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SEMAEOPUS. By L. B. Prout. 
nisa. 
varia. 
subtincta. 
scripturaia. 
maleforma- 
ta. 
vizaria. 
perfusaria. 
perstrigata. 
perinquina- 
ta. 
viridipunc- 
iata. 
vigor aria. 
cantona. 
sticticata. 
oenopodi- 
ata. 
S. nisa Bruce (11 c). A beautiful species when fresh, but the characteristic green band easily fades 
to yellow; 2nd line on both wings almost, or altogether, interrupted between the radials, where the green band 
makes a strong projection outward. Described from Honduras and occurring in Panama, but chiefly known 
from Venezuela and French Guiana across the Amazon region to E. Peru, Bolivia, Matto Grosso and Paraguay. 
S. varia Warr. (11 c). Hindwing very slightly less prominent in middle. Colouring often w T armer, 
distal area (especially beneath) more clouded; 2nd line not interrupted, green band not so produced outward, 
dentate postmedian line of forewing strongly incurved between the radials (particularly noticeable on underside). 
Guianas, Para, Maranhao and Bolivia, the type from Rio Demerara. 
S. subtracts Warr. (= subfuscata Warr.) (11 d). Distinct from both the preceding in the much duller, 
grey-green band, which, on the hindwing, makes its projection in cellule 6, not cellule 5; cloudings of distal 
area strong, both above and beneath; cell-mark of hindwing small. Both Warren's types came from Bolivia, 
but the range includes Colombia, Venezuela, the Amazons and Paraguay. 
S. scripturata Warr. (11 d). More thinly scaled and subiridescent than most Semaeopus, somewhat 
recalling Trygodes. French Guiana (type) and the Amazons. 
S. maSeformata Prout (11 d). Closely related to scripturata but distinguishable at a glance by the dis¬ 
torted hindwing of the which bears on its underside a fringe of long hair directed backward from the sub¬ 
costal vein. Very widely distributed but only yet known from Uruguay (the type), the Lower Amazon and 
Colombia. 
S= vizaria Schaus (11 d). A very distinct species, though with some general resemblance to a small 
scripturata. Not iridescent, the hindwing rounded. The particularly large, blackish-bordered cell-spot and 
the geminate outer line may be pointed out as characteristic. S. E. Brazil. 
S. perfusaria Walk, (rf = atridiscata Warr.) (11 d). $ antenna with ciliation almost even (not con¬ 
spicuously fasciculate), hindleg (as also in perstrigata) with a long pencil from femoro-tibial joint and shortened 
tarsus; cell-marks black-ringed, that of hindwing partly filled-in with black. 9 with stronger oblique shading, 
continued as a central band on hindwing, the cell-spot of this wing less strongly black-mixed. Venezuela (the 
type), Bahia. Matto Grosso and Bolivia, not common. 
S. perstrigata Warr. (11 d) was made the type of a separate genus Paradmeta, on account of the crenu- 
late wings, the hindwing with an excision between two somewhat prominent teeth (at the 1st and the 3rd radial). 
The species was evidently named from the conspicuous dark line which, starting near the hind angle of the 
forewing, is continued almost straight across the hindwing to the middle of its inner margin. The type form 
was from Sapucay, Paraguay. — perisiquinata subsp. nov. is much smaller (22 or 23 mm), of a paler tint, the 
upperside being “pale pinkish cinnamon” (Ridgway), the underside with the red shades rather more pronounced; 
the characteristic line, especially on the hindwing, accompanied by heavier clouding, the line beyond the cell 
of the forewing with a dark spot between the radials. Taperinha, near Santarem (Dr. Zerny), the type $ in 
Museum Wien; 2 in Thing Museum, merely labelled “S. America” (coll. Meyer), almost certainly from the 
same district. 
S. viridipuuctata Warr. (11 d) differs markedly from all the foregoing in the strongly angled hindwing. 
The greenish or olive colour of the cell-spot of the hindwing is produced by a blend of tawny and grey scales. 
Antenna of with fascicles of long cilia. Forewing with the outer areole very small, the 2nd subcostal being- 
stalked (often long-stalked) with the 3rd—-5th. S. E. Brazil (type) and Paraguay. 
S. vigoraria E. D. Jones (11 d) is closely like viridipuuctata but much larger —- especially in the $ ■—- 
relatively somewhat longer-winged, distal margin of forewing a little more oblique, cell-spots more equal, that 
of the hindwing not, or scarcely, mixed with grey. S. E. Brazil. 
S. cantona Schaus (11 e). In structure pretty similar to viridipuuctata, which it also somewhat approaches 
in the extended cell-spot of the hind wing. Shape quite different; cell-mark of forewing punctiform; lines slen¬ 
der, both above and beneath, the dentate postmedian rather conspicuous beneath. Mexico. 
S. sticticata Warr. (11 e). 2nd subcostal of forewing stalked or occasionally connate. Cell-spot of both 
wings black. Smaller and shorted-winged than oenopodiata, the median line of the forewing more sinuous, less 
oblique, with shadowy dark shading distally. The Bolivian $$ which I refer here have on both wings a definite 
band outside this line. Paraguay, the type only; Buenavista, E. Bolivia, 1 (worn, hut apparently agreeing 
closely) and 2 
S. oenopodiata Guen. (lie). Very Scopula- like, but easily distinguished by the double areole and 
by the vinous-mixed tuft of the $ hindleg. The latter probably associates it with the munda group or such 
