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P. sabulosa Sch.s. (55 i). Forewings grey-white, peppered and dusted with black-brown; a whitish basal sabulosa. 
spot below cell. All 3 transverse lines double, postinedian line intertilled with whitish, with still a third diffuse 
line distally. The round stigmata with white centres and blackish surrounds. The subterminal is also double 
and partially intertilled with white. The black streaks or spots at vein 6 are absent here. Hindwings whitish, 
dusted with brown, with whitish marginal spot before the anal angle and white fringes. West Colombia, Brazil 
(San Paulo). 
P. indefatigabilis Schs. Body whitish, collar anteriorly cinnamon-brown, with grey-black edge. Ab- indefatiga- 
domen suffused dorsally with grey-brown. Forewings pale grey at inner margin, widely deep mouse-grey in 
costal area. The delicate black antemedian line is double, it is accompanied by a wide mouse-grey shade, the 
median area distally obliquely white to costa, traversed by a fine double median line. Orbicular stigma is a 
small black oval, reniform is indicated by 2 fuscous dots at the extremities of the disco-cellular nervure. Post- 
median line double and distinct, black at costa, cinnamon-brown from vein 7 to inner margin with mouse- 
grey patchy dusting posteriorly and a black streak below vein 5. Subterminal line irregularly spotted, brown. 
The whitish marginal area suffused with grey, except at apex; between veins 6 and 7 a black line extends from 
postmedian to margin. Fringes white, spotted with brown-grey. Hindwings whitish, suffused with brown and 
with blackish brown margin. The $ is more uniformly grey, the antemedian line simple and with darker shading. 
Wing expanse: 24 mm. Galapagos Archipelago (Indefatigable and South Seymour Islands). 
P. albescens Hmps. (55 i). Head, thorax and abdomen white, somewhat tinged with brown. Forewings albescens. 
white peppered with brown. Transverse lines black, the antemedian with brown inner edge, angulated acutely 
on vein 1 to the base; the median line double below the cell, the postmedian similarly double. The large stig¬ 
mata circumscribed by black, with olive colouration in centre, reniform open at top, dusted with black distally. 
Subterminal indicated by small black dots inwardly and by black streaks on veins 3—1. Hindwings white, 
black-brown in marginal area, median nervure and cell nervnles blackish, fringes white. Honduras, Colombia. 
Subfamily: Stictopterinae. 
An exhaustive description of this subfamily, written by Dr. Seitz himself is to be found in Vol. XI, 
p. 365. It is mainly indo-australian, with a smaller representation in Africa. In America there are only 4 species 
to be classified here. 
They are relatively close to the Eutelianae and also in this case the frenulum of the $ is simple. It differs 
from the preceding subfamily by the absence of the lateral anal tufts and by the presence of an upraised ap- 
pression of scales in cell of forewings. 
1. Genus: Stictoptera Gn. 
Readily distinguishable by the unusually long and narrow forewings, that have a very oblique margin. 
Proboscis developed, palpi erect, the terminal segment thickened, frons with scaly tuft. Antennae long, ciliate 
in E with a cluster of scales on basal segment. Thorax scaly and with a tuft. Forewings with appendicular cell; 
on hindwings veins 3, 4 and 5 arise from lower angle of cell. 
Type. St. cucullioides Gn. from India. 
St. fenestra Gn. (55 k). This and the following species are very alike, but here the grey colour is predo- fenestra. 
minant. Forewings pale grey,'peppered with black with a somewhat hyaline cuneiform spot between the cell 
and the submedian fold. Numerous undulate transverse lines, partially black, partially brown traverse the 
wings. The fuscous reniform stigma is outlined by ochreous yellowish. Hindwings hyaline iridescent bluish 
with wide black marginal band. From Cuba and Brazil (Para, New Freiburg). 
St. vitrea Gn. (= phryganealis Wkr., fenestra Drc. nec Gn.) (55 k) is very similar to the preceding, but vitrea. 
browner in tone; orbicular and claviform stigmata, that are absent in fenestra , are indicated by rusty brown 
patches with pale grey surrounds. The other markings are all very similar. Hindwings are also the same. In 
the $ the wings are shorter and on forewings markings are more distinct with fuscous spots at base and in centre 
of costa and behind the postmedian line. Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil; also on Jamaica. 
St. clara Cr. (— diaphana Gn. subaurata Wkr. steirialis Wkr.). Apex of forewings in of this and the darn. 
following species rather less extended. Forewings dark brown with violaceous grey sheen. Antemedian and 
postmedian lines double with a simple black median line between, before which a fuscous line indicates the 
outer edges of orbicular and claviform stigmata. Reniform stigma laterally edged by brown. Distally of the 
dentate black subterminal line there is a row of small red-brown spots. Hindwings as in preceding species. The 
9 (55 k) is more brightly coloured and with bolder markings. Both bands behind the two transverse lines are 
much darker, the anterior one being almost black. The outlines of orbicular and claviform stigmata are black, 
a white spot distally of the subterminal line between veins 2 and 3. - - phryganoides Wkr. is a much more greyish, phryganoi- 
less brown form. British Guiana, Brazil (Para, Ega, Rio Negro). des. 
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