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at the anal angle. Cell-ring more elongate. Underside light straw-colour with the markings rosy vinaceous, 
well expressed, especially on the forewing. Face with a rosy tinge; a vinous line across its upper part. Pec¬ 
tinations shorter than in urcearia and only continued to about %. 
A. palingenes Prout. Expanse 29 mm. Also very similar to urcearia but less broad-winged, with the palingenes. 
termen of the forewing somewhat more oblique; cell-ring of forewing definitely smaller than that of hindwing; 
all the lines (including even the median) expressed by rows of dots, the subterminals of the forewing obsolete 
in cellules 6 and 3, not enlarged between the radials. Underside pale. Chanchamayo, 1000 m, 1 <$. 
A. stigmatilinea Prout (14 b). Slightly larger than palingenes , structurally distinguishable both from stigmati- 
that and from urcearia by the presence, on the hindleg, of a femoro-tibial hair-pencil at least half the length 
of the tibia. Cell-marks somewhat more elongate than in urcearia ; the lines mostly with strong dots or dashes. 
Santo Domingo, S. E. Peru. 
A. plethophora sp. n. (14 c). Smaller and less broad-winged than urcearia and even than lichenea, plethophora. 
which it most resembles in tone, but which has a more strongly rosy underside. $ with the 2nd joint of the 
palpus reaching very little beyond the face, the 3rd scarcely so long relatively as in urcearia ; hindleg smooth. 
Areole well developed. Costal region of forewing in part somewhat cloudy; subterminal and terminal shades 
between the radials and on the fore wing generally towards the tornus rather strong. An occasional aberration 
has a large dark cloud on the hindwing, placed a little more forward than that of importaria and touching the 
apex. Bahia (Penther expedition, 1903): Joazeiro, Alagoinhas, etc., 6 <$$ and 4 type and allotype in 
the Vienna Museum. 
A. lichenea Warr. (14 c). Only known from Jamaica, possibly only a very well-differentiated aberration lichenea. 
of the variable urcearia, which also occurs on that island, in its warmer {importaria- coloured) forms; but apart 
from the different colour and the larger black (white-pupilled) cell-spots it seems scarcely so broad-winged. 
Underside strongly flushed with red. Only $$ are yet known. A candara like aberration occurs. 
A. urcearia Guen. (= ordinata Walk., nom. praeocc., directata Walk., nom. nov.) (14 c). This and the urcearia. 
3 or 4 so-called species which follow have not yet been differentiated by structure or essential markings and 
may not improbably represent a single polymorphic species. In any case the typical urcearia, as here figured, 
is very widely distributed (Mexico to S. Brazil and Paraguay, besides Jamaica and Trinidad) and often com¬ 
mon. The type of urcearia came from Cayenne, that of directata from the Amazon. The hindfemur of the 
is slightly tufted, the tibia smooth. — ab. importaria Moschl. (14 c) has an ample grey cloud on the hindwing importaria. 
between the median and the postmedian and the ground-colour warmer than in the type. Described from 
Surinam. — ab. candara Druce, from Panama, is almost the same as importaria, but has the ground-colour pale, candara. 
— ab. Sylvia Druce, described from a fleshy-tinged Mexican $, is a transitional form between typical urcearia sylvia. 
and ab. importaria , forewing much as in the former, hindwing with slight cloudings and with incomplete rows 
of small spots bordering the subterminal. — ab. (? sp. div.) gueneei nov. “A little larger, wings broader in pro- gueneei. 
portion, the hindwing with border more convex. Underside of both wings with a distinct rosy cell-ring which 
is wanting absolutely in the type. Brazil.” I have confirmed this differentiation on Guenee's original, which is 
somewhat damaged; I agree that it presents a little the aspect of a separate species, but the Brazilian urcearia 
are commonly rather large and well-marked beneath, so that it may be a broad-winged ab. of a geographical race. 
A. diffusa Warr. (= maroniensis Dogn.) (14 d). Warren, on a Rio Demerara $, erected this as an diffusa. 
aberration of urcearia, characterized by the strong red irroration of the upper- and intensification of the red 
suffusion of the underside; and he may well have been right. Dognin, however, on good material from the 
Maroni River, considered it a species. At one time I thought I had discovered that the 3rd joint of the $ palpus 
was slightly longer than in urcearia, but I have failed to establish this. — ab. centrata Dogn., founded on 2 22, centrata. 
has the hindwing much as in urcearia ab. importaria but with the ground-colour of diffusa ; but it has in ad¬ 
dition a similar blotch on the forewing. Besides the Guianas, diffusa seems to occur in N. Venezuela and 
Trinidad, though in a form slightly transitional towards urcearia. 
A. dispergaria Moschl., of which the published figure was so extremely bad that it would be only mis- dispergaria. 
leading to reproduce it, is certainly, according to a side-by-side comparison of the types, a near relative of 
importaria (therefore possibly another form of urcearia). Underside paler and more sharply marked, upper- 
side with broader markings but without blotches, the hindwing with the cell-spot black, with a few pale 
fleshy scales as pupil. Surinam, 1 Dyar records a presumably similar form from Panama. 
A. superflua Warr. (14 h) is also possibly a curious aberration of urcearia, large, boldly marked and superflua. 
with a narrow crescentic mark instead of the usual roundish cell-spot of the hindwing. A $ from Palma Sola, 
Venezuela. 
