PALAEOMOLIS; HYPOMOLIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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P. spraguei Grt. ( = conspicua Neum.) (39 h). Earth-grey, with a dark yellow longitudinal stripe spraguei. 
at the costal and proximal margins of the forewing; abdomen red. Georgia, Gansas, Colorado. Not common. 
The figured example was taken in July. 
P. abdominalis Grt. (39 h) entirely resembles spraguei, but the abdomen is yolk-coloured instead abdomina- 
of red. Florida; rare. 
P. oslari Rothsch. from New Mexico has the size and shape of the preceding, but the abdomen is salmon- oslarl. 
coloured, and the wings are unicolorously dull greyish-cream-coloured, without the prominently white costal 
and proximal margins by which abdominalis is characterized. 
6. Genus: Palaeomolis Hmps. 
The genus is easily recognized by the relatively short, broad forewings and the large hindwings. 
Antennae rather long, quite short-combed, palpi long, extended straight forward. Head and thorax with long 
and dense hair, the abdomen but little projecting beyond the anal angle. 
P. garleppi Rothsch. (39 h) is the smallest species; through the dull ochreous-yellow forewing 3 garleppi. 
oblique, black transverse streaks which are distally convex below the costa. At the cell-end a black, comma-like 
spot. Hindwings lighter with a dull cell-end luna. Under surface pale ochreous-yellow, the forewing with a 
reddish-yellow costal stripe, all the wings with a dark cell-end luna. From Bolivia from the Rio Songo. 
P. hampsoni Rothsch. (39 h) entirely resembles garleppi, but the ground-colour is a dirty yellowish- hampsoni. 
brown, and on the very broad forewing there are only traces of the black transverse streaks and cell-end spots. 
South East Peru. 
P. purpurascens Hmps. (39 h) is larger and more slender than the preceding, in the colouring and purpuras- 
marking quite similar to garleppi ; the 3 transverse lines are distinct, but the cell-end lunae are absent. cem 
P. metacauta Dogn. Thorax and head brown, with a black forehead, abdomen and under surface metacauta. 
of the body reddish-yellow; Forewings brown, watered with darker atoms. Costa and veins in some places 
tinged red-yellow, with a small black discal dot, a transverse line anteriorly, one in the middle and one beyond 
the middle, starting from costal shades and running almost parallel, being distally angled and extending obliquely 
to the proximal margin. Hindwings reddish-yellow. 29 to 32 mm. Colombia. 
7. Genus: Hypomolis Hmps. 
Proboscis stunted; the palpi much shorter than in Palaeomolis garleppi, hidden, like the eyes, too, 
in the shaggy hairing of the head. The posterior tibiae are without the middle spurs, the terminal spurs being 
strong. On the forewing the 1st subcostal vein rises far, the 2nd directly before the upper cell-angle; the cell 
itself is long, the discocellular almost precisely rectangular. On the hindwing veins 3 and 4 rise from the lower 
cell-angle, 5 being absent. Eight species are known, some of which are very much alike. 
H. palmeri Rothsch. (39 h). Thorax and vertex brown, chest and head anteriorly with the palpi of palmeri. 
a bright red, abdomen dark pink. The forewings still strongly recall the Palaeomolis- species, being dirty greyish- 
green, thinly scaled, with a red costa and blackish marks before the apex, in the middle of the costa and above 
the proximal margin; hindwings diaphanous yellowish-rosy. West Colombia, taken in December at an altitude 
of almost 6000 ft. 
H. rubricosta Dogn. entirely resembles the preceding, but the chest is more ochreous instead of scarlet, rubricosta. 
The forewings ochreous, slightly tinged brownish, above the proximal margin not so distinctly marked dark 
as in palmeri. Hindwings ochreous. Ecuador. 
H. testacea Rothsch. (39 i). Quite thinly scaled, yellowish-brown, the forewings with darker yellowish- testacea. 
brown veins, a costal shade in and beyond the middle, from the latter a partly obsolete nebulous stripe behind 
the middle of the proximal margin, above which the submedian fold is shaded darker. Hindwings tinged dull 
greyish-brown, in the inner-marginal area more yellow. Abdomen ochreous. The species strongly recalls the 
form described by Rothschild as Automolis turuptianoides which may also belong hereto. Peru. 
H. metarhoda Dogn. Forehead rosy. Thorax greenish ochreous, densely haired. The shoulder-covers metarhoda 
bordered with reddish bristles. Abdomen reddish-yellow. Forewings creamy-white, towards the margin tinged 
greenish, on the proximal half a moss-green spot; costa red-yellow with 3 dark dots from which the following 
transverse lines proceed: a strongly angled line before the middle, a curved line in and one beyond the middle. 
Under surface pale orange-red with 3 small bows. Hindwings on both surfaces orange-red with yellow fringes. 
31 mm. Closely allied to palmeri (39 i) and rubricosta. 
H. fassli Rothsch. (42 f). <$ chest, head, antennae and legs, as well as thorax and abdomen dirty brown, fassli. 
Wings hyaline, margins and veins dirty blackish-brown. Length of forewings: 17 mm. From the Monte Tolima 
in Colombia, taken by A. H. Fassl at an altitude of 3200 m. 
