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R. trocha Dogn. (32 cl) is a little similar, though much larger and with a much broader median band; Irocha. 
near the apex of the forewing there is yet a large, triangular costal-marginal spot. Hindwing brownish-grey. 
Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Ecuador. 
R. leucostola Hmps. (= melicerta Drc,. p. p.) (32 d) has on the white forewing only one large, qua- Icucostola. 
drangular costal-marginal spot in the middle, one small spot each at the base and subapically at the costal 
margin, an interrupted nebulous antemarginal line with 3 projectures towards the margin, the middle one of 
which forms a large marginal spot. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Costa Rica. 
R. rufescens Dogn. (32 d) is white on the forewings, densely dusted red-brown, except the basal rufescens. 
half of the proximal margin, a spot in the cell-encl and two spots at the apex and proximal angle; the transverse 
lines are indistinct, the veins behind the cell striped black; instead of the undulate line there is only an oblique 
streak below the apex. Hindwings purely white. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Ecuador. 
R. causta Hmps. (32 1) is very similar, the whole wing more densely dusted red-brown, and with a causta. 
distinct, bluish-grey undulate line; behind the median line there is a double transverse line; the space between 
the latter and the undulate line remains white. Hindwings white, towards the margin brownish. Expanse 
of wings: 20 mm. Bolivia. 
R. niveicosta Schs. (32 cl) ist still more densely dusted red-brown, but the costal margin remains here niveicosta. 
broadly whitish; below it the dusting is still darker; the 3 transverse lines are only indistinctly marked by the 
light ground-colour. Expanse of wings: 22 mm. Brazil (Castro, Parana). 
R. versicolora Dogn. (32 e) is a large species with white forewings dusted grey and red-brown and versicolora. 
strewn with black, with black antemeclian and postmedian transverse lines, the latter of which is distally bordered 
with white; a similar undulate line is before the border, in front of it black sagittiform spots; in the median 
area at the costal margin a triangular spot with black dusting below it, and at the cell-encl 2 small heaps of 
black scales with a whitish crescent behind them. Expanse of wings: 20 to 28 mm. Peru, Colombia. The 
posterior transverse line may also consist of larger black cuneiform spots (= ab. 1 Hmps.). In another form: 
rufofusa nom. nov. ( — ab. 2 Hmps.), the wing is intensely suffused with red-brown, and the veins are striped rufofusa. 
black beyond the distal transverse line. 
R. effusa spec. nov. (32 e) is still larger than the preceding, much more slenderly built; forewings effusa. 
more pointed with a more oblique margin. The scaling is smoother and more lustrous, much less strewn with 
white. The marginal area exhibits only the clouded undulate line, the small, black sagittiform spots before 
it are absent; in the median area we see a kind of a blackish-brown median band. Hindwings snow-white, 
fringes very long. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. 1 from the Quindiu Pass in the Coll. Fassl. 
R. hermana Schs. (32 1) has in the basal half of the costal margin a long, red-brown spot; the anterior hcrmana. 
and posterior transverse lines are double; the veins behind the latter, as well as the median are black, 
before the margin connected by an indistinct, dentate line. Hindwings whitish, towards the margin brownish 
in the $ quite dark. Expanse of wings: 20 to 24 mm. Mexico, Brazil. 
R. mediozona Dogn. (32 cl) is white, strewn with brown and grey, with a very broad, brown median mediozona. 
band bordered with black, in it a whitish spot in the cell-end, and at the costal margin 3 black dots; the veins 
in the marginal half marked blackish with a fine, dentate line behind them. Hindwings of a pure white. Expanse 
of wings: 28 mm. Ecuador. 
R. perangulata Hmps. (32 cl) is a large, easily recognizable species looking very much like the following, perangu- 
The forewing is of a purer white, only at the costal margin dusted brown, the posterior transverse line is poin- !a 
tedly broken on the lower radial vein; a brown macular band is before the margin, in the space between black 
vein-streaks. Hindwings lighter. Expanse of wings: 32 mm. Bolivia, Peru, Brazil. 
R. pedanta Dyar (32 e) is very similar, the forewing more uniformly dusted brownish-grey; the posterior pedanta. 
transverse line is pointedly broken on the lower median vein, a black median line is inwardly angled on the 
two median veins, before the margin there is a black, dentate, undulate line, behind it below the apex red- 
brown dusting. Hindwings darker brownish grey. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Mexico, Costa Rica. 
R. recurvata Dogn. (32 e) is likewise somewhat similarly marked, dusted much darker and more recurvata. 
densely brown and strewn with black, the transverse lines less sharply broken and less strongly curved, on 
the averted sides bordered with whitish. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Colombia. 
R. pygmaea Hmps. (32 e) is smaller, with white forewings strewn with brown, the marking very pygmaea. 
much like in pedanta, with small heaps of leaden-lustrous, blackish-brown scales in the middle of the cell and 
at the end; in the middle of the costal margin there is a small, dark triangular spot; in the indistinct undulate 
line before the margin there are black vein-streaks. Expanse of wings: 16 to 23 mm. Brazil (Sao Paulo, Castro 
Parana), Colombia (Tolima, Rio Negro). 
