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moerens. P. moerens Btlr. (16 c) is on the forewing light olive-brown, dusted with blackish-brown, marked 
like the preceding with black and white dots on the veins behind the distal transverse line; both the upper 
maculae are in somewhat lighter rings; the ochreous-yellow undulate line is proximally marked black and more 
distinctly prominent. Hindwing blackish-brown, towards the base lighter. Chile. 
assimilis. P. assimilis Morr. (16 c). Forewing black with a brown reflection, a black basal ray and a reddish- 
brownish base of the proximal margin. Transverse lines single, the posterior line dentate, the maculae encircled 
with black, the reniform macula proximally produced on the median, with traces of an undulate median line 
between them; the undulate line consists of a series of small black and white sagittae with a larger white spot 
near the anal angle. Hindwing yellowish- white with brownish veins and margin. Canada, Northern and Eastern 
States as far as Now York. -—- The larva is black or dark green with broad light yelloAv subdorsal lines and lateral 
stripes; on brake and low plants. 
pulverulen- P. pulverulenta Sm. (16 a) is very similar, but it has the forewings much more intensely dusted 
ia • with grey. From Alaska, British Columbia, Manitoba. 
albipuncta. P. albipurscta Hmps. Lustrous red-brown with black single transverse lines, before the anterior line 
with a faded grey band with a white dot in it in the cell; the maculae are greyish- brown, encircled with black, 
the strangulated reniform macula on the grey median shade; the undulate line consists of small black spots 
distally pupilled white, the spot above the upper radial branch being larger, and with a large white spot at 
limbanensis. the anal angle. Hindwing brown, towards the base whitish. Expanse of Avings: 36 mm. Peru. — limbanensis 
Strd. (== ab. 1 Hmps.) is on its head and thorax greyer and has an entirely greyish-brown marginal area. 
albosiriata. P. albosfriata Drc. Thorax with red and grey hair, collar white bordered with red; abdomen grey, 
at the end black. Forewing black, in the cell a Avhite ring, below it 2 white spots; a submarginal roAV of 
Avhite streaks extends from the apex to the anal angle; fringes white speckled with black. Hindwing of 
a pure white. Expanse of wings: 45 mm. Southern Peru (Acopampa). 
egregia. P. egregia sp. nov. (16 b) is very closely allied to albosiriata ; the thorax is deep puiple red, inter¬ 
mixed Avith Avhite scales, the collar the same; abdomen laterally with long white hair, posteriorly greyish-reddish, 
the tufts purple-red mixed with black. Forewing deep purple red, strewn Avith lavender-grey, with double 
transverse stripes filled up with lavender-grey, the posterior stripe very sharply dentate, the basal area white, 
crossed by the jet-black double subbasal line; the upper maculae in broad and bright AA'hite rings, the reniform 
macula pupilled olive-brownish, the pupil itself is encircled with black; the median at the end, as far as it extends 
in the lower end of the macula, broad black; in the discal area more intensely strewn with black; in the purple 
red subterminal area there is an undulate line of jet-black sagittae exhibiting long and broad white streaks; 
those situate between the radial branches, as Avell as the second and third above the anal angle converge some- 
Avhat proximally; fringes black, on the ends of the veins whitish mixed with reel. Hindwing whitish, somewhat 
strewn with grey, Avith dark grey veins and margin, the latter projecting dentately proximally on the veins. 
Expanse of wings: 44 mm. Of this magnificent species Fassl captured a $ on the Quindiu Pass (Colombia). 
aya. 
nervma. 
canosticta. 
magellana. 
lehr uni 
P. aya Dogn. (= zobira Schs.) (16 c) is on the forewing deep purple brown, almost black with a reddish- 
brownish basal ray, and the costal margin is also somewhat lighter towards the apex; the markings are of a 
deeper black, very little visible and marked by ochreous-yellowish spotting, the undulate line being the most 
distinct with a large ochreous spot at the anal angle; on the margin there is a row of white dots. Hindwing 
diaphanous AA'hite, veins and margin greyish-brown. Mexico to Ecuador. 
P. nervina Dogn. (16 c) has reddish brown forewings suffused Avith black, AA'ith rather indistinct 
double transverse stripes and the maculae in yellowish-brown rings and with dark brown pupils, the reniform 
macula distally with a white lunar streak and a white dot in the lower end, between both a faded median shade; 
undulate line ochreous-yellowish, proximally shaded with black. Hindwing whitish, in the distal half brownish- 
grey. Ecuador. 
P. canosticta Drc. (16 b) has red-brown forewings strewn with grey; the transverse lines are indistinct, 
bordered with grey, the posterior line distally marked by grey spots; between the grey, brown-pupilled maculae 
extends a darker median line; behind the dentate undulate line there are distinct grey roundish spots, the 
largest and lightest at the apex. Hindwing greyish-brown with yelloAvish fringes. Bolivia. 
P. magellana Mab. (16 c). Forewing greyish-brown, strewn with black and reddish-brown, with 
double black transverse lines filled up with grey, and red-brown maculae in grey rings AA'ith an undulate black 
discal shade between them; undulate line white with a distinct W, on both sides bordered with small black 
spots. Hindwing Avhitisli; veins and margin brownish. Patagonia. 
P. lebruni Mab. is on the forewing light yellowish-brown, except the proximal margin and the mar¬ 
ginal area dusted and streAvn with blackish-brownish, with single black transverse lines being on the averted 
sides bordered with grey, brown maculae in grey and black rings, the reniform macula connected AA'ith the 
postmedian line by black streaks; the undulate line is only marked by the light marginal area and small black 
sagittae before it. Hinclwing whitish, distally broAvn. Expanse of Avings: 32 mm. Patagonia. 
