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brownish-grey spot in the cell and a similar one behind it. Hindwings diaphanous greyish-white with an 
irregular, broad, black margin. Length of forewings: 20mm. Cayenne. 
H. viridicingulata Rothsch. Head and antennae are black, with white dots; thorax brownish-black, viridicin- 
on the collar a white dot. Abdomen black with metallic green rings interrupted above. Forewings brownish- gulaia. 
black, below the median a hyaline stripe, and behind the cell a broad, hyaline oblique band extending from 
the subcosta to the uppermost median vein. Hindwings hyaline, veins and distal margin black in an irre¬ 
gular extent. Length of forewings: 15 mm. Rio Toro. 
H. phaeosoma Druce (24 g) looks on the wings exactly like rhodophila, but the abdomen is above phaeosoma. 
one-coloured black, below white, and the hindwings also in the <$ have the normal shape without the anal 
angle being produced; hindheacl and neck reddish-brown. Venezuela; French Guiana (Nouveau Chantier). 
H. klagesi Rotlisch. resembles the preceding, but the underside is not Avhite, but yellowish-rosy, the klagesi. 
veins of the forewings are not red, but olive-brown, and the transparent basal part of the hindwing is not 
so distinctly defined towards the black distal margin. Venezuela. — subsp. nieridionalis Rotlisch. is a much meridio- 
larger and darker form from Suriman to Peru. nulls. 
H. dislincta Rotlisch. is on the head and thorax above olive-brownish, beneath yellow and rosy. The distincta. 
first two thirds of the abdomen are black, at the base above with a minute orange spot, the rest is sooty 
grey. The forewings are olive-brown with yellowish-grey veins, some small costal spots, and a double row 
of small, antemarginal sagittal spots. An indistinct, antemedian transverse band and a distinctly postmedian 
one from the costa to the upper median vein are whitish olive, with a rosy hue. Hindwings velvety black 
with a blue lustre, in the middle of the basal area with a large, white, semi-hyaline spot. Length of fore¬ 
wings: 19 mm. San Antonio (Rio Madeira). 
H. thysbe Mdschl. (24f) is blackish-brown on the body; the vertex and tips of the shoulder-covers thysbe. 
are white. The 3 last abdominal rings exhibit large, carmine, dorsal spots with black pupils. Forewings white 
with numerous black spots. Hindwings in the basal halves white, veins and distal halves blackish. Expanse 
of wings: 36 mm. Surinam. 
H. ockeildeni Rotlisch. The head is black, on the vertex yellowish-grey, in the neck golden-yellow; ockendeni. 
collar black, anteriorly yellowish-grey, thorax yellowish-grey, striped and margined with black. The 4 first 
abdominal rings are above black, the 3 next ones orange, the last again black with a yellow-reddish, small 
spot; beneath the whole body is yellow-redclish. Forewings white, at the margins and veins yellow-red¬ 
dish; from a subbasal, black transverse band there proceed short, black streaks along the costa and veins; 
behind it black spots subcostally and in the cell; an irregular, sooty black discal band extends from the 
costal margin to the proximal margin, a similar, postmedian one from the costa to the lower radial vein; 
before the margin a series of spots. Hindwings diaphanous greyish-white, the margin broad black, at the 
proximal margin drab. Length of forewings: 17 mm. Peru. 
H. rubrocincta Rothsch. Head and antennae brown; thorax yellowish olive-brown, with brownish- rubrocincta. 
black spots and stripes. Abdomen above sooty black, the 4tli to 6th rings scarlet; the whole underside 
is yellowish rosy. Forewings, yellowish olive-grey with a number of sooty-brown stripes and spots being 
more or less confluent in the median area. Hindwings in the basal third diaphanous white, distally velvety 
black. Length of forewings: 17 mm. Venezuela. 
H. rufipes Rotlisch. Head yellowish brownish-grey, with black spots, in the neck carmine-rosy; thorax rufipes. 
olive-grey with dull brown spots, the shoulder-covers with yellow stripes. Abdomen light carmine-rosy, curled 
black, beneath unicolorously pale rosy. Legs rosy. Forewings grey with yellow veins, in the basal third with 
a number of black, yellow-ringed spots; the disc is traversed by an irregular, broad, sooty brownish-black 
transverse band, behind it a similar band from the costa to the middle radial; an antemarginal series of 
blackish-brown spots. Hindwings sooty black, in the disc diaphanous white. Length of forewings: 21 mm. 
Peru. 
H. balia Hmps. (24 g) has a greyish-brownish, darker spotted head and thorax; neck orange. Ab- balm. 
domen red with a black anal apex. Forewings white with blackish-brown spots, hindwings semi-diaphanous 
white with a greyish-brownish, narrow border. Honduras; Costa Rica (San Carlos). 
H. griseipuncta Rothsch. is smaller than balium and differs otherwise by its carmine neck and light grisei- 
reddish-yellow ventral side, the chest being scarlet-rosy. Length of forewings: 13 mm. British Guiana. puncta. 
H. zonata Druce (24 f) approximates griseipuncta. The spots of the forewing are compressed to zonata. 
3 transverse bands: a basal one, one crossing the cell-apex, and an apical one being irregularly defined and 
with lighter, yellowish patches. Veins distinct and fine black. All the rest as in bcilimn. Colombia (Rio 
Negro), Venezuela, Guiana. 
H. hoffmannsi Rothsch. differs from the preceding by the orange abdomen being yellow-reddish hoffmannsi. 
beneath; the vertex and neck are more extensively orange. The forewings are more greyish-white, of a less 
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