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DINIA; PARADINIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
ockendeni. 
rosenbergi. 
verdivittata. 
fenesirata. 
plu mbea. 
obscura. 
aeagrus. 
mena. 
puniceo- 
cincta. 
subapicalis. 
chrysoga- 
striaes. 
P. ockendeni Rothsch. (18 b). Distinguishable from the preceding species by its deep metallic blue, 
not green wings, with 3 white basal dots, bluish-white spots on the forehead and vertex, collar, shoulders, meso- 
ancl metathorax, quite black palpi, and metallic blue forehips. The abdomen is blackish-green with bluish-white 
dorsal and sublateral lines. British Guiana, Peru. 
P. rosenbergi Rothsch. (18 b) likewise approximates the jrreceding species, being considerably larger, 
the forewings in the basal half metallic green; the hindwings exhibiting at the base a small white transparent 
spot are in the costal half metallic bluish-green. Head and thorax black, spotted white; the abdomen is metallic 
green with a coppery lustre, on the first segment 2 white dots behind each other. Hips white. West-Ecuador. 
P. verdivittata Klages. Black; forehead, neck, shoulder-covers, chest and joints of femora spotted 
white; golden green spots are on the collar and shoulders, meso- and metathorax. The abdomen exhibits broad, 
golden green dorsal, lateral and sublateral stripes, the lateral stripes begin at the 1st ring with white spots. 
The black forewings show, in the subcostal space at. the base, a small hyaline stripe, below the base of the cell 
a broad, golden green stripe, and at the costal base a small white spot. Hindwings above black. On the under 
surface the cells of all the wings are striped green. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. Venezuela. —• f. fenestrata Klages 
shows a hyaline spot below the middle of the cell and a series behind it between the upper median and lowest 
subcostal veins; the hindwing with a hyaline spot behind the cell. 
P. plumbea Hmps. (18 b). The smallest species with blackish-grey wings and body. Metallic blue, 
small spots are on the forehead and vertex, shoulder-covers, legs, the dorsum and sides of the abdominal rings 
and on the ventral valve of the which is besides broadly margined with white; the 4th ring exhibits a large 
white ventral spot, the next rings indistinct, white sublateral spots. The fringes are white at the proximal 
angle. Amazon; French Guiana. 
P. obscura Wallgr. (= nox Druce) (18 b) is a unicolorously dark leaden-grey species. Tips of antennae 
white; collar, shoulders and legs, as well as the base of the forewing with metallic blue dots. The abdomen 
exhibits a lateral row of small blue spots. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. Ecuador and St. Lucia. 
60. Genus: Diu!a Whr. 
Three very characteristic species, particularly distinguished by the long, dense hair-tufts at the sides 
of the broad, flat abdomen, beginning from the 3rd ring as far as the large anal tuft. The broad wings are 
entirely transparent with black margins. The shaft of the antennae is greatly broadened in the middle and 
above hairy, doubly combed. The very large cell of the hindwing extends almost to the margin; the upper 
median vein and both the lower radial veins rise all separately. 
D. aeagrus Cr. (= auge Whr.) (IS c). Blackish-brown, the hair-tufts of a magnificent brilliant carmine. 
The wings hyaline with narrow black margins and discoidal spots; at the base of the forewing there are two 
silvery lustrous blue dots, at the proximal margin a carmine stripe. Widely distributed and mostly common 
from Mexico to Argentina. 
D. mena Hbn. (v= saucia Wkr.) (18 c) has no silvery blue dots at the base of the forewing, but instead 
there are carmine stripes also at the base of the costal margin and above vein 1. Likewise very common and 
distributed from Panama to Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. — puniceocincta Slrd. is a form with carmine bands at 
the median segments of the abdomen. 
D. subapicalis Whr. (= merra Wallgr.) (18 c). In this species having become known hitherto only 
from Peru, the lateral hair-tufts and the anal tuft are black, the abdomen above with 3 carmine transverse 
bands. The marginal band of the hindwing is extremely broad; the basal part of the proximal margin of the 
forewing beneath, and the middle costal-marginal area of the hindwing above are orange. 
61. Genus: I*ara«liiiia gen. nov. 
The only species known hitherto representing a striking image of Corematura chrysogastra (18 g) is 
very closely allied to the genus Dinia\ in the veins there is no remarkable difference; the whole animal is much 
more slenderly built, the abdomen not flattened, the lateral hair-tufts much less developed and flatly appressed. 
The antennae are not thickened in the middle and do not exhibit any hairy cover. Type: P. chrysogastrides 
Draudt. 
P. chrysogastrides spec. nov. (18 c). The body is black. The forehead, a transverse stripe between 
the antennae, the neck, the sides of the collar, a middle line on the shoulder-covers and their distal hairiness 
