Ecuador; a more white-mixed 
form (race?) in Costa Rica. 
H. setniermis sp. n. (2 b). Size of heliconiaria; <$ hindtarsus with the swelling on 1st joint much smaller, semiermis. 
about central; pectinations rather longer. Forewing above and beneath with more white in region of tornus, 
above with a broad longitudinal subterminal dark mark on 3rd radial. Hindwing with the longitudinal white 
streak broader and clearer. Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Amazons, Ecuador and Bolivia, the type 
from Isthmus of Panama, November—December 1907, in the Tring Museum. 
H. inermis sp. n. is exceedingly similar to semiermis (2 b) but slightly larger (at least 39 mm.) and inermis. 
with the hindtarsus simple, the pectinations scarcely so long. Slightly darker (less brown), with the white 
costal triangle a little larger, the white suffusion between it and the tornus also strengthened, the dark border 
of the hindwing broadened. Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1926 (J. Steikbach), type in Mus. Tring. Tarapoto, Peru, 
a pair in Mus. Brit, (ex Oberthur). 
H. albipamiosa Prout (2 c). Larger and darker, more like a Phellinodes in aspect. Pectinations longer, albi- 
Hindtarsus without a swelling. East Peru (type) and Ecuador. pannosa. 
17. Genus: Lasiopates Wan. 
Differs from Phellinodes in having the legs exceptionally long haired. Both wings strongly elongate. 
Hindwing in $ with venation distorted, a vitreous patch in base of cell, beneath with a dark button-like ex¬ 
crescence. Only one species. 
L. hyacinthina Warr. (2 c). Recognizable by its shape, purple gloss, oblique whitish postmedian band, hyadn- 
Widely distributed but not common: Honduras, Costa Rica, Amazons, N.W. Ecuador (type), S. Peru. 
18. Genus: llacrosoma Iftji. 
Palpus long, with 2nd joint smooth. Foreleg of enormously elongate. Hindtibia with all spurs. Fore- 
wing of G with a large twisted membranous flap from base of costal vein beneath, enclosing a large cavity 
which opens liindward. Only one species. 
M. tipulata Hh. (2 c). Distinguished from the other white Hedylicae by the large size, the brown tipulata. 
shadings and particularly the irregularly shaped white spot in the cell of the forewing. Hubner’s type was 
probably from Para; other known localities are Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, French Guiana and the 
Upper Amazons. — Pupa pale-coloured, slender, attached to a leaf by its long cremaster and a central girth, 
as in that of a butterfly, flattened at base of abdomen, swollen in front of and behind this depression but 
without the definite humps of Phellinodes lucivittata; each segment of abdomen with a small central knob 
dorsally. 
19. Genus: IMiellinodes Hb. 
This is the central group of the tribe and embraces all the species which have non-pectinate antennae, 
the T egs not exceptionally hairy, never strongly elongate, the hindtibia with terminal spurs only. There are 
two sections, the first with simple hindwing in the <$, the second with distortions more or less similar to those 
of Lasiopates <$. 
A. Section Hyphedyle Warr. Hindwing of <§ simple. 
Ph. lamellifera Prout is similar to minutipuncta (2 c), or rather darker, but has lamellate antenna JameUifera. 
and a less sharp angle at the end of the 1st radial of the fore wing and lacks the minute white postmedian 
dots. Fonte-Boa (loc. typ.) and Surinam, the $ still unknown. 
Ph. minutipuncta Prout (2 c). Recognizable by its shape, nearly uniform colouring and (except in an minuti- 
extremely rare aberration) presence of a white postmedian dot behind SC' 5 , usually also a still more minute puncta. 
dot before it. In the $ the white dots become spots, formed nearly as in muscerdata Feld. (2 f). S.E. Peru: La 
Oroya. Clearly related to megalophysa, but with simple q hindwing. 
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