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From the Parades it differs by the transverse vein of the hindwing not being angled, before the middle of which 
the upper radial branches off. The forehead shows a dense, twisted hair-tuft. 
C. dolens Drc. (43 a) is quite unicolorously blackish-brown, the body as well as the wings. But the dolens. 
only specimen known, being the type in Staudinger’s Collection in the Berlin Museum, is without the abdomen. 
The hindwings show a dull bluish reflection. Mexico. — According to Hampson, the species is identical with 
Hypomolis minca, Sdis. and has been twice described by Dyar as Zamolis nodella and as Ardanikta melas, thus 
being distributed into 4 genera founded upon differences in the venation! 
22. Genus: Aemilia Ky. 
Proboscis strong, palpi showing upwards with a long basal and middle joint and stunted terminal joint, 
antennae doubly combed. Forewing without an accessory cell. On the hindwing the upper median is petioled 
with the last radial vein. The venation of the forewing is identical with that of Carathis, that of the hindwing 
only deviates by the subcostal vein, so that the butterflies were sometimes inserted in this genus, sometimes 
in another. About a dozen forms are known; in contrast with most of the common Melese, some Aemilia are 
decidedly rare. 
A. roseata Wkr. (= cinnamomea Bsd., sanguivenosa Neum.) (43 c) has a bright burning red thorax wseata. 
and forewing with a number of white discal spots arranged in groups, and a chain of light premarginal spots. 
Hindwings white, abdomen above purple red with darker shades. — In the form significatis H. Edw. the discal signifleans. 
spots are more disorderly and partly confluent. From New Mexico and California to Colombia. 
A. occidentalis French from Colorado shows the red of the forewing replaced by oehreous-yello v occidentalis. 
and the forewings so much darkened that the species bears a similitude to Carathis peropaca (43 a). 
A. rubriplaga Wkr. (43 c). Dark brown, head and collar bone-white; on the forewing the basal half rubriplaga. 
and a large distal-marginal spot are likewise bone-white, netted dark brown; hindwings in the hyaline, in 
the $ smoky grey, towards the base rosey-red, like the abdomen. The colouring of this species is widely 
distributed in South America and is found in numerous Arctiids of various genera, such as Hypocrisias 
minima (42i), Ochrodota pronapides (43 a), Carathis palp alls (42 k), Tesselota sertata (42 f), in some Halisidota 
etc. From Venezuela and Colombia to Ecuador and Peru. 
A. brunneipars Hmps. (44 1). Head, thorax and abdomen very dark brown, the head with a yellow bruunci- 
vertical dot. Forewing ochreous brown, densely striated dark brown, costa and proximal margin, except the par*. 
base, brown; marginal area obliquely from the apex to the lower cell-angle and from there to beyond the middle 
of the proximal margin dark brown; an elliptic discoidal spot dark brown; hindwings whitish, tinted brown, 
towards the margin darkened by brown. Also this scheme of markings recurs in certain Opharus and othei 
South American genera. Size like the preceding species. Peru. 
A. melanchra Schs. (44 1) is unknown to me in nature. Body dark brown; small white spots at the melanchra. 
vertex and base of abdomen. Forewings dark brown, striated still darker; a large patch at the cell-end, the 
border broadly from vein 7, and the proximal margin narrowly violettish-black. Hindwing dirty white with 
shaded brown margins. 38 mm. From Carabaya in Peru. 
A. pagana Schs. (43 d) is a somewhat smaller species, the wings like in melanchra quite dark brown, pagana. 
but at the proximal margin of the forewing and base of the hindwing there is besides yellowish hairing; the 
i thorax, however, shows orange-yellow stripes along the margins of the tegulae, and the abdomen is laterally 
orange-yellow. From Castro in Parana (Brazil). 
A. asignata Hmps. (43 d). Both wings quite sooty brown, only the hindwings more thinly scaled; asignata. 
thorax and abdomen marked yellow; the species is more slenderly built than the preceding. South Brazil. 
A. testudo Hmps. (43 d). Considerably smaller, darker, the $ almost quite black, except a light costal- testudo. 
marginal spot before the apex and sometimes besides with a faint yellowish-brown brightening at the middle 
of the costa. The median as far as behind the cell-end yellowish. Peru and Bolivia. 
A. chelyum sp. nov. (43 d) looks almost exactly like a very large testudo ; but the hindwings are not chclgum. 
hyaline, but rather uniformly blackened sooty; the sulphur-coloured blurred patch at the end of the costal 
margin in the forewing extends to the apex, the one in the middle of the costal margin is larger, the whitish- 
grey colouring of the venter extends on the sides farther up towards the dorsum. From the Rio Songo in 
Bolivia and the Upper Rio Negro in Colombia. 
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