PSEUDALUS; NEI1)ALIA; PHAEOMOLIS. By Ur. A. Seitz. 
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54. Genus: PseiMlalus Schs. 
In the way it is composed at present, the genus is rather abnormal. Proboscis mostly feeble, palpi 
sometimes rising before the forehead, but also quite stunted, the middle joint being also much shorter. Antennae 
combed or ciliated in tufts; cell of forewing closed sometimes with deeply, sometimes with scarcely angled 
discocellular. Venation of hindwing different nearly in every species. Preponderantly yellow species marked 
or tinged with red, of a very small size rising to a tolerably medium size. Nothing is known of the life-history. 
Ps. leos Drc. (53 cl), from Ecuador, is small, golden yellow, with lighter hinclwings and often reddish iron. 
dorsum of abdomen. The forewing shows 2 oblique brown transverse lines, an antemeclian one being in typical 
specimens somewhat interrupted, continuous, however, in the smaller occidental^ Rothsch. (53 cl), and a post- occidmlu- 
median one from before the apex to the middle of the proximal margin. Between both there is a punctiform 
spot at the cell-end, being distinct in typical specimens. Bolivia and Peru. — aurantiacus Rothsch. (53 d), aumntiu- 
from Surinam, shows the cell-dot almost vanished, both lines, however, thick and coherent, the postmedian (:us - 
line almost quite straight. — In strigatus Rothsch. (53 c), from Guiana and Peru, the cell-dot in the 2 is faint, ntriyatun. 
the antemeclian oblique line angled below the costa. — Range from Guiana to Bolivia and Peru; some of the 
forms mentioned here are probably distinct species, but they are much more closely allied to each other than 
to the other species of the genus. 
Ps. limonia Schs. Quite similar to the preceding in size, shape and colour ; like there the forewings thnonia. 
are dark yellow, the hinclwings whitish, but the forewings show only very fine cell-dots, of the transverse lines 
either nothing at all is to be seen, or their position is only indicated by very fine (3 antemeclian, some post- 
median) dots. Abdomen whitish. South Brazil. 
Ps. salmonaceus Rothsch. (53 cl). Forewing and body above of a delicate salmon-colour, margins, xrdmona- 
veins and a narrow stripe in the submedian space of the forewing yellow. Hindwing in the A bone-white, in ceus - 
the inner-marginal area faintly tinged pink. The 9 is much darker, suffused with a deep pink, and the hinclwings 
are dark pink. Peru and Bolivia (from the Rio Songo). 
Ps. peudidalus Rothsch. (53 cl) is the largest species. Forewing honey-colourecl, with a thick, dark pcudidalus. 
spot round the whitish transverse vein, and traversed by 0 or 7 partly incomplete, parallel, red-brown dentate 
lines or macular chains. Hindwing in the 2 (the A is unknown) deep pink, towards the costa and at the proximal 
margin lighter. Amazon: Fonte Boa. 
55. Genus: Neirialia Hmps. 
The 4 species composing this genus have no proboscis, but rather long, somewhat rising palpi. The 
border of all the wings is rounded, wings and body like in the preceding yellow, tinged red, with transverse 
lines on the forewing, similar as in most of the Zatrephes and Pseudalus. The venation is in both quite the same 
except a trifling deviation in the subcostal system of the forewing; the cell of the forewing is more than half 
the length of the Aving, bipartite by the discocellular being angled, that of the hindwing being shorter and broader, 
clean cut off. The former distant separation from Pseudalus, appears to be someAvhat artificial. 
N. irrorata Rothsch. (53 cl) resembles in the habitus yelloAv specimens of Eupseudosoma bifasciata in-urate. 
(50 a), Zatrephes lentiginosa (53 b), Pseudalus strigatus, aurantiacus (53 d), and others. Veined and strewn 
orange-red, foreAAing with 2 dark transverse lines, the postmedian one forming an arch belocv the costa towards 
the margin. In the $ the resemblance to Pseudalus strigatus is increased by the forewing shoving a dark puncti¬ 
form spot at the cell-end and by its transverse lines being tinged deep red. 
N. dognini Rothsch. (53 d) has more intensely reel forewings, and the two transverse lines are more doynini. 
remote from each other at the proximal margin. Peru. 
N. ockendeni Rothsch. (53 d). Coloured like dognini, but the transverse lines of the foreeving at the ockendeni. 
costal margin more than twice as far remote from each other, the distal one straighter. Peru. 
N. villacresi Dgn. Much larger; here the distal transverse line is absent, only the proximal one being villacrcsi. 
present; it cuts a light yelloAA' cuneiform streak situate in the cell and a light yellow spot below the cell. Veins 
in the distal area of the foreAA’ing black. 4b mm. Ecuador. 
56. Genus: Pltaeoutolis Hmps. 
Allied to the forms of Aphyle and Prumala, and like them with a strong proboscis. The venation is 
not homogeneous, that of the hindwing in the A sometimes confined by scent-organs. By most of the species 
approximating the exterior of other genera, the colourings of the genus have become very multiform. 
