GRAMMOPELTA; ARSENURA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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any red-brown tints; the distal margin of the forewing being distally convex in the type is quite straight here, 
the distal margin of the hindwing being rounded in hippodamia is also rectilinear here and somewhat angled 
on 3 and 4; subterminal line olive, crossed by white on the veins of the hindwing, the ornaments behind it 
slate-coloured black, not brown. West Colombia (type in the Coll. Niepelt). 
M. mortii Perty (123 a, as “ martii ”) is very near to hippodamia, smaller and more slender in general, mortii. 
not red-brown, but olive brown, the antemedian line more rounded, without the submedian dent, the postmedian 
line very distinctly fourfold, the median area often dusted with light grey. Brazil. 
M. norax Drc. (123 b) is still more slender, with a more produced apex, distal margin more oblique, norax. 
apex of the wings not rounded between 6 and 8, but straightly cut off; ground-colour light fawn, median and 
basal areas darkened by dull olive brown; antemedian and postmedian lines confluent close below the cell. 
Distal margin of hindwing straight between 4 and 8, subterminal line correspondingly rectilinear obtusely 
angled, not bent, the ornaments behind it marked deep black in the upper section, below it only dull brown. 
Central America (Panama). Beside the type in the Berlin Museum figured by us I only know a second quite 
similar specimen from the Chiriqui e Coll. Bang-Haas. — guianensis Bouv. (123 b) is smaller, wings shaped more guianensi 
like those of mortii, subterminal line of hindwing also rounded as in mortii, the ornaments behind it quite 
absent, instead of them only the black vein-arrows are marked. Guiana, according to Mr. Schaus also from 
Central America. The $ is smaller and more squatty, the fusion of the antemedian and postmedian lines 
already takes place in the cell, below it one has almost the impression as if the two lines were crossed; ground¬ 
colour olive brown, the subterminal lines broad and bright yellow, on the hindwing rounded. 
M. henries Bothsch. (123 b) has much narrower wings; above greyish-olive, the markings almost as in Jiermes. 
hippodamia, the antemedian double line and the postmedian line olive, feeble, the latter not accompanied by 
other lines; subterminal line greyish-olive, inside bordered with a deep olive brown, behind it large olive brown 
spots strewn with white. Hindwing round with a short inner margin, the ornaments behind the subterminal 
line light greenish-brown. British Guiana. 
2. Genus: tii'iunmogtellii Bothsch. 
Allied to the preceding genus, though its exterior appears to be very different and almost recalling a 
Copaxa. According to Jordan, however, it is no Agliina, but a genuine Arsenurina with a large parasternum. 
Antennae dentate; fore wing with a 4-branched subcostal vein, the 1st branch from the 2nd near the apex; 
7 and 8 arise stalked with 6 from the ripper cell-angle; the cell in both wings shows the lower angle extended 
in an acute angle. Hindwing rounded, the costal margin longer than the inner margin. Only 1 species is known 
hitherto: 
G. lineata Schs. (= cervina Bothsch., convergens Bouv.). Forewing light reddish-brown with darker lineata. 
veins, sparsely streaked darker, cross-vein and submedian vein I ike wise dark brown as well as 3 transverse 
lines: the first from the base of the costal margin to the centre of the inner margin, the 2nd right behind the 
middle, and a finer subterminal line being acute-angular subapically; apex dusted with white. Hindwing with 
but 2 transverse lines. French Guiana and South-Eastern Peru. —Sliepelli /. n. (128 c) I call a larger and darker, niepelti. 
more pinkish-brown form from Western Colombia, which is very intensely marked and in which the whole 
dark subterminal area prominently contrasts with the rest of the ground-colour. Type in the Coll. Niepelt 
from which a magnificent couple was before me. 
3. Genus: Arsenura Dune. 
It has the same neuration as the preceding genus, but the wings are narrower, the body is more robust, 
the abdomen projects beyond the centre of the inner margin and often the anal angle. The shape of the wings 
is variable; there are species with entirely rounded wings, with an extended apex, with a gnawed margin, with 
angles or tails on the hindwings etc. The main difference is exhibited in the antennae which are combed shorter 
or serrate-dentate with ciliary tufts in the and finely serrate-dentate or plainly ciliated in the $$. A great 
number of species have been described, the separation of which is partly difficult. In addition, the exterior 
of the species often varies considerably at different habitats. The greatest uncertainties are offered by the 
armida- group which ought to be thoroughly examined. We must confine ourselves here to enumerating what 
is hitherto known and inserting some conspicuous forms for the present as subordinate forms; only by careful 
examinations of the genital organs it will be possible to ascertain to which species they really belong. 
Type: A. sylla Cr. 
A. hercules IV/cr. (124 a) is one of the largest and most beautiful species, light brown with a broad hercules. 
blackish-brown postmedian band extending at the inner margin to the base and not being distinctly defined 
inwards, outside by the light, then finely darker subterminal line, behind which there are large slate-blue or 
