JOSIA. By Dr. Martin Hering. 
30. Genus: Hbn. 
The members of this genus exhibit remarkable differences, so that later on it will become necessary 
to divide them. In the forewing the 2nd radial is forked before the 5th before the 3rd and 4th, the 3rd median 
and 1st cubitus are forked, the 1st median rising near the radial ramus or being forked with it. 
1 . The 1st median is not forked with the radial r a m u s (. Ephialtias Hbn.). 
J. consueta Wkr. (= pilarge Wkr., hyperia Wkr., lugens Fldr.) (67 k). Blackish-brown, thorax in consueta. 
front with a yellow spot, abdomen with 3 white lines, ventrum whitish. Forewing blackish-brown with a yellow 
transverse band from the costa almost to the tornus. Hindwing uni-coloured blackish-brown. Expanse 35 mm. 
Amazons. — In cassa Prt. the abdomen is without white dorsal lines, the wings with a slight blue lustre, the causa. 
band of the forewing straighter and narrower. Panama, Colombia. 
J. brevifascia Prt. Thorax without the yellow spot at the costal margin, the orange band of the forewing brevifascia. 
is shorter, extending from the radial ramus to right behind the 2nd cubitus. Hindwing with a thin blue lustre, 
otherwise like the preceding. Amazons. 
J. abrupta Hbn. (70 g). Forewing black with a yellow, somewhat bent transverse band as far as abrupta. 
the analis; in the $ the hindwing has a short whitish-hyaline band from the hind-margin to the posterior edge 
of the cell, in the <$ this white spot is intensely irrorated with blackish. -— In the form basaiis Btlr. the yellow basalts. 
band of the forewing is posteriorly pointed and thus does not end broad on the analis, in the $-form icca Prt. icca. 
the white spot of the hindwing is irrorated like in the A- Amazons. 
J. dorsivitta Wkr. (70 g). Black, forewing with a yellow transverse band, hindwing with a white dorsivitta. 
central spot extending to the hind-margin. Amazons, Ecuador. 
J. ena Bsd. (= tryma Schs.) (71 g). Forewing blackish-brown with a yellow transverse band. ena. 
hindwing black. The most common species. Venezuela, Trinidad, Amazons, Ecuador. Peru. 
J. enoides Bsd. is like the preceding, the band of the forewing is whitish. Mexico. Honduras. enoides. 
J. infans Wkr. is very similar to ena (71 g), the distal margin of the forewing is more oblique, the infans. 
band broader, the projection of the 2nd cubitus yellow, not black as in ena. Amazons. 
J. ignorata sp. n. (71 f). Wings not so elongate as in the preceding, black, only with a very slight ignorata. 
purple reflection, with a very broad yellow transverse band. Patria unknown; perhaps Colombia. $ type in 
the Berlin Museum. [The 1st median rises separated from the radial ramus!] 
2. The 1st m e d i a n is forked wit li t lie r a d i a 1 r a m u s in the for m i n g. ( Phintia II At.). 
J. latifascia Pit. (= lativitta Wan.). (Similar to ena (71 g). Forewing puiple black, the band twice latifascia. 
as broad. Ecuador. A specimen in the Senckenberg Museum, denominated by Warren as lativitta. is an Arctiid! 
The species may therefore belong to Josiodes. 
J. esoterica Prt. is similar to dorsivitta (70 g), abdomen in the $ without white dorsal and lateral csoterica. 
stripes, the band of the forewing is shorter and broader, not extending to the analis, in the hindwing the white 
basal costal streak is absent beneath, the white central spot is broad and roundish. Expanse 32 mm. Ecuador. 
J. tegyra Drc. (70 g) is smaller than the preceding, the wings are narrower, palpi shorter, subcosta tegyra. 
of hindwing less abruptly diverging with the radius. Ecuador. 
J. simplex Wkr. is similar to tegyra (70 g). the black distal margin of the hindwing only gradually simplex. 
narrowed to the tornus, the white stripe of the hindwing is narrow, short, and does not reach the posterior angle 
of the cell. 
J. jordani sp. n. (70 g) is quite similar to simplex, but the white band of the hindwing is more oblique jordani. 
and longer, extending almost to the posterior angle of the cell. Patria unknown. $ type in the Berlin Museum. 
J. tessmanni sp. n. (70 g). Body black, abdomen beneath dull greyish-white. Forewing black with tessmanni. 
a yellow band which extends barely beyond the 2nd cubitus. Hindwing black with a hyaline white central 
area which is shorter and rounder in the d 1 , narrower and longer in the $. The hind-margin remains finely 
black. types from the Rio Pachitea, East Peru, in the Berlin Museum, discovered by G. Tessmann. 
J. podarce Wkr. (70 g). Forewing black with a short white, somewhat yellowish transverse band, podarce. 
Hindwing also black with a yellowish-white central spot as far as the hind-margin. Amazons. 
J. cercostis Wkr. (70 h). Forewing as in podarce , hindwing more extensively pale yellow, particularly ccrcostis. 
in the $, the yellow colour is darker than in podarce. Amazons, French Guiana, East Peru. 
J. ilaire Drc. (71 f). Forewing black, at the base with a slight blue reflection, with a yellow transverse Uairc. 
band 2% mm broad at most; hindwing black, with an intense blue lustre, particularly towards the base. 
Panama. — In turhida subsp. n. (71 f) the band of the forewing is at least 3 mm broad, the lustre on the turbida. 
hindwing is less intense, more reddish-violet. Colombia. $ type from the Rio S. Juan in the Berlin Museum. 
J. repetita Warr. (71 f) is similar to ilaire. but larger, the hindwing with a yellow apical spot. repetita. 
Colombia. 
