NESARA. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 
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and its branches partly finely blackened. Hindwing light ruddle-red, at the costal margin broadly yellowish- 
white; before the subterminal line feebly strewn with a darker colour. Brazil. The species is apparently rare 
and has no more been found. The figured $ was before me from the Berlin Museum. Mr. Schaus has sub¬ 
stantiated the determination. 
N. lasthenia Drc. (85 e) is marked very much like lauda, but of a pure white ground-colour, the markings lasthenia. 
are indicated by extremely feeble blackish and yellowish-ochreous irroration, the median area is very feebly 
set off darker in the disc; the spot between 5 and 6 is greyish-black; the darkest is the subapical spot on the 
hindwing. Mexico. 
N. macerra Schs. Forewing all white, only basad with a small brown spot, apicad with a large one. macerra. 
Hindwing yellowish, basad white, at the apex with a small brown spot. Abdomen golden yellow. Expanse of 
wings: 20 mm. Paso de San Juan (Mexico). 
N. filamentosa Dogn. (85 f) is allied to macerra, also white with a double undulating median line of filamentosa. 
rusty brown atoms and a similar apical spot. Hindwing likewise apicad strewn with rusty brown, very narrowly 
also at the distal margin. Sao Paulo de 01iven§a (Amazons). 
N. mita Schs. (85 f). Body and wings white, forewing with light yellowish reddish-grey markings, rnita. 
5 transverse lines, and a marginal shadow; median area at the inner margin similarly darkened; at the cell-end 
2 black dots and subterminally between 5 and 6 black irroration; fringe above 4 dotted black. Hindwing with 
a black apical spot. Expanse of wings: 21 mm. French Guiana. 
N. dalceroides Schs. (85 f). White as mita, but with a very characteristic median line which is divided dalceroides. 
below the costal margin in order to enclose the 2 discal dots, uniting again below 3 and being again divided 
at the inner margin; the fine postmedian line is very indistinct; a dark grey apical shadow and dark dots in 
the fringe. Hindwing at the distal margin greyish-brown, at the anal margin with 2 small spots of grey irroration. 
Expanse of wings: 26 mm. French Guiana. 
N. oroyana Dogn. (85 f). Body pinkish-yellow; forewing white; through the cell as far as the margin oroyana. 
between 6 and 10 a chestnut-brown longitudinal spot enclosing a black dot in the lower cell-angle, outside as 
far as the postmedian line spotted orange; the brownish transverse lines are partly interrupted, dentate, the 
posterior line beginning from 6 double; at the margin a pure white area ending inside between 6 and 4, outside 
at the margin between 7 and 4; between 4 and the anal angle the marginal area is orange-yellow; the fine white 
subterminal line is interrupted in some places. Hindwing light yellowish with a brownish costal-marginal area. 
Expanse of wings: 25—29 mm. Peru, Amazons. 
N. drucei Schs. (85 e). Body yellowish-white; forewing light reddish-brown, along the inner margin drucei. 
whitish, the brown transverse lines double; at the apex and between 4 and 6 small spots strewn with brownish; 
fringe speckled brown. Hindwing yellowish-white, at the costal margin brownish irroration. Expanse of wings: 
23 mm. Sao Paulo. 
N. tremula Schs. (85 f) is reddish-ochreous on the body, lilac brown on the thorax; forewing lilac brown, tremula. 
basally and subterminally with a reddish-brown tint, with yellowish-white transverse lines, the two median 
ones being double; at the base of the cell a black spot and at the cell-end the usual 2 dots; before the subter¬ 
minal line there are small dark brown subapical spots; fringe speckled darker. Hindwing reddish ochreous, at 
the costal margin strewn with grey and brown. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Dutch Guiana. 
N. parva Dogn. is one of the smallest species of but 17 mm expanse. Wings white with grey markings: parva. 
on the forewing 5 parallel transverse bands, in the costal half regular, in the lower half irregular; at the cell-end 
an indistinct black dot; between 5 and 6 a darker spot; veins 2—5 partly grey. Hindwing with 3 parallel bands. 
French Guiana. 
N. plicistriga sp. n. (85 e). Forewing very pale brownish white, at the costal and inner margins broadly plicisiriga. 
smoked yellowish, traversed by numerous very fine grey lines; the antemedian line is double, at the inner 
margin very oblique towards the base, the postmedian line between 4 and 5 forming a large inward bow, the 
median area at the inner margin darkened grey; on the discal fold from the postmedian line to the margin a 
black streak; apical veins feebly darkened, fringe speckled blackish. Hindwing white, at the costal and anal 
margins feebly yellowish. Body light ochreous. According to 1 from Villavicencio (Colombia); type in the 
Berlin Museum. 
N. plagiata Wkr. is unknown to me; dull reddish brown, forewing with several oblique very fine blackish- plagiata. 
brown notched bands, a blackish-brown discal spot, and very fine whitish spots. Hindwing of a much brighter 
colouring, with a short darker subapical band. Expanse of wings: 12 lines. Brazil. 
N. albida Wkr. is likewise unknown to me. Founded upon a damaged J: whitish, forewing with a few albida. 
narrow brownish angular bands which are partly spotted black. Hindwing feebly hued with light brown. 
Expanse of wings: 10 lines. St. Domingo. 
N. turpis Btlr. Sooty brown, forewing with a narrow angular catenary median band bordered with turpis. 
white; apically scantily strewn with white; the light subterminal line is zigzag-shaped; the dark fringe with 
white vein-dots. Hind wing lighter with a shortened subterminal band at the apex. Expanse of wings: 1 inch. 
Rio Jurua (Amazons). 
