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C. tetragonia Hmps. (19 1). Anterior body blackish-brown, abdomen above metallic blue, beneath ieiragonia. 
white with a black anal tuft. Forehead and anterior side of the palpi white; neck and prothorax carmine, shoulder- 
covers striped orange. The brown forewings show in the cell-encl a square, orange-red spot, the hindwings 
are in the centre hyaline diaphanous. The basal halves of the wings are on the under surface suffused by metallic 
blue on the costa and median. So far only known from Venezuela (Merida). 
C. homopteridea Btlr. (= pectinata Wkr.) (19 1). Blackish-brown; palpi at the articular ends white, homopteri- 
Vertex, collar, and shoulder-covers striped grey. Neck and abdomen orange, the^ 1st segment and the anal 
tuft black. Forewings blackish-brown, with short, white, small stripes below the costal base and median; 
before the apex is a faded grey spot and before the margin an indistinct, white, dentate line. Hindwings blackish- 
brown, in the disc diaphanous. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Para. 
C. meterythra Hmps. (19 1) is very easily recognizable by the red hindwings being bordered with black; meterythra. 
the brown forewings exhibit hyaline spots in the cell-end and above and below the lower radial vein. The body 
is black, on the abdomen subdorsally spotted blue with a white ventral side; neck red, palpi and legs white 
striped. Known from Bolivia. 
86. Genus: Teueer Kirby. 
The $$ of this genus are mostly distinguished by secondary sexual marks in the shape of accumulations 
of rough scales on the under surface of the wings, as well as by lobular or pointed prolongations of the anal 
angle on the hindwing. The veins on the forewings are not quite constant in the different species and do not 
offer any characteristic marks. On the hindwing the 1st radial and the subcostal stand on a short pedicle, in 
some species the costal vein is rudimentaily present. 
T. subplena Wkr. (19 1) is distinguished by the carmine, last abdominal segments, the body being subplena. 
otherwise blackish-brown, the hindhead spotted red; hips and venter are white, the anus ochreous-yellow. The 
brownish-grey forewings with olvive-grey striped veins are spotted black and exhibit in some places more thinly 
scaled, lighter patches. The hindwings are black with small hyaline spots in and below the cell and yellowish- 
white spots at the proximal margin. Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). 
T. distincfa Rothsch. Body brownish-black; collar, last abdominal ring, underside and forehips brick- distinda. 
red, on the metathorax a chrome-yellow band. Forewings brownish-black with large hyaline spots in and 
below the cell and 2 behind it, below and above the upper radial vein. Apex white; the veins of the apical 
half and a transverse line in the marginal area grey. Hindwings hyaline with a very broad black border. 
Surinam. 
T. brevipennis Btlr. (19 1). Head and thorax brown and blackish; in the neck there are 2 orange brevipennis. 
spots; hips white. Abdomen blackish, at the apex grey, the venter white. Forewings blackish-brown, on the 
veins dusted ochreous. Hyaline spots in and below the cell and 4 behind it between the 1st median and lowest 
subcostal vein. Before the border is an indistinct, ochreous-yellow line. Fringes at the apex, on the middle 
radial and between the median veins white. Hindwings black, with hyaline stripes at the base, the fringes 
and the rough scaling of the under surface white. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Amazon. 
T. hypophaeus Hmps. (19 1) greatly approximates the preceding species and is distinguished by hypophaeus. 
the somewhat grey, spotted brightening of the distal half of the forewing, the ochreous-yellowish dusting being 
absent; the transverse vein appears in the grey discal spot as a grey line, the ochreous-yellow line before the 
margin is absent, and there is a small hyaline spot besides, above the lower median vein. On the under surface 
of the hindwing the rough scales are yellowish-grey, the inner-marginal area being white. Venezuela and French 
Guiana. 
T. germanus Rothsch. differs from hypophaeus by much smaller hyaline spots of the forewings and germanus. 
quite black hindwings with a sooty-grey proximal angle; only at the base 2 small grey, diaphanous spots. The 
under surface of the hindwings is quite sooty black with minute, transparent basal spots. Length of forewings: 
12 mm. Venezuela. 
T. apicalis Rothsch. The body is black, vertex and forehips orange; legs blackish-brown. Forewing apicalis. 
in the proximal two thirds black, in the marginal third yellowish-grey with black, interrupted longitudinal 
stripes on the veins; spots in and below the cell and 2 behind it are diaphanous grey. Hindwings in the basal 
half diaphanous white, distally blackish-brown, towards the proximal angle yellowish-grey. Length of forewings: 
16 mm. Surinam. 
T. albapex Druce (191). Black; anterior side of the palpi, hips and stripes on the femora white; albapex. 
abdomen with a blue lustre, with white lateral stripes, venter white. The hyaline forewings with broad, black 
veins exhibit very broad black margins and discal spots, the extreme apex being narrowly white; the black 
hindwings exhibit in the middle a hyaline stripe extending almost to the margin. French Guiana. 
