LYCOMORPHA; CTENUCHA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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P. atroxantha Schaus deviates from the diagnosis of the genus by the absence of the 4th subcostal alroxantha. 
vein, whilst the upper radial is petioled with the 3rd and 5th subcostal vein. Body black, margins of the eyes, 
shoulder-covers, a stripe on the thorax and subdorsal lines on the 2 first abdominal rings are orange-yellow. 
Wings orange-yellow, the apical third of the forewing and a narrow proximal margin black. Hindwing with a 
black border, extending at the proximal margin as far as to its middle, where it suddenly ends. Expanse of 
wings: 22 mm. Mexico (Misantla). 
P. albofasciata Rothsch. is a very large, entirely different species. Head and thorax black with a blue albofas- 
lustre, neck orange. Abdomen black with metallic blue rings and blue sublateral stripes. Forewing sooty black 
with a white, somewhat oblique, antemedian transverse band and a blue dot at the base. Hindwing black 
with a broad white transverse band extending from the costa to the lower median vein. Length of forewings: 
18,5 mm. Peru (Chanchamayo). 
152. Genus: Lycomorpha Harr. 
Like the preceding genus, it greatly reminds us of the Lithosid genus Ptychoglene. The palpi are straightly 
porrect, the shaft of the antennae somewhat thicker in the middle. The two lower radial veins of the forewing 
rise unpetiolecl. The hindwing, between the proximal angle and the middle radial, exhibits a concave inden¬ 
tation, the lower radial is absent, the middle one rising above the lower cell-angle. 
L. grotei Pack. (= palmerii Pack.) (26 c) is recognizable by the red thorax and collar; the hindwings grotei. 
are more or less extensively red, in f. pulchra Dyar all red except black fringes and an entirely narrow marginal pulchra. 
line. Western United States. 
L. fulgens Hy. Edw. (26 c) differs from the preceding by the black collar and thorax, only the shoulder- fulgens. 
covers being red; the red spot of the hind wing is more confined to the costal margin and irregularly defined. 
New Mexico; Arizona. 
L. drucei Hmps. is jet-black. The forewing shows a large, carmine spot extending from the base as drucei. 
far as beyond the middle, from the subcosta to the inner-marginal vein. On the hindwing, the basal half of the 
costal margin is carmine. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Mexico (Durango). 
L„ pholus Drury (26 d) has an orange-yellow basal part of both wings. The distal part is black like pholus. 
the body, only the shoulder-covers are orange. Canada; United States. — subsp. miniafa Pack, from California miniata. 
shows the orange colour of a more rosy tinge and much more extensive. — The larva is greyish-brown, watered 
greenish, blackish-haired with large, pale yellow dorsal spots from the 4th to 10th rings, on the others with 
smaller whitish spots. It lives on lichens, on which it is difficult to notice, and changes to a light brown 
pupa in a thin web. 
153. Genus: Cteimelia Kirby. 
Broad-winged, often very variegated species with a relatively slim body. The palpi, with a terminal 
joint begne turned downward, project beyond the head; shaft of antennae not thickened, in the male combed. 
On the fiorwing, the upper radial vein rises below the upper cell-angle; on the hindwing, the upper median vein 
rises, together with the two lower radials from the same place of the lower cell-angle, or separately. 
C. togata Druce (= augusta Hy. Edw. (26 c) is not to be mistaken by the forewings being almost iogata. 
quite carmine except a narrow black border; the hindwings are black, at the costal margin narrowly red. Mexico, 
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama. — subsp. schausi Rothsch. has scarlet, not black shoulder-covers and scarlet, scliausi. 
not carmine wings. Mexico (Epinal). -— obscurata form. nov. (26 d) from Costa Rica has the disc of the forewing obscurcita. 
very much dusted black. 
C. cyaniris Hmps. (26d). Both pair of wings are black, in the basal halves with a metallic blue lustre, cyaniris. 
like the whole body. The forewings show in the middle of the wing an orange-yellow transverse band, which 
is usually longer and broader in the female. The hindwing shows an orange-yellow spot beyond the middle 
of the costal margin. The species occurs in Ecuador. 
C. popayana Dogn. differs from cyaniris by the orange-yellow spot on the forewing being twice as popayana. 
broad; palpi at the base anteriorly white; ventral side striped black and white. The basal blue on the wings 
is somewhat confined. May be identical with the following. Colombia. 
C. garleppi Rothsch. according to the description, differs from cyaniris by the smaller extent of the garleppi. 
blue colour, which is darker and duller, and by the extraordinarily broad orange band of the forewing, which 
