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T H YROMOLIS; DEMO LIS 
PROTOMOLIS; EPICRISIAS; PURI US. 
By Dr. A. Seitz. 
H. appendiculata H.-Schdff. (45 f). Forewing dull violettish-grey with a light yellow marginal part, appendicu- 
hinclwing dull bone-white, in the costal part an ochreous-brown scent-spot on a creasy lustrous reflection. 1(1 la ' 
Brazil; the butterfly is apparently widely distributed and occurs also near Rio de Janeiro, but it is rare. 
GO. Genus: Tliyroinolis Hmps. 
In common with Hyperandra it has a distorted hindwing the anal part of which is lobated, the lobe, 
however, being besides inverted. At the inversion itself a scent-pencil apt to be spread out. The hindlegs show 
long hair-brushes on the femora and tibiae. The cell of the forewing is of scarcely half the length of the wing, 
that of the hindwing still shorter. The only species of this genus exhibits the widely distributed colouring of 
numerous Neritos, Paranerita , Hyponerita etc. 
Th. pythia Drc. (53 f). Forewing with a purple-brown basal half intermixed with yellow and violet, pylhio. 
small spots, and a diaphanous yellow apical part; before the apex itself a purple-brown, circular spot with 
a darker pupil and a lighter bordering. Hindwing yellow with a deep orange inner-marginal area and a costal 
area dusted Avith brownish. From the Rio Songo in Bolivia; discovered by 0. Garlepp. 
61. Genus: Demolis Hmps. 
Distinguished from the preceding genus by the less distorted shape of the male butterflies. Still both 
wings show a rather broad submedian space. On the forewing the first subcostal vein branches off shortly 
before the upper cell-angle; the 2nd rises with the footstalk of the others from the cell-angle itself, from which 
also the upper radial rises; the cell is long and narrow. In the hindwing vein 5 is absent and the costal parts 
from the subcostal only behind the cell-end. Only 1 species: 
D. albicostata Hmps. The species greatly reminds us of Prumala albicollis Fldr. (44 i) and of Automolis albicosfata. 
sordida Bothsch. (52 f), but it is somewhat smaller, the dark basal part of the forewing more reddish-broAvn 
than violettish-brown, with a purely white costal margin, the light marginal third of the forewing being yellow. 
Abdomen dark red, hindwings tinged light pink. From South Brazil. 
62. Genus: Protomolis Hmps. 
Proboscis strong, palpi obliquely rising, antennae doubly combed with rather long teeth. Wings 
of the common shape, the forewing with a cuneiform cell of almost two thirds of the length of the costa. On 
the forewing the upper median vein rises before the lower cell-angle, the lower radial above it; the two first 
subcostal veins branch off before the cell-end, the transverse vein is slightly angled. In the hindwing the sub¬ 
median area in the ^ is scarcely half the width of Hyperandra and neither attains that of Demolis. Only 1 species 
is known, an insignificant butterfly looking someAvhat like a Bituryx or Agoraea. 
P. promathides Drc. (44 b). Dull white, the foreAving finely dusted dark, abdomen hemochromc Avith promaihi- 
black dorsal dots. Mexico. 
63. Genus: Epicrisias Dyar. 
Of the usual shape, but immediately recognizable by the long palpal terminal joint attaining almost 
the size of the middle joint; thereby the palpi project far. On the forewing the tAVO subcostal veins rise before 
the upper cell-angle, the middle discocellular is quite obtusely angled, the two lower radials are short-petioled. 
In the hindwing all the veins are present. Only 1 species. 
E. eschara Dyar (53 f). Bright orange-yellow, head and thorax of a deeper colour, like the costa esclmra. 
of the forewing; the disc of the forewing slightly tinged reddish. Hindwings coloured the same. In great con¬ 
trast with the orange-pink body and Avings are the long legs and antennae. Mexico, rare. 
64. Genus: Pnrlus Wkr. 
The only species forming this genus is an insignificant, brown Arctiid of an expanse of 38 mm. distinguished 
by both wings having areolae. In the forewing the 2nd subcostal vein anastomoses Avith the footstalk of the 
3rd to 5th in such a way that the areola produced thereby is as long as the free part of the 3rd subcostal 
vein. In the hindwing a basal areola is formed by the costal approaching the upper cell-Avall only close before 
the middle of the cell. But right behind the middle of the cell it separates again from the subcostal. 
