PITANE; STIDZAERAS; CALIDOTA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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75. Genus: I*itaue Wkr. 
The genus already lias the entire structure and character of Calidota from which it chiefly differs only 
by the proboscis being strongly haired in its basal part. Like Calidota it has on the forewing a very long and 
narrow accessory cell produced by the 2nd subcostal vein anastomosing with the bifurcation of the 3rd and 
4th, the 2nd palpal joint being long, the terminal joint well developed. The only species known is very characte¬ 
ristically coloured. 
P. fervens Wkr. (56 a). Forewings violettish-red with 3 large orange spots in the basal, median, and fa-vats. 
distal areas; hindwing red with a blackish marginal band. Peru and Bolivia; in the specimen before me from 
the Rio Songo the orange spots are smaller than in the Peruvians. 
76. Genus: Stirizaeras Harps. 
Distinguished from the preceding genus by the course of the anastomosis extending from the 2nd sub¬ 
costal vein to the bifurcation of the 4th and 5th veins, in Pitane to the 3rd and 4th. One species was described 
as Pitane , the other, typical one has the venation of the $ forewing distorted on account of a scent-apparatus. 
P. evora Drc. Shape similar to Pit. fervens, size just a little smaller; forewing greyish-brown, the evom. 
marginal area red-brown, hindwing in the proximal half pale yellow, in the distal half dark brown; head and 
collar as well as the anterior half of the abdomen yellow, thorax and end of abdomen dark brown. Peru (Pozzuzo). 
P. strigifera Drc. is somewhat larger, the forewings brown with numerous light transverse striae striyifera. 
and a hyaline wedge in the cell. Hindwing with a yellow proximal and blackish-brown distal half. Head and 
collar as well as the abdomen orange, the latter posteriorly with some narrow black transverse bands. Venezuela. 
—- In the form ockendeni Eothsch. the striae of the forewing are obsolete, head and collar are red; from Peru. — ockendeni. 
The species is at once recognizable by a cuneiform scent-pad filling up the whole cell of the forewing beneath 
and distorting the wing in such a way that the distal margin is shortened like in some Tineids and the veins 
are crooked in the apical part. 
77. Genus: Calidota Dyar. 
3 dozen forms are known, being placed here and partly attaining a rather considerable size. The colouring 
is preponderantly grey, brown or blackish; antennae partly very long, proboscis strong, palpi obliquely ascending. 
The long areola was already mentioned in Pitane-, the cell of the forewing is broad, the transverse vein angled. 
In contrast with purely neotropical genera having been dealt with so far, this genus reaches with some species 
the southern part of the United States. —- The genus is, moreover, not homogeneous and contains a group 
of lank, slender species with broad wings and extremely long antennae, and another group of robust, relatively 
small-winged forms with a very stout thorax. Only of one of the latter species the larva is known, being provided 
with radiatingly haired tubercles; of the hair those on the anterior and posterior parts are longer, whilst those 
on the middle segments are shorter. 
C. strigosa Wkr. (= loqueata Edw., cubensis Grt.) (56 a). As large about as an Acronicta aceris, strigosa. 
thorax and forewings light grey, marked brownish from dark longitudinal streaks above the middle of the 
proximal margin and in the distal area. Abdomen vermilion, sometimes with some dorsal dots, oftener without 
' them. Texas, Florida, Cuba, Hayti. -—■ jamaicensis Strd. is the form from Jamaica with more distinct black jamaicen- 
markings of the forewing and the abdomen often shaded dark at the base. —Larva in its early stage variegated, s,s> 
with yellow or salmon-coloured patches, in its grown-up state flesh-coloured brown with a dark dorsal stripe 
and yellowish-brown hair, those on the anterior and posterior parts being longer. It lives on Guettarda elliptica 
and changes in an oviform Aveb intermixed with hair into a mahagoni-coloured pupa. 
C. renia Dgn. (56 a). Yellowish-brown, tegulae with a black dot, dorsum of abdomen blackish. Fore- rema. 
wing with 4 black punctiform spots, of which 1 is in the cell, 1 below it and 2 behind it. Hindwing dusted dark 
brown, to Avar ds the base lighter. South Brazil. 
C. euchaetiformis Edw. (56 a), from Mexico, is similar, but the abdomen golden yelloAv Avith black euchaelifvr- 
dorsal dots; the black punctiform spots more numerous in the disc of the forewing. rms - 
C. muricolor Dyar (56 d). Wings diaphanous whitish-grey, without markings, thorax brown, head mitricolor. 
and ring round the neck yelloAv, abdomen above buff with dark dorsal dots. Arizona. 
C. paulina Jones (56 b). Body stout and clumsy. Head and thorax dark broAvn, marked orange; patdhta. 
abdomen dark broAvn, beginning from the 3rd ring with large orange lateral spots almost touching each other near 
