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TALARA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
alborosea. 
a/hi pars. 
niveata. 
nigroplagi- 
ata. 
suffusa. 
leucophaea. 
cinerea. 
chiono- 
phaea. 
violaceogri- 
sea. 
brunnes- 
ccns. 
mcgaspila. 
ig mb asis. 
togaia. 
car a. 
semiflava. 
coccinec. 
miniata. 
x) ib id a. 
rufa. 
T. alborosea Rothsch. (32 n). Anterior body and forewings of a silvery white, the latte'r scantily 
strewn with coarse black scales, before the middle of the proximal margin with a small, black spot, cellular 
spot and longitudinal stripe from the middle of the cell to the proximal angle. Abdomen and hindwings carmine. 
Expanse of wings: 16 mm. Venezuela. 
T. albipars Hmps. (32 n) resembles an Illice: anterior body and forewings brown, mixed with whitish 
and strewn with black, with 2 large white spots at the proximal margin before and behind the middle. Abdomen 
and hindwings carmine, the latter with a dark marginal band. Expanse of wings: 14 mm. Ecuador. 
T. niveata Btlr. (34 a) is white on the anterior body and forewings, scantily strewn with blackish, 
with small faded spots below the base of the cell and behind the middle of the proximal margin. Abdomen 
carmine, hindwings blackish-brown with a red spot at the base of the proximal margin. Expanse of wings; 
18 mm. Brazil (Espiritu Santo). 
T. nigroplagiata Rothsch. (34 a) greatly approximates alborosea and differs by the dark border of the 
hindwings; the dark spot at the base of the proximal margin is absent. -— suffusa form. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) 
is almost entirely strewn brown, so that there remains only a light spot of the ground-colour before the dark 
inner-angular spot. Marginal band of the hindwing broader. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. Venezuela; Bolivia. 
T. leucophaea Dogn. (33 o) is dirty white, scantily strewn with blackish-brown, in the apical half 
of the forewing more densely so. Abdomen carmine, hindwings blackish-brown, at the proximal margin light 
red. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. French Guiana. 
T. cinerea Hmps. (33 p) is quite unicolorously blackish-brown, on the anterior body dusted grey, 
on the forewings strewn with black. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Colombia. 
T. chionophaea Hmps. (33 o) differs by its rosy abdomen. Head and thorax are more whitish, like 
the forewing in the apical half of the margin; in front of it somewhat more densely dusted brown. Expanse 
of wings: 20 mm. Brazil. 
T. violaceogrisea Rothsch. (32 m) is on the anterior body and forewings more red-brown, with a purple 
lustre, abdomen and hindwings red-brown, both towards the bases lighter. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. British 
Honduras, Surinam, Ecuador. 
T. brunnescens Rothsch. (33 o) is extremely similar, of a purer red-brown, only on the head and 
forewings near the cell-end strewn with whitish. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Peru. 
T. megaspila Wkr. (34 b) is orange-red on the anterior body, first abdominal ring and forewings; 
on the latter there is an antemedian, black transverse band striped metallic blue, growing narrower towards 
the costal margin, an oblong, small spot at the costal margin before the apex and a very large marginal spot 
below the apex. Hindwings blackish-brown, at the base red. Abdomen brown. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. 
Amazon. 
T. ignibasis Rothsch. (33 o) is very similar, more scarlet, the marginal spot and antemedian spot 
flown together. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Peru. 
T. togata spec. nov. (33 o) has scarlet forewings, being obliquely cut off by black in the marginal halves, 
with metallic blue longitudinal stripes. Anterior body and the first abdominal rings red, the rest black like 
the hindwings the bases of which are red. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Described according to 2 d'cT from the 
Rio Negro (Colombia) from the Coll. Fassl. 
T. cara Schaus (33 o) is orange-red on the anterior body and forewings, the latter blackish-brown 
at the distal margin. Abdomen and hindwings blackish-brown, both towards the bases orange-red. Expanse of 
wings: 18 mm. Costa Rica. 
T. semiflava spec. nov. (33 o) differs from cara. by its yellow, not orange-red colour, and twice as 
broad black margin. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. 1 $ from Muzo (Colombia), Coll. Fassl. 
T. coccinea Btlr. Head and thorax carmine, abdomen blackish-brown; forewings scarlet, towards 
the margin warming into orange with a black, blue-scaled spot behind the middle of the costal margin. Hind¬ 
wing blackish-brown, at the base red. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Amazon. 
T. miniata Rothsch. (33 o) differs from coccinea by its quite blackish-brown hindwings and an ante- 
marginal band dusted brownish on the forewing. Anterior body and forewings are uniformly scarlet. Expanse 
of wings: 18 mm. Venezuela; Brazil. 
T. rubida Schs. (33 o) is likewise very much like the preceding; the oblong black costal-marginal 
spot is entirely absent; behind the cell there is a dark shade; hindwing at the base red. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. 
Costa Rica. 
T. rufa Schs. (33 n). Anterior body and forewings red-brown, strewn with a darker tinge; from the 
middle of the cell to the proximal margin an oblique black line; before the fringes speckled black and white 
there are some small darker spots. Abdomen and hindwings orange-yellow, suffused with rosy. Expanse of 
wings: 20 mm. Brazil; Castro (Parana). 
