SPHINTA; ARTACE. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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T. sana Dogn. is very similar to sanguilenta, but the transverse markings are much narrower, partly mna. 
extinct ; of the rusty red colour only the upper cell-dot remains as well as the base of the branches (5 and 7. 
Colombia. 
T. multilinea Schs. (82 a) entirely resembles sanguilenta in the scheme of markings, but the ground- muUilinea. 
colour is sulphur , the transverse lines are darker yellow the veins in the disc partly strewn with blackish. French 
Guiana and Amazons (before me from Massauary). 
17. Genus: Sphinta Schs. 
Exterior quite different; structure about the same as that of Tolype, but the $ abdomen lacks the 
thick anal tuft. On the hindwing 7 and 8 rise on a very long stalk contrary to Artace. Only two species: 
Type: S. cossoides Schs. 
S. cossoides Schs. (82 a). This species with a stout abdomen and brown forewing showing a broad cossoides. 
slate-coloured costal margin and black dentate lines is unmistakable. Brazil. 
S. schausiana Jones (82 a) is smaller than cossoides ; body brown, collar and patagia grey, with a black schausiana. 
dorsal streak on the thorax. Forewing white with brown veins. Costal margin and cell dark brown, thickly 
haired and scaled in a greenish grey; below the median vein with a faded dark brown longitudinal stripe and 
below it with 3 dark brown lunae; another longitudinal stripe is situate between 5 and 6, and below the apex 
there are 3 dark subterminal spots; distal margin tinted yellowish, fringes brown. The white hindwing is 
powdered with light brown at the costal and posterior margins, at the anal angle there is a brown spot. Expanse 
of wings: 43 mm. Curityba, Parana, Brazil. 
18. Genus: Artace Wkr. 
Palpi extremely short, turned downward, in some species of a peculiar red brick-colour; frons and eyes 
covered by pendent hair-fringes. Veins of forewing as in Tolype. In the hindwing the cross-vein is very oblique, 
2 rises behind the centre of the cell, 3 shortly before the lower cell-angle from which 4 and 5 rise together or 
on a short stalk; 6 from the upper cell-angle, 7 far before it, almost from the middle between 6 and 8. Many 
similar species. 
Type: A. punctistriga Wkr. 
A. cribraria Ljung (= punctistriga Wkr.) (82 a) is one of the oldest and most common species, cribraria. 
Forewing white, with fine dark veins, with rows of black vein-dots, 2 subbasal dots, an antemedian row and 
3 postmedian ones, between the two outermost with a very feeble subterminal row of small spots. Distal margin 
between the veins dotted black. Hindwing with traces of a subterminal shadow-like band. The dots are very 
variably developed, in some specimens the postmedian row of vein-dots is connected by a fine blackish-grey 
line: — connecta /. n.\ such specimens are before me from St. Catharina. Very widely distributed from the connectci. 
Southern Atlantic States of North America down to Argentina and Paraguay. 
A. regalis Jones is considerably larger than cribraria, of a very pure white, palpi outside black, the regalis. 
rows of black dots arranged as in cribraria, but more spot-shaped; the subterminal row of spots is composed 
of more elongate spots. Hinclwing pure white. Castro Parana; Santos. 
A. muzophila Dogn. is very near to cribraria, of a purer white, with much fewer black dots, the muzopMla. 
antemedian row proceeding from a thick brownish-black costal-marginal streak, without discal dots, a subterminal 
row formed of very feeble pale rusty brownish irroration; at the distal margin only between 7 and 10 some 
small black dots. Hindwing all white. Described from 1 <$ from Muzo (Colombia). 
A. litterata Dogn. (82 a) is smaller, in the white colour of the body there are grey and black hairs litterata. 
intermixed. Fore wing with 7 more or less distinct blackish parallel transverse lines which are partly broken 
up into black vein-dots and interrupted in the cell; on the margin between the veins with thick black dots, 
2 similar ones are situate in the two cell-angles. Hindwing with a subterminal grey marginal band. Brazil 
(Sao Paulo). 
A. argentina Schs. (82 b) differs in quite black palpi, the thorax being mixed with drab, the abdomen argentina. 
with similar bands. Forewing opalescent white, with a faint sand-coloured hue, the vein-dots otherwise as 
in the preceding species, but the marginal streaks are absent on the veins; before the marginal spots a fine 
black marginal line, also on the hindwing. Argentina, Brazil. 
