grisea. 
pallidisir la¬ 
in. 
violctscens. 
sanguinea- 
fa. 
haemacta. 
coccinata. 
hoffmannsi. 
ruberrlma. 
albipuncta. 
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N EZULA; DI ALE UC' IA S; 
HYPERTHAEMA; STENUCHA. 
By Dr. A. Seitz. 
18. Genus: Schs. 
Here the $ forewings also show a distorted neuration; the upper median runs in the continuation of 
the discocellular; at its mouth it approaches the anal angle so very much that it reaches the border almost 
at the ingress of the lower median vein, thus creating an almost closed cell between the two median veins. The 
only species is a small, insignificant, greyish-brown animal with very narrow, pointed forewings, with a long 
distal margin, and small, almost circular hindwings. 
N. grisea Schs. (43 b) is greyish-brown, with an orange-yellow head; hindwings slightly tinted bluish 
with a diaphanous stripe below the cell. Venezuela, Guiana. 
19. Genus: l>ialcucias Hmps. 
Entirely resembles the preceding in the shape. Also the venation of the hindwing corresponds with 
that of Hyperthaema, on the forewing, however, the lower radial rises separately from the lower cell-end, whereas 
in Hyperthaema vein 4 and 5 are petiole!. Two pale greyish red-brown species belong here. 
D. pallidistriata Hmps. Only the £ is known. Pale brown. Palpi orange with a black apex. Abdomen 
above dark brown, anus and venter yellow. Forewing somewhat reddish-brown; veins, cell and submedian 
fold with prominent light streaks; from the costa behind the middle, towards the middle of the proximal margin 
and towards the border above the anal angle, there extend faint traces of dull shades. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. 
Upper Amazon. 
D. violascens Schs. has the head, thorax and forewings violettish-brown, abdomen and hindwings 
blackish-grey. The abdomen is beneath buff; on the forewing a median and a postmedian dark shade. 31 mm. 
Described according to one $ from French Guiana. 
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20. Genus: Hy giertliaeiua. 
Beautifully coloured butterflies with a strong proboscis and stout palpi bent up before the forehead. 
In the forewing the 2 first subcostal veins rise separately before the cell-end, the 3 others have a common pedicle. 
The antennae are doubly combed in both sexes. Except albipuncta the species differ very little from each other. 
H. sanguineata Wkr. (= cardinalis Stgr. , orbicularis Maass.) (43 c). Forewing of a beautiful dark 
red with 2 silvery white spots encircled dark. Hindwing blackish-brown with a whitish, somewhat diaphanous 
centre and base. Colombia to Peru and Bolivia. — haemacta Schs. (43 c) from Costa Rica is smaller and has 
much smaller white dots of the forewing, and the hindwing is quite sooty dark except 2 narrow light basal rays. 
Transitions to this latter form are before me from Huancabamba and (in Fassl’s collection) from the Upper 
Rio Negro. 
H. coccinata Schs. Size of haemacta (43 c), similarly coloured, the distal white spot larger; the hind¬ 
wing shows a white base and another white spot behind the cell. French Guiana; the type is in the American 
National Museum at Washington. 
H. hoffmannsi Rothsch. Here only the basal third of the forewing is purple brown, the rest of the 
wing greyish-brown with purple veins. In the basal area there is a large, silvery white spot encircled by black 
extending to the proximal margin and sending a tooth distally; a second, smaller, silvery white spot at the 
cell-end. Hindwings blackish-grey; in the $ almost the whole disc, in the $ only the base is hyaline. 30 mm. 
Amazon, Rio Madeira. 
H. ruberrima Schs. From French Guiana, established by Schaus; the type is in the National Museum 
at Washington. Somewhat smaller than sanguinata, the basal white spot round, at the base of the subcostal 
a black dot. There is no material difference from sanguineata stated. 
H. albipuncta Schs. (43 c). Considerably smaller and with broader wings, almost like a $ of the 
following genus. Forewing yellowish red-brown, densely and finely striated. The two white spots of the preceding 
species are here very much reduced, the one at the cell-end to a minute, white-centred dot, the one in the median 
fold to a very small spot accompanied by accessory dots. Hindwings dark greyish-brown; abdomen dark pink. 
South Brazil. 
21. Genus: Mteiiuclia Hmps. 
This genus was founded upon a damaged specimen of a small, quite dark brown species, which appears 
to be very rare, since it did not occur to me in the large collections from Mexico, which I saw. Palpi and proboscis 
are almost entirely stunted; in the forewing the 2nd subcostal vein is petiolecl with the 3rd, and the 4th with 
the 5th. The footstalk of the former bifurcation rises shortly before the upper cell-angle, that of the latter 
bifurcation at the upper cell-angle. 
