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H. chthonophyla Drc. (65 f as chthonophila). Wings blackish-brown, with a slight violet reflection, chthonophy- 
without hyaline areas, forewing with a white subapical band. Thorax red-brown. Mexico. lUm 
H. rafilinea Wkr. is unknown to me. $ black, forewing with an oehreous line at the costa and hind- rufilineu. 
margin, sometimes small oehreous spots at the distal margin, with a white subapical band. Expanse 55 to 
60 mm. Ega. 
H. diastilba sp. n. (65 f) is very small, length of forewing in the $ 16 mm. Thorax oehreous, wings diastilba. 
black, at the bases more or less hyaline, on the hindwing more extensively so. Costa of forewing basally to 
Y 3 oehreous, subapical band only 1 mm broad, otherwise similar to chthonophyla. Jamaica. $ type in the 
Tring Museum. 
H. hopfli sp. n. (65 f) is one of the largest and most beautiful species, named after its discoverer Werner hoppi. 
Hopp. Body black, head and thorax with greyish-blue spots, abdomen with greyish-blue subdorsal and lateral 
stripes, beneath greyish-blue. Wings bluish hyaline, costa, hind-margin, and apical third black, at the costa 
a red-brown basal streak, a similar one on the hind-margin where it is only absent in the basal quarter, but 
continued to the subapical band which is very broad, white. Hindwing with a black distal margin filled up 
with red-brown; all the veins black. Colombia. $ type from S. Francisco (Mocoa) in the Berlin Museum. 
H. subafflicta Wkr. resembles hoppi, but lacks the reddish-yellow markings. Colombia, Bogota. (Per- subafflida. 
haps only a race of hoppi.) 
H, bates! Drc. (65 f). Forewing blackish-brown with a reddish-yellow costal streak from the base to batesi. 
y 2 of the wing, a similar bent subapical band extending to the tornus where it ends very narrow, whilst at 
the costa it is at least 5 mm broad. At the cell-end a whitish hyaline spot, another one behind it. Hind¬ 
wing whitish hyaline with a broad black distal margin and costa, the former with a reddish-yellow submarginal 
band. Amazons, Peru. The species copies the Eryeinid Comp-soteria cascella Hew. Vol. V, pi. 127 h) and the 
Danaidid Pseudoscada aureola Bat. (Vol. V, pi. 41 b). 
H. padua Drc. is unknown to me. From batesi it differs in the posterior half of the cell of the forewing padua. 
and the area behind the cell as far as the axillaris being whitish hyaline. Ecuadyftor. 
H. scotina sp. n. (65 f) is distinguished from batesi in the hindwing by black veins and a broader black scotina. 
margin; in the forewing the cellular spot is reduced. Amazons. $ type from Sao Paulo in the Berlin Museum. 
H, melania sp. n. (65 g). Hindwing reddish-yellow, with a very narrow (1 mm) black margin, a broad melania. 
black apex and a black clouded central spot above the posterior half of the cell. Forewing with a reddish- 
yellow costal streak as far as about %, hyaline spots as in batesi, hind-margin with a reddish-yellow stripe 
which is continued to the centre of the distal margin; it is then anteriorly prolonged by a hyaline white, not 
very much expanding, subapical stripe. Habitat illegible on label. $ type in the Berlin Museum. 
H. putumayana sp. n. (65 g). Hindwing as in batesi, of the reddish-yellow submarginal band only traces puiumaya- 
at the anal angle are noticeable. Forewing black, behind the cell on the 2nd cubitus with a large whitish- 
hyaline spot. Costa, hind-margin and apical third reddish-yellow, the borders finely black. Colombia. $ type 
from Sanbico, R. Putumayo (W. Hopp) in the Berlin Museum. The four forms mentioned last may be the 
races of one species. 
H. chariata Drc. and the following are unknown to me. Thorax black, wings whitish hyaline, veins chariata. 
black, costal margin of forewing and distal margin broadly chrome-coloured, distal margin edged with black, 
hind-margin black. Hindwing with an oehreous, black-edged distal margin, and a black costa. Expanse 38 mm. 
Ecuador. 
H. choma Drc. Thorax orange. Forewing black, hyaline to the centre, costal margin at the base choma. 
yellowish, hind-margin and two spots on the distal margin yellowish, a white subapical band. Hindwing 
hyaline, veins black, apex black, distal margin broadly orange. Fringes black. Expanse 35 mm. Ecuador. 
23. Genus : &cearct!a gen. nov. 
The only species known recalls Dioptids. Hind tibiae with but 1 pair of spurs. In the forewing the 
1st radial is separate, the 2nd to 5th forked, the 5th rising before the 2nd before the 3rd and 4th, the stalk 
of the 2nd to 5th rising at the anterior cell-angle, with the 1st median from the same place. In the hindwing 
the 2nd median branch is nearing the 3rd, the distance from the 3rd median to the 1st cubitus is at least 
twice as great as that from the 2nd to the 3rd medians. Type of the genus: ( Gangamela ) figulina Btlr. 
Sc. figulina Btlr. (65 i). Body blackish-brown, abdomen above and beneath with whitish-grey, in- figulina. 
distinct lateral stripes. Forewing yellow, costa, hind-margin, and apical third blackish-brown, of the same 
colour a broad streak on the analis and some veins. Hinclwing blackish-brown. Beneath in the forewing the 
streak on the analis is extended to the hind-margin, the veins being yellow. Brazil. It copies the Eryeinid 
Mesenopsis albivitta Lathy (Vol. V, pi. 138 b) and the Dioptid Myonia basivittci Prout. 
