OPHARUS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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C. phryganoides Wkr. (56 e). Smaller, just as coarsely strewn and striated as obscurator, but the phryyawn- 
marking is already arranged to a light, curved antemedian band, a postmedian undulate line, and an obsolete, llc * 
undulate antemarginal line. Hindwing diaphanous brownish, towards the apex darker. Dorsum of abdomen 
yellow, spotted black. Mexico. 
C. divina Schs. (56 e). Size of obscurator, more brightly marked, particularly distinct a costal trails- divina. 
verse bar in about 1 / i of the costa, an antemedian costal spot reaching yet the cell, a postmedian undulate stripe 
dissolving distally, and an antemarginal dentate stripe; recognizable above all by the dark red abdominal dorsum 
being dotted black. Mexico. 
C. clarcana Dyar (56 e) is much smaller than divina, the forewing similarly marked, but all the clurcunu. 
markings broadly tinged white, particularly distinct the antemedian transverse bar, the spot at the cell-end, 
the median oblique stripe towards the middle of the proximal margin and the subterminal dentate stripe. 
Hindwing greyish-brown with a broad, curved, white median band. Abdominal dorsum red with rows of 
black dots. Mexico. 
78. Genus: 0|>liartis Wkr. 
Many of the most conspicuous species of this multiform genus have been published by Herrich- 
Schaeffer, almost at the same time with (or already before) Walker’s diagnose (1855), as Phegoptera, but 
as no description of the genus was given and the first animal mentioned by this name (porphyrea, AuBereurop. 
Schmett. p. 81, fig. 283) is a form of Halisidota caryae, the name was entirely cancelled; it might, however, 
be employed, if that group to which most of H. -Schaeffer's Phegoptera (histrionica-piperita group) belong 
would be considered as a special genus. But as one genus has already previously also been denominated ,,Phae- 
goptera“ (the first species enumerated being Automolis erythronotus, and the forms preponderantly belonging 
to Amastus), which is certainly due to inaccuracy and must lead to confusions, the name has been cancelled 
altogether. The genus Opharus itself, however, is not distinctly outlined and already according to its founder 
not uniform. In their exterior some strike us as Amastus, others as Halisidota, and some almost mimicry-like 
resemblances exist between Opharus and certain Elysius. The palpi are long and may lie straightly porrect 
-— occasionally even lowered -—, but also bent up; the palpal terminal joint being stunted in most of the Phegop- 
terini, may be even prolonged ( rujicollis, rhodosoma. Also the antennae may be as long as those of Amastus 
and also be of normal length; they are mostly long, their teeth thickened at the ends. The venation is greatly 
modified already by the very different shape of the wings ( rhodosoma very long, aurogutta quite short); the 
1st subcostal vein in the forewing may branch off already right behind the middle of the upper cell-wall, but 
it may also accompany it beyond the cell etc. There is no anastomosis; the last bifurcation of the subcostal 
sometimes only takes place directly before the apical fringes, the upper radial comes from the upper, the two 
lower ones as well as the upper median from the lower cell-angle. The cell itself is of different length, in long¬ 
winged species with a very strong interior vein; the lower median vein leaves the median late. The genus extends 
from Mexico through the whole of Tropical America, but it reaches the United States only with 1 speciesexten¬ 
ding little beyond the frontier; nothing seems to be known about the larvae. 
0. flavicostata Dgn. (56 f), unknown to me, is based upon a from the Cauca Valley. Body dark flavicostaki. 
brown, forewing lightbrown with a darker nebulous spot at the cell-end. and a sulphureous costal stripe. Hind¬ 
wing whitish, at the apical marginal part brownish. 
0. roseistriga Schs. (56 f). Forewings more stretched. Head light yellow, thorax honey-coloured, roseistrlga. 
dorsum of abdomen brown, sides and apex golden yellow. Wings unicolorously dark sooty brown, forewing 
with a narrow, brownish-yellow costal-marginal stripe. Costa Rica, discovered by W. Schatjs. 
0. ferruginea Wkr. (56 e). More robust, thorax stouter, the border of the forewing steeper. Head ferruyinea. 
above yellow, thorax and forewing nut-brown, the latter with a yellowish-brown costal-marginal and inner- 
marginal stripe as far as behind the middle of the wing. Hindwing diaphanous light brown, dorsum of abdomen 
orange, posteriorly with black transverse bands. Colombia. 
0. brunneitincta Rothsch. (56 f). Unicolorously dark brown, forewing in the disc faintly lighter, brunneitinc- 
hindwing diaphanous whitish except the brown margins and the apex, the veins dark brown. Peru. ia - 
0. consimilis Hmps. (— procroides Drc. nec Wkr.) (56 e) is quite unicolorously brownish dusty-grey conshnuis. 
like brunneitincta, forewing little lighter, hindwing much lighter in the disc, but the abdomen has intense dark 
yellow lateral spots almost flowing together to bands towards the apex. Mexico and Central America and Colom¬ 
bia far as Peru. 
0. linus Drc. (56 f). Dirty greyish-brown, wings unmarked. Head above yellow, thorax marked Units. 
pink with dark patagia, end of abdomen and sides of it yellowish-pink. Mexico. 
