bracteola. 
elongata. 
peba. 
crocearia. 
sub tills. 
patinata. 
divisa. 
thirmida. 
minuta. 
pseudena. 
velutinum. 
monilis. 
choba. 
transit a. 
524 LEPTACTEA; ACTEA. By Dr. Martin Hering. 
B. bracteola Hbn.-G. ( = privata Wkr.) (70 e). Forewing with an oblong yellow spot distally to the 
cross-vein, extending at least to the 2nd median, hindwing black, the costal-marginal third yellow. Beneath 
the spot of the forewing is expanded to the costal margin, besides there is a yellow cellular spot and a yellow 
subapical spot. Expanse 35 mm. Colombia, Brazil. — The Venezuelan race elongata subsp. nov. (70 f) has 
longer and narrower forewings, the costal margin is straighter, the tornus more rounded off. the spot of the 
forewing above and beneath smaller. Expanse only 28 to 30 mm. $ type from Valencia in the Berlin Museum. 
B. peba Drc. Forewing blackish-brown with a yellow spot distally to the cross-vein, hindwing blackish- 
brown with a yellow central stripe, so that the margins, also the costal margin, remain black. Expanse 26 mm. 
Panama. 
B. crocearia Schs. Body orange with a black dorsal line on the abdomen. Forewing dark brown 
with a light yellow spot from the base to beyond the centre. Costal margin and hind-margin dark, the latter 
with yellow streaks at the edge and on the axillaris, on the yellow area beyond the cell a hyaline spot behind 
the cross-vein. Hindwing yellow, distal margin and hind-margin black with yellow streaks above the tornus. 
Expanse 25 mm. Costa Rica. 
B. subtilis Fldr. (= punctata Drc.) (70 e). Forewing brown with a yellow spot on the cross-vein, 
which may extend to the costal margin, veins basally lighter. Hindwing yellow, in the $ with a narrow black 
distal margin, which is narrower in the middle; in the $ the black margin is broader and extends also along 
the hind-margin, where it often contains a yellow stripe. Colombia, Venezuela. 
B. patinata Prt. is similar to subtilis and perhaps only a local race of it. In the forewing the light 
spot extends to behind the fork of the 3rd median. Hindwing as in crocearia , the black margin narrower. Expanse 
30 mm. Brazil. 
Bo divisa Dgn. In the forewing there is beside the discal spot another white cellular spot before the 
centre of the cell, beneath both spots are orange-yellow. Hindwing similar to patinata. In subtilis the forewing 
beneath is yellow except the margin, here only the two spots are yellow. Expanse 26 to 27 mm. Colombia. 
B. thirmida sp. n. (70 e). According to the description similar to Thirmida venusta Dgn. The cell in 
the forewing not so long as half the wing, in both wings posteriorly very much produced. 1st cubitus on a 
long fork. Forewing yellow, costal margin finely black, hind-margin somewhat broader black. Distal margin 
at the apex as far as 1 of the wing greyish-black, posteriorly narrower, at the border of the yellow spot jet- 
black. A black-irrorated basal streak on the analis, one in the cell and a hardly visible one at the costal margin. 
Hindwing black, with a purple reflection, at the costal margin before the apex a yellow spot, beneath the whole 
costa as far as this spot is broadly yellow. Bolivia. $ type from the Rio Songo in the Berlin Museum. In 
Thirm. venusta the veins in the cell are black. 
28. Gattung': JLeptactea Prt. 
Cell in the forewing longer than half the wing. 2nd median nearer to the 3rd than to the 1st. 
L. minuta Drc. Forewing jet-black with a yellow transverse band between the costal margin and 
tornus, but not reaching the distal margin. A yellow basal stripe along the costal margin to its centre, hindwing 
yellow, margins black. Expanse 32 mm. Ecuador. 
29. Gattung': Actea Btlr. 
Facies and palpi with projecting hairs. In the forewing the 2nd radial rises before the 5th before the 
3rd and 4th. the 3rd median and 1st cubitus are forked. 
A. pseudena Bsd. (= dorsispilota Warr.) (70 f). Black, abdomen with a dorsal row of yellowish spots 
and lateral yellow lines, wings black, forewing with a yellow transverse band. Mexico to Colombia. 
A. velutinum Btlr. (70 f) is like pseudena. the abdomen without yellow marking. Amazons, Peru, 
Bolivia. 
A. monilis Hbn. (70 f.). Abdomen with yellow dorsal spots and lateral lines, beneath white. Forewing 
with two yellow spots transversely behind y 2 of the wing, beneath with a yellow transverse band. Hindwing 
black with a yellow transverse band from the costal margin to the middle of the hind-margin, distally anteriorly 
expanded. Ecuador, Amazons. 
A. choba Drc. (70 f) is quite similar to monilis , but in the $ there is only a'yellow costal-marginal 
spot, in the 9 an uninterrupted transverse band. The spot on the centre of the prothorax and hindhead is yellow, 
in monilis white. Amazons. 
A, transita sp. n. forms the transition from choba to monilis (70 f). Dorsal spot on the prothorax 
yellow, forewing in the $ and $ with yellow, centrally strangulated transverse band. Somewhat smaller than 
choba. <J9 types from Para in the Berlin Museum. The last three forms may be the races of one species. 
