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PAECTES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
glanca. 
polia. 
griseifusa. 
canofusa. 
panballa. 
arensa. 
areusoides. 
phloisma. 
stigmatias. 
isabcl. 
anal angle in a bright carmine spot. Hindwings are white in basal half with brownish veins and inner margin; 
outer margin black-brown with checked fringes. French Guiana (St. Jean Martin). 
P. giauca Hmps. (55 h). Body grey admixed with pale olive-yellow and peppered with black like the 
forewings, the latter especially in median area. The black transverse lines are edged with olive-yellow 
on alternate sides, the postmedian is double. Stigmata olive with grey edges, both sometimes being confluent. 
An oblique olive apical band extends to vein 6, at apex a grey and black spot with pale inner edge. A row of 
black dots before the margin, the one on the submedian fold being much heavier. Hindwings pale dusted with 
blackish brown on veins and at margin; in the $ the hindwings are dusky. West Colombia, Venezuela, British 
Guiana. 
P. polia Hmps. (55 h). The violaceous grey forewings are bestrewn with grey-black. Transverse lines 
blackish, the postmedian being double. Stigmata brownish with first grey, then blackish surrounds. The 
blackish subterminal is indicated and double; there are black dots proximally on the discal fold and above inner 
margin. A heavier black marginal spot on the submedian fold. Hindwings white with blackish veins and 
marginal band. Fringes white and with black-brown checks. Paraguay (Sapucay). 
P. griseifusa Hmps. (55 h). Body and forewings grey-white with brownish hue and peppered with black. 
Transverse lines black, the postmedian double with a third less distinct line posteriorly. The round stigmata 
have blackish surrounds; there are short black streaks above veins 5 and 6; a dark spot at apex and an undul¬ 
ate line before the margin. Hindwings black-brown, basal and inner marginal areas being paler. It occurs from 
Costa Rica to Brazil (Orgel Mountains). 
P. canofusa Hmps. (55 h). Head and thorax white, admixed with reddish brown; abdomen white with 
black dorsal spots at- base and black ventral spots. Forewings grey-white, partially admixed with fuscous. 
Median area and apex remain pure white, the latter with a black dot. Transverse lines black, delicate, double. 
The white stigmata with brown surrounds and central spots; in lower part of reniform a black dot. Posterior 
to postmedian line a black streak on the discal fold. Subterminal line also double, being most distinct near 
apex. Hindwings brownish. Mexico (Zacualpan), Panama, Venezuela and S. E. Peru. It also occurs on St. 
Lucia and Dominica. 
P. panballa Dyar closely resembles canofusa, but is less white and the lines are distincter and not dif¬ 
fuse. Brown-grey, the transverse lines are somewhat marked with metallic green; basal area dark turning 
green distally; somewhat pale violet-grey posterior to the black antemedian. Median area almost devoid of 
markings, stigmata obsolete. Posterior transverse line inwardly lilac-grey, outwardly with green edge. A black 
spot below the pale apex. Hindwings extensively blackish. Wing expanse: 29 mm. Panama (Chiriqui). 
P. areusa Wkr. (55 h) is similarly marked to canofusa, but the colouration is entirely different. Body 
fuscous, intermixed with grey and dark brown. Forewings suffused with fuscous, admixed with green in basal 
area, at costa and inner margin. Discal area more inclined to grey. A green band before the antemedian. 
Behind the subterminal there is a black spot above vein 6 and anteriorly a black streak above vein 5. Hind¬ 
wings blackish brown with white and brown checked fringes. — In areusoides Strd. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the black 
spot above vein 6 is absent, the green is restricted to basal area, the median area is traversed by a narrow pale 
oblique band. Panama, West Colombia, Brazil (Bahia). 
P. phloisma Dyar is of the same size with similar markings to areusa, but it is entirely without the 
fuscous colouration. Basal markings and the transverse lines are diffuse. Forewings grey, transverse lines 
edged with green. Basal area blackish at costa and inner margin, antemedian line indistinct, postmedian treble, 
its outer part dentate, followed by a brown-black streak below vein 6. Stigmata pale with black surrounds, 
reniform circumscribed by a delicate, faintly dentate, black median line. A black shade before the pale grey 
apex. Subterminal faint and pale. Hindwings blackish. Fringes spotted with white. Wing expanse: 25 mm. 
Panama (Canal zone). 
P. stigmatias Dogn. Forewings ochreous brownish, striated with white, brown and rose, partially ad¬ 
mixed with pale green. Cell traversed by a wide white band. Orbicular stigma with white surround. The 
black postmedian is partially double and extends in a semicircular manner to before the anal angle. The 
broad black subterminal arises on costa and appears again in a similar way at inner angle. Apex blackish. 
Between veins 8 and 6 white at margin. Hindwings reddish black, spotted with ochreous yellowish before 
the anal angle. Wing expanse: 26 mm. Panama (Lino). 
P. Isabel Schs. A very small species with pale grey-white forewings and black markings, only the head 
and thorax are a pale impure brownish. Antemedian line indicated by a few streaks, edged with brown below 
the median nervure, expanding and angulated on submedian. In place of a reniform stigma, 2 brownish grey 
dots at disco-cellular. Postmedian with purple-grev scales outwardly between veins 2 and 5; above vein 6 
a heavy black line extends to the margin, with a short streak below tlie vein. Marginal area suffused with brown¬ 
ish grey. The white hindwings are dusted with leathery yellowish and have a wide grey-black margin. Wing 
expanse: 23 mm. Indefatigable Island in the Galapagos Archipelago. 
