HETEROCHROMA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
phytolacca. 
ihermogra- 
pha. 
bellona. 
postalbida. 
thermida. 
albipunda. 
insignis. 
amphion. 
sarepta. 
hypatia. 
criopioides. 
hadenoides. 
luma. 
ooo 
H. phytolacca Sepp (= singularis Btlr.) (32 cl). Forewing purple dark brown with finely lighter 
striped veins, and fine double brown transverse lines filled up with oehreous; instead of the conifoim macula 
a dark spot, the upper maculae in light rings, the renifoim macula distally with a yellowish line; undulate line 
yellowish, before it small black sagittae. Hindwing yellowish-white with a broad brown marginal band. Guiana, 
Brazil. — The green larva with darker green subdorsal lines and lateral lines lives on Phytolacca octandra 
and is transformed into a green pupa with a brown ventral side. 
H. thermographa Hmps. is similar to the preceding, not so variably scaled, but more clearly and 
smoothly, with more distinct light transverse lines, the hindmarginal vein in the median area and the veins 
in the postmedian area fine white. Hindwings darker. From West Colombia. 
H. bellona Fldr. (= metallica Edw., singularis Drc.) (32 c). Forewing purple brown, in some places 
darkened by black, particularly submedianly in the central area, transverse lines double, only the posterior 
line bordered with a somewhat lighter reddish, with somewhat greyer maculae being surrounded by black, 
the reniform macula distally bordered with yellowish-white; the dentate undulate line is purple grey, proximally 
with small black sagittae. Hindwing yellowish-white with a broad dark brown marginal band. Mexico to 
Guiana. 
H. postalbida Dynr is easily recognized by entirely white hindwings, the veins being darkened towards 
the margin. Forewing brown mixed with blackish, with 3 large coherent maculae surrounded by black, the 
two upper ones partly centred with yellowish-white, and with quite extinct transverse lines which are submedianly 
connected; the light undulate line is traversed by black internerval streaks. Dominica. 
H. thermida Hmps. (32 e) is larger than the similar bellona, in the central area more intensely darkened 
whith black, the double transverse lines filled up with reddish-yellow; in the surroundings of the maculae 
which are encircled with black there are sing/e white dots, on the outside of the reniform macula a large white 
spot; before the reddish undulate line with small black sagittae. Hindwing reddish-yellow, at the margin broadly 
red-brown, in the $ darker. Peru. 
H. albipuncta Jones (32 e) is also very similar, at the base of the hind-margin with a silvery bluish- 
white spot on the black ground; in the central area a black streak extends from a black hindmarginal stripe 
upwards between the coniform macula and a black spot behind the latter; the elliptic renifoim macula shows 
proximally a reddish spot, distally a white one. Hindwing as in the preceding. Brazil. 
H. insignis Wkr. (32 e) likewise greatly resembles thermida, distinguished by the small reniform 
macula being centred with brown and surrounded by yellowish, not spotted white, and by the transverse lines 
not being filled up with a lighter colour. Jamaica. 
H. amphion Drc. Forewing dark brown, irrorated with purple grey, the veins irrorated with grey, near 
the base of the hind-margin with a green spot, with double transverse lines and grey filling, the posterior line 
finely dentate, between them with grey maculae, the reniform macula distally bordered with white, behind 
it the postmedian area is somewhat lighter grey; before the grey undulate line there are small black sagittae. 
Hindwing reddish dark brown. Guatemala. 
H. sarepta Drc. (= amphion Drc. part.) (32 e) differs from amphion in its not dentate posterior 
transverse line being filled up with white, the veins before it being somewhat white-striped; the undulate line 
is whitish only in its uppermost oblicpie part, the other part being composed of small dark spots. Hindwing 
dark brown. Mexico to Panama. 
H. hypatia Die. (32 e) is very different. Forewing silvery white, irrorated with olive-brown and in 
some places with red-brown, at the base of the costal margin black, behind it tinted white and pink, a similar 
spot at the hind-margin; the anterior transverse lines partly double, several times interrupted; before the 
reniform macula there is a U-shaped black spot, the macula itself and the area behind it are suffused with pink; 
before the double posterior transverse line at the hind-margin there is a crescentiform red-brown spot marked 
with pink, behind it an X-shaped black marking; the white undulate line approaches in the middle the post- 
median line. Hindwing brownish-grey. Panama. 
H. eriopioides Gn. ( -- subapicalis Wlcr., porphyra Drc.) (32 f). Forewing red-brown, strewn with 
a darker shade, with double transverse lines filled up with oehreous yellowish, the posterior line subapically 
interrupted by a yellowish-white diffuse spot, and the maculae surrounded with black, the renifoim macula 
above distally spotted yellowish-white; at the hind-margin in the central area a ferruginous-reddish longitudinal 
spot; the undulate line consists of small yellowish spots. Hindwing reddish-brown. Guatemala to Brazil. 
H. hadenoides Gn. (32 f) has red-brown forewings strewn with black, with a green longitudinal patch 
behind the base of the hind-margin, with black dentate transverse lines and a black longitudinal patch on 
the submedian fold in the anterior half of the central area; outside at the reniform macula there are 2 green 
dots: instead of the undulate line small black sagittae. Hindwing ochreous-brown with a darker marginal 
area. Brazil. 
H. luma Drc. (32 f) is larger than the preceding, without the green hindmarginal spot and without 
green at the reniform macula; transverse lines double, the posterior line only at the costal margin, below it 
distally bordered with ochreous-yellow, the maculae scarcely lighter than the ground; before the small light 
