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CALODESMA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
stripe from the base to the centre of the distal margin; the hindwing at the costa broad yellow, at the anal 
margin narrow yellow, but here broader than in the following. The brown groundcolour terminates far before 
the base in the $ wing, but in the it mostly reaches it. Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua. 
triangulife- J. triangulifera sp. n. in the habitus entirely resembles penetrata and may only be a race of it. Ventral 
ra - side not uniformly broad white, but narrower white, on each segment the white colour narrows towards the 
front, so that a row of white triangles is produced. Im the $ only the posterior segmental margins are white. 
Panama (Chiriqui), 2 $$ in the Berlin Zool. Museum (holotype); a <$ ,,South America”, a $ from Costa Rica 
in the Tring Museum. 
J. erectistria Warr. ( = eli.sa Tire. and albolineata Drc. are Crocomelci. species and therefore dealt with in the appendix 
on p. 452 seq. 
9. Genus: C'silortesma Ron. 
Separated from the genera hitherto dealt with by the 2nd radial of the forewing being forked with 
the 3rd to 5th. The 5th radial rises before the 2nd, the 1st median is not long-forked with the 2nd to 5th 
radials. The 3rd median in the forewing is nearer to the 2nd or midway between the 1st cubitus and 2nd median. 
The 1st radial rises in or behind the centre of the distance between the 2nd and 1st cubitus. It mostly contains 
species resembling in the exterior certain Syntomids, species of Coreura and Ctenucha (p. 155 and 189, plates 
23 and 26), from which, however, they are readily separable, by the isolated vein 8 in the hindwing. In Thyrgis 
containing species of a similar habitus the 2nd radial in the forewing is separate, in Eucyane it rises before the 
5th radial. 
amica. C. arnica. Body black, prothorax below and collar above strewn with ochreous scales. Wings blackish- 
brown with a red discal band of the forewing and a red marginal band of the hindwing, amica Stoll, from 
Surinam to South Brazil, has narrower bands, those of the hindwing being yet separated from the margin by 
occidentalis. a narrow black stripe; — occidentals subsp. nov. (60 li) from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia (type from Ecuador) 
has broader bands (about 4 mm maximum width), that of the hindwing passing, except at the apex, closely 
along the distal margin. 
jordani. C. jordani sp. n. is similar to amica amica, somewhat smaller, fringes of the forewing at the apex 
and tornus beneath white; band of hindwing extending nearer to the margin. Hindwing above in the apex 
with a yellow spot, beneath with a white one which may also be absent; fringes of hindwing at the tips white. 
$ type from Sapucay and Villa Rica in the Tring Museum (Paraguay). The form from Matto Grosso has broader 
bands like in amica occidentalis. 
rubricincta. C. rubricincta Dogn. resembles amica, body quite black, hindwing with a slight dull blue lustre, the 
band of the forewing is narrow, more bent (in the right forewing of a specimen there is a red longitudinal ray 
in the cell from the base to the band), hindwing with a broad band which is uniformly about 1 mm distant 
from the margin. Colombia. 
chesalon. C. chesalon Drc. Body black, forewing as in amica, hindwing uni-coloured blackish-brown. (Not 
before me). Ecuador. 
contractu. C. contracta Wkr. (60 h). Body black, head below, collar and ground of patagia as well as prothorax 
below ochreous-yellow. Wings as in amica, but the markings intensely yellow, sometimes warming into reddish. 
The bands are very variable in the different examples, those of the hindwing often only traceable or entirely 
absent. From Venezuela to South Brazil and Peru. The typical contracta has uni-coloured fringes of the ground- 
itaitubae. colour of the wings. —- itaitubae subsp. nov. from Itaituba has lighter fringes, those of the apex of the forewing 
apicalis. beneath are white. —- apicalis subsp. n., from Bahia, is similar to the preceding, the apex of the hindwing above 
with a yellow, beneath with a white spot. 
kedar. C. kedar Drc. This and the following species have not been before me. Like the preceding, but the 
band of the forewing in front and behind partly red, that of the hindwing quite red. Colombia. (It may be 
a form of Thyrgis militta Stoll, like the following). 
dilutana. C. dilutana Drc. resembles the preceding, the band of the forewing is yellow, that of the hindwing 
remote from the margin, turning reddish at the anal angle. Amazons. 
collar is. C. collaris Drury (60 h) is like contracta, but the markings are white, in the hindwing sometimes 
dingy white, often indistinct or absent. In the <$ the yellow colouring at the prothorax more extensive. Apex 
of abdomen likewise ochreous-yellow. Band of forewing shortened, only a white spot behind the cell, hindwing 
uni-coloured. Fringes in the <$ white, in the $ black. Range as in contracta. 
plorata. C. plorata Kaye is unknown to me; it is said to have only the bases of the eyes and of the palpi ochreous- 
yellow, otherwise like the preceding. Trinidad. 
albiapex. C. albiapex sp. n. (60 h) resembles plorata, fringes in the $ white. and $ at the apex of the hindwing 
with a narrow white spot. Band of forewing oftener than in plorata shortened also in the $. Type (<J and $) 
in the Berlin Museum from Pernambuco; Bahia. $ from Paraguay in the Tring Museum. 
