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PARAMYA; HOMOEOCERA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
tenebrosa. 
intersecta. 
aenetus. 
flavia. 
picta. 
chrysonota. 
lophocera. 
gigantea. 
leuce. 
and fades away in the brownish surroundings without any bordering. The apex is grey down as far as the middle 
radial. The hindwings are grey, lighter and more diaphanous than in aliena. Known from Panama and the 
Amazon. 
P. tenebrosa Wkr. (10 k) from the Amazon District has still somewhat narrower and quite uni- 
colorously black-brown wings, only the apical third is an idea lighter grey, the white brightening is absent alto¬ 
gether. 
9. Genus: Paramya Hmps. 
The species forming this genus are very differently composed in their exterior. A mark common to all is 
that the subcostal and the upper radial of the hindwing rise fom one pedicle; on the forewing the upper median 
vein rises below the lower cell-angle sending forth the two lower radial veins. 
P. intersecta Hmps. (10 k) lias hyaline forewings with black veins and in the marginal area internerval 
stripes; distal margins and proximal margin as far as the submedian fold broadly black; hindwing black with 
the costal-marginal area being diaphanous. The body is blackish-brown. Amazon (Para). 
P. aenetus Schaus (10 k) is black on the body, with bronze-green, black-veined wings. The hind- 
wings exhibit below the median narrow, hyaline stripes. From Brazil (Castro Parana, Sa. Cruz). 
P. flavia Schaus (10 k) entirely resembles a small, yellow Cosmosoma, recognizable by the hindwings the 
proximal margin of which is orange-yellow at the base, then broadly black. The antennae are long-combed. 
Brazil (Castro Parana). 
P. picta Druce (10 k) is an unmistakable species with very narrow wings. The forewings are in the 
disc hyaline diaphanous, turning yellowish towards the smoky grey-brown apex. The base and proximal 
margin are orange-yellow; a triangular median spot with the point showing towards the base and a somewhat 
faded spot in the distal third of the proximal margin are black. The hindwings are orange with a black apex. 
The body is orange-coloured, head, antennae, legs, and the 4 last abdominal segments are black. From French- 
Guiana. 
P„ chrysonota Hmps. (= ? hoffmannsi Rothsch.) (10 k) somewhat resembles the common Leucotmemis 
nexa (13 a) and greatly deviates from the other species of the genus. Black; antennae with a white tip; forehead 
and collar, as well as the meso- and metathorax with metallic blue spots which are more whitish on the thorax. 
The abdomen shows golden-green dorsal, lateral and ventral stripes. The black forewings exhibit an oblong 
hyaline spot below the middle of the cell, two more are between the upper median vein and the middle radial, 
as well as traces above and below the upper radial, on the hindwing there is a hyaline spot below the base 
of the cell, some more behind the cell. From the Amazon (Itaituba). I presume that the Calonotos hoffmannsi 
described by Rothschild likewise from Itaituba belongs hereto. 
10. Genus: Hoinoeoeern 
Large, strong species, partly resembling humble-bees or blow-flies, with a stout, woolly-haired thorax; 
the antennae are thickened in the middle, here occasionally provided with a hairy cover. The cell of the hindwing 
is extraordinarily short, the lower radial and the lower median vein on a long pedicle. A peculiarity of many 
(maybe all?) male species is that the whole body, evidently only as long as the animal is fresh, is entirely 
wrapped up by a tangled mass of woolly, white or light-grey hair being matted into balls. This wool apparently 
issues from the sides below the ventral valve, where it peeps out in the shape of long locks. Before me are 
acuminata, stictosoma and staminea showing this peculiarity. 
H. lophocera Druce (10 k). A very imposing animal with a black body and a scarlet apex of the abdomen; 
on the shoulders are large, white spots. The hyaline wings have very broad, black margins, the forewings a 
median band. The doubly combed antennae are strongly thickened in the middle part of the shaft and exhibit 
here yet a thick hair-tuft. Brazil (Santos). The species is distinguishable from Mesolasia paula (18 d) almost 
only by the neuration. 
H. gigantea Druce (10 a) is the largest species with a deep velvety-black body and scarlet palpi and 
legs; the abdomen exhibits dull greenish-blue rings. The hyaline wings are broadly black at the base, the 
margins and transverse veins. From Guatemala and Costa Rica; also a specimen from Mexico (Misantla) 
with a much more extensively black apex of the wings. 
H. leuce Maassen (101), placed to Dasysphinx by the author, to Sarosa by Hampson, I consider to 
be decidedly a Homoeocera according to a specimen before me from the Coll. Seitz, on account of the antennae 
being strongly thickened in the middle. The body is brownish-black, posteriorly with a bronze-green reflection. 
The steel-blue legs are white at the joints and tarsi. The hyaline wings have veiy broad black margins and 
median spot. The base is black on almost : / 4 of the surface of the wings with a faint green lustre. The 
