ni-gricollis. 
flavibrun- 
nea. 
abdomina- 
lis. 
discophora. 
nor ex. 
leitcoplaga. 
prophaea. 
e.rint i as. 
ilari purpu¬ 
rea . 
chrysosona. 
maculosa. 
viola. 
360 HYPONERITA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
N. iligricollis Dgn. (46 g). Body and forewings quite similar to holophaea, also the blue reflection of 
the hindwing is present , but the hindwing is white as far as beyond the middle. Ecuador. Like the preceding 
it resembles numerous Syntomids and Arctiids. 
N. flavibrunnea Dgn. Smaller than nigricollis, forewings red-brown as in steniptera (46 b), but without 
distinct spots, with light veins. Easily recognizable by the hindwing showing a light central area, from which 
a yellow light patch extends through the cell towards the base. French Guiana. 
N. abdominalis Rothsch. (46 g). Dark brown, forewing with light veins and a whitish spot below 
the cell-end; vertex and posterior half of abdomen yolk-coloured. Upper Amazon. 
N. discophora Hmps. (46 g). Twice as large, head, collar, and the whole abdomen yolk-coloured. 
Forewing with a larger, round disc behind the cell, and the hindwings in the middle whitish. Peru. 
N. sorex Drc. (46 g) is almost exactly like the preceding, the spot of the forewing, however, elliptical 
and hyaline, the hindwing in the costal region whitish. Peru and Bolivia. 
N. leucoplaga Hmps. (46 g). Distinguished from the preceding by the abdomen being above dark 
brown. French Guiana. 
N. prophaea Schs. (46 g). Much smaller than the preceding, particularly the hindwings are small; 
wings dark brown, only the analmarginal area and the hindwing yellowish-pink, so is the vertex and dorsum 
of abdomen as far as towards the apex. French Guiana. 
N. eximius Rothsch. (46 g). Only as large as prophaea, thorax and forewings dark brown with purple 
markings on the collar, patagia and near the base of the forewing; from there as far as beyond the middle of 
the forewing hyaline. Hindwing dark brown with a hyaline centre and purple at the proximal margin. Peru. 
N. flavipurpurea Dgn. (46 g). Black, forewing with a broad golden yellow oblique band from the 
middle of the costa towards the anal angle. Hindwings and abdomen with a dull blue reflection. Colombia; 
discovered by A. H. Fassl near Muzo. 
N. chrysozona Schs. Much smaller, the orange-yellow oblique band narrower, hindwings blackish- 
brown, but without the blue reflection. Easily discernible from the preceding by a cuneiform basal ray in the 
middle of the hindwing. French Guiana. 
N. maculosa Schs. The type of this species unknown to me in nature, from French Guiana, is in 
the National Museum at Washington and seems to have remained unique. It deviates from all the others of 
the genus by the thickened and woolly haired hindlegs and the plain antennae of the Forewings yellowish- 
white, thick, dark internerval streaks in and behind the cell, from the cell-end as far as 2 or 3 mm before the 
border; finer and shorter ones before the middle and at the end of the submedian space. Hindwings yellowish- 
white, below the cell strewn with a dark colour. Size of flavipurpurea (46 g), but the forewings broader and 
the hindwings smaller. Thorax dull greyish-brown, head and abdomen orange. 
40. Genus: Hyponerita Hmps. 
To this genus 16 species have so far been reckoned; being like the preceding genera confined to the 
northern parts of South America and the southernmost part of Central America. All the species represent 
variegated, elegantly marked forms often repeating the images of Nerita and Paranerita. They also, except 
one, have been discovered of late and vary very lit tle; like in the Ithomiinae resembling them in the homochromy 
of parallel genera, ample collections of specimens from the same district may be examined without finding 
the least deviations. Nor is there a geographical variation known in the genus. Whether it is itself a natural 
one, we have already doubted above, and these doubts are increased by the fact that e. g. a very peculiar and 
extreme specialization of the hindlegs appears in a Hyponerita (in rhodocraspis) , not recurring in any other 
species of the genus, but in a Paranerita (in P. haemabasis) (45 1). Like the Paranerita , the Hyponerita have 
an accessory cell being produced by the 2nd subcostal vein, which is sent out from the 1st, anastomosing with 
the 3rd. Otherwise the Hyponerita entirely resemble the preceding genera; nor do they differ by the border 
of the hindwing being also retracted below the apex, by the scent-organ in the submedian space on the hindwing 
beneath, or by the antennae being mostly provided with entirely white tips. The larva is not yet known of 
any species, but we may expect brushy larvae with long hair-pencils at both ends. 
H. viola Dgn. (46 h) repeats the colouring so often recurring in the preceding genera, of Neritos 
macrostidza (46 d), Paran erita inegualis, Neonerita perversa (45 h) and others. Apical disc and inner-marginal 
half of the forewing uniformly violettish-brown, the rest of the wing, as well as the hindwing and abdomen 
honey-coloured. Guiana. 
