POLIOPASTEA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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Wings like in the following, but with golden green stripes not only subcostally, but also below the base of the 
cell; a green blurred spot is also below the cell-end. Amazon. 
C. tripunctatus Druce (18 a) greatly approximates the preceding species and differs by the absence tripunc- 
of the white spots on the collar and base of abdomen; the abdomen exhibits dorsal and subdorsal broad, sub- tutus. 
lateral narrow silvery green, not greenish golden stripes. From Trinidad and St. Vincent. — The figure in 
Hampson’s Cat. Lep. Plial. 1, t. 12. f. 7 refers to the present species, not to triplagus, as is assumed in Zernys 
Catalogue. 
C. opaiizans Rothsch. (18 a) forms the transition between the preceding sjjecies and helymus ; the opalizans. 
hyaline spots of the former have almost disappeared on the broad brown wings; the species is distinguished 
by the abdomen being entirely opalescent like mother-of-pearl. Venezuela. 
C. helymus Cr. (= aterrima Sepp) (18 a) is in both sexes characterized by its entirely unspotted, helymus. 
dark brown, very broad wings. The abdomen exhibits broad, greenish golden dorsal and lateral stripes, on 
the ventral side a white stripe. French Guiana. -— The larva lives on the coffee-tree and is anteriorly and 
posteriorly yellow, in the middle more greenish. The segments exhibit blue warts bearing on the 2nd and 3rd 
rings tufts of long, black hair being yellow at the end; the 8th ring exhibits above a pencil of long, black hair. 
C. longipennis Rothsch. (18 a) has, like the preceding, unspotted forewings which, however, are longipennis. 
much longer and narrower, quite black with a blue purple lustre, and exhibit metallic green basal spots below 
the costal margin and the median. Chest, forehips and the basal joints of the palpi are white. White spots 
are besides at the femoral ends, on the forehead, collar and first abdominal ling. Surinam. 
C. aurata Wkr. (18 b) looks like a Macrocneme\ body blackish-brown; tips of antennae white; at aurata. 
the palpal base, forehead, collar, shoulders, and chest white dots. The 1st abdominal ring exhibits dorsal and 
lateral, double, white dots, the 2nd ring only lateral ones; the first segments below white. Vertex and legs 
spotted golden green; femoral base posteriorly spotted white. The basal half of the black forewing is golden 
green. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Venezuela. 
C. chryseis Druce (18 a) is a very large species from Colombia and Bolivia with dorsal, lateral and chryseis. 
sublateral golden spotted, not striped abdomen and thereby easily recognizable; the venter is striped white. 
The wings are in the $ unicolorously golden green; the exhibits round hyaline spots below the middle and 
in the end of the cell, behind the cell above the rise of the upper median vein, as well as a minute spot above 
the- 1st radial; the hindwing shows hyaline spots below and behind the cell. 
C. plumulatus Klages is, like the following, distinguished by extremely long-combed antennae. Blackish plmnulalus. 
brown; forehead, collar, chest, forehips, and the ends of the middle and posterior tibiae with white dots. The 
abdomen shows, beginning from the 2nd ring, dorsal, lateral and sublateral, broad, golden green stripes, the 
1st ring subdorsal, white streaks and lateral spots, the venter a middle row of small white spots. Forewings 
blackish-brown with metallic bluish-green stripes below the costa and median. Expanse of wings: 50 mm. 
Venezuela. 
C. antennatus Rothsch. (18 b) has the hyaline spots of the wings placed the same as tiburtus (17 i); cmtcnnatus. 
the basal spot of the forewing and the stripes on the abdomen are copper-coloured, like in the former, from 
which the $ is easily discernible by the extraordinarily strongly combed antennae and the hyaline spot between 
vein 2 and 3; the $ differs almost only by somewhat narrower wings and smaller spots. Venezuela. 
59. Genus: Poliopastea Hmps. 
Small to medium-sized species, resembling on the whole by their exterior the unspotted species of the 
preceding genus, from which they differ by the porrect palpi and by the normal course of the lower radial veins 
of the forewings. 
P. pava Dogn. (18 a). Head and thorax bluish-black; first palpal joint, forehead and collar with pava. 
double, bluish-white dots; forehips spotted bluish-white. Posterior tibiae strongly thickened, without any 
spurs, with a long, ochreous yellow hair-tuft and thickly scaled tarsi. The abdomen exhibits unsealed, ochreous- 
yellow ring-indentations, lateral and dorsal white dots. Forewings black with a green lustre. Hindwings bluish- 
black with a cuneiform hyaline spot, being bifid at the end, below the cell at the base. Expanse of the wings: 
54 mm. Venezuela (Merida). 
P. viridis Druce (18 b) has grey wings with an intense green lustre, the veins with a blue lustre. Head viridis. 
and thorax are black; the second palpal joint, hips and first joint of the tarsi spotted white. The abdomen 
is dark bluish-grey with a ventral row of white dots. Ecuador. 
