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AGORAEA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
dorsicincla. 
albipars. 
umbrata. 
suff usa. 
cervina. 
guatcmalae. 
brunnitri- 
cha. 
cinerea. 
lyslm. 
pallida. 
aronles. 
affinis. 
albolesta- 
ceus. 
P. dorsicincta Hmps. (= colombiana Roihsch.) (55a). Wings broader, lighter brown, particularly 
the hindwings. Head and prothorax dotted black, abdomen posteriorly banded yellow; frons and neck.sometimes 
yellowish red. Colombia. 
P. albipars Hmps. (55 b). Almost exactly like the preceding, also the black dots on the forehead 
and prothorax, hindwing except the apical part lighter, but the abdomen posteriorly without the yellow trans¬ 
verse bands. Peru. 
P. umbrata Hmps. (55 c). Sooty blackish-brown, in the cell and basal part of the hindwing lighter 
patches. Head and prothorax, like in the preceding, dotted black, abdomen yellowish-grey with black transverse 
bands, and the basal part covered with dark hair. Bolivia, discovered by 0. Garlepp. 
P. suffusa Joicey. As large as umbrata , but the forewing red-brown with a grey antenredian shade 
and an oblique postmedian one, as well as with a narrow antemarginal shade; hindwings pale red-brown with 
yellow at the proximal margin, and towards the base lighter. Abdomen above orange, posteriorly with blackish 
macular bands. Peru. 
P. cervina Edw. (55 c). Head and body yolk-coloured, prothorax with fine black dots, abdominal 
dorsum posteriorly with jet-black, sometimes interrupted transverse bands. In typical the hindwings are 
orange-yellow. — In ab. guatemalae Strd. from Guatemala they are brown, with a yellow costal and proximal 
area. — In ab. brunnitricha Strd., lying before us from Orizaba (Mexico), the hindwings are black with a greyish- 
blue reflection. The $ is more ochreous. Mexico and Central America. 
P. cinerea Wkr. (55 c) resembles the preceding in its size and shape, but the wings are more asliy- 
grey, and the thoracic dorsum is covered with greyish-brown hair. Prothorax and bases of the wings 
yellowish with fine black dots; abdomen above with black transverse bands. — ab. lystra Drc. is less unicolorous, 
forewings more violettish-brown, hinclwing towards the margin more intensely brown; from the Chiriqui. -— The 
species is not rare and extends from Panama to Bolivia and Paraguay. 
P. pallida Dgn. (55 b). Smaller, body and forewings pale brownish ochreous-yellow, with dull dots 
on the upperhead and prothorax, those at the bases of the wings being absent. Abdomen greyish-brown with 
black lateral punctiform spots; hindwings diaphanous whitish. Colombia and Peru. 
P. arontes Stoll (— neuroptera Sepp , degenera Wkr.) (55 b). Head, prothorax and base of forewing 
with black dots, abdomen yellowish-brown, at the base covered with dark hair, across the dorsum 2 rows of 
black dots, which are sometimes confluent on the rings 1 to 4. Forewings almost violettish-brown with blackish 
veins, hindwings tinted dark brown. — Larva iron-grey with a yellow anterior part and a red-brown dorsal 
stripe as well as very conspicuous hair. The whole larva is covered with blackish-grey, laterally also whitish 
hair. Behind the 3rd ring a cap-shaped transverse pad of velvety-black hair; before it two white pencils of 
more than one centimeter’s length, between them 4 ear-shaped hairs. Across the dorsum similar brushes as in 
the larvae of Orgyia ; before the anal end again long white pencils with a grey one between them, and oar- 
shaped hairs on the rings 10 to 12. It lives on Inga vera, changes in a grey, oviform web intermixed with 
hair into a red-brown pupa creeping out after about 12 days. Central America to Bolivia and Paraguay. 
P. affinis Roihsch. (55 cl) is smaller than the preceding, body ruddle-red, the black dots on the head, 
prothorax and base of forewing fine, but distinct. Forewing at the base pale reddish, otherwise dark red-brown 
with a blackish transverse vein; hindwing in the proximal area lighter. Ecuador. 
P. albotestaceus Rothsch. (55 c). One of the largest and lightest Pelochyta. Colouring monotonously 
dirty whitish-grey. Of the dots there are on the thorax only one on each patagium, and some four or five are 
scattered in the basal half of the forewing. At the cell-end a brownish C-spot. Hindwing at the apex somewhat 
brownish. Venezuela. 
69. Genus: Agoraea H. Schdff. 
This genus contains about more than a dozen of very small butterflies, which, ho\vever, in spite of 
their shape, show already a resemblance with the Halisidota being dealt with later on. Proboscis strong (when 
extended more than the length of the thorax), palpi rising obliquely, the middle joint sometimes very long, 
the terminal joint neither stunted. Body sometimes slender, sometimes compact, hairing smoothly appressed; 
the base of the abdomen is not covered with a fleece of woolly hair, as in the Pelochyta. Cell of forewing rather 
broad, mostly with a distinct proximal vein; no areola. Hindwing with all the veins. The wings are thinly 
scaled, sometimes hyaline, as in the following genus, without any remarkable marking; the species, however, 
are easily distinguished by the colouring and marking of the body. 
A. minuta Schs. (55 e). Wings hyaline, head white, thorax dirty yellow, abdomen orange with a 
dorsal row of black dots. Mexico to South Brazil. 
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