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submarginal spots and before them ferruginous spots. Body blackish-brown, patagia basally broad yellow, 
thorax with 2 or 3 w 7 hite spots, abdomen at the base, particularly in the 3 white-haired, with a black dorsal 
line and black lateral lines; the ochreous colour warms behind into greenish. Anal tuft ochreous-yellow. Ventral 
side quite brimstone-coloured. Colombia. 
P. molesta sp. n. (63 g). <§. Body blackish-brown, collar and patagia spotted yellow, thorax behind molesta. 
and anterior half of abdomen red-brown, the posterior half greenish, dorsal and lateral lines of the latter 
black, underside cpiite brimstone-coloured, anal tuft ochreous-yellow. Forewing as in P. recta, but with 
comparatively large white triangular antemarginal spots. Hindwing reddish-yellow, veins of the same colour, 
margin black, narrow, with large white triangular spots. Under surface similar to the upper, proximal margin 
of forewing red-brown, hindwing somewhat dusted dark. Colombia. <$ type from Popayan in the Berlin 
Museum. 
P. anadema Drc. was not before me. Very much like molesta (63 g), larger (expanse of the $ 65 mm), anadema. 
hindwing with black veins, the $ forewing brownish-yellow, with a broad, broken, yellow transverse band; 
hindwing orange, distal margin black with indistinct white spots. Colombia. 
P. bivittata Wkr. (= disjunct^ Wkr.) (64 a). In the habitus recalling P. aorsa (64 a) and recta (63 g), bivittata. 
wings more longish, underside of abdomen without the black median line. Discal band and subapical band 
of forewing broad, yellow, both nearing each other, rarely narrow. Hindwing red-brown, with a black margin 
dotted bluish-white, and a black transverse band before it. The veins between both, and the transverse vein 
black. Postdiscal band and white submarginal spots may disappear. Venezuela, Panama. 
P. daphne Drc. (64 a) is one of the rarest species. Similar to P. bivittata, the yellowish-hyaline transverse daphne. 
bands of the forewing white, of the same colour distinct submarginal dots on both wings and a spot behind 
the cell on the hindwing beneath. Panama. 
P. eurocilia Cr. (= zerbina Stoll.) (64 a). Forewing blackish-brown, in the basal half more or less eurocilia. 
lighter, with a narrow brimstone-coloured discal band and subapical band which are so close together that 
they are confluent before and behind the cell and thus enclose the blackish-brown spot on the transverse vein. 
The posterior band may be shortened. White submarginal spots absent or present. Hindwing as in bivittata, 
the extent of the black markings very variable. Body also like in bivittata. — In obscurata form. nov. the whole obscurata. 
basal part of the forewing is fused with the bands which are here densely dusted with brownish, there only 
remains a blackish spot in the centre of the cell; hindwing black, only the costa, a posteriorly narrowed sub¬ 
marginal band from the costa to about % of the distal margin, the upper part of the cell, distally and basally 
prolonged, are red-brown ($ from the Chanchamayo in the Berlin Museum). — melaina form. nov. is quite mclaina. 
blackish, only the bands in the forewing brimstone-coloured, the red-brown markings marked with a violettish 
grey ($ from Tachira, Venezuela, in the Tring Museum). Colombia, Amazons, Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia. 
P. Irene Drc. (64 a). Forewing blackish-brown, at the base more or less lighter, with but one yellow Irene. 
transverse band in the centre of the wing. Hindwing and body as in eurocilia Cr. The Brazilian race has a 
length of the forewing of about 33 mm. — In the subsp. staudingeri Drc. the forewing is at least 37 mm long, staudingeri. 
and it has a-somewhat narrower band of the forewing. — Of the latter there exists a form with a milky-white 
band of the forewing, and a similar oblong spot crossed by the red transverse vein in the distal half of the cell 
in the hindwing: splendidissima form. nov. (64 b) (£ type from San Domingo, Carayaba in the Tring Museum), splendidis- 
P. unifascia sp. n. (64 b). Body blackish-brown, collar and patagia on each side with two yellow unifascia. 
spots. Abdomen above yellow, dorsal line and lateral line black. Ventrum light yellow; anal segment black 
with an ochreous-yellow apex. Forewing blackish-brown, band as in staudingeri, hindwing yellow, costal margin 
and transverse vein and a broad distal margin black, the latter at the cubitus almost 1 cm broad, anteriorly 
narrowed, all the wings with above indistinct, beneath distinct white submarginal spots. Beneath as above, 
i bases of wings and costal stripe at the base of the hindwing brown. Paraguay. $ type from Sapucay in the 
Tring Museum. 
P. aniphissa Geyer (64 b). Body and forewing as in indecisa Wkr., on the forewing above the two amphissa. 
transverse bands are connected behind the cell. Hindwing ochreous-yellow, margin and veins broad black, 
the margin with yellow submarginal dots. — In subguttata Wkr. the ground-colour of the hindwing is not subguitata. 
brownish-yellow, but brimstone-coloured. (described as Coborisa vestalis Btlr.) body whitish, with brown 
markings on the thorax; palpi, abdominal end and basal spot of forewing ochreous-yellow, dorsal line of abdomen 
black. Wings whitish hyaline, with thinly blackish-grey markings: in the forewing the margins, except at 
the tornus, one transverse band each across the centre of the cell and the transverse vein, in the hindwing the 
costa, distal margin and veins. Sometimes the markings, except the veins, are not grey, but densely white. 
Brazil. — The $ copies certain species of Actinote. 
P. forbesi Drc. (64 b). Forewing with a red basal dot and the usual hyaline markings, which are forbesi. 
similarly shaped as in joiceyi (63 g). Hindwing yellow, costa, transverse vein, and distal margin broad black, 
the latter sometimes with traces of red spots. Veins black. Body varying from yellow to greenish, dorsal line 
and lateral line black, abdomen brimstone-coloured with a black median stripe. South Brazil. 
