TRICYPHA; HYPOCRLSIAS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
S. testacea Mschlr. (43 b) is almost exactly like oenone, but the transverse lines are not so regular, tentacca. 
frequently interrupted and more entangled. Surinam and Trinidad as far as the Amazon. 
12. Genus: Trieypha Hmps. 
The few species known of this genus are at once recognizable by the forewings being quite uncommonly 
widened. The cell forms a broad wedge, the costal margin is thereby uncommonly curved, the apex rounded 
off. In this broadly extended wing the 3rd subcostal vein immediately after having left the upper cell-angle 
turns downward and terminates into the upper radial, or rather forms it, directly before the border. In the $ 
the venation of the forewin'g is similar to that of Baritius, except the lower radial and upper median having 
a short footstalk. The distortion of the $ forewing produced by this course of the vein makes the wing appear 
plaited in the living imago; the apical area forms a vesicularly raised surface and the distal margin is slightly 
drawn in below the somewhat projecting apical part. 
T. imperialis Heyl. (= anomala Drc.) (42 i). Dark sooty brown in and behind the cell, as well as imperial is. 
in the submedian fold in the $ semi-diaphanous, longitudinal, diffuse spots. Abdomen beneath orange. From 
Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia, but apparently nowhere common. 
T. furcata Mschlr. (= anomala Btlr. nec Drc.) is very similar to the preceding, but somewhat smaller furcuta. 
and the abdomen beneath not orange, but greyish-brown. Guiana and Amazon. 
T. nigrescens Rothsch. (42 i) is somewhat larger than the preceding, coloured the same, but with nigrescens. 
a red transverse spot at the vertex and a yolk-coloured apex of the abdomen. Paraguay. 
13. Genus: Hypocrisias Bmps. 
These butterflies, with an almost Noctuid-like habitus, are not properly inserted here and are also 
placed to the end of the whole group of genera in Hampsox’s Catalogue, before the Philippine Arctiid (neither 
fitting to its surroundings) Heliozona lianga, the female type of wich we have figured in Yol. X, t. 19 a. The 
most closely allied to the Hypocrisias are the Halisidota, by which name most have been described. — Proboscis 
developed, palpi with an entirely stunted terminal joint, E antennae rather long-combed, the 2nd subcostal 
vein of the forewing rises directly behind the rise of the 1st, before the upper cell-angle, the discocellulars only 
slightly curved in. Medium-sized, pale yellowish-grey butterflies marked greyish-brown. 
H. punctata Drc. (= minima Drc. nec Neum.) (42 i). A very common Mexican butterfly, often punctata. 
captured by the lantern. Pale yellow with 4 brown transverse bands on the forewing: before, in and behind 
the middle and at the border; before the latter small round rings with light centres. Abdomen above blackish. 
Occurs also in Central America. 
H. minima Neum. ( — armillata H.-Edw., agelia Drc.) (42 i) entirely resembles punctata, but the minima. 
brown bands of the forewing flow together in the discal area to a large spot; the hindwing at the margin less 
darkened. Mexico; proceeds to the north as far as the United States and rvas taken in July in Arizona. 
H. gemella Schs. (= emella Strd.) likewise resembles punctata. Head and neck cinnamon-brown, gemella. 
abdomen brownish buff, so are the forewings with brown transverse lines; a dark brown antemedian shade, 
indented at the basal part. At the costa a spot in the middle, one at the cell-end; a light buff postmedian 
spot is bordered with brown. An antemarginal row of spots partly replaced by a brown dot; veins, a marginal 
line and fringes brown. Hindwings white, tinged brown, veins and marginal line brown. 38 mm. Costa Rica. 
H. fuscipennis Bunn. (42 i). Shape and size of a Halisidota-, thorax and forewings greyish-brown, fuscipennis. 
shoulder-covers with a thick, dark dot, subcostal area of the forewing and basal part of the hindwing bone- 
coloured, abdomen orange; from Argentina. 
H. jonesi Schs. (42 k) greatly resembles the preceding, but the whole proximal area of the forewing ioncsi. 
is bone-coloured, and in the brownish-grey distal area there are bone-coloured spots. Hindwings quite bone- 
coloured. From Parana. 
H. lisoma Dyar (42 k) resembles the preceding, of a dirty yellowish-white, shaded rather dark brown, lisoma. 
On the forewing the brown shading is badly defined, the marginal area rather narrow, interrupted by an undulate 
band of the ground-colour. Discal spot reniform, encircled by brown, but not very prominent. Hindwing with 
an antemarginal nebulous band. Mexico. 
H. berthula Dyar (42 k) is larger than minima Neum. which it otherwise resembles, but the light berthula. 
antemarginal band is much narrower than there, not the whole base of the forewing is yellow, but only a sub- 
basal yellow band; hindwing with a discoidal spot. Tehuacan in Mexico; discovered by Robert Muller. 
