SEMAEOPUS. By L. B. Prout. 
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typical form is very easy to recognize by the large, irregularly-shaped green patch on the hindwing. —In ah. va- vacuaia. 
cuata Warr. (10 a) this patch is reduced to a very small ring, like that of pertumna or smaller. — In ah. anfractata anfractata. 
Prout the outer line, always slightly dentate in the species, is strongly produced inward between the veins so 
as to form a remarkable zigzag. Described from Brazil, viridiplaga is also rather common at Sapucay, Paraguay, 
where Foster took all 3 forms together; the vacuaia form has also been taken singly in Colombia and Peru. 
S. enodiflexa Prout (= indignaria auctt., nec Gnien.) (10 a). Superficially very like a large vacuata (10a), enodiflexa. 
the curves of the outer line rather less deep and entirely without dentation, both cell-spots always very small but 
white-pupilled. Midtibia of simple, hindtibia more heavily tufted than in viridiplaga , the tufts mixed with 
red, the tarsus entirely aborted. Paraguay (type) and Brazil. 
S. ciliata Prout (10 a). Generally a little more tinged with brownish or flesh-colour than enodiflexa, ciliata. 
otherwise I do not known how to distinguish the $; cell-dots on an average smaller. Antenna of the dentate, 
with fascicles of long cilia, while that of enodiflexa is formed nearly as in pertumna. Generally distributed from 
Panama (the type locality) to Paraguay and S. E. Brazil. 
S. rubripuncta Dogn. Similar to ciliata (10a), considerably smaller, the median line of the forewing rather rubripunc- 
less straight, the curves of the postmedian rather weak, the cell-spot of the hindwing enlarged, outlined in ta ‘ 
reddish. Argentina, especially Tucuman; the Tring Museum has a specimen from Agua Suja, Minas Geraes. 
S. semicaeca Prout (10 a). Much like a browner ciliata, the outer line, however, showing the fine denti- semicaeca. 
dilations of that of viridiplaga . Cell-dots punctiform, that of the forewing blind, that of the hindwing with 
a minute but distinct white pupil. Calama, Rio Madeira. Also 1 $ from Taperinha, near Santarem (Zerny). 
S. anomala Dogn. “38 mm”. An almost exact counterpart, though larger, of errabunda, but with large anomala. 
red-brown vein-dots on the outer line and again at the base of the fringe and with both cell-dots small and 
not white. Antenna as in errabunda . Popayan, Colombia, 1 <$. Close to munda, except in the small, weak, 
yellowish cell-mark of hindwing. 
S. errabunda Dogn. “30—34 mm. Yellowish testaceous, irrorated with reddish, traversed by two errabunda. 
darker lines, irregularly sinuate, nearly parallel and slightly wider apart on the hindwing; forewing in addition 
with a subbasal. Cell-dots white, more or less surrounded with black or reddish on the forewing, a little larger 
and well encircled with black on the hind. Underside similar, but the forewing more or less rosy tinded and 
without the 3rd line; cell-dots transformed into black marks. Antenna with double ciliation.” Loja and El 
Monje, S. Ecuador. 
S. munda Walk, somewhat recalls punctigera (9 li), but is larger, with fasciculate £ antenna, the middle munda. 
part of the face more reddish, the forewing beneath not suffused with reddish ; these are additional distinctions 
to those noted above. Bogota. -—- ab. (?) signifer Warr. (10b) only differs in the cell-spot of the hindwing, signifer. 
wdiich, instead of being filled with blackish, forms a ring containing a red mark on the discocellular. E. Bolivia 
(type), E. Peru, Colombia and N. Venezuela, nowhere common. 
S. vinodiscata Dogn., besides being smaller than munda (about as punctigera), has the forewing rela- vinodiscata. 
tively a little less elongate costally and the blackish upper part of the face a little more extended. Other¬ 
wise I would have sunk it with certainty, the more so as it produces at Muzo an aberration parallel to munda 
ab. signifer. E. Colombia: Medina and Muzo. 
S.smithi Pi •out (9 a). Much smaller than illimitata ( 10 b), the grey lines somewhat more diffuse, antemedian smith i. 
somewhat straighter, underside somewhat paler; but perhaps a dwarfed aberration, Colombia. 
S. illimitata Warr. (10 b) is a common species from Guatemala, Trinidad, Venezuela and the Guianas illimitata. 
to Peru and the Amazons, generally varying little in the ground-colour and the lines but greatly in the size 
of the cell-spots and the degree of their blackening. In the name-type (from Paramba) they are rather small, 
white with some grey scales and slenderly encircled with black. — ab. parvidiscata nov. has them reduced to parvidisca- 
w'hite dots, slenderly encircled with black, cpiite as in enodiflexa or ciliata. -—■ ab. albidiscata Warr. has the f 
white spots large and clear with the usual dark rims. — ab. nigridiscata Warr. differs from albidiscata in having n {gridisca- 
the spots grey or blackish. — flavicans Prout, confined to N. Venezuela, seems to be a local race, of a clay- ta. 
yellow colour, the spots large, as in albidiscata or nigridiscata. The average size of this form seems, moreover, ^" llccnls - 
to be decidedly reduced as compared with the others. 
S. discosa Dyar. “Dark ochre, the wings finely irrorate with purplish; lines distinct, dull purplish, discosa. 
wavy and denticulate; discal spots large, round, dull purple irrorated with lilaceous, followed each by a pur¬ 
plish cloud that fills in the bend of the median line. Expanse 29 mm. May be a heavily marked variety of 
citrina.” Zacualpan, Mexico, 1 J. 
