APATELODES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
lescamia . 
Para¬ 
guay ana. 
bai'nn a. 
gladys. 
verena. 
turrialba. 
firm i cma. 
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A. lescamia Dyar (140 c) resembles jessica, but it is much smaller, with narrower wings, the distal 
margin not so convex. Light grey, base of abdomen with a dark belt. Forewing basally lighter, the very broad 
white oblique costal-marginal line extends along 2 as far as the white subterminal line, where it forms a very 
pointed tooth, returning on the submedian fold to the oblique white antemedian line, on the inside of which 
the indistinctly bipartite basal oblique inner-marginal spot is situate; behind the white distal line which is 
inside finely bordered with dark there is another white subterminal line parallel to the margin, touching the 
preceding line above the anal angle and on 5; in the fork there are two small black triangular spots. Hindwing 
somewhat more brownish with a curved whitish median line. Mexico (Tehuacan). 
A. paraguayana Schs. (140 g). Forewing pale yellowish loam-coloured, in the median area dusted with 
olive grey, the basal inner-marginal spot a long narrow black spot obliquely distad above, the feeble antemedian 
line angular behind the end of the spot, the postmedian line rectangular on 5, below it distinctly black, towards 
the margin somewhat concave; the subapical dark spot inside indistinct; outside straightly bordered with white, 
the apex behind it feebly darkened. Hindwing olive-grey, in the c.ostal half with a slight chestnut-red reflection, 
with a strong whitish postmedian line above which there is a small black spot at the inner margin. Paraguay. 
A. batima Dyar, described after a is ashy grey, forewing clouded with olive brown, the basal inner- 
marginal spot brown, parted lighter, behind it the brown, curved, interrupted interior line extending on the 
median vein and 2 towards the anal angle; the brown median line is inwardly shaded; at the cross-vein a pale 
spot; the interior one of the two distal lines is brown, shaded, behind the cell far excurved and submedianly 
somewhat less, the exterior line is finer, blackish, behind the cell likewise excurved and submedianly somewhat 
less, the exterior line is finer, blackish, behind the cell likewise excurved; subapically two white punctiform 
spots, inside bordered with brown, below them brown shading at the distal margin. Hindwing suffused with 
dull reddish with a white line and before it a feeble reddish line, both intensified at the inner margin. Expanse 
of wings: 44 mm. Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. 
A. gladys Dyar (140 d) is very closely allied to batima , but the forewing is dark brown with a reddish 
cinnamon tint, with fine lines, the two distal ones excurved behind the cell and very feebly waved between 
the veins; the oblique line from the costal margin extends along 2, whence it turns, distally shaded, between 
the two distal lines vertically to the inner margin, with dull basal inner-marginal spots; a small round white 
subapical spot. Hindwing hardly more reddish with a feeble median line angular between 5 and 6, intensified 
at the inner margin. Mexico, Zacualpan. 
A. verena Drc. (= horina Schs.) (140 d) is larger than the preceding species, with somewhat more elongate 
wings, more blackish grey, similarly marked though well discernible by the double postmedian line the parts of 
which are hardly more than 1 mm distant from each other, feebly excurved behind the cell, inwardly concave 
between 2 and 4, slightly excurved again below 2; two basal inner-marginal deep velvety brownish black spot 
one above the other, the oblique costal-marginal line rather indistinct. Hindwing marked as in the allies. Mexico. 
A. turrialba Schs. (140 d) is very similar to verena ; palpi velvety blackish brown, head and thorax 
brownish mixed with grey, on the hindhead blackish; abdomen somewhat lighter. Forewing grey, transverse 
lines and vein 2 finely black; 3 antemedian lines close together, the innermost oblique from the costal margin 
to 2, then undulate to the inner margin, before it 2 small black spots above and below the submedian fold, 
the median line being faint and interrupted, the exterior line feebly bent, distinct; 2 postmedian distantly 
separated lines, obliquely from the costal margin, feebly inbent below 4, between them a fine indistinct dark 
double shadow; between 6 and 7 a small white subterminal spot. Hindwing basally dark grey, behind it a 
broader still darker median shadow, angular on 6 and submedianly; distal half somewhat lighter silky-glossy 
grey; at the anal angle white-scaled with a blackish inner-marginal shadow above it. Volcano of Turrialba 
(Costa Pica), from an altitude of 5800 ft. 
A. firmiana Stoll (140 d) introduces a group of externally very similar large species with yellowish-grey 
forewings with darker transverse lines, firmiana is characterized by the very feebly developed subapical 
triangular dark costal-marginal spot which may be almost absent; the basal inner-marginal spot is blackish- 
brown, large, not parted and above rounded; the first olive grey, somewhat feebler transverse line forms a 
very pointed angle distad above the submedian fold, the second (antemedian) line forms on 2 a rectangular 
angle or a more rounded curve; the postmedian line extends from close behind the centre of the costal margin 
to close before the anal angle in a feeble distally convex curve, the median area between the two latter often 
being strewn somewhat olive gi’ey; the subterminal line arises about 5 mm farther outside, forming a larger 
curve and extending directly into the anal angle; the subapical triangle is but very feebly darkened, outside 
bordered by a straight whitish streak behind^ which the upper marginal half is darkened olive grey. Hindwing 
blackish-brown with a slight copper reflection and a light, on 5 angular postmedian line; in the lower inner- 
marginal half a dark brown spot above and below bordered with light; a feeble darker antemedian band is 
mostly very indistinct. Beneath on the forewing with a short discal streak, a rather straight line behind it and 
a’ bronze brown subapical marginal triangle which is proximad straightly defined by whitish; hindwing with 
a bronze brown triangle below the cell from the base to the subterminal line which is concave here towards 
the margin. Guiana, Colombia, Brazil to Sa. Catharina. In the Berlin Museum there is a very small specimen 
of an expanse of only 36 mm, from Colombia. 
