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S. subrosea Warr. (15 i). The true subrosea is a dusky form from Cundinamarca, with the pale markings 
almost obsolete; underside much as in subrubella. Specimens from E. Peru, Para and S. E. Brazil which have 
determined as belonging to it are, I think, merely rather large, rather dark races of subrubella or (if my suggestion 
under the latter is tenable) subrubella-\ike races of subrosea. Dyar did not include subrosea in his key, as 
he had before him only a $ from Brazil; but his description of this fits Lobocleta porphyrinat.a Walk, rather 
than subrosea and there is probably a misidentification. 
S. ptyctographa Dyar (15 i). This species and the following have not the strongly rosy underside of 
the two preceding; they are darker purplish than hegeter and have the dark edges of the lines inconspicuous. 
ptyctographa is of normal shape and has some rosy shading on the anterior part of the forewing below. Taboga 
Island, Panama (type series) and Costa Rica. Forms which I refer here reach Ecuador, the Amazons and even 
Bolivia; in Ecuador it seems to intergracle with more concoloraria-\ike forms. 
S. rectimargo Dyar. Larger than ptyctographa, forewing more triangular, with termen nearly straight. 
Colour much as in pannaria; lines yellowish, broad, coarsely waved, without distinct dark edges. Aroa, Vene¬ 
zuela, 1 3- 
S. hegeter Dyar. Paler than the rest of the purplish species of the group; described as “pale purplish 
carneous, much the colour of exanimaria” . Wings approaching the rectimargo form, lines reduced, inconspi¬ 
cuous, but with distinct dark edges; a dark purplish terminal line and line on costa. Beneath whitish, silky, 
the forewing roseate along costa. Costa Rica (loc. typ.) and Maroni River. 
C. 3 hindwing beneath with basal third covered broadly with raised och - 
reous scales. 
S. phryctaria Dyar. Close to pannaria; darker purplish, the lines broad, coarsely crenulate, yellow, 
without distinct dark borders (only a few dark scales), in the key described as “appearing ochre, contrasted, 
somewhat broken or segmented”. Guerrero and Orizaba, Mexico. Perhaps also in Ecuador. 
S. pappasaria Dyar (? = subroseata H.-Sch. nec Guen .) (15 i). Also close to pannaria, perhaps a 
race; smaller; snjooth light purplish grey, the lines scarcely darker edged, little excurved, rather uniform in 
expression. Cuba. Kaye and Lamont add Trinidad. 
S. olivaceata Warr., a $ from Suapure, Venezuela, more brown than pannaria , possibly somewhat 
discoloured (but certainly not “olivaceous”), is perhaps near that species; markings similarly placed, broader 
but rather indistinct and ill-defined, without pale edgings, interrupted especially between the radials, cell- 
marks elongate, without pale centres. Underside also browner than in pannaria. 
S. pannaria Guen. (= tremularia Walk., purpurissata Grote, concoloraria Druce, nec Dogn., formosa Hulst) 
(15 i). Darker purplish than the succeeding species of the group, the lines dark-edged or dark, the median and 
postmedian rather strongly excurved behind the middle. Widely destributed in the south-eastern United 
States, Central America, Colombia, Peru, ? Venezuela. I have not been able to separate the forms from Jamaica 
and Bermuda. — ab. borrigaria Warr. is a narrow form with the yellow element reduced. Described from Mexico. 
S. turbata Walk. ( = purpuria Prout, ex Schaus MS.) (15 i). As determined by Dyar, this is “very 
close to pannaria , perhaps only a local form of it with rather darker ground-colour”; he had three specimens 
from “Brazil”, all $9- I have already expressed a doubt whether, when the are better understood, we 
may not cliscour that the name belongs to a desmogramma from the Amazons. On the type I noted: “Rather 
larger than my Maroni desmogramma, smaller than Torne (Cauca Valley) pannaria, darker than both, lines 
finer, perhaps more outbent; costa as in the latter; yellow cell-mark of forewing reaching almost to costa.” 
S. terminata Guen. (— devolutaria Moschl., insutaria Moschl., fragmentata Warr.) (15 i). Distinguished 
by its pale ground-colour and dark terminal line and (on the forewing) costal edge; bands yellowish, with a 
few dark scales. With close attention, the characteristic thickening of the postmedian band of the forewing 
behind the 3rd radial may be observed. Distribution very general from Central America to Brazil and in the 
West Indies; the type from Colombia, Moschler's two from Porto-Rico, fragmentata from British Guiana. 
— ab. rescindaria Walk, (type from Venezuela) is the correct name for the form with distinct dark postmedian 
spot between the 3rd radial and 2nd median. — nursica Druce (15 k), whitish, with the spot very heavy, could 
be merged in rescindaria unless it is racial in Panama (Chiriqui, type and others) and Costa Rica. I have seen 
too few to pronounce upon its status. — exanimaria Dyar is said to be larger, more purple-tinged, the lines 
not broken, rendered conspicuous by their dark irroration. A pair from Cuba. — majuscula subsp. nov., from 
Santa Catharina, is also larger (20 mm) but has the ground-colour quite pale, the markings (including the cell- 
marks) broad and conspicuous, but the lines mostly not more continuous than in typical terminata. An ab¬ 
erration with purplish suffusion occurs with it. 
subrosea. 
ptyctogra¬ 
pha. 
rectimargo. 
hegeter. 
phryctaria. 
pappasaria. 
olivaceata. 
pannaria. 
borrigaria. 
turbata. 
terminata. 
rescindaria. 
nursica. 
exanimaria. 
majuscula. 
