Pull. IS. IV. 1929. 
QUENTALIA. By Dr. W. Schatjs. 
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4. Genus : C^uent alia nov. gen. 
Male: Palpi short porrect. Antenna shortly bipectinate. Legs hairy, two spurs on hind tibia. Forewing 
with apex produced; termen excised below apex, rounded at vein 4 and slightly inbent; vein 2 from just beyond 
middle of cell; 3 and 4 from lower angle; 5 from middle of discocellular; 6— 9 stalked; 10 absent; 1 1 from cell. 
Hindwing: costa nearly straight; termen rounded; anal angle rounded or slightly produced; vein 2 beyond 
middle of cell; 3 and 4 from lower angle, sometimes slightly stalked; 5 from middle of discocellular; 9 and 7 
stalked; 8 connected with 7 near base. This genus will contain the many species described under Carthara WJcr. 
which was first used in Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. 33, p. 914 and does not belong to the Bombycidae. In Vol. 35, 
p. 1871 Walker again used the name Carthara for a species of some other family and on page 1984 substituted 
the name Synadia for it. 
Genotype: Pamea vittata Walk. 
Sect. I. Hindwing rounded. Postmedial and subterminal lines of forewing connected between veins 4 
and 6 by a triangular spot. 
Q. vittata Wkr. (89 c). Male: Head and collar ochraceous salmon, vertex white. Thorax pale pinkish vittata. 
buff crossed by a fine tawny line. Abdomen pinkish buff. Forewing pale pinkish buff; inner margin suffused 
obliquely to termen at vein 3 with light tawny olive, and similar shading on basal third of costa; anantemedial 
tawny olive line very oblique from costa and outangled near end of cell closely followed by a wavy medial line; 
two black points on discocellular; postmedial line tawny olive, oblique, inbent, lunular from vein 4 to inner 
margin, between veins 4 and 6 followed by an oblique and triangular brownish olive patch; subterminal line 
white, vertical from costa, inwardly edged with tawny olive, more broadly so distally and extending to apex, 
below vein 4 the line is tawny olive, lunular and parallel with postmedial; cilia tawny olive. Hindwing cream 
colour; a broad fuscous fascia from base to termen between veins 4 and 6; fine medial and postmedial wavy 
lines and cinnamon terminal shading. Fore wing below cream colour with dark suffusions beyond postmedial 
in place of the triangular patch. Hindwing below irrorated with cinnamon, the dark fascia not reaching termen, 
the lines more heavily marked. Expanse: 31 mm. S. E. Brazil. 
Q. orizava Schs. (89 c). Male: Head and thorax pallid mouse grey. Collar light cinnamon drab. Ab- orizava. 
domen drab grey. Forewing pale ecru drab, the base suffused with light cinnamon drab; antemedial and medial 
lines close together, wavy, almost vertical, drab grey; two black points on discocellular; postmedial from a 
dark costal spot followed between veins 4 and 6 by a benzo-brown quadrate spot; subterminal whitish between 4 
and 6, outwardly edged from vein 6 to costa by benzo-brown expanding towards costa; below vein 6 both lines 
lunular, parallel; cilia at sinus below apex benzo-brown. Hindwing largely colonial buff, the termen broadly 
drab grey; medial line faint; subterminal fine, distinct, defined by white near inner margin. Forewing below 
mostly drab, the inner margin whitish. Hindwing below largely suffused with light pinkish cinnamon; a dark 
line on discocellular; medial line outcurved distinct; postmedial line and termen as above, some dark shading 
between the lines from vein 2 to near anal fold. Expanse : 33 mm. Orizaba, Mexico. 
Q. altura Schs. (89 c). Male: Very much like orizava. Body and wings darker, the forewing suffused altura. 
with brownish, the lines more distinct. Hindwing suffused with vinaceous cinnamon, darkest on termen; the 
lines fine, and rather faint; inner margin mottled with mikado brown and white hairs. Forewing below with 
basal half cinnamon buff, outer half sayal brown; inner margin white. Hindwing below cinnamon; a fine black 
line on discocellular; postmedial and subterminal lines verona brown, connected by a similar shade before 
inner margin, the subterminal with a white line at outer edge near anal angle. Expanse: 34 mm. Volcan Santa 
Maria, Purula, Guatemala. 
Q. maevia Drc. (= umbrata Schs. <$, nec §; = subrufa Schs.) (89 d). Male: Body above dark greyish maevia. 
brown mottled with white hairs. Forewing: base and terminal third brownish drab with paler mottlings; 
medial space clearer, light cinnamon drab; the antemedial and medial line wavy as in previous species; post- 
medial line well defined, outangled and faintly sinuous, not lunular like the subterminal; the patch between 
veins 4 and 6 fuscous. Hindwing cinnamon, the disc somewhat yellowish; costal margin cream colour; dark 
suffusions on inner margin, especially at anal angle; the two outer lines well defined. Forewing below orange 
cinnamon, the inner margin white; costa yellowish to subterminal, the apex English red; the lines fine, fuscous, 
outcurved not reaching below vein 2; some white scaling along termen from vein 3 to vein 7. Hindwing below 
burnt sienna partly mottled with orange rufous; the two lines fine, fuscous, parallel, jjreceded and followed 
by some light huffish scaling below vein 2; a fuscous streak from base to termen before anal fold. Expanse: 
34 mm. Costa Rica; Chiriqui, Panama. 
Q. tolima Dogn. (89 d). Male: Body above brown, varying in intensity. Forewing above very similar Mima. 
to maevia, the lines and patch between veins 6 and 8 similar. Hindwing largely cinnamon rufous, the costal 
margin hardly paler; the lines fine, slightly curved, smooth; some fuscous shading at veins 4--6 between lines, 
also between lines below vein 2. Forewing below drab, the basal half suffused with vinaceous buff; lines distinct 
at costa; apex English red; inner margin whitish. Hindwing below burnt sienna; postmedial line smooth, 
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