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0. nexa H.-Schdff. (= flavopunctata Wkr. nee H.-Schdff.) (56 h) lias the size and shape of a strong ne.w. 
astur, but the spots of the chains on the forewing are much more intensely encircled by black, and the ground¬ 
colour between is more intensely marked and shaded dark, the hindwing is grey with a distinct dark cell-endluna 
and a broad marginal band watered somewhat yellow and light; the dorsum of the abdomen is without the 
dark dorsal dots, but its proximal half covered with a black fur; from Brazil. — albimacula Jones (= albimaculata uUnmacula. 
Rothsch.) is smaller, the spots on the forewing encircled more with brown than black, the hindwing being light 
whitish-grey, darkened only at the border, only the 3 last abdominal segments being orange-yellow above. 
Likewise from Brazil; I do not find any more exact habitats stated. 
0. punctularis H.-Schaff. stands between flavopunctata H.-Schaff. and astur which it resembles so pundularis. 
much that it was taken to be the $ of it. By the white colour being increased and very light it resembles 
a specimen of flavopunctata with a very light ground-colour. Brazil. 
0. flavopunctata H.-Schdff. (56 h). Like punctularis, but the abdomen is more extensively marked flavopunc- 
black, and the ground-colour of the forewing is a delicate, light violettish-grey. Brazil. 
0. depicta H.-Schdff. (56 h). Larger, similarly marked to the preceding, but the spots of the forewing depicta. 
being encircled by black almost recall an Ecpantheria ; thorax above marked in a bright purple and the abdominal 
dorsum is likewise purple-red except a blackish-brown shabrack. South Brazil. 
0. hampsoni Rothsch. (= decrepida Hmps. nee H.-Schdff.) (57 a). Much smaller than depicta, hampsoni. 
thorax and forewing light chestnut-brown, with very few, thin, white catenary markings bordered with dark 
and not reaching the proximal margin. Abdomen all over haired blackish-brown, only the last third is orange 
with black dorsal and lateral dots, the apex being again black. From Venezuela and Ecuador to Bolivia and 
Peru. — discisema Hmps. (= irregularis Rothsch.) (57 a) scarcely differs from light specimens of hampsoni, disci sc ma. 
as they are before me from the Rio Songo (beside darker ones), except the white markings being somewhat 
broader and thereby more coherent. Colombia, the type from Mt. Tolima. According to Hampson a distinct 
species. 
0. granifera Schs. (56 h). Not much larger, but with much broader wings than the preceding; between granifera. 
the white macular markings the yellow ring-chains extend, like in depicta and its allies. Hindwing grey, towards 
the margin darker. Thorax with bright white and yellow' markings; abdomen posteriorly orange. South Brazil. 
0. schafferi Schs. (= nexoides Schs.) (57 b). Larger than the two preceding; on the forewing the schdffcri. 
yellow catenary markings are reduced, the white markings, however, increased. Base of forewing dark brown 
with 2 thick orange dots. South Brazil, Venezuela. 
0. histrionica H.-Schdff. (57 b). Still larger, the white markings of the forewing increased to a net hist non ica. 
with wide meshes of white bands, the pupils of the macular chains, as well as the terminal third of the abdomen 
of a deep orange-red. Hindwings spotted whitish-grey, without any real hyaline patches. South Brazil, from 
the more distant surroundings of Rio, and in Sao Paulo. 
0. chorima Schs. (57 b). Size and habitus of histrionica, but the white markings on the forewing chorima. 
of the latter are in chorima brownish-yellow, the ring-spots, particularly those in the distal third larger, the 
hindwings more uniformly dark grey. In the Brazilian state Parana, discovered by W. Schatjs near Castro. 
0. superba Drc. (57 c). A very beautiful and large species. Head and thorax marked fiery reddish- superha. 
yellow, the forewing grey with reddish-yellow, black-encircled ring-spots and bands, the antemedian one bent 
round on the median, the postmedian one interrupted several times, the subterminal one broken up into isolated 
rings, the terminal one formed of cucullate spots; hindwing reddish-yellow with a blackish median luna and 
marginal band, abdomen fiery reddish-yellow, the middle of the dorsum dark with red hair. Santos in South 
' Brazil, rare. 
0. sestia Drc. (57 c) is much smaller, the ground of the forewing dark brown, intermixed with sesiia. 
chains of guttiform spots; behind the base, from the apex and proximal angle large, bone-yellow demi-bands. 
Hindwing with a whitish proximal and greyish-brown marginal half, at the cell-end a greyish-brown nebulous 
spot. Head and thorax brown, marked whitish and orange, abdomen orange, banded dark. Peru. 
0. picturata Burm. from Uruguay is known to me from Burmeister’s description. Somewhat larger pidurata. 
than the preceding, head and body orange, head and thorax marked black, abdomen orange, the 2nd ring almost 
cpiite black, in the terminal part black dorsal spots. Forewing with 6 black oblique bands, on which there are 
rows of dull spots, the 6th band narrow. Hindwing with traces of 3 dark bands, that at the margin being the 
most distinct. Conchas. 
0. decrepidoides Rothsch. (57 c) is somewhat allied to 0. hampsoni, but the light markings are not decrepidoi- 
white, but brownish bone-colourecl, between the median and distal costal macular bands an intensely dark 
brown cloud. Hindwing faintly diaphanous greyish-yellow, with a dark cell-end spot and distal band leaving 
