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HYLESIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
composita. 
egrex. 
obsoleta. 
oroyex. 
amazonica. 
indurata. 
mystica. 
andrei. 
vindex. 
solvex. 
angulex. 
fulviventris. 
oratex. 
remex. 
H, composita Dogn. (113 f). Blackish-grey with a slightly darker median area, the transverse lines 
bordering on it still more distinct, the interior line inwardly interrupted below the cell, both bordered with 
lilac whitish on the averted sides; at the cell-end another darker spot; subterminal band of the usual shape, 
towards the margin accompanied by a whitish brightening; the bands on the hindwing narrower than in canitia. 
Merida (Venezuela). 
H. egrex sp. n. (113 g) in the scheme of markings recalls composita , but it is twice as large, with a more 
prolonged apex, shape more that of indurata, suffused with lilac pink, with a very large contrasting discal spot, 
basally at the inner margin below 2 darkened broivn; between 4 and 7 the distal subterminal border forms a 
straight shadowy line towards the apex. Thorax blackish brown, in the centre light grey. Abdomen above 
black, basally with pinkish ochre hair, laterally, beneath and at the end bright rusty yellow. Type: 1 £ from 
the Chaco, La Paz (Bolivia) from an altitude of 3000 m in the Coll. Stgr. (Berlin Museum). 
H. obsoleta Stoll is hardly determinable from the figure; a $, light lilac pink with 3 oblique broad light 
bands, without the discal spot. Surinam. Schaus places the species here. 
H. oroyex Dogn. (113 g) is near composita, a little more brownish, abdomen of a brighter ochre, the 
markings less contrasting, the two transverse hires distantly separated, but on the hindwing nearer together. 
Merida (Venezuela); we figure a co-type from the Coll. Dogkest. — amazonica /. n. (113 g) is probably the same 
species according to Schaus; larger, more lilac grey, with fine dark veins, discal spot much larger. Type from 
S. Paulo de Olivenca (Upper Amazons) in the Berlin Museum. 
H. indurata Dyar (113 g) is of a more slender structure, with a produced, slightly falcate apex of the 
forewing, lilac grey with a faint pink tint, abdomen brownish, laterally and at the end light oehreous as at the 
base of the hindwing; transverse lines rather near together, the anterior line in the cell close at the discal spot, 
the posterior line flatly concave, acufe-angularly bent below the costal margin at which it begins with a large 
triangular shadowy spot; marginal area in its upper half darkened with a proximally convex bow. Lines of 
hindwing rather close together. French Guiana. 
H. mystica Dyar is closely allied to composita, forewing at the apex rounded, shaded darker on the 
lilac grey ground, the light transverse lines feeble, between them an obsolete narrow shadowy spot; marginal 
area lighter, in the upper half with a rounded marginal shadow. Hindwing with a lighter band in the distal 
third, the lines bordering on it hardly or not visible. A small species with an expanse of 32 mm, the $ being 
45 mm large is still darker shaded, the abdomen covered with oehreous hair. Guiana; Trinidad. 
H. andrei Dogn. ( — grisoli Bouv.) (113 g) is somewhat like canitia, smaller, brownish-grey, abdomen 
with oehreous hair; transverse lines whitish, at the costal margin somewhat expanded, the interior line in the 
cell close before the discal spot, receding far below the cell, at the inner margin only 1 or 2 mm distant from 
the posterior line, the light spotted distal border of the subterminal line at the anal angle and apex removed 
to the margin. Hindwing with 2 light distal lines. Apparently widely distributed; from Guiana, Venezuela, 
Amazons, and Peru. 
H. vindex Dyar (113 f, g). Black, abdomen excepting base dark ochre; forewing with a very large 
black discal spot and whitish transverse lines being convergent towards the inner margin; the light submarginal 
shadow between 5 and 7 more or less interrupted. Hindwing with a round obsolete discal shadow and light 
postmedian and marginal bands. A common species from Southern Brazil. solvex Dyar may be only a smaller 
form in which the light postmedian line shows a darker interior border touching the discal spot. From Rio 
Grande do Sul. 
H. angulex sp. n. (113 g) is allied to vindex, though not black but greyish-brown, the abdomen scantily 
intermixed with oehreous hairs; it is well characterized by the antemedian line being distallv interrupted below 
the costa, proximally bordering on the discal spot in the cell, below it interrupted farbasad, extending obliquely 
distad to the inner margin. Type, a $ from Pebas (Amazons), in the Berlin Museum; £ type from Minas Geraes 
in the Coll. Hopp-Charlottenburg. 
H. fulviventris Berg (113 h). Front body lilac grey, abdomen black, beneath, laterally and at the end 
bright oehreous. Wings lilac grey, in the basal half shaded brownish, enclosing the brown antemedian line 
which is inside bordered with lilac grey, discal spot brownish, shadow-like; the posterior transverse line is 
distinctly dark brown, almost straight, on its outside the brown subterminal shadow is closely adjacent; marginal 
area lilac grey, in the upper half shaded with brown. Hindwing lighter with 2 feeble transverse lines. The $ is 
more blackish, but more obsoletely marked. Southern Brazil, Argentina. oratex Dyar is probably only a 
somewhat darker form, or the same as the typical form. 
H remex Dyar (113 h). Thorax dark grey, abdomen mixed with dull oehreous hairs. Forewing lilac 
grey, basal area only feebly shaded, without a distinct antemedian line, discal spot elliptical, the straight 
postmedian line distinct as in f ulviventris, the subterminal shadow narrower and straighter than usual. Hindwing 
with 2 lines nearing the margin. Rio de Janeiro. Sao Paulo. 
