12 VESPOLA; PSYCHOMORPHA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
josioides. A. josioides Wkr. (1 i) is a larger, stronger species. Hindwing orange with a black marginal band; 
abdomen black. Brazil. 
buprasia. A. buprasia Drc. ( 1 g). Smaller than the preceding. The proximal margin of the hindwing is much 
more extensively black. Abdomen black with an orange anal tuft. On the figure the light postdiscal spot is 
much too prominent, in reality it scarcely stands out from the ground-colour. Guiana, Ecuador and Bolivia. 
tricuspis. A. tricuspis Zerny probably belongs to a separate genus, as the frontal cone terminates into 3 tips 
extending in one horizontal line. Forewing dark red-brown, at the costal margin and border light cinnamon- 
coloured red, strewn with yellowish; the reniform macula indistinctly darker; fringes greyish-brown, hindwing 
orange-yellow with a very broad dark brown marginal band. Abdomen bluish-black with an orange anal tuft. 
Brazil. Expanse of wings: 21 mm. 
hilzingeri. A. hilzingeri Berg. (1 k). Forewing red-brown, strewn with white, with 2 irregularly dentate transverse 
lines, the posterior line with white costal-marginal and inner-marginal spots; the reniform macula is small, 
dark. Hindwing orange with a black marginal band, both wings with fringes speckled black and white. From 
Argentina. 
magnified. A. magnifica Schs. (Ik) resembles hilzingeri-, hindwing lighter yellow, with a much broader black 
marginal band and discal luna; on the forewing there is between the maculae a V-shaped white spot; the abdomen 
is uni-coloured black, beneath with whitish hair, in hilzingeri laterally at the base and anus orange. South 
Brazil. 
janeira. A. janeira Schs. (= marginalis Rothsch.) (Ik). Forewing chocolate-brown with a whitish costal 
margin projecting before the middle broadly triangular, behind it hook-shaped downward, and sending from 
the apex of the triangle a fine white line to the anal angle before which it bifurcates. Hindwing orange-yellow, 
bordered with black. This very peculiarly marked insect flies in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). 
sublata. A. sublata Wlcr. (1 h) is a smaller, dark brown species strewn with bluish-white, with indistinct 
transverse lines on the forewings; hindwing yellow with a black marginal band. Brazil (Amazon). 
23. Genus: Vespola Wkr. 
This genus contains only one, rather robust species with very long, slender, ascending palpi; the 3rd 
joint is thickened at the end. Forehead without any projection. Antennae finely ciliated; thorax clad with 
scales, in front and behind with tufts, the abdomen on the first rings likewise with tufts. 
caeruleifera. V. caeruleifera Wkr. (1 h) is purple brown on the forewing, intensely strewn with blue scales, with 
dentate, darker transverse lines and the two maculae. Hindwing blackish-brown, in the disc metallic blue. 
The abdominal rings 2 to 5 are laterally banded bluish-silvery. Widely distributed in Mexico, Panama, Colombia 
and Peru. 
24. Genus: Psychomorpka Harr. 
The short, long-haired palpi show straight forward. The frontal cone is pointed; the eyes are small, 
elliptical; <$ antennae bi-combed; thorax, abdomen and tibiae with long and rough hair. Only 2 small, similar 
species from North America: 
euryrhoda. P. euryrhoda Hmps. (1 k). Body and forewing blackish-brown, strewn with metallic blue scales; behind 
the middle of the forewing there is a broad white obliepue band, proximad strangulated at the lower cell-angle. 
Hinclwing as far as the margin fiery copper-red with a black base, fringes dark brown. Hitherto known only 
from Florida. 
epimenis. P. epimenis Drury (lk) is very similar; the proximal margin of the white oblique spot projects 
pointedly proximally below the median. The hindwing is more orange-coppery *), the border broader blackish- 
brown. From the United States. —- Larva on each ring marked with 4 light yellow and 4 purple-brown transverse 
bands; head, neck-shield and anal valve red with black tubercles. It lives on the vine. 
Alphabetical List 
of the original descriptions of the American Agaristidae. 
* signifies that the form is also figured at the place quoted. 
aelia Gerra Drc. Biol. Oen.tr.-Amer. Het. 1, p. 334. 
affinis Er. Drt. Seitz, Macrolep. 7, p. 10. * 
aguirrei My. Berg, An. Soc. Argent. 13, p. 174. 
albiceps My. Drt. Seitz, Macrolep. 7, p. 10. * 
albidisca Tu. Drt. Seitz, Macrolep. 7, p. 5. * 
albiplaga Tu. Drt. Seitz, Macrolep. 7, p. 5. * 
albomaeulata Alypia Stoll, Or. Pap. Exot. 4. * 
amalthea Seir. Dalm. Anal. Entom. 1823, p. 49. 
atrata Pseudal. H. Edw. Papilio 4, p. 121. 
augias Orth. H.-Schdff. AuBereur. Schmett. f. 18. * 
Mmaculata Alypiod. H.-Schdff. AuBereur. Schmett. f. 26. * 
bolivar Tu. Jord. Novit. Zool. 15, p. 254. 
brannani Alypia Stretch , Zyg. and Bomb. N. Amer. p. 8. * 
brephos Gerra Drt. Seitz, Macrolep. 7, p. 11. * 
brevipennis Enth. Stretch. Zyg. and Bomb. N. Amer. p. 151. * 
buprasia Anc. Drc. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 20, p. 300. 
caeruleifera Vesp. Wkr. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 9, 
p. 186 . 
I colombiana My. Hmps. Cat. Lep. Phal. 9, p. 413. * 
*) On the table too red. 
