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PRUMALA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
alinda. 
lophocam¬ 
poides. 
palmeri. 
maculicinc- 
ta. 
jamaicen- 
sis. 
indistincta. 
sulphured. 
suanus. 
aryllis. 
albicollis. 
ochrida. 
pyrostrota. 
P. alinda Dyar (44 h). Whilst the preceding species approached some Turuptiana, we find in this 
species and the following ones resemblances to Idalus or Antaxia. — alinda has almost the same marking of 
the forewings as herbosa underwoodi, but on a bright yellow ground, and the hindwing is pink with an ante- 
marginal row of dull dots. Abdomen bright red. Mexico; discovered by Robert Muller. 
P. lophocampoides Fldr. (= ipsea Drc., fulminans Rothsch., tolimensis Rothscli.) (44 h) has a similar 
marking in purple pink and brownish tints on a bright yellow ground, which, however, is besides starred with 
numerous pink dots being particularly abundant at the basal part and often confluent there. The species is 
distributed from Mexico to Peru and South Brazil and varies exceedingly, but judging from the material before 
me more individually than geographically; thus the brighter yellow specimens with darker markings ( fulminans) 
both in Venezuela and Peru, the duller specimens {ipsea) both in Mexico and South Brazil. The species is 
in some places not rare. 
P. palmeri Rothsch. (44 i) from West Colombia, has yellow forewings with a large, purple-brown 
spot bordered with scarlet, in the proximal area, extending from the base to the proximal angle and the middle 
of the cell, and the distal margin of which is curved and sends a spur across vein 2; behind the middle of the 
proximal margin a spot, and small spots in the submedian fold. Also round the cell-end there are minute spots 
and a purple-brown luna before the apex. Hindwing pale yellow, the proximal half faintly tinted purple pink. 
P. maculicincta Hmps. (44 i). Instead of being very bright yellow as in lophocampoides , the forewings 
are here dull honey-coloured with numerous grey spots encircled by brown, being arranged in about the same 
way as in the preceding species. Hindwing dark greyish-brown, towards the base darker grey; body dark 
yellowish-brown, head and collar lighter yellow. South Brazil, undoubtedly rare. 
P. jamaicetlsis Schs. Size and shape of the preceding, but the ground-colour of the forewdngs is red-brown 
towards the base tinted olive; the ring-spots are scarcer and some have whitish pupils; hindwings light purple, 
like the undersurface. Jamaica. 
P. indistincta Rothsch. (44 i). Smaller, forewings pale honey-coloured with very scarce, vanishing, 
brownish punctiform shades; hindwings white, with a very faint yellowish-pink tint. Known from Chiriqui 
(Costa Rica) and Paraguay, probably distributed through the whole of South America, but rare. 
P. sulphurea Joicey is unknown to me. Somewhat larger than indistincta (44 i), thorax and forewings 
light greenish-yellow; a small dark spot near the base, below the cell a violettish-brown spot spread with purple 
and surrounded by brown; a similar spot in the middle of the cell; a row of brown, small rings filled up with 
violettish-grey before the marginal part, of which the spot on the submedian fold is larger; a similar row from 
near the cell-end to the submedian and 2 dark oblique spots separated by a purple streak from the apex; an 
antemarginal row of minute rings. Hindwings white, towards the proximal margin tinted pale red; abdomen 
white, tinted pale red-brown. Peru. 
P. suanus Drc. (44 1) has the size of the preceding, but the forewings are of a bright yellow and have 
a white costal margin; the small spots are encircled by purple or violet and filled up with whitish, the oblique 
row before the distal quarter begins with a triangular costal spot before the apex and ends in the in a conical 
spot at the proximal margin; the hindwings are diaphanous white. Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela. 
P. aryllis Schs. (44 i) is the largest Prumala known; sulphurous yellow, in the distal half the forewing 
has jet-black vein-streaks; similar ones, bordered by white above, are situate above the proximal part of sub¬ 
median and subcostal. —- The butterfly by its marking greatly resembles quite a number of Arctiids common 
in South America, e. g. Pachydota striata Dgn., nervosa Fldr ., Ischnocampa nigrivena Schs., from which, however, it 
differs by the veins and the shape of the wings, as well as by the dorsum of the abdomen being often black 
there, whilst in aryllis it is dull honey-coloured. Venezuela. 
P. albicollis Fldr. (44 i). Thorax and the basal % of the forewing violettish-brown, the apical third 
light yellow with 4 subapical, alternately placed, dark punctiform spots. Collar conspicuously white, abdomen 
and hindwings purple-pink. From the Amazon. 
P. ochrida Schs. (44 i). Body brick-red with a yellow head and collar; forewings honey-coloured, 
but profusely covered with dark-brown and purple-brown clouds and bands. The wing is crossed by dark veins 
and between them there are purple-brown antemarginal dots. Fringes speckled. Hindwings yellow, in the 
anal half radiantly tinged pink. South Brazil. 
P. pyrostrota Dgn. (44 i). Thorax violettish-brown with a bone-white collar, head light with a red 
vertex. Forewings honey-coloured, costal and basal parts suffused with violet; at the Cell-end a group of dark 
dots bordered with red, and through the sub median space there extend 3 violettish-brown transverse bars. 
Distal part of the forewing purely honey-coloured, below and in the apical part disperse brownish dots. Ab¬ 
domen and hindwings purple. French Guiana. 
