PHALOE; CTENUCHIDIA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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19. Genus: Phaloe Guer. 
It differs little from Dysschema Hhn., the 3rd palpal joint, however, is about a half of the second or 
longer, in the forewing the distance from the 1st to 2nd radial is about the same as that from the 2nd to the 
3rd to 5th, or shorter. 
Ph. cruenta Hbn. (= lorzae Bsd.) (64 e, f). Body blackish-brown, head and thorax with white cruenta. 
dots, abdomen above brown, with 2 fine yellow lateral lines, beneath dingy white, apex red. Eorewing brown, 
basally at the costa some red spots or streaks, behind the cell a not unfrequently absent yellow spot, a band 
of yellow spots from the centre of the costa to the tornus, often shortened, a yellow or hyaline subapical band. 
Hindwing yellow, with a black margin and white submarginal spots, in the $ the veins are black, particidarly 
the transverse vein and the distal branches of the veins. The markings of the $ are generally more hyaline 
than those of the $. Guatemala to Argentina. Larva on Eupatorium laeve, dingy grey with interrupted, narrow 
purple longitudinal lines. Tubercles ochreous-yellow, but blackish-violet are on each side: on the 2nd (thoracal) 
segment two (behind them a red spot), on the 4th to 6tli three, on the 8th to 10th and the 12th also three. 
Pupa blackish-brown. 
The following 3 species remained unknown to me; they may partly belong to Pseudoplialoe. 
Ph. pyste Drc. resembles cruenta (64 e, f). Forewing without any red dots, a broad yellow band extends pyste. 
on the forewing from the base on the proximal margin almost to the tornus, a submarginal row of white spots. 
Both wings beneath at the base of the costa chrome-yellow. Ecuador. 
Ph. ignita Btlr. entirely agrees with cruenta (64 e, f), but on the forewing there are also at the apex ignita. 
white submarginal spots which I could never ascertain in cruenta, not even in very large series. Tapajos. 
Ph. vespertilio Dgn. Body black; patagia behind yellow. Forewing lemon-coloured, with black markings: vespertilio. 
one spot occupying more than half of the costal margin, extending down to the posterior edge of the cell from 
where it despatches a pointed branch to the 1st cubitus and to the 3rd median, and entering at the proximal 
margin a broad black band which goes almost to the base; behind the cell there remains an oblong yellow 
spot. The last quarter of the costa and the margin likewise black. Hindwing orange with a black apex and 
distal margin. Colombia. This species presumably hardly belongs to Phaloe. 
Separated from Phaloe by the straight , scarcely convex margin of the forewing. (Subgenus : Sphaero- 
machia Grt.). 
Ph. cubana H.-Schaff. (64 f). Body blackish-brown, thorax in front dotted yellow or white, behind cabana. 
like the abdomen yellow ($) or white ($). Wings yellow (G) or white ($), a black band on the forewing extends 
at first along the costa, filled up with red spots, at about 2 / 3 bent to the posterior margin, terminating shortly 
before the tornus. The distal half of the wing is black, with two rows of hyaline spots, and 1 or several yellow 
(white) submarginal spots. Proximal margin in the like the abdominal apex black. Hindwing with a black 
distal margin and in the besides black costal margin, submarginal spots in the $ numerous, in the <$ mostly 
only one. Mexico, Yucatan, Honduras, West Indies. 
20. Genus: Cteiiuchidia Grt. 
Small, rather similar species with a Syntomid-like habitus. From all the Pericopinae with f pair of spurs 
on the hind tibiae and a separate 2nd radial in the forewing, in which the 5th radial rises before the 3rd, 
it is distinguished by the long -forked, sometimes fused 3rd median and 1st cubitus of the hindwing. The 
species mostly exhibit blackish-brown forewings with 2 or 3 hyaline dots behind the centre of the cell, and 
an undulate subapical band of such dots. Sometimes also some dots between the cell and proximal margin. 
Hindwing and the centres of all the wings beneath black with an intense blue lustre. Before the apex of the 
hindwing there may be 1 or 2 hyaline dots. 
Ct. virgo H.-Schaff. (65 a). Abdomen black, above lustrous blue, the last three rings yellow, with a virgo. 
black dorsal line and anus. This yellow colouring coheres with two lateral stripes of the abdomen, which are 
basally, rarely entirely red. Abdomen beneath with 2 rows of white spots. Forewing with a red costal spot 
at the base. Cuba. —- The pupa (original example of Herrich-Schaeffer) deviates from those of all the 
Pericopinae known to such an extent that it is almost questionable whether it belongs hereto. Pupa golden 
brown with minute purple spots, in front with two multicuspidated black conical protuberances, below them 
another similar one, but with only one point. These small cones probably serve the pupa for extricating itself 
out of the web. 
Ct. fulvibasis sp. n. The spots at the base of the forewing are ochreous-yellow, abdomen above quite fulvibasis, 
black, only with yellow lateral stripes, beneath the white spots are more streak-shaped, otherwise like virgo. 
Jamaica. $ type in the Berlin Museum. 
