Publ. 3. Y. 1938. 
ANISODES. By L. B. Prout. 
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A. lutosicosta sp. n. (13 f). Face reddish, generally more mixed with dark grey than in ruficeps; vertex lutosicosta. 
and a great part of antennal shaft suffused with black-grey (in ruficeps red). Palpus with 2nd joint roughened 
above, 3rd joint in both sexes long. Leg structure about as in ruficeps. Abdomen becoming pale posteriorly, 
but not changing colour so abruptly as in seposita. Forewing with costal edge narrowly darkened, commonly 
blackish; cell-mark as in seposita and ruficeps or smaller, generally weak. Hindwing with the cell-spot about 
as in typical seposita. Costa Rica, the $$ fairly common, the type from Tuis, in the Tring Museum, labelled 
metaspilata by Schaus; also from Colombia and Ecuador and even Salampioni, Bolivia (1 damaged, cell¬ 
ring of hindwing minute), the last-named perhaps nearer to the following race. — ab. albiorbata nov. has the albiorbata. 
cell-spot of the hindwing large (diameter about 1 mm), white, with somewhat suffused grey circumscription. 
Type in the Tring Museum, from W. Ecuador. — goophostephana subsp. nov. Margins slightly less crenulate, gnophoste- 
face, vertex and antenna blacker. Santa Catharina (F. Hoffmann): Rio Laeiss, Blumenau, the type <$; Jara- 
gua do Sul, a good both in the Tring Museum. These have the cell-spot of the hindwing large and white, 
as in ab. albiorbata, but this will almost certainly be inconstant; a $ from Sao Paulo, which I refer to the same 
race, has it as in typical lutosicosta. — I suspect that this species is the “confirmaria Walk.” (MS.) mentioned 
by Dognin in erecting his raspata, but I will not employ that name, lest nomenclatural complications should 
result. 
A. ruficeps Warr. (13 g). A rather large species and generally fairly constant. Head antenna and ruficeps. 
upperside of body and wings virtually concolorous. Hindfemur of q fringed with long hair; proximal part of 
tibia with a similar tuft of hair, tinged with red. — ab. incerta Dogn. has the black cell-spot of the forewdng incerta. 
enlarged, that of the hindwing blackish; both retain the white or whitish central dot. Colombia and Peru; 
ruficeps was described from E. Peru, the aberration from Colombia. 
A. sypharia Guen. (= fimbripedata Walk.) (13 g). Smaller than the neighbouring species, wing-margins sypharia . 
somewhat smoother, hindleg of with the femora and tibia strongly long-fringed throughout, the hair of the 
proximal part of the tibia vinaceous, 3rd joint of palpus in both sexes long. Vertex white in front, reddish 
brown behind. The type form has the black cell-ring of the hindwing small, but it occasionally becomes mod¬ 
erate (never, so far as I know, large). — ab. discata nov. has the cell-mark of the hindwing double-ringed, about discata. 
as in dicycla. A very widely distributed species, Mexico to S. Brazil; Guenee's type from Cayenne. 
A. binocellaria H.-Sch. (= magnidiscata Warr.) (13 g). Under this name we have possibly two or three binocellaria. 
species mixed, as there seems to be some variation in the strength and extent of the hair-tufts of the liind- 
tibia and even in the length of the 3rd joint of the palpus; but the general constancy in shape and markings 
is so complete that I have not yet been able to make any separation. Much larger than sypharia, palpus 
scarcely so long in proportion, hindleg of q sometimes similarly clothed, but often with the hair of the tibia 
much reduced on distal part, its proximal tuft rarely vinaceous. Colour brighter, postmedian dots accompanied 
distally by pale ones (generally conspicuously white), cell-mark of hindwing typically as in sypharia ab. dis¬ 
cata. Venezuela (the type) and Costa Rica to Bolivia (this the type locality of magnidiscata). — ab. incerta nov., incerta. 
so called by analogy with ruficeps ab. incerta, is the only variant known to me: cell-spot of hindwing not quite 
so large, wholly black excepting the small white pupil; that of forewdng unchanged. Occurs in Costa Rica 
with the type, also Chiriqui and may be expected elsewhere. 
A. vineotincta Schaus, known only in a few $$, is possibly a modification of the preceding, with large vineotincta. 
white, dark-ringed cell-spot of forewdng and strengthened wdiite postmedian and terminal dots. Superficially 
recalls an overgrown vinous coloured flavidiscata. Juan Vinas and San Jose, Costa Rica. 
A. nivestrota Dogn., founded on a single $ from Lino, Panama, has the face and the fillet (between nivestrota. 
antennae) white; wdngs reddish brown, irregularly marked with white patches, on the forewing costal and 
apical, on the hindwing in the basal and costal half; lines blackish, weak, the postmedian festooned, bent in¬ 
ward about the 2nd median; forewdng wdth 3 large wdiite subterminal dots (in cellules 7, 6 and 3); hindwing 
with white cell-spot, bordered proximally by a blackish mark. If the irregular wdiite maculation is somewhat 
variable, a G from Muzo, Colombia, may well be referred here. Its hindfemur is fringed and there is a small 
tuft at the junction wdth the tibia. 
A. morbosa Dogn. Size of nivestrota (“33 mm"). Ground-colour formed of a mixture of ochreous and morbnsa. 
red-brown, head and body above the same; characterized by two large dirty-grey subterminal spots, which 
are ringed with black and enclose each a black V distally; cell-dots minute, wdiite, black-ringed. Hindleg 
fringed wdth long hair. San Antonio, Colombia, 1 <$. 
A. sopater Schaus (13 g). I know only the $ and cannot be sure of the section to which it should be sopater. 
assigned; it has slightly the aspect of some Old-World “Pisoraca” , e. g. a more purplish, weakly marked com- 
pacta Warr. or lyciscaria ab. coecaria Guen. Palpus long. Vertex only pale between the antennae; coloration 
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