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XANTHARETE; PHAENARETE; CACOSTATIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
schausi. 
sem ivitre- 
ata. 
stcllans. 
diana. 
sapph ira. 
ossa. 
flaviven- 
tralis. 
hyaline with black veins, margins, discal and apical spots; at the base of the proximal margin of the forewing 
there is in the <$ a metallic green stripe. In the $ the forehead is white, the body without any blue and white 
spots. Expanse of wings: 44 to 48 mm. Venezuela. 
I. schausi Druce is black; hindhead, collar, shoulders, shoulder-covers, and thorax with bluish-white 
dots. Hips and a dorsal dot on the 1st abdominal ring are white; moreover, the abdomen shows subdorsal 
rows of metallic green spots, white lateral spots on the 2nd and 3rd rings and a sublateral row. Forewings black, 
in the discal area and at the proximal angle metallic green, with minute hyaline spots in the cell-end and below 
the middle of the cell, a dot at the rise of the lower median vein, and behind the cell between the 1st median 
and 5th subcostal vein larger spots. Hindwings with a large hyaline spot in the proximal half and a smaller 
one behind the cell. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Mexico (Orizaba). 
I. semivitreata Hmps. (= almon Hmps.) (11 e) looks very much like Autochloris ahnon. Black; small 
spots on the collar, broad subdorsal abdominal stripes, and the base of the proximal margin on the forewing 
metallic green. Wings hyaline with black veins, margins and discal spots. Expanse of wings: 54 mm. Brazil 
(Rio de Janeiro; Blumenau). 
117. Genus: Xautliarete gen. nov. 
Proboscis well developed. The obliquely rising palpi project beyond the forehead and are smoothly 
scaled. Antennae filiform, in the $ ciliated, of % of the length of the costal margin. On the forewings the lower 
median vein rises somewhat behind the middle of the median, the upper one before the lower cell-angle, from 
which the lower radial veins rise, the upper one conies from the upper cell-angle, the 1st subcostal vein from 
the cell. Hindwings with a broad inner-marginal area the cell short, the lower median vein rises close before 
the lower cell-angle, the upper one and the 3rd radial on a very long pedicle from it; the middle radial is absent ; 
the upper radial and the subcostal vein stand on a very long pedicle, the costal vein is rudimentarily present, 
but does not reach the costal margin. 
X. stellans spec. nov. (2 2 b). Head, thorax and legs are blackish-brown, on the collar and shoulcler- 
covers a faint greenish lustre. Abdomen unicolorously orange-yellow. The hyaline forewings show a bright 
iridescence, the veins are broadly covered with rough blackish-brown scales; the proximal margin being broad 
blackish-brown as far as to the submedian fold has, in the neighbourhood of vein 1, the shape of a large longi¬ 
tudinal spot intermixed with intensely iridescent, amethyst-coloured scales; the blackish-brown distal margin 
expands towards the apex; the costal margin and discal spot likewise blackish-brown. The hyaline hindwings 
have blackish-brown veins and a very broad border, the whole inner-marginal area is blackish-grey. Described 
according to a $ from the Coll. Seitz: East Colombia. Rio Negro, 500 m. 
118. Genus: I*liiienarete Druce. 
Head, thorax, and base of abdomen are roughly scaled, at the end of the abdomen feeble lateral hair- 
tufts. The long-extended forewings do not show any difference in the veins from the usual course; on the 
hindwings the upper median and the lower radial vein rise pediculate from the cell-angle, the middle radial 
rudimentarily from the middle of the transverse vein, the upper one and the subcostal vein fromthe upper cell- 
angle. — Only one species. 
Fh. diana Druce (22 b). The body is brown with small white spots at the palpal base, behind the eyes, 
on the collar, shoulder-covers, and metathorax, hips and tibiae. The abdomen shows subdorsal and lateral 
white spots. The forewings are hyaline with a broad brown base, discal and apical spot, veins and margins. 
The hyaline hindwings exhibit a narrower brown distal margin. Panama. 
119. Genus: Cacostatia Hmps. 
Few species of a deep blue reflection, with hyaline spots on the broad wings. Palpi erect, antennae 
doubly combed. Cell of the hindwing large; the upper median vein rises with the lower radial on a common 
pedicle from the lower cell-angle, the lower median vein far? below it. 
C. sapphira Stgr. (22 c). Black with a deep ultramarine blue, magnificent lustre. At the base of the 
forewing a large hyaline spot extending yet somewhat into the lower part of the discocellular, a second, oblique, 
oblong, transparent band is behind the cell and extends from the lower median vein to near the costal margin. 
Hindwings transparent, with a blackish-blue margin and white inner-angular fringes. Venter and stripes on 
the legs white. Occurring from Mexico as far as Panama. 
C. ossa Druce (22 c) differs from sapphira by another hyaline spot between the median veins, the 
longitudinal spot in the cell is longer extended. Panama, Colombia, Guiana. 
C. flaviventralis Dogn. (22 c) has hyaline spots similar to the preceding species, but the ventral side 
is of a fiery orange-yellow except the black terminal segment. The blue colour is more radiant, brighter. Colombia. 
