OPHARUS By Dr. A. Seitz. 
albijunda. 
bimaculata. 
major, 
basa l is. 
rujicoV is. 
dr audit. 
rhodosoma. 
ahnopia. 
procrotdes. 
bahts. 
laudia. 
Ira tint. 
polystrlfja- 
ta. 
aslar. 
arisonensis. 
cttbensis. 
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0. albijuncta Rothsch. (56 f). Dark brown, head and collar golden yellow, on the metathorax a 
bone-white spot. Captured by A. H. Fassl on Mt. Tolima in Colombia. 
0. bimaculata Dew. (= albipunctatus Drc.) (56 g) has the shape of a Syntomid: forewings dark 
drab, hindwings hyaline except the dark margins. Head and thorax blackish, the patagia conspicuously creamy- 
white. Abdomen posteriorly sulphur-yellow with dark segmental indentations and a dark median line. Mexico, 
through Central America as far as South Brazil, local, but in some districts not rare. -— Specimens from Venezuela 
are larger, the forewings of a less brown tinge, the hindwings not white but diaphanous grey, the posterior 
dorsum of the abdomen more orange; this is the form major Rothsch. 
0. basalis Wkr. (57 a). Greyish-brown, immediately recognizable by the head being yellow above 
and the yellow thorax, as well as a short, thick, yellowish-white streak at the base of the proximal margin of 
the forewing. Venezuela to South Brazil and Bolivia, dispersed. 
0. ruficollis Drc. (56 g). Greyish-brown; head above and collar marked rosy-red, abdomen likewise 
purple-pink, also the inner-marginal area of the hindwing extensively tinged pink. Panama, the figured specimen 
from Costa Rica. 
0. draudti sp. nov. (57 a). Size and shape of laudia , but wings dark brown head and collar fiery 
yellowish-red, and abdomen light brownish-yellow. The prothorax has 6 black dots, the abdomen a lateral 
row of dots, and the hindwing has a light yellow basal part. Forewing with an entirely obsolete, antemarginal 
transverse shade being defined on the lower radial. Beneath the body is dull orange, abdomen more brownish, 
wings coloured as above, all with a light yellow-ochreous base. Taken by Roberto Mueller near Zacualpan 
in Mexico. 
0. rhodosoma Btlr. (56 g) is much larger, the forewings finely transversely striated, the hindwings 
in the inner-marginal areas of a very bright pink tinge and haired. Head above and neck of a bright creamy 
yellow, abdomen pink, the posterior half with black transverse bands. Colombia and Venezuela to Peru and 
Brazil, apparently an alpine animal occurring only at great altitudes. 
0. almopia Drc. (56 g). Wings much shorter and broader with a steeper border. Dark nutbrown, 
hindwing in the inner-marginal area a little lighter; abdomen posteriorly banded yellow. Colombia and Peru. 
0. procroides Wkr. (56 g). Unicolorously sooty blackish-brown, hindwings in and below the cell 
of a whitish reflection and thinly scaled, abdomen posteriorly with large, lateral orange spots, those of the 
last segments touching each other above. Panama to South Brazil and Bolivia. 
0. belus Drc. (56 f). Head, collar and patagia, as well as the end of the abdomen yolk-coloured, the 
latter with a row of dorsal dots. Wings greyish-brown, hindwing lighter, forewing with 4 transverse bands bordered 
with dark, the distal ones being confluent towards the proximal margin. From the Chiriqui in Panama. 
0. laudia Drc. (57 a). Body dull yolk-coloured, wings diaphanous whitish, tinged ochreous, with 
brown veins; forewing round the cell-end with a circular brightening encircled by a dark shade. Before me 
only from Venezuela, but apparently rather common near Merida. Reported also from Trinidad. 
0. trama Dgn. (= euripides Drc.) (57 b). Forewing dull yellowish-brown, the margins tinted ochreous- 
yellow, hindwing dirty yellowish-white diaphanous with a yellow margin. Also the body is yolk-coloured, 
shaded faintly darker. On the forewing the middle radial after its rise from the upper cell-angle slightly bends 
upward; here the veins are intensely marked dark. Colombia, Bolivia. 
0. polystrigata Hmps. (57 b). Head and thorax dull honey-coloured, marked blackish; abdomen 
yellow with black transverse bands. Forewing whitish-grey, thinly scaled, all covered over with light yellow 
dots and striae, the veins and costal margin darker, border yellow. Hindwing dirty white, diaphanous, towards 
the margin darkened by grey. Bolivia and Peru. 
0. astur Or. (=- albescens Wkr., maculicollis Wkr., pustulata Pack.) (56 li). A very widely distributed 
lantern-butterfly mostly very common in dry districts. Head and thorax white, vividly dotted black, abdomen 
yellow with dorsal and lateral rows of dots. Forewing dull white, with brown, interspersed spots and undulate 
lines leaving round white spots between them. According to the district and season, the markings may be 
more intense or more feeble, but the species varies very much individually, mostly, however, only in the 
distinctness and intensity of the speckling and marking. — arizonensis Rothsch. (= fumata Barnes) (56 h), 
described from the Huacliuco Mountains in Arizona, is distinguished by the light brownish marking on a uni¬ 
formly whitish-grey ground-colour. This form seems to me to be one belonging to the very dry climate of the 
prairies, for it occurs again in Argentina in very hot and dry districts, from where I figure it. — cubensis Rothsch., 
on the contrary, has very dark markings in the <$ and faded ones in the the ground-colour being brownish 
buff; from Cuba. — The species is extremely common in tropical districts and is to be found in almost every 
country from Arizona to North Argentina, being, however, mostly local. 
