SEMATURA. By M. Gaede. 
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where it immediately turns so that the head is downwards. The flight is rapid, restless and zigzag-like, generally 
also rather high so that in spite of the myriads of lepidoptera astounding sometimes the tourists it is not easy 
to collect a large number of not damaged specimens in a short time. — The egg has the shape of a cake with 
strong, projecting radial veins. — curvata Pfeiffer (138 a) is characterized as a form of leilus by the purely curvaia. 
white fringe of the hindwing. The marginal spots are very feebly developed on the hindwing, but at the anal 
angle and tail there are yet so many white places that the form is nearer to leilus than to brasiliensis. It is 
chiefly distinguished by the green lines on the forewing, which are curved in such a way that they run 
vertically both to the costal margin and inner margin. Bolivia. —- brasiliensis Sims. (138 a) does not differ hmsiliens 
from leilus on the forewing. Only the fringes of the hindwings are throughout white, the green marginal spots 
are well separated, the anal end and tail quite black, eventually with green scales. Under surface also without 
white places. Brazil. — intermedia Pfeiffer seems to be identical with it, since the description mentions leilus 
and fulgens but not brasiliensis. 
Lh fulgens Bsd. ( = cacica Gn.) (138 b). Mostly smaller than leilus. The green bands are turning yellow fulqens. 
or even reddish. In the apical area of the forewing there are mostly only few green scales which rarely form 
a short narrow band. On the hindwings the fringes at the tips of the dents and at the tail are always black; 
only at the end of the tail white and sometimes even the tail itself. On the hindwing beneath the spots only 
form numerous bands at the base, whilst they are rectangularly or squarely isolated at the margin. 55—65 mm. 
Mexico, Central America, Colombia. — poeyi H.-Schdff. (138 b), from Cuba, seems to be a somewhat larger poeyi. 
race of it (70 mm). The only specimen before me shows a short green band in the apical area of the forewing. 
U. sloanus Or. (= occidentalis Sivs .; sloanaria Him., sloaneus Hbst.) (138 b). This species is likewise sloanus. 
inclined to develop yellow and red tints in the stripes of the forewdng. A mostly very strong band is in the 
apical area, and another one mostly behind it, rarely before it. The spots on the hindwing are broadly confluent 
towards the centre and almost invariably golden red, so that a slight resemblance to the African species of 
Chrysiridia (Vol. XIV, p. 388) is produced. Forewing beneath with a broad blue inner margin, the bluish-green 
colour predominates also on the hindwing over the black spots and veins. 55—70 mm. — The lai’va of sloanus 
is black with a blue median line on the dorsum, this line being interruptedly margined with a broad white 
colour and followed by irregular white transverse lines, a thin one of which extends to the stigmata. Each 
segment bears one (or more ?) long pencil of hairs which easily come off. The larva is said to drop for a short 
time on a long thread from its tree down to the water. It lives on Omphalea triandra, like that of boisduvalii. 
The pupa has no prolonged proboscis-case as that of Cor. orithea. 
U. boisduvaiii Guer. (~ fernandinae Mac Leay ) (138 b). The main band of the forewing extending boisduval 
from the anal angle upwards is only slightly stronger than the others which are broader than in the other 
species. The bluish-green band of the hindwing from the centre of the costal margin towards the anal angle 
is broad and conspicuous, whereas the other species only show hardly visible rows of scales there (except 
sloanus). From the margin obliquely proximad narrow short streaks. 60—72 mm. Cuba. 
2. Genus: Sem»tuft*a Dalm. 
It has been mentioned already in the introduction, that this and the following genera differ consider¬ 
ably from Urania, for which reason they have also recently been separated as Sematuridae. Only in order to 
save space, as in similar former cases, we renounce this surely justified severance. 
Antennae almost 2 / 3 the length of the forewing, slightly spindle-shaped at the ends in the o and $. 
Second joint of palpus extending to the upper edge of the eyes, long-haired, the third joint thin, porrect. Vein 
5 of forewing above the centre of the cross-vein, 6 on a short stalk with 10 -j— 7 —(- 8 —|- 9, vein 9 being merely 
a short spur. Vein 2 of hindwing stalked with 3 and 4, the cross-vein and vein 5 feeble 7 before the upper 
cell-angle, 8 behind the base sharply flawed to the cell. Without a frenulum. 
Type: lunus L. 
All the 5 species exhibit a dark brown ground-colour in the $ and a yellowish-white exterior band and 
similar lines on all the wings. The 4 first species are besides very much alike. The ground-colour of the G 
is deep dark reddish-brown with ochreous lines and bands. At the cross-vein a dark reniform macula. At the 
base of the tail on the hindwing a black ocellus centred with blue, a smaller one in the centre of the tail on 
the inner side, a larger one before the end on the anterior side. The differences of the species are provided 
by the exterior band. In 
S. lunus L. f— actaeon Fldr., caudilunaria Him.) (138 c) the 2 interior main lines of the exterior band lunus. 
sire scarcely stronger than the others and both are equally strong, slightly distally convex between the veins, 
the interior one in both wings extends in long points proximad on the veins. On the outside of them there 
