PHRICODIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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spot; subterminal line of the same shape as in opis. Hindwing very feebly marked, fringe whitish. Abdomen 
black, with narrow white rings, at the base with pink hair, at the anus likewise yellowish-white, only at the 
extreme end rusty brownish. Brazil, widely distributed. 
Ph. simplex Dogn. is similar to vagans, still smaller; anterior body brown, collar and metathorax pink, simplex. 
abdomen above darker brown. Wings light pinkish-brown, with a hardly darker posterior transverse line 
parallel to the margin; the cross-vein neither much darker. Described according to a $ from Novo Friburgo 
with an expanse of 57 mm. 
Ill. plana-group. 
Ph, plana Wkr. I cannot tell whether this species really belongs to this place; according to a sketch plana. 
of the type kindly sent by Dr. Jordan, it is best ranged here judging from the neuration. From Walker’s 
insufficient description which places the species to the Lasiocampa it could be scarcely identified. Walker 
states the ground-colour to be reddish fawn on both wings, whilst according to Jordan the forewing of the 
type is dingy yellow with dark veins, the hindwing pink, both wings with a white stigma on the cross-vein; 
forewing with a thin brownish shadowy band parallel to the margin, about 1 cm distant from it; hindwing 
likewise with a darker submarginal line. Expanse of wings: 32 lines. Haiti. 
IV. lasiocampina-group. 
Ph. lasiocampina FI dr. (117 D c). Wings coloured pale cinnamon-reddish, fringes and veins ochreous; lasiocam- 
the white antemedian line, often reduced to 3 small vein-spots, is almost rectangularly flawed on the upper 
cell-margin, the posterior line parallel to the distal margin, slightly incurved between 2 and 4. feebly undulate- 
dentate between 5 and the costal margin. Hindwing paler. Abdomen black with ochreous rings. Mexico. 
Ph. hoegei Drc. (117 D c) is very similar, larger, browner, especially the $<$ basally and subterminally hoegei. 
shaded with blackish grey, the white transverse lines broader, at the costal margin expanded into white spots, 
the posterior line more intensely undulate-dentate and outside bordered with very dark; veins not so yellow, 
more brownish-black like the fringe. Hindwing lighter with a distinct postmedian shadowy band being often 
bordered with white inside at the costal margin; the basal portion of the inner margin with yellowish ochreous 
hair. Mexico. 
V. semirosea-group. 
Ph. semirosea Wkr. (117 Dd) to a certain degree resembles the preceding group by the same design semirosea. 
of markings, but the colours are different. The blackish-brown thoracal hair are intermixed with stiff grey 
hairs, abdomen black with pinkish carmine rings. Forewing blackish-brown, more or less lined with pinkish 
violet or carmine, with blackish-brown veins and internerval lines, with white transverse lines extending 
similarly as in hoegei, but more reduced to vein-dots, also the posterior line angled at 5, between the small white 
vein-spots orange, on both sides finely bordered with black, at the costal margin both the lines are widened 
into thick white dentate spots; median area especially in the costal-marginal half and at the inner margin 
darkened like the distally strongly notched subterminal line which recedes between 6 and 4 in an oblique line; 
marginal area especially subapically very light. Hindwing with 2 blackish postmedian shadowy bands, the 
interior one at the costal margin mostly with 2 small white vein-spots. Extreme purple-pink forms may be 
named - roseana ab. nov. (117 D d). The nomenclatural type flies from Mexico to Costa Rica. — In f. gemeli roseana. 
Bouv. (117 D d), from Ecuador (Quito), Peru (Chanchamayo), Colombia, the black and smoky grey fore wing gemc 
is without any violettish-pink, the antennae are not light yellow, but more yellowish-grey; on the fore wing 
the transverse lines end at the inner margin without distinct white spots. Abdomen very bright black and red. 
— f. geneforti Bouv. (117 Dd), likewise from Ecuador, shows more yellowish-grey forewings, the transverse geneforti. 
lines well marked at the costal margin, badly marked at the inner margin. Body, legs, palpi, and base of hind¬ 
wing pink, the ventrum greyish-black in the rj, yellowish in the Another form from Guatemala is named 
angrandi Bouv .; here the wings are smoky yellowish-brown, rarely feebly pink, the male antennae dark smoky angrandi. 
grey; I find that these forms evidently established on single specimens are more or less transitions, if we look 
at large series, and that they are not bound to localities. 
Ph. coprea sp. n. (117 D e), however, although its exterior differs but little from semirosea, is a distinct coprca. 
species according to the different structure of the copulation organs. Larger and more slender, not variable, 
apex of forewing more obtusely rounded. Antennae somewhat lighter whitish yellow. Ground-colour mono¬ 
tonously dull yellowish-grey, thinly scaled, with hardly darker veins; it almost entirely lacks the conspicuous 
darker contrasting shades in the median area and the costal margin of semirosea, only the scarcely darker 
smoke-brown subterminal shadowy band is visible, but almost everywhere equally broad, between 4 and 6 
scarcely narrower and without the strong notched distal border of semirosea. The white-spotted transverse 
lines are likewise the same, at the costal and inner margins widened into strong spots of a more creamy white 
colour, both between the veins distinctly orange-spotted. Hindwing dull like the fore wing, 2 shadowy bands 
