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P. vittata Wkr. (15 b). A species greatly varying in size, colouring and extent of the hyaline spots, vittata. 
Mostly dark coffee-brown. The neck, a stripe on the mesothorax and two broad lateral stripes on the abdomen 
are orange-yellow. Antennae black, before the apex white. The brown forewings exhibit a darkening in the 
apical part of the costal margin as well as along the inner margin; at the border there are in the spaces between 
blackish-brown sagittate streaks. In the cell 2 cuneiform hyaline spots, a long one below them extending with 
2 teeth between the 2nd median vein and middle radial towards the margin; 2 small hyaline spots below and 
above the upiier radial. Hindwings diaphanous with a broad black border, the inner margin at the base orange. 
Nearly all the year round common in Mexico (Orizaba, Misantla, Vera Cruz, Yucatan) and Guatemala. 
P. polia Druce (15 c) approximates the preceding species, but it is much larger and differs by its polia. 
lighter colour, much more extensive hyaline spots, almost entirely hyaline hindwings and on the under surface 
a whitish inner-marginal part and costal base. Brazil (Espiritu Santo). — f. minax form. nov. (15 c) of which minax. 
about 20 specimens of both sexes from Mexico are in my collection, I am inclined to include with polia as a 
subspecies, as I know polia only from the figure and description; it is, however, not impossible that it is a distinct 
species. It stands between vittata and polia, but it is twice as large as the former from which it is also easily 
discernible by its more light grey ground-colour; the darkening at the apex and inner margin is absent, instead 
of which there are here long black streaks in the cell-spaces between the yellowish prominent veins. Hindwings 
with narrower and duller grey margins; the whole proximal margin extensively orange yellow, also the base 
of the inner margin of the forewing. The abdomen is much more extensively orange and exhibits only a narrow 
dorsal stripe, being in the middle light grey, at the edges dark brown. From polia it differs by the bright orange- 
yellow, not whitish colour at the costal and proximal margins of the hindwings beneath, as well as by the much 
more confined hyaline spots of the forewings and a considerably broader border of the hindwing. Widely distri¬ 
buted in Mexico: from Tehuacan (Puebla), Misantla, Orizaba, Mexico, Zacualpan, San Luis Potosi, flying from 
May to October together with vittata, the genital organs of which are different. 
P. klagesi Rothsch. (15 b). Palpi and forehead are black, the vertex reddish-yellow; thorax dark klagesi. 
brown with a reddish-yellow longitudinal band. Abdomen deep orange, a broad middle stripe and the last 
segment dark brown. Legs blackish-brown, with white rings, hips yellowish-white. Antennae brown with a 
white apical third. Forewings dark-brown with minute white spots in and below the cell as well as behind the 
cell. Hindwings white with a broad blackish-brown marginal band. Venezuela (Bolivar: Caracas). 
puncta. 
P. pentheri Zerny greatly approximates the preceding species and chiefly deviates by the quite uni- pentheri. 
colorously coffee-coloured forewings growing a little lighter towards the margin and exhibiting a series of 
inconspicuous light marginal dots, as well as by brownish-black hindwings the base of which is narrowly yellowish, 
with a narrow white longitudinal spot below the cell and a larger roundish spot behind the cell. The ventral 
side of the abdomen is coffee-colowred with a yellowish-white longitudinal stripe as far as the 4th segment. 
Brazil (Bahia). 
P. dolens Schaus (15 c). Body dirty brownish black, on the shoulders and shoulder-covers one red dolens. 
spot each. The wings are brownish diaphanous with brownish-grey margins. Described from Costa Rica, one 
example from Bahia in the Coll. Seitz. 
P. sanguipuncta Hmps. (15 c) differs from the preceding by its larger size and the more dark-brown sangui- 
wings from which brownish hyaline spots are contrasting in the cell as well as below and behind it, so that 
a broad, faded, brown median band and a broad apical spot become prominent. The veins are still darker 
brown. Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul). 
P. albipes spec. nov. (15 c) is a beautiful species belonging near the two last ones. Body jet-black; albipes. 
shoulders and a square spot on the first abdominal segment are deep carmine. The thorax and the ventral 
sides of the first 4 abdominal rings is white like the upper surface of the posterior tarsi. Wings blackish dia¬ 
phanous with black margins and apical spot. The type is a from Santos in the Coll. Seitz. 
P. hymenopteridia Rothsch. (15 c) is a most peculiar, little species which looks exactly like a Hymenop- hymenop- 
teron flying with it and is entirely unlike the genus. Palpi, head, antennae and thorax are black, the tapering 
abdomen is chestnut-red, the two last segments black, forelegs yellow, hips white; middle legs brown, tibiae 
and tarsi yellow; hindlegs brown, tibiae yellow, banded. Wings diaphanous dirty yellowish, distal third with 
brownish clouds. Bolivia. This species, known to me only from description, presumably belongs to the following 
genus and seems to be allied to pimpla. 
teridia. 
39. Genus: Rhynchopyga Fldr. 
Peculiar, very slender, small species with narrow, usually brown and orange wings, the nenration of 
which hardly differs essentially from that of the allied genera: on the hindwings the lower median and lower 
radial veins are long petioled. 
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