BARITIUS. By i)r. A. Seitz. 
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10. Genus: ISavitius Wkr. 
In its new arrangement founded by Hampson the genus is likely to comprise a very great number of 
species, most of which are probably yet to be discovered in the tropics of South America. In 1901 only 6 species 
were known; at the outbreak of the war, rvhich terminates our literary knowledge of them their numbers known 
to us had trebled. The exterior of the single species is derived from other groups of night-butterflies flying 
together with the Baritius, so that they partly resemble certain Halisidota (subgen. typ. Baritius), partly Eucereum 
(subgen. Pseudeucereon Mschlr.), partly also Syntomidae from the genus Autochloris (subgen. Thysanoprymna ); 
the latter sometimes to such an extent that certain species were described as Syntomidae (B. superba as Aclytia 
etc.). — Proboscis developed, antennae doubly combed; on the forewing the 1st subcostal vein rises far before 
the cell-end, it then detaches the 2nd, and the 3rd is petioled with the 4th and 5th. The upper radial comes 
from the upper cell-angle, the middle and last radials rise from the same place, the lower cell-angle. Also on 
the hindwing the subcostal vein rises before the transverse vein. In spite of the conformity in this somewhat 
uncommon neuration, it is presumably a mixed genus; some species have a hair-lock at the base of the posterior 
femora, and the palpi bent up, others are without this hair-tuft and the palpi are porrect, sometimes the trans¬ 
verse vein of the forewing is straight, sometimes strongly angled etc. 
A. Forewings blackish, a b d o m e n of a more or less brig h t red. 
B. pyrrhopyga Wkr. (42 f). Body jet-black, the abdominal end scarlet, in the $ besides a yellow pyrrho- 
anal tuft . Forewing sooty black, behind the cell and at the base of the wing more pronounced; hindwing hyaline, pyyci. 
except the broad black border, sooty dark and with black veins. Brazil. 
B. haemorrhoides Schs. (42 f) greatly resembles the preceding, but the red colour at the abdominal haemorrhoi- 
end is more extensive, the blackish forewings reflecting somewhat violet exhibit beside the basal third a median des ' 
transverse jet-black band greatly widening in the middle, and the apex of the forewing is likewise jet-black. 
Costa Rica. 
B. roseocincta sp. nov. (42 g) from Colombia (Villavicencio) has all the abdominal rings banded roseocincta. 
purple pink, but these purple bands are covered with black hair in the basal half of the abdomen. The black 
border of the hindwing is narrower than in the preceding, in the middle of the distal margin the hyaline spot 
approaches almost to the border. 
B. superba Schs. (42 g). The bright deep red abdominal ring only narrowly bordered with black; superba. 
border of hindwing broad black. The blackish-brown forewing does not show in the typical form any dark 
transverse bands, but a dark longitudinal ray on the median, dark oblique diffuse patches from there to the 
proximal margin, and a dark diffuse spot before the apex. Mexico and the adjoining parts of Central America, 
not rare. — cepiana Drc. from Venezuela is marked and coloured like superba, but the marking of the forewing cepiana. 
is like in morio arranged in 3 transverse bands. 
B. morio sp. nov. (42 g) is larger than the preceding; the forewing with 3 narrow, black transverse morio. 
bands (the distal one interrupted); on the hindwing the hyaline spot in the $ is much smaller, in the $ it is 
quite absent; abdomen with narrow, dark red bands. Costa Rica. 
B. drucei Rothsch. Forewing dirty blackish-grey, in the disc somewhat transparent. Hindwings drucei. 
lighter; abdomen blackish, the posterior part and sides slightly banded pink. Caracas. (Size not mentioned.) 
B. peculiaris Rothsch. In the $ the legs, head and thorax are black, abdomen black, posteriorly peculiaris. 
outside carmine, last ring golden yellow. Venter at the base of abdomen red. Forewings hyaline, at the cell- 
apex a black streak; base, costa, veins, apex and border as well as the proximal margin black. Hindwings 
diaphanous hyaline, veins as well as margins black; at the anal angle a black spot. Expanse about 30 mm. 
Unknown to me. 
B. Forewings yellow to ochreo us-brown, abdomen yellow or ros y. 
B. marmorea Schs. (42 g). The basal and costal parts of the forewing as well as the head and collar marmorea. 
honey-coloured, the rest of the forewing speckled red is of a dirty greyish-brown, powdered white. The basal 
third as well as the cell are defined by a dark transverse band. Before the border of the forewing a white line, 
and white discoloration above the proximal margin. Abdomen and hindwings pale yellowish-pink. From 
Costa Rica to South Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) and Bolivia (Rio Songo), but mostly not common. 
B. discalis Wkr. (42 g) is larger than marmorea , the honey-coloured forewing with 9 red-brown discalis. 
dentate Hires, between which darker yellow transverse bands change off with more lemon-coloured ones with 
darker yellow pupils. Abdomen dark rosy-red, hindwings of a deep flesh-colour. Recalls some Halisidota- 
species. South Brazil (Rio). 
B. brunnea Hrnps. is much smaller than the preceding, the expanse only 32 mm; forewing dull brown; bnmnea. 
abdomen dark brown, at the end and sides yellow. Dark bands before the middle of the forewing, in the middle 
