PSYCHOCAMPA. By Dr. W. Sohatjb 
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P. beta Schs. (87 b). Male : Head, collar and abdomen dorsally pinkish cinnamon; thorax and abdomen beta. 
below drab-white; some scattered black scales on body and wings. Wings to line pale pinkish buff with some 
black scales; hyaline B-shaped spots edged with fuscous at discocellulars, cilia tipped with white. Forewing: a 
sinuous inbent antemedial pinkish cinnamon shade; line fine, faint, excurved on costa, angled below vein 8, 
inbent, fuscous becoming wider to inner margin, followed by some pinkish cinnamon at angle and below the 
wood brown branch to apex; a triangular white patch, thickly irrorated with black beyond line from vein 3 to 
inner margin and tornus, this patch outwardly edged by a wood brown shade. Hindwing: line thick, medial, 
with some orange cinnamon before it below hyaline spot, and beyond it from vein 6, expanding between veins 
4 and 2 and with a branch to anal angle; whitish patches irrorated with black at apex and on inner margin 
above angle. Forewing below: end of cell and beyond suffused with coral red and a similar terminal band from 
vein 8 to vein 4; inner margin mostly white; line almost obsolescent and outcurved between veins 4 and 3, 
from vein 3 prominent, sinuous and inbent, followed by the white patch as above. Hindwing below mostly 
whitish; cinnamon shading around discocellular spot; line subterminal, fine, excurved from vein 3 to anal angle; 
a brownish shade at apex and at anal angle. Expanse: 39 mm. Type from Costa-Rica and Panama. Specimens 
from Amazons and French Guiana with the line finer. Specimens from S. E. Brazil ecru drab, the line excurved 
on costa, more deeply outangled towards apex. 
P. sylvia Schs. (87 b). Male : Body and wings pinkish buff; anal hairs inwardly fuscous; the line cinna- sylvia. 
mon brown. Forewing: a fine outbent ochraceous buff antemedial line; a narrow oblique, hyaline, B-shaped 
spot at discocellular outwardly edged by a large van dyke brown spot; line outcurved from costa, inbent below 
vein 7, followed by a narrow dark shade from vein 7 expanding to termen at vein 8 and costa, and with a 
fine dark line from it at vein 4 to tornus. Hindwing: the line medial followed by drab suffusions and a fine 
line from vein 6 to anal angle. A faint hyaline streak at discocellular. Forewing below very similar to upper 
surface. Hindwing below with discal spot more denuded, outwardly broadly edged with van dyke brown. 
Expanse: 40 mm. Cayuga, Guatemala. 
P. prominens Schs. (87 b). Male-. Head and collar in front ochraceous salmon; collar behind whitish, 'promincns. 
Thorax light pinkish cinnamon. Abdomen above orange cinnamon. Forewing drab grey; a hair brown ante¬ 
medial line, outangled on costa, preceded below cell by a rufous patch, and followed by a similar shade in cell; 
a whitish grey streak at discocellular; postmeclial line fine, hair brown, excurved from a small costal spot, 
outangled at vein 8 and slightly incurved to inner margin, followed by some rufous and cinnamon brown from 
vein 5 to vein 8, also between veins 4 and 3 and at tornus; a hair brown subterminal streak from vein 3 to tornus. 
Hindwing: base narrowly and inner margin whitish; some rufous antemedially and along median to beyond 
line which is hair brown, medial, followed from costa and vein 4 to termen by drab grey, below vein 4 to 
termen and anal angle by chestnut brown; a white line on discocellular; cilia of both wings tipped with white. 
Wings below irrorated with black scales and striae, the white lines on discocellulars prominent; forewing and 
costal margin of hindwing suffused with hazel and rufous; the line subterminal, hair brown, partly crenulate, 
termen of forewing from vein 3 to above vein 7 english red; hindwing below costal margin light drab grey. 
Expanse: 55 mm. Sitio, Tuis, Costa-Rica. 
P. lemoulti Schs. (87 b). Male-. Head and collar ochraceous salmon. Thorax, abdomen and wings light lemoulti. 
pinkish cinnamon, the latter with a few black scales, chiefly on terminal area. Wings: a faint antemedial tawny 
olive shade; cilia faintly tipped with white. Forewing: a hyaline spot at discocellular cut by vein 5; outer line 
oblique and excurved from costa, outangled below vein 8 and inbent, straight to inner margin, fine, olive brown, 
outwardly shaded with mikado brown which extends from angle to apex. Hindwing: the line medial inwardly 
shaded with pale pinkish buff, outwardly with orange cinnamon, especially along inner margin to termen and 
on veins. Forewing below pinkish buff, the cell and beyond to line, also on termen from vein 10 to vein 2 zinc 
orange; line fine hair brown, oblique from costa, angled below vein 8, incurved and approaching termen at 
vein 3, then faint, inbent, sinuous. Hindwing below pinkish buff irrorated with black; termen narrowly orange 
cinnamon, expanding broadly at anal angle; a faint postmeclial line upcurved from vein 3 to inner margin. 
Expanse: male, 40—46 mm. A female submitted by Dr. Draitdt, from Chuchuras, Peru has an expanse of 
53 mm. French Guiana; Bolivia; Sta. Catharina, Brazil. 
P. mawaja Dogn. (87 b). Male-. Body and wings light drab, somewhat paler before the line, with a very mawaja. 
few black scales; cilia tipped with white. Fore wing: a fine black line on discocellular; outer line obliquely 
downbent and excurved on costa, black outwardly edged with white to angle below vein 8 where it is followed 
by a pinkish streak, and from angle the line is inbent, black, becoming wider to inner margin. Hindwing: line 
postmedial at costa, straight to middle of inner margin, followed by an incurved black shade, narrow at costa 
expanding to termen at anal angle. Wings below to line whitish grey with a few black irrorations; line on forewing 
followed by fuscous between veins 4 and 7 to termen, the line otherwise followed by light cinnamon drab not 
