rnunora. 
lepidu. 
obscuruia. 
in era. 
brunncs- 
cens. 
unicolor. 
situ ilis. 
xanthoso- 
ma. 
sanyuirena. 
cnervis. 
382 8YNT0M0ST0LA; HYPIDALIA; H YPER ANDR A- By Dr. A. Seitz. 
Ph. manora Drc. (53 e) resembles some Neaxia, Amaxia , Prumala etc. Body and forevvings honey- 
coloured, covered with numerous small rings and ovals which are distinctly encircled with red. Hindwings 
of a lighter yellow, towards the costa lighter, towards the margin tinged orange. Peru. 
Ph. lepida Schs. from Costa Rica is slightly smaller, but instead of the rings it has small blackish 
and red spots partly confluent in the basal part and near the apex of the wing and forming a large, cap-shaped 
cloud at the proximal margin. The hindwing tinged rosy in the proximal half. 
Ph. obscurata Btlr. (53 e). Forewings paler yellow, powdered with grey; this dusting flows together 
to oblique transverse bands. Hindwings pink. Amazon. 
Ph. mera Schs. (53 e). Larger; the greyish-brown dusting of the forewing covers the whole wing, 
leaving free only a submarginal row of small yellow internerval spots. Hindwing dull whitish, the border and 
the whole proximal half likewise suffused with brown. From the lower cell-angle, between the radials, extends 
a large, diaphanous whitish cuneiform spot intersected by the lowest radial (uppermost median). The species 
looks like an Automolis and like that it has also a variegated body; abdomen blackish, the 3 penultimate rings 
and the head orange, thorax dark brown, marked white. Costa Rica. 
Ph. brunnescens Rothsck. (53 e). Smaller, but the abdomen, on the contrary, anteriorly and at the 
apex orange, the 3 penultimate segments rather darker. Instead of the large cuneiform spot, the otherwise 
greyish-brown forewing shows only yet a minute white punctiform spot behind the cell-end, which in the 
Bolivian form unicolor Rothsch. from Buenavista grows quite indistinct. Hindwing with a broadly dark shaded 
border. The typical form from Fonte Boa (Amazon). 
Ph. siinilis Rothsch. (53 e) resembles Automolis ockendeni (52 e) and with the latter also numerous 
other Heterocera (Arctiids, Syntomids, Geometrids) of its range. Quite sooty blackish-brown with a broad, 
orange transverse band through the wing. Fonte Boa (Amazon). 
57. Genus: Syntomostola Dgn. 
The only species forming this genus so very much resembles a Syntomid in the habitus and colouring, 
that it is much rather confounded with the latter than with an Arctiid. It actually resembles a Syntomid by 
the extremely reduced cell of the hindwing, whilst that of the forewing is long and broad. Proboscis well develo¬ 
ped, palpi thin, but with a very long middle joint; body slender, abdomen projecting far beyond the anal angle. 
Hindwing of the A (the $ is unknown) with a lobularly extended anal part. 
S. xanthosoma Dgn. (53 e). Forewing except border and cell-end, hindwing in the middle hyaline, 
otherwise black; abdomen orange. Discovered by A. H. Fassl near Medina in Colombia. 
58. Genus: Hypirialia Hmps. 
Preponderantly yellow butterflies with a pink abdomen. The anal part of the hindwing not lobated, 
the palpi much shorter and thicker than in Syntomostola. H amp sox inserts the genus before Cissura (p. 338), 
from which, however, it differs by the absence of vein 5 in the hindwing, and by considerable differences in 
the veins of the forewing. Of the usual Arctiid shape, as it is found in the Spilosoma, Phissama etc. also in 
the palearctic. Only 2 species are known. 
H. sanguirena Schs. (53 e) is brownish-red with black dots on the tegulae and across the dorsum 
of the abdomen; forewings yolk-coloured, the veins and 3 dentate transverse lines, the middle one of which 
is double, are red, the hindwings pink. From French Guiana. 
H. enervis Drc. is much smaller (40 mm); forewings yellow with a white costal and proximal margin, 
on which there are purple basal streaks. Round the cell-end a purple-grey discal spot, between it and the border 
a transverse row of dark punctiform spots. Hindwings in the $ purely white. Rio, Petropolis and Parana. 
Apparently rare. 
59. Genus: HypcraiMlra Hmps. 
The small butterfly forming this genus is so well distinguished by the shape of the A that it cannot be 
mistaken for any other. The forewing is extraordinarily broad, particularly by the widening of the submedian 
space. The proximal margin passes over into the distal margin quite uniformly curved, to that there is no 
angle whatever at the turning. The hindwing is deeply indented in the middle of the border, and both wings 
are covered with a distinct scent-fur on the under surface. 
