COREURA. By Dr. M. DRAui>T. 
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D. imitata Druce (23 b). The blackish-brown body shows a purple blue lustre on the forehead, hips bnilaia. 
and abdomen. The forewings exhibit a round, orange spot in the cell-end and a square one behind it. On the 
hindwing there is in the costal half a large, orange spot, in which there is a brown discal streak cohering with 
the costal margin. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Ecuador. 
D. obliqua Schaus (23 c) exhibits, on the forewing, a yellow oblique band crossing the cell, and obliqua. 
orange-yellow hindwings being very broadly bordered with blackish-brown. Front of palpi white, so is the 
lower part of the forehead, the upper part being orange, as well as spots on the collar and shoulders, and the 
posterior margins of the abdominal rings. Venter white. Brazil (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro). 
D. albicincta Hmps. is smaller than the preceding which it greatly resembles, distinguished by albidncta. 
the yellowish-white forehead and equally striped shoulder-covers, and white-curled abdomen: the veins, costa, 
and submedian fold are striped lighter; the hindwings are more extensively blackish-brown, in and below the 
cell dusted yellow, with a yellow oblique spot behind the cell. Beneath the bases of the wings are strewn with 
white. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Venezuela. 
D. klagesi Rothsch. Head orange-reddish, antennae brown. Collar olive; thorax brown, the shoulder- klagesi. 
covers striped and bordered with olive. The abdomen is above blackish-brown, beneath white. Forewings 
dark brown, subcostally, on the median, submedian fold and inner-marginal vein striped greyish-yellow; behind 
the cell is a broad, orange-reddish oblique band extending from the costa to the proximal angle. On the hindwings 
in the the proximal two thirds are semidiaphanous blackish-grey, the distal third brownish-black; in the 
9 the hindwings are quite brownish-black, in the basal part only slightly diaphanous. Length of forewings: 
18 mm. Amazon; Venezuela. 
D. perplexa Rothsch. differs from klagesi by much broader forewings with a much smaller oblique perplexa. 
band, the hindwings being unicolorously blackish-brown, and the venter brown, not white. Amazon. 
D. hoffmantisi Rothsch. differs from perplexa by narrower wings. The hindwings above exhibit a hoffmannsi. 
broad, reddish orange-yellow, longitudinal band in the middle, extending from the base to the margin; beneath 
they are equally marked, with a broad, greyish-white proximal margin. Peru and Bolivia. 
D. oceola Dyar, which is known to me only from the description, seems to be allied to klagesi oceola. 
and its allies. Head and thorax brownish black; along the inner margin of the shoulder-covers runs a yellow 
line across the collar as far as the base of the antennae. Abdomen above bluish-black, beneath more greyish- 
black. Forewings blackish-brown, the veins towards the base with yellowish stripes, with the usual ochreous- 
yellow oblique band from the costal margin to the proximal angle. Hindwings bluish-black, beneath at the 
margin grey. Expanse of wings: 38 mm. Mexico (Orizaba). 
D. aurimacula Schaus (23 c). Body blackish-brown, forehead and underside as well as the posterior aurimacula. 
margins of the abdominal rings white; collar and shoulders spotted yellow. The brown forewing exhibits a 
yellow oblique band’behind the cell; the black hindwing a white longitudinal spot in the centre. From Colombia, 
Venezuela, and French Guiana (Nouveau Chantier). 
D. parva Rothsch. (23 c) is the smallest species with narrow brown wings, and a yellow, oval, oblique parva. 
spot on the forewing, partly penetrating into the cell. The under surface is whitish. Venezuela, French Guiana. 
D. uniformis Hmps. (23 c) differs from all the other species by the uniformly light yellowish-brown uniformis. 
colour on the body and wings, only the palpal base, forehead, basal joint of the antennae, and throat being- 
carmine like the anal hairing and the posterior margins of the ventral segments; the upperside of the abdomen 
is somewhat darker brown. From Rio de Janeiro. 
127. Genus: C'oreura Wkr. 
A small group of large, magnificently coloured species, rather unlike the Syntomidae, and resembling 
certain Hypsidae. The long palpi are straightly porrect; head and thorax covered with woolly hair. On the 
forewing the 1st median vein rises from the lower cell-angle, the lower radial above if, the upper radial vein 
from below the upper cell-angle. On the hindwing the upper median and lower radial vein rise from the lower 
cell-angle, the middle radial vein above it; the lowest subcostal vein rises before the upper cell-angle. A ery 
peculiar are the secondary sexual marks of the of some species, consisting of bare, unsealed patches on the 
under surface of the forewings and being accompanied by peculiar fusions of veins. 
Sect. I. on the under surface of the forewings with bare stripes above and below the 2nd radial, both the upper 
radial veins being fused in the middle of their course. In the $ the 2nd radial is rudimentary. 
C. euchromioides Wkr. (23 c). The red collar makes the species well recognizable; the hindwings euchromioi- 
in the are above quite blue, only beneath provided with a series of small, red, triangular, marginal spots, in dcs ' 
