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D. exscendens Wkr. (50 m). Forewing on the whitish ground dusted with red-brown and yellowish exscendens. 
with a large round black spot in the disc, which extends almost from the costal margin to the inner margin; the 
transverse lines on the averted sides bordered with whitish, before the whitish undulate line with small black 
sagittary spots. Fringe red-brown speckled with black. Hindwing dark brown. Venezuela. 
D. melagonia Hmps. (50 m) is strewn with purple grey instead of yellowish, the black discal spot is only melagonia. 
present in its upper half and outside below the cell deeply concave; the other markings are similar as in 
exscendens. Hindwing blackish-brown. Panama; Trinidad. 
D. delectans Wkr. (50 m). Like melagonia, but here there is but a small costal piece left of the large deleclans. 
black discal spot; ground-colour ochreous brown, strewn with black, therefore on the whole darker, in the cell 
and postmedian area suffused with blackish-brown with a lead-coloured reflection, the transverse lines are 
distinctly double; the other marking almost the same. Hindwing brown. Brazil (Amazons). 
D. perplexa Schs. (50 m). Forewing red-brown, mixed with yellowish ochreous, with a faded dark perplexa. 
subbasal line and a strong black anterior transverse line, the maculae finely surrounded by yellowish; the brown 
posterior transverse line is only distinct at the costal margin and double, the undulate line indistinctly light. 
Hindwing yellowish red-brown. Venezuela. 
D. phaeobasis Hmps. (50 m) is somewhat similar to perplexa, more yellowish, the median area extensive phaeobasis. 
and without markings; posterior transverse line very indistinct light; the light undulate line is inside bordered 
by small dark sagittary spots, a black wedge behind it on the discal fold. Hindwing copper brown. West-Colombia. 
D. brephus Schs. (50 m). Forewing dark brown, strewn with a lighter colour, with hardly any markings; brephus. 
behind the exterior transverse line a yellowish-white patch to the apex where it is divided by a dark spot; in 
the reniform macula a small light spot; in the upper distal-marginal third a black double streak. Hindwing 
dark blackish-brown. Panama. 
D. bullafa Schs. (50 m) is well distinguished by an oblong vesicular swelling of the male hindwing at bidlala. 
the lower median branch, corresponding to which there is a deep hollow beneath. Forewing dark brown, basad 
dusted with black, costal margin in the middle somewhat thickened; transverse lines black, double; the ring- 
macula is a black ring filled with grey, the brown reniform macula shows a yellow-reddish ring; a blackish- 
brown subterminal shadow is in the upper half thick and intense, below it indistinct, outside light brown. Hind¬ 
wing blackish brown, around the cavity whitish. In the 2 the reniform macula is situate in a light ground, 
the postmedian line is filled with whitish. Costa-Rica. 
32. Genus: Hmps. 
This genus comprises somewhat larger species with a well developed proboscis, erect palpi with a short 
terminal joint, the thorax clothed with hairs and scales, with the same tufts as in Cobubaiha and Drobeta, the 
long abdomen also exhibits tufts on the first lings. On the forewing the 3 lowest subcostal branches are stalked, 
the two upper ones free. In the first species the male posterior tibiae are remarkably long-haired. 
P. vetuta Drc. (50 m). Forewing deep velvety red-brown with indistinct dark finely dentate transverse velula. 
lines, a white dot in the centre of the cell and with a narrow oblique reniform macula which is surrounded by 
whitish; the subterminal area particularly towards the costa] margin somewhat lighter yellowish. Hindwing 
copper red-brown. Peru. 
P. rufa Die. (50 n) is still larger and darker than velula, red-brown, strewn with black, with indistinct rig a. 
double transverse lines towards the inner margin filled with grey, a yellowish dot in the centre of the cell and 
an 8-shaped yellowish reniform macula; undulate line grey, the fringe speckled with a darker colour. Hindwing 
copper-brown. Peru. 
P. cervina Hmps. (50 n). Forewing lighter reddish-brown, strewn with dark brown, with double dentate ccrvina. 
transverse lines filled with grey; the reniform macula consists of 2 black dots surrounded by whitish; behind 
the quite indistinct undulate line the apex is darkened. Hindwing copper brown. British-Guiana. 
P. nephelistis Hmps. (50 n) has grey forewings densely dusted with red-brown, strewn with black, and nephelislis. 
with faded black transverse lines, only the posterior line is double at the costal margin, the small maculae are 
surrounded by whitish, the reniform macula is on the median somewhat inwards distorted; the undulate line 
is indistinctly lighter, only at the costal margin bordered with a darker colour. Hindwing copper-brown. 
Brazil (Amazons). 
P. carrioni Dogn. (50 n) was described as Eriopus and shows the forewings above the middle somewhat carrioni. 
more angled, red-brown, with a broad blackish subbasal area and with traces of a brown reniform macula; 
the posterior transverse line is fine, black and rather indistinct; in the somewhat lighter yellowish apex there 
is a blackish triangular spot, behind the whitish undulate line the margin is darker red-brown. Hindwing red- 
brown. Ecuador. 
P. mosaica Dyar (50 n) is densely dusted with olive brown on the yellowish loam-coloured ground, so mosaica. 
that the ground-colour is purely visible only at the anal angle; the 3 maculae together form a figure like trefoil- 
leaf of light-ringed spots, the transverse lines are fine black, dentate; the apex is parted by a white, outside 
