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ANTARC'TIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
brunnea. A. brunnea Hbn. (= severa Berg) (41 d) resembles vulpina (41 d), but the forewings and the thorax 
are dark brown and without a light costa. The hindwings are dirty white, but in the their costal parts are of 
a dark, sooty tinge, whilst in vulpina only faintly darkened; the abdomen of the £ is not golden yellow, but 
amaryllis, brown. $ tinged quite honey-yellow. It often varies into a paler and more yellow form (= ab. amaryllis Sch.s.) 
South Brazil and Argentina, common. — Larva with dense, dark dorsal brushes, on Xanthium spinosum, 
Gaillardia scabiosoides, Scleropus amaranthoides, and other low plants. 
vulpecula. A. vulpecula Dogn. Size of the following species, body dark brown, collar anteriorly red-brown, thorax 
more ochreous, abdomen covered with very long hair. Forewing blackish-brown, costal margin and the fringes 
still darker. Hindwings above white, somewhat lustrous blue, in the apical area darkened greyish. Beneath 
all the wings are of a leaden grey, costa, fringes and the apical part of the hindwing blackish. From Colombia. 
Described only according to male specimens. 
pallidivena. A. pallidivena Sch.s. Size and shape of azollae (41 i). but the forewing with white veins like venata 
(41 i). Head and collar dark brown, thorax tan-coloured. Abdomen ochreous-yellow. Ground-colour of forewings 
tan-coloured. Under surface whitish, costal and distal margins of forewings brownish. Brazil: Castro (Parana). 
honora. A. hotiora Sch.s. (41 c) is almost exactly like the preceding, but the hindwings browner, also in the 
S slightly tinged yellowish. The $ abdomen is of a brighter yellow. —- This species is distributed from Central 
Brazil to the north and is even reported from Colombia. 
sericea. A. sericea Sch.s. (41 e) is considerably lighter brown, also the $ forewings rather pale, the hindwings 
nearly white, except the costa and the inner-marginal area. South Brazil. 
jervida. A. fervida Schs. (41 e). Only the $ is known. All the wings are dusted dark brown, without markings 
except the cell-end being faintly marked dark. Range like that of sericea. 
suryens. A. surgens Wkr. (41 h, i). The $ has the forewing similar as pallidivena brown crossed by light veins, 
but the hindwings are of a dull white, towards the margin darker. The $ which was at first described as Mallo-, 
cephala venata by Rothschild, is quite light whitish ochreous-yellow, the veins of the forewings purely white. 
Parana. 
venata. A. venata Schs. (41 i) resembles surgens in the marking, but it has a browner ground-colour of the 
wings, out of which the lighter veins (in the $ also on the hindwing) are more distinctly prominent, as well as 
yolk-coloured hair covering the body. But as Hampson places surgens to the genus Maenas being otherwise 
preponderantly palearctic, they must both be distinguished by the subcostal neuration of the forewings. Brazil: 
Parana. 
albescens. A. albescens Hmps. (41 e) from Venezuela and Peru has whitish wings tinged yellowish at the base, 
the thorax and abdomen, particularly posteriorly, being yolk-coloured. It must perhaps be already placed 
to the Palustra, like the following species giganiea. 
rjujantea. A. gigantea Jones belongs perhaps already to the next genus. Almost the size of Palustra burmeisteri 
(41 f, g); dark brown, collar bordered with a dark yolk-colour, abdomen yellow, above banded dark. Forewings 
brown, at the costal, proximal margins and border darker, in the distal area lighter and yellowish. Hindwings 
yellow, the costa narrowly brown. At the border an undulate band, being interrupted behind the cell. Border 
fine golden yellow. The last abdominal ring of the $ is brown; the $ also exhibits a very dull, dark postmedian 
line. Castro. 
rudis. A. rudis Btlr. (41 i) was described as Parades (comp. p. 320), but according to Hamp son it belongs 
here, since the forewing shows an accessory cell. Lighter brown than the preceding, in the S both wings coloured 
almost the same; thorax anteriorly and abdomen above tinged yellow. Chile. 
phacocera. A. phacocera Hmps. Size of the preceding species, body dark brown, but a tuft on the shoulder and 
the abdomen orange. Forewings reddish-brown, the base covered with some orange hairs; hindwing orange 
with a dark brown marginal band, beginning broadly at the costa, and growing narrower towards the anal 
angle. Paraguay. 
paula. A. paula Schs. (41 e) is much smaller than the other Antarctia, only the size of Mallocephala deser- 
ticola (41 d). Recognizable by the dark cell-end-spot and the ochreous-yellow inner-marginal stripe of the 
forewing. Hindwings of the darker. Brazil (Parana). 
fulvicollis. A. fulvicollis Hmps. Size of paula (41 e). Body dark brown, thorax above marked yellowish-red; 
abdomen above yellowish-red with a dark median stripe. Forewing dark brown at the base intermixed with 
some white and yellowish hairs. Hindwings yellowish-white, veins and border slightly suffused with a dark 
brown. Chile. 
costata. A. costata Bunn. (= bergi Sch.s.) (41 e). Size of vulpina (41 d), the side-form of which it was at first 
assumed to be. Antennal shaft above whitish, abdomen laterally dull yellow, in the $ above with brown bands. 
South Brazil (Rio). 
