HOLOPHAEA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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P. splendens Druce (141) has a black body with orange-yellow spots on the collar, breast, hindhips, splendens. 
laterally on the first abdominal ring, sublaterally on the second and subdorsally on the third and the next 
segments. The antennae are orange; the wings greenish-black, with orange spots. Bahama Islands. 
P. minima Grote (14 m). The more bluish-black ground-colour and the white, not yellow spots distinguish minima. 
this species sufficiently from the preceding. From Florida and Cuba. — The orange-red larva being dorsally 
and sublaterally dark striped with hair-brushes on the dorsum lives in December on Myginda ilicifolia and 
changes to a light brown lustrous pupa in an elliptic web. 
P. sithon Druce (14 m). Blackish-brown; ends of antennae and forehips white; spots at the base of sithon. 
the shoulder-covers and lateral abdominal stripes are carmine; wings hyaline with very broad blackish-brown 
margins. — In f. flavescens n. n. {— ab. 1 . Hmps.) the red parts are orange-yellow. Mexico; Guatemala. flavescens. 
P. ochreiventris Dogn. The body is greyish-brown; spots at the sides of the forehead, at the base ochreiven- 
of the shoulder-covers, as well as 2 transverse bands above the 2 first abdominal rings, anal hairing, first palpal tris - 
joint, hips and the first abdominal rings beneath are ochreous. At the sides of the abdomen there are metallic 
blue spots. Wings thinly scaled greyish-brown; more densely scaled at the cell-end of the forewing. Expanse 
of forewings: 26 mm. Ecuador. 
P. picta Schaus (14 1) has a greyish-brown body; forehead bordered with whitish. Vertex, shoulders, picta. 
and metathorax exhibit carmine spots. The two first abdominal segments and broad lateral stripes on the others 
are yellowish-white. Wings hyaline greyish-brown. From Venezuela and Guiana. 
P. sanguiceps Hmps. (14 m). Body black, on the head and shoulders red spots, on the metathorax sanguiceps. 
two red spots. Wings blackish diaphanous, the forewing exhibits a large, faded blackish discoidal spot, the 
hindwing being black in the whole distal half. From Panama. 
P. melanthus Cr. (= trigutta Wkr.) (14 m) is larger than the preceding. Colour of the body more melanthus. 
reddish-brown, the vertex is black, forehips and the last abdominal rings beneath white. Wings brownish 
diaphanous with brown veins and margins. Colombia; Surinam; Brazil. 
P. nigrozona Schaus. A very small species with a blackish-blue body. Forehips and venter except nigrozona. 
the last segments whitish. Wings smoky brownish hyaline, the forewing with a broad black median band being 
continued on the apical half of the hindwing; proximal margin of the forewing black. Expanse of wings: 19 mm. 
French Guiana. 
P. naenia Druce (15 a) is unicolorously blackish-brown, only at the base of the shoulder-covers there naenia. 
are small red spots; ends of antennae white. Wings blackish-brown, the hindwing exhibits small hyaline spots 
in and below the cell. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Guatemala. 
P. translucida Dogn. (15 a) has a quite unicolorously black body. The wings are hyaline with sparse, transludda. 
blackish-brown hairs, veins and margins being black. The forewings exhibit a faded, blackish median shade 
being intensified to a black spot at the lower cell-end. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Ecuador (Loja). 
P. trabea Druce. Body black, hindhead, sides of thorax, and base of abdomen red; the 1st abdominal trabea. 
ring yellowish-white. Both wings smoky hyaline, at the apex and distal margins more darkened. Expanse 
of wings: 26 mm. From British Guiana to Ecuador. 
P. absona spec. nov. (15 a) resembles exteriorly much rather a small Cosmosoma. The body is uni- absona. 
colorously brownish-black, only 2 longitudinal streaks on the mesothorax and the ventral side of the 3 first 
abdominal rings are light ochreous. The wings are hyaline, with black bases, narrow margins, middle spot 
of the forewing and apical spots. One male example from Peru (Marcapata, Bang-Haas). 
36. Genus: Holopliaea Hmps. 
A small group of mostly dull coloured, delicate insects with rather broad forewings with a long, oblique 
distal margin, usually entirely scaled, but still half diaphanous. On the hindwings the lower median vein and 
lower radial vein rise from the lower cell-angle, the upper median veins rises from the lower mostly very near 
the margin, but this varies and the 3 veins may also rise in common from the cell-angle; the cell itself is large, 
the discocellular angularly bent. The palpi are straightly porrect and extend beyond the head. Antennae 
serrate or doubly dentate like combs. 
H. vesta Moschl. (15 a). In this small species the head and the last abdominal segments are black, vesta. 
thorax and the 4 first abdominal rings orange coloured; shoulder-covers at the tips black. The hyaline wings 
exhibit very broad, blackish-brown margins. Guiana, Brazil. 
