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ILLICE. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
mediofasci- 
ata. 
irimaculata. 
fasciata. 
cndoxantha. 
schwarzio- 
rum. 
iri plug a. 
vnifascici. 
texcnsis. 
mcxicana. 
tcnuifascia. 
Icentuclcien- 
sis. 
interrupia. 
barnesi i. 
flam. 
perrosea. 
flavicosta. 
angel us. 
hilaris. 
abala. 
discistriga. 
vietoxia. 
Forewings purple brown with a golden lustre; beyond the middle 2 yellow spots at the costal and proximal 
margins, which may flow together to a transverse band. Hindwing carmine, in the costal part light-yellow 
with a broad, blackish-brown marginal band; fringes orange. The $ has only a triangular spot at the proximal 
margin. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Brazil. 
I. mediofasciata Rothsch. (33 a) differs from dives by its carmine (not yellow) chest and legs, the 
marginal band of the hindwing being narrower; the $ also has on the hindwing a complete transverse band 
somewhat strangulated in the middle. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Bolivia. 
I. trimaculata Jones (33 Jt) is much smaller. The collar is orange, the shoulder-covers light-yellow, 
the ventral side orange-yellow. The forewing shows 2 separate spots beyond the middle, and a longitudinal 
spot at the proximal margin near the base. Hindwing pink, on the submedian fold yellowish, only the apex 
being brown. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. Brazil: Castro (Parana). 
1. fasciata Schs. (34 h). A considerably larger species, distinguished by its yellow abdomen and hind- 
wings. The forewings marked like in the preceding, the 2 postmedian spots separated or confluent to a transverse 
band. Anal-angular lobe and fringes there particularly long and dark brown. The§, like in dives, has only a 
triangular inner-marginal spot. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Brazil: Castro, Sao Paulo. 
I. endoxantha Hmps. (33 a) greatly resembles the preceding, the 2 spots of the forewing separated, 
abdomen and hindwings orange, the latter towards the costa of a purer yellow; before the anal-angular lobe 
the hindwing shows a deep indentation. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Brazil. 
1. schwarziorum Dyar (33 a) initiates a group in which the $ has a slightly, though still distinctly 
extended anal angle of the hindwing. The forewing shows a longitudinal band at the proximal margin near 
the base, and a postmedian transverse band being spotted carmine at the proximal margin. Expanse of wings: 
20 mm. Mexico. 
1. triplaga Hmps. (33 a) greatly resembles the preceding by reason of the head, collar, and shoulder- 
covers being light yellow; the forewings much darker blackish-brown, in schwarziorum more-silky grey, the 
postmedian spots separated, the lower one likewise with a carmine touch. On the hindwing the marginal band 
extends farther to the proximal angle. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Paraguay. 
I. unifascia Grt. (33 a) is orange-yellow on the head and thorax. On the blackish-grey forewing, the 
basal inner-marginal spot is orange; it is confluent with the narrow transverse band being widened at the costal 
and proximal margins. Hindwings carmine with a very variable marginal band. The species is extremely 
variable. In the typical form the yellow thorax exhibits a blackish-brown median spot which is absent in texensis 
nom. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.). ■ —- In f. mexicana nom. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) from Mexico the basal inner-marginal 
spot is not connected with the transverse band. — In the form: tenuifascia Harvey from Texas the transverse 
band is very narrow, while in the form: kentuekiensis Dyar from Kentucky it occupies a Avhole third of the 
wing and is broadly confluent with the basal spot at the proximal margin; the marginal band is here very narrow. 
-—- interrupta nom. nov. (= ab. 4 Hmps.) (33 a) from Alabama has the transverse band separated into two spots; 
— the same is the case in the form: barnesii Dyar from Colorado, in which the whole anterior body is not yellow 
or orange, but grey; only the interior margins of the shoulder-covers and the base of the collar are yellow. 
The hindwings in this form may also be orange or yellow. The otherwise typical form with purely yellow hind¬ 
wings may be denominated: flava nom. nov. (= ab. 6 Hmps.). — perrosea Dyar is the form from California (Los 
Angeles), in which the whole anterior body and also the transverse bands of the forewings exhibit a carmine- 
rosy colouring. -— Finally there has been found another form: flavicosta nom. nov. (= ab. 5 Hmps.), in which 
the whole costal margin, from the base to the apex, is yellow, only one inner-marginal spot being present 
behind the middle. Expanse of wings: 18 to 24 mm. Distributed through the whole of North America as far 
as Mexico and Yucatan. 
I. angelus Dyar (33 a) has more stretched forewings of a light slate-coloured lustre; the yellow' trans¬ 
verse band is uniformly broad, somewhat oblicpie, and flows together with the inner-marginal band. Anterior 
body yellow, abdomen pink like the hindwings, exhibiting a grey apical band. Expanse of wings: 23 to 28 mm. 
Arizona, Mexico. 
I. hilaris Fldr. (33 b) has only yellow palpi, forehead and collar, whilst the rest of the anterior body 
is blackish-brown. Forewings purple brown with a golden-yellow spot at the base of the proximal margin, 
and a broad, straight, transverse band; fringes towards the apex yellow. Hindwings carmine with a dark brown 
costal margin grovdng narrower towards the margin. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Venezuela. 
1. abala Schs. (32 n) is very similar, still smaller; the yellow postmedian band is slightly curved. 
Hindwings with a broader marginal band. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. French Guiana. 
1. discistriga Doyn. (33 b) is well characterized by the yellow wedge-shaped spot on the discal fold 
towards the margin; moreover larger than abala, hindwing very broadly bordered with a blackish brown; shoulder- 
covers and collar striped yellow, the thorax otherwise dark brown; apex of abdomen and underside blackish- 
brown. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. French Guiana. 
I. metoxia Hmps. (34 g). Head and thorax blackish-brown, vertex and collar orange-yellow like 
the palpal base and the dark banded legs; abdomen above carmine, beneath yellow. Forewings blackisli-brown 
