PE LOCH YT A. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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E. pailidicosta Wkr. (54 h). Above quite dark olive-brown, only the costal margin quite narrowly pallid uotsta. 
sulphureous. Beneath the hips are yellowish-brown, the abdomen white. The <$ has a straight border of the 
hindwing, so that it almost appears triangular. From Colombia (Pacho, Mount Tolima) through Venezuela 
as far as Bolivia and Peru. 
E. flavicosta Drc. (54 g) has entirely the shape of the preceding, but above the head and the anterior ilackusla. 
edge of the thorax are yellowish-white, and on the forewing the whole costal area is lighter, as well as the 
median and a parallel stripe in front of the darkened margin. The venter is likewise white. Reported from 
Peru, the figured specimens, however, are from Orosi in Costa Rica, from the Volcano Irazu, at an altitude 
of 1200 m. 
E. lavinia Drc. lavinea Rothsch.) (54 g). Here the body and forewings are also blackish-brown, Utcinin. 
but the latter have a broad, sulphureous costal stripe and on the transverse vein a fine, yellow V. Hindwings 
white, with a brownish apical part and border. Peru. 
E. bicolor Mssn. (54 f). Body and forewings sooty blackish-brown, the forewing (in the type figured hicolor. 
here) with a deep yellowish-brown costal stripe, the hindwings diaphanous whitish. Ecuador, Peru. 
E. barnesi Schs. (54 h). Body and wings white, the abdominal dorsum tinged orange-yellow. From barnesi. 
Cuba, where the species is apparently rare. 
E. insula Dgn . (54 g). Head and thorax sooty yellowish-brown, abdomen brownish-grey, towards insula. 
the apex tinged dark brown, with a yellow anal tuft. Forewings yellowish-brown with slightly darker veins. 
Hindwings unicolorously dull dark brown. Loja (Ecuador). 
E. tricyphoides Rothsch. (54 h). Smaller, above likewise dull dark brown, but the head above bone- tricuplwi- 
white. abdominal end laterally, the last segment also above yolk-colourecl. Forewing with a black dot at the 
cell-end, and an undulate, W-shaped, dark antemarginal line. Guiana and Amazon. 
E. phantasma Schts. (54 h). Smaller and paler, thorax and forewings light earth-giey, with a brownish phantasma. 
apical area, hindwing whitish, at the costal margin and apex broadly greyish-brown; inner-marginal area and 
abdomen honey-coloured. Guiana. 
E. deceptura Drc. (54 h). Size of the preceding, the forewings of a purer greyish-brown, and the deceptura. 
hindwings all white. Head above yellowish, thorax greyish-brown, abdomen dark brown, at the base whitish 
and at the end yellow. Peru. 
68. Genus: Pelochyta Hbn. (Sontia Wkr.) 
The Hi species united to this group are mostly medium-small, unicolorously brown or yellowish insects 
without any peculiarities. In their range they agree with the Elysius. They also have a strong proboscis, but 
mostly also large palpi obliquely bent up, with a distinct terminal joint resting on a long and thick middle joint 
d antennae with strong, in the 2 with short pinnae in a double row. Like in Elysius the abdominal dorsum 
is in the basal half densely covered with hair. In the forewing the 2nd subcostal vein rises before the upper 
cell-angle, the upper median vein before the lower cell-angle. No areola; transverse vein angular. The lower 
median vein only rises in the middle of the wing from the cell-wall. In the hindwing all the veins are present ; 
they are often rather small. — Of the larva I only know Sepp's figure of P. arontes (= neuroptera Sepp). It has 
unpaired, stunted brushes across the dorsum, on the 3rd and 9th segment long pencils and on the 4th ring a 
cap-shaped hair-pad. It thus recalls some Sy-ntomid larvae, such as those of Episcepsis thetis etc. Type: P. 
arontes. 
1 P. atra Rothsch. (55 a, b). blackish-brown, frons and tegulae with yellowish-red dots, bases of wings aira. 
black dots. Abdomen beneath white. $ more reddish-brown, frons yellowish; much larger than the d'. Peru. 
P. nigrescens Dgn. (55 a) is quite similar, the $ somewhat lighter (the $ is not known), upper head, nigrescent. 
collar, metathorax, and dorsum of abdomen purple except a dark middle stripe. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru 
and Bolivia. 
P. haemapleura Dgn. (55 a) is almost entirely like nigrescens, the red of the head and thorax more hacmapleu- 
coverecl by brown hair, the sides of the abdomen narrower red. It might be a small $ of nigrescens. Colombia. ra ‘ 
P. misera Schs. (55 a). Wings like in haemapleura, but the head and collar yellowish-brown, on the misera. 
vertex and each of the tegulae one black dot each. Apex of abdomen laterally orange. Costa Rica. 
P. bicolor Rothsch. (55 a). Wings dark chestnut-brown, like the body, and the head above with purple hicolor. 
dots, and the dorsum of the abdomen posteriorly tinted red. Peru. 
P. brunnescens Rothsch. (55 a) resembles bicolor, but it is larger and of a somewhat lighter brown, bmnnes- 
the hindwing in the cell somewhat diaphanous, abdomen laterally orange, with black lateral dots. Panama ccns. 
to Peru. 
