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of light spots arranged to bands. Hind wing diaphanous grey with dark antemarginal bossy spots. In t lie $ 
the strewing of the forewing is less, and the proximal part of the hindwing is suffused with dark. From Castro 
in South Brazil (Parana). 
H. rhomboidea Sepp ( = strigulosa Wkr.) Likewise of an owl-like habitus, pale yellow, the forewings rhomboidea. 
finely strewn with numerous transverse striae, with a distinct cell-end mark and a characteristic, somewhat 
downward convex longitudinal streak from the base to the apex. The butterfly is rather variable. In citrina titrina. 
Wkr. the colour is very bright light yellow and the transverse striae are often indistinct. — mandus H.-Schdff. mandns. 
(58 g), perhaps only a form of rhomboidea, but recently again considered as a distinct species, has the longitudinal 
stripe widened to a broad band slit up at the margins. — Larva dark iron-grey, with light lateral spots, beginning 
from the 6th ring the dorsum is flesh-coloured, like the bogus feet and their followers. The Halisidota- pencils 
are, particularly at the anterior end. very long though thin; it lives on Paspalum indicum, presumably also 
on other Gramineae, spinning a cocoon intermixed with its blackish hair and turns into a blackish-brown pupa. 
From Mexico to Peru, Bolivia and South Brazil, in most of the districts not common. 
H. dinellii Rothsch. (58 g) is allied to rhomboidea, but it has broader wings, always more lemon- dinellii. 
coloured than brown, the cell-end spot not very prominent, the longitudinal ray of the forewing finer, straighter. 
Described from Tucuman in Argentina, but before me also from the adjoining Bolivia. 
H. pseudoconiata Rothsch. (58 h). Of a brighter and lighter yellow, somewhat allied to the form pseudoco- 
citrina of rhomboidea. With broad wings like dinellii. but the colouring is a purer and brighter yellow, the marking main. 
more scanty, in the costal half of the forewing quite vanished. The spot at the lower cell-angle more distinct, 
but the longitudinal ray only in the apical part well preserved; above the proximal margin brownish shades. 
In the $ the marking is a little more distinct, and the hindwings exhibit small, dark marginal rings. Peru. 
H. sirnilis Rothsch. (58 g). Similar to pseudoconiata, but the longitudinal ray in the very pale bone- similis. 
coloured forewing is to be noticed also in the proximal half of the wing (on the median), and the branches of 
the median are brown, too, and there are brown transverse striae at the costal and proximal margins. Amazon 
and Peru. 
H. oruboides Rothsch. (= pterostomoides Rothsch.) (58 g) is quite similar to similis, but larger, with oruboidcs. 
broader wings, the longitudinal ray of the forewing more equalized and besides there are so many ochreous 
yellow and brown hooks, spots and rings, that the bone-yellow ground colour remains only yet in the basal 
and marginal part and numberless cuneiform and oviform spots scattered across the disc. Peru. 
H. hoffniannsi Rothsch. (58 k). Forewing light bone-coloured, but the costal margin and border hoffmannsi. 
brownish, and an oblique longitudinal stripe from the apex over the cell-end expands ocntinually as far as 
the submedian (vein 1), enclosing in its centre small bone-white crescents. Besides small dark spots at the 
costal margin and border. Hindwing brownish-grey, the costal area except the costa itself and some small 
marginal spots bone-coloured. Peru. Described according to 1 from Pozuzzo. 
H. oruba Schs. (58 h). Forewing bone-coloured, but with very bright and irregular brown markings; oruba. 
the longitudinal ray through the whole wing, the cell-end mark sometimes distinct, sometimes absent, before 
the margin light, distally brown cuneiform spots. The $ is much less marked, beside the longitudinal ray it 
has mostly only dispersed small brown dots; the hindwings, showing in the £ mostly brown spotting before 
the apex and the middle of the border, are in the $ sometimes quite unicolorously bone-white. Colombia, South 
Brazil and Bolivia. 
H. oblonga Rothsch. (58 i) is so closely allied to oruba that it might be a form of it, distinguished ohlonga. 
by the light and dark spots on the forewings and prothorax being increased and by the longitudinal stripe 
through the forewing being thickened to a broad shade in the middle. Peru. 
H. quadrata Rothsch. (58 k). Colouring and marking almost entirely as in oruba, but the forewing quadrata. 
much larger and obtuser. Peru. 
H. quanta Schs. (58 i). Smaller than the preceding. Forewing in the $ red, in the $ pale yellow, quanta. 
with a brown (in the $ tinged yellowish-red) longitudinal stripe from the base as far as below the apex and 
a very slightly marked cell-end mark. Bolivia and South Brazil (Castro). 
H. aurata Jones (58 k) likewise from South Brazil (Castro) has a darker longitudinal stripe not quite aurata. 
reaching the border. Perhaps only an aberration of quanta-^. 
H. lineata Schs. (58 i), likewise from Castro Parana, has red-brown forewings of the tinge of quanta-<$, lineata. 
but the median stripe broader and bifurcating behind the cell-end, and before the border there is a row of 
subterminal clots; abdominal dorsum greyish-yellow. — rosetta Schs. (58 h), from South Brazil, before me, rosetta. 
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