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PHIDIRA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
fumosa. 
inornata. 
ciirina. 
orva. 
cintonia. 
nigra. 
flavilinca. 
manes. 
araucariac. 
little visible and without any notches. Body as in semirosea, but the anus more rusty red, not carmine. 
According to 3 couples from Cuernavaca (Mexico). Types in the Coll. Draudt. On removing the anal hair 
the two vent-rally bent black chitinized uncus-clasps are visible, at their base dorsally 2 feebly rounded 
transverse swellings, in semirosea 2 distally extended coniform points. 
Ph. fumosa Fldr. (117 De) is similar to semirosea, but deep sooty black, the subterminal area on both 
wings usually brightened, the subterminal shadowy band often very feeble, before the olive yellow fringe a 
thick black marginal line; the two transverse lines also shaped as in semirosea, but much nearer together and 
mostly reduced to tiny vein-dots excepting the large yellowish-white costal-marginal and inner-marginal spots; 
the portions situate between the veins are reddish olive-yellow. A very variable species; a much blacker form 
without the transverse lines, only with 2 white costal-marginal spots is named: — inornata Bouv. (117 D d), but 
also here all kinds of transitions occur. Mexico. 
Pin. citrima Drc. (117 D e) entirely resembles the preceding species on the smoky yellowish-grey forewing 
in the marking of the transverse lines being composed of white costal-marginal spots and vein-dots, but the 
hindwing is unicoloured yellowish orange in the yellowish smoky grey like the forewing in the $. Thorax 
also more yellowish, abdomen with pink rings. The antennae are very dark brown. Venezuela- and Guatemala. 
Ph. orva Weym. was not before me. Abdominal rings not red but chrome-coloured, only the anus rosy 
red. Wings olive brown, at the costal margin with 2 chrome-coloured spots at y 3 and % of its length, below 
them rows of yellow vein-dots; subterminal line indicated by whitish dusting distally to it, traversed by dark 
brown veins and internerval lines; fringe yellow. Hindwing with a whitish submarginal band, only traversed 
by dark veins. Described from a £ from Colombia. 
Ph. antonia Dogn. (117 De). Above black, subterminally and at the margin lighter greyish, with 2 
lines of dots being yellow in the white in the $, the antemedian line composed of 3 dots, the postmedian line 
of a row of vein-dots, somewhat distally angled on 5 and 6, and ending on 1 near the interior line. On the hindwing 
the 2nd line consists in the $ of but 2 dots, in the $ of several. Body black, metathorax, anus, tarsi, and base 
of hindwing beneath with pink hair. Colombia. 
Ph. nigra Dogn. was not before me. Size and shape of fumosa. Upper surface of the 4 wings smoky 
black, forewing with 2 straight transverse lines little contrasting with the ground-colour and somewhat convergent 
towards the inner margin; between them a cellular dot. Hindwing with a discal dot and a likewise inconspicuous 
rounded postmedian line. Body black, the abdomen above with yellow rings. Antennae dark yellow. Expanse 
of wings: 65 mm. Paramba (Ecuador), described from a 
Ph. fSavilioea sp. n. (118 a) is very different. Wings brownish-pink with fine darker veins, basal area 
dusted with smoke-brown; both the transverse lines almost straight, broad, dull yellow, the anterior one 
distally shaded with a faded brown, the posterior one inside bordered by a distinct narrow line, outside by a 
brown broad faded shade; discal dot absent, subterminal line very feebly marked, in the upper half more 
conspicuous by a brownish subapical marginal shade. Head, collar, abdomen and legs brownish-pink, palpi 
and thorax brown. Type: l $ from Muzo (Colombia; Fassl leg.) e Coll. Bang-Haas. 
Ph. manes Drc. (130 A b). According to the kind information by Mr. Talbot 6 and 7 of the forewing 
are stalked in the type, nevertheless I range the species here owing to the exterior resembling the semirosea- 
type, because it fits nowhere else, the least beside araucaria where it would have t-o be ranged. Anterior body 
blackish-brown, abdomen bluish-black, anus rusty red. Forewing brown, basally blackened, with a longish 
black discal spot, an almost straight black postmedian line before which there is a white triangle at- the costal 
margin and a notched subterminal line behind it; between 4 and 5, and 6 and 7 subterminal blackish shading. 
Hindwing the same, but basally pinkish-red; the space between the two lines darkened black, before it at the 
costal margin likewise a white triangle. Mexico (Orizaba). 
20. Genus: Phidira gen. nov. 
Very closely allied to the preceding genus and only separated by the stalked veins 6 and 7 of the 
forewing. Only 1 species characterized by an entirely different scheme of markings, which has evidently 
developed from that of the triangulum- group, the costal base of the triangular spot extending almost from 
the base to the apex. 
Ph. araucariae Jones (= divisa Jord.) (118 a). Thorax blackish-brown, abdomen orange-brown, with 
black bands. Forewing coffee-brown with a white line beginning about 6 mm before the apex, extending 
obliquely inwards to about the first third of vein 2 and from here in a slightly costal bow t-o the base of the 
costal margin; this line is bordered with black towards the costal margin, which colour gradually warms 
upwards into the brown colour and is united with a thick black discal streak; from the base of the inner margin 
