BLAZIA; PHIDITIA. By Dr. W. Schaus. 
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D. erratica Schs. (74 h). <£. Head and thorax argus brown. Abdomen lighter brown. Forewing: erratica. 
more than basal third argus brown, limited by a reddish brown line; rest of wing slightly paler with a purplish 
tinge, with faint traces of medial, postmedial, and subterminal fine lines; a whitish discal point. Hindwings 
white, the margins broadly silky brown, darkest on costa. In some specimens the forewing is still darker, the 
fine lines imperceptible, in others the forewing is clay colour. Panama; Amazons; Venezuela; French Guiana. - 
This is the type of the subdivision Mantruda Schs., with veins 3 and 4 on hindwing not stalked. 
D. modesta Dogn. (74 h). Body and fore wings deep colonial buff, probably of a more greenish modcsta. 
colour when fresh. Fore wing: a medial black lunule below cell, and a short vertical line above inner margin; 
a black bar on discocellular; an outcurved lunular black postmedial line, followed by a faint dark line lunular 
on each interspace; termen slightly darker than rest of wing with some faint darker scaling on interspaces. 
Hindwing white; costa broadly cinnamon buff crossed by a black postmedial line preceded by a hair brown 
shade. Amazons. This species has the venation of D. erratica Schs. 
16. Genus: Blazia nov. 
d 1 . Antennae bipectinated. Palpi long and slender, obliquely upturned reaching above head. Fore 
legs moderately hairy; mid and hindlegs broken. Thorax and base of abdomen above with long hairs. Forewing 
broad; veins 2 and 3 stalked well before angle; 4 and 5 from angle; 6 from below upper angle; 7 and 8 stalked, 
9 absent; 10 from angle close to 7; 11 free. Hindwing vein 3 nearer to 2 than to 4; 4 from lower angle; 5 slightly 
above angle; 6 and 7 from upper angle. 
Type of genus: Orgyia ? lixivia Dogn. 
B. lixivia Dogn. (74 h). <$. Head and thorax buff white with some scattered dark brown scales, lixivia. 
Abdomen brown above, buff white underneath. Forewing vinaceous buff suffused with brown, less so on basal 
half of inner margin; a white streak below cell from base; a subterminal fuscous line parallel with termen inwardly 
edged with a diffuse dark brown shade, emitting a fuscous streak above vein 5 to discocellular; base of veins 
2, 3, and 4 white; terminal margin whitish, almost completely filled in with a silky drab gray shade, becoming 
brown towards inner margin; a terminal fine cinnamon line. Hindwing fuscous, slightly buff white at base. 
Expanse: 20 mm. Rio Songo, Bolivia. 
17. Genus: Pliiclitia Moschl. 
<$. Palpi upturned reaching frons, shortly but thickly scaled. Antennae pectinated to tips. Legs 
moderately hairy; hind tibiae with 2 pairs of spurs. Forewing: costal margin somewhat convex; apex acute; 
termen slightly rounded; vein 2 about middle of cell; 3 before angle; 4 from lower angle; 5 slightly above angle; 
6 from upper angle; 7 absent; 8, 9, 10 stalked from cell just before angle. Hindwing: costa slightly convex; 
termen straight from vein 7 to vein 4, then lunular dentate; vein 2 from middle of cell; 3 and 4 from lower 
angle; 5 from middle of discocellular; 6 and 7 on short stalk. 
Type: P. diores Cr. 
P. scriptigera Dogn. (= C. johanna Schs.Q) (74 i). Head, collar and body pale ochraceous buff, scriptigera 
the thorax suffused with vinaceous brown, the abdomen dorsally with reddish brown spots, surrounded by 
similar rings. Forewing pinkish buff suffused terminally with pinkish cinnamon, sometimes the whole wing- 
suffused ; a medial fascia suffused with brown, finely edged with black, its outer edge outbent and formed by 
the black line on discocellular which makes it appear outangled, then lunular and inbent; outer line, double, 
fine, lunular, the outer lunules above vein 5 with small hyaline white spots followed by a black line to apex. 
Hindwing with a conspicuous vertical fuscous line on discocellular; outer double line as on forewing. $ more 
of a light buff; medial fascia not so dark, its outer edge before the discal line, forming three lunules to submedian, 
then vertical. French Guiana. 
P. diores Cr. <$. Body hah- brown. Forewing: basal two thirds benzo brown limited by a reddish diores. 
brown, outcurved, wavy line, crossed by two similar lines, antemedial and medial; terminal third light buff 
crossed by a postmedial outcurved even reddish brown line; subterminal dark-edged with semihyaline spots 
from costa to vein 3; a dark terminal line. Hindwing benzo brown to an evenly outcurved subterminal line, 
