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0. congener Warr. (7 c). Easily recognizable from our figure. Not generally variable, except that the congener. 
$ is much larger than the <$. British Guiana (type), the Amazons and Colombia. — proceliosa Warr., from S. E. procellosa. 
Peru, is generally larger, at least in the <$, and with larger dark markings, but perhaps not tenable racially. 
0. atopochlora sp. nov. (7 c) might be taken for another form of congener but as it is constant at Muzo, atopochlora 
E. Colombia, and congener equally constant on the Upper Rio Negro I think it must be a species. Larger, the 
anterior terminal blotch of the fore wing with a small supplementary subterminal spot before and sometimes 
another behind, the apical blotch of the hindwing separated from, or only narrowly connected with, that at 
the radials, so that a green terminal patch remains between the apex and the 1st radial. Type in coll. Prout 
(ex coll. Fassl). The Joicey collection has also a <$ from San Gaban, Peru. 
0. violacea Warr. (7 c). Very distinct from all the other species, notably in the extended reddish violacea. 
suffusion of the hindwing. British Guiana (type) to French Guiana and to Matto Grosso. 
0. florepicta Warr. (7 d). This and the next 2 species are intercalated here to introduce the group with florepicta. 
an elongate spot on abdominal margin of hindwing, but have a rather simple structure and lack the raised 
white discocellular mark of the hindwing, florepicta may be recognized by its glossy, pale, translucent ground¬ 
colour and the prettily variegated spots. French Guiana (type) and the Amazons. — ab. pulchripicta Prout is pulchri- 
smaller, the markings brighter red. with less dark admixture, their moss-green edgings and the moss-green picta 
basal patch of the forewing obsolescent. 
0. flavicincta Warr. (7 d). Pale green, but less diaphanous than florepicta, the dark markings uniform dark flavicincta. 
purple-grey, finely edged with yellow, the subapical spots beneath only developed in their proximal part. Hind¬ 
wing with termen slightly bent at the 1st and the 3rd radial, straight between. Described from N. W. Venezuela, 
but extends to Colombia and Ecuador. — microspila Warr. , from Carabaya and Chanchamayo, has the hind- microspila. 
wing more rounded, with its terminal spot smaller, not produced anteriorly, both the terminal spots beneath 
nearly reaching the margin. 
0. rosipara Warr. (7 d). Very similar to flavicincta but with the hindwing rather better rounded, the rosipara. 
terminal spots more flesh-coloured, only dark at their borders, beneath narrower and more lunular than in 
flavicincta. — ab. conversa Dogn. has the terminal spots longer, at least that of the forewing, which reaches conversa. 
nearly to the 1st median, the spot at abdominal margin perhaps more pale-mixed. I am not sure that it is more 
than the normal ^-form of rosipara. The species is known from N. W. Venezuela (loc. typ.), Colombia, French 
Guiana and the Amazon. 
0. concinna Warr. (7 d). This species and the close allies which follow it comprise some of the largest concinna. 
of the South American Hemiiheinae and are characterized by the very ample pale blotches, notably the posterior 
one on the forewing. In typical concinna the blotches are paler (less shaded with pinkish-buff or -cinnamon) 
than in most of the forms, rather strongly bordered with dull purple and on the distal margin narrowly connected 
by pale and purple scaling. Not uncommon in Venezuela. Forms from Colombia and Peru have not yet been 
separated. Races (?) from Fonte Boa and E. Bolivia await more material. — eminens Schaus, from Costa Rica, eminens. 
has the pale patches much more suffused with pinkish cinnamon, the strigulae thereon and the terminal spots 
and dashes cinnamon or brownish rather than grey or blackish; the terminal shading which connects the 
blotches is slender, purplish. Known also from Guatemala. 
0. albicoma Feld. (= minorata Warr.) (7 d). Smaller than concinna, the blotches pinkish-buff, with albicoma. 
their purple edgings narrower, their connection along the distal margin even slenderer than in eminens ; posterior 
blotch of fore wing generally with a well-marked projection in cellule 3; hindwing rather less protuberant at the 
radials, the blotch at abdominal margin shorter and broader. Both the types were from the Amazons, but the 
range extends to Costa Rica, Peru and the Guianas. — matura subsp. (? sp.) nov. (7 e) is larger and with the matura. 
pale parts slightly different in tone (more brownish) but evidently represents albicoma in S. E. Brazil, unless 
it be a separate species somewhat intermediate towards concinna. Not many specimens are yet known to me; 
the types are from Itatiaya (Seitz and Zikan), a short series from Alto da Serra (Spitz) is in the Tring Museum. 
0. deliciosa Th.-Mieg is, I suspect, merely a small, pale-spotted form of albicoma. It is described solely deliciosa. 
by comparison with a large (“44 mm”) $ which its author determined as “ albicoma ” and we have no means 
of knowing whether that was eminens or matura. “26 mm” (from tip to tip), the striae on the pale spots scarcely 
at all mixed with dots (in the larger ally — ? matura — much mixed with dots). Maroni River, 3 qq. 
0. semiviridis Warr. (7 f) differs from albicoma in the much narrower posterior spot of the forewing semiviridis 
and very narrow abdominal-marginal spot of hindwing; cell-spot of forewing obsolete. Carabaya (loc. typ.) and 
E. Bolivia. 
0. lotlgiplaga Warr. Very similar to semiviridis (7 f), but with a single, elongate abdominal patch on longiplaga. 
hindwing, reaching from anal angle more than half-way to base. Fonte Boa, Upper Amazon. An extreme form 
(probably race) from S. Brazil is only known to me in a single $, in rather poor condition. 
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