discalis. 
accincfa. 
rcctilinea. 
yclichroa. 
g rise at a. 
serice a 
■pcrsccta. 
362 ABACENA; MICROPIIAEA; TASEOPTERYX; TROGOTORNA; DR0BETA- By Dr. M. Draudt. 
27. Genus: Abacena Wkr. 
Likewise very closely allied to the two preceding genera, with the neuration of Melamera, separated by longer, 
more porrect palpi, a small liair-tuft on the irons; the scaled thorax and abdomen are tuftless. 
A. discalis Wkr. (= palliceps Fldr.) (50 1). Porewing as far as the posterior transverse line deep red- 
brown with a yellow-reddish costal-marginal stripe, the marginal portion ochreous red-brown, both separated 
by the whitish postmedian line; the spotted darker undulate line begins with an indistinct oblique shadow 
from the apex.. Hindwing reddish-brown. Brazil (Amazons). 
A. accincta Fldr. is similar, but the basal and costal-marginal areas are grey with a silvery blue gloss; 
the blackish-brown median area is cut out above in the cell, enclosing a white lunula, the exterior upper end being 
pointedly extended, on both sides bordered by the fine black transverse lines which are bordered with white 
on the averted sides; the marginal area is yellowish-brown, before the very indistinct undulate line brownish- 
grey and covered with whitish scales. Hindwing greyish-brown. British Guiana and Brazil (Amazons). 
A. rcctilinea Hmps. Forewing light red-brown, mixed with whitish, especially behind the straight 
postmedian line which is white like the anterior transverse line, shaded with brown on the opposed sides; the 
white undulate line is inside shaded with blackish-brown, on the discal fold incurved, in the middle excurved. 
Hindwing light red-brown, mixed with whitish. Expanse of wings: 22 mm. Brazil. 
28. Genus: Microphaea Hmps. 
Separated from Abacena by erect palpi, smooth frons and not quite free uppermost subcostal branch 
which anastomoses with the second from above. 
M. nyctichroa Hmps. (501). Forewing purple, strewn darker, behind the middle lighter, with blackish 
transverse lines, the anterior line very indistinct, in the centre of the cell and at its end white dots. Hindwing 
dark brown. Panama. 
M. griseata Hmps. (50 1) is grey on the forewing with purple brown irroration and dark brown transverse 
lines which are bordered with grey on the averted sides, as well as a small black discoidal spot; the fine red- 
brown marginal line is inside bordered with grey. Hindwing the same. Brazil. 
29. Genus: Taseopteryx Btlr. 
Palpi longer, straightly porrect and triangularly scaled, at the ends hairy, the male antennae pectinate; 
thorax scaled and tufted like Cobubatha , but the abdomen with but one basal tuft on the 1st ring; neuration 
as in Abacena. Only 1 species is known. 
T. sericea Btlr. (50 m). Forewing yellowish-white, in some places dusted with red-brown, with a 
yellowish-white oblique patch from before the middle of the costal margin analwards, a similar one in the cell 
and from there obliquely outwards to the costal margin, as well as a third from the apex subterminally, below 
the cell-end with a dark brown triangular spot, above it the large yellowish-white reniform macula ; the double 
black posterior transverse line is filled with white; in the marginal area whitish internerval streaks. Hindwing 
light brown. Chile. 
30. Genus: Trogotorua Hmps. 
Separated from Microphaea by a truncate conical frontal projection with a raised margin, scaled thorax 
with a small loose tuft on the prothorax, behind tuftless, the abdomen with a tuft on the first ring. On the long 
narrow forewing the accessory cell is absent, the three lower subcostal branches are stalked, the two upper ones 
free, above the anal angle with a deep indentation. 
T. persecta limps. (50 nr). Forewing blackish-brown in the costal half, below it a whitish longitudinal 
patch, below it the wing is pinkish-brown; darker transverse lines are only visible in the lower half. Hindwing 
reddish-brown. Panama to Paraguay. — Another form (= ah. 1 . Hmps.) is more monotonously coloured, the 
costal-marginal portion lighter and without the whitish longitudinal patch, the inner-marginal portion darker 
brown. 
31. Genus : I>robeta Wkr. 
Of the same structure as Cobubatha , but the palpi are somewhat longer, and the body is clothed with 
han andhair-scales, and tufted as in Cobubatha. On the forewing the 4 lower subcostal branches are stalked, 
only the ripper most being free. 
