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on the venter. Shouldercovers striped grey. The blackish-brown forewing is crossed at the cell-end by a broad 
white band. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Amazon (Para). 
L. acuminata Wkr. (= hartmanni Schaus). Head and thorax dark red-brown, chest orange. Abdomen acuminata. 
above blackish, beneath light-brown; orange are the last segment and lateral stripes which on each ring project 
into the dark dorsal colour in a triangular shape. Forewings dark red-brown, at the base purple-brown; at 
the cell-end there is a dark crescent, behind it a dark, strongly undulated line turning back to the cell on the 
upper median vein. Hindwings dark purple brown. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. Brazil. 
105. Genus: Hornniii Hbn. 
Distinguished by the very long hind legs mostly exhibiting a dense hairy fur-cover on the tibiae on 
two sides, so that the legs appear in the shape of oars. The shaft of the antennae is strongly thickened after 
the middle, ctenodont or serrate-dentate. The long, narrow wings are densely scaled, usually black or brown. 
On the forewings the 3 lower subcostal veins are petioled, the two upper ones rise from the cell; on the hindwings 
the lower median and lower radial vein rise from the lower cell-angle, the 1st median vein from the lower one 
close in front of the distal margin. 
H. panthalon F. (= tibialis Btlr.) (21 h) differs from the following by the lighter red-brown colour panihalon. 
of the forewings, and the ochreous-yellow hindwings being bordered with blackish-brown; the head is not black, 
but orange. From Hayti and Venezuela. 
H. texana Grote (21 h). Wings blackish-brown like the head and thorax. Tips of antennae, palpi, texana. 
forehead, collar, and shoulder-covers spotted or striped orange. Abdomen more bluish-black with orange- 
yellow margins, on the first segment a white dorsal spot. The second and third segments are ventrally banded 
white. Anterior and middle legs black, spotted orange; posterior tibiae and tarsi orange, in the middle black, 
Distributed from Texas through Mexico as far as Honduras, and common. 
H. oedipus Bsd. (26 m). The body is black, on the forehead, antennae, neck, chest, hips and legs oedipus. 
yellow spots, the collar with white dots, the shoulder-covers, meso- and metathorax bordered with yellow. 
The first abdominal ring shows a broad, white transverse band, the other lings narrow, yellow ones, the venter 
being yellow. Wings purple-brown; the costa of the hindwings yellowish. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Mexico; 
Guatemala. 
H. pennipes Grote is one of the smallest species differing from all the others by hyaline spots on the pennipes. 
brownish-black forewings below the cell, in the cell-end and behind it between the upper median and lower 
radial vein. The body is black, on the forehead, collar, shoiddercovers, hips, and legs spotted and striped white; 
shoulders and chest spotted yellow. The abdomen exhibits beneath and laterally rows of white dots, on the 
2 first rings sublateral yellow spots. Venter white. Expanse of wings: 25 mm. Cuba. 
H. castrensis Jones (21 i). Body blackish-brown, in some places with a slight metallic green lustre; castrensis. 
on each half of the collar 2 white dots; the first abdominal ring subdorsally spotted white, the 2 nd and 3rd 
laterally, the latter also ventrally. The unicolorously blackish-brown wings show a white dot at the costal 
base. Brazil (Parana). 
H. plumipes Drury (= punctata Guer., jalapensis Neum.) (21 h). Wings blackish-brown, a white plumipes. 
dot at the base. Head, thorax, and abdomen greenish-black or purple black, spotted or curled white. Antennae 
black with white tips. Anterior and posterior legs spotted black and white; on the posterior legs the bases of 
the tibiae and the ends of the tarsi are white, the rest black. Mexico (Jalapa, Orizaba, Misantla, Yucatan: 
May to November), Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua. 
H. flavicans Dogn. Head, thorax, and abdomen are black; forehead, dots on the collar, hips and flavicans. 
femora beneath white; the distal margin of the shoulder-covers, sides of abdomen, ventral side, and the 3 last 
rings are yellow. The wings are yellow, on the forewing the costa, subcosta, the median veins, the lower radial, 
the distal and proximal margins are black, the same on the hindwing. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Colombia. 
H. clavipes Bsd. (21 i). Wings reddish-brown, broadly smoky blackish on the margins. At the base clavipes. 
of the forewing a black and metallic bluish-green spot. The black antennae have white tips. Body orange- 
yellow. On the forehead and collar metallic blue spots; shoulder-covers bordered with black. Abdomen with 
black rings, which are expanded on the dorsum and surround metallic blue spots. Hips black with blue spots, 
anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi black and orange; posterior tibiae orange; at the end black, tarsi orange. 
Mexico (Orizaba, Guerrero), Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venezuela. 
H. flavata Jones. Head and palpi black and orange, between the antennae a yellow spot; collar flavata. 
greenish-black, bordered with white. Shoulder-covers black, striped red-brown; mesothorax black with 4 yellow- 
