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PROTOPARCE. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
sesquiplex. 
opima. 
muscosa. 
bergi. 
bcrgar- 
matipes. 
armatipes. 
carrcras i. 
corallina. 
extrema. 
lichenea. 
florestan. 
vestalis. 
P. sesquiplex Bsdv. (= strix Bsdv.) (92 d) is closely allied to the better-known muscosa, but larger, 
with somewhat narrower wings and a whitish-grey not olive grey ground-colour, the antemarginal bands 
filled with more blackish above the inner margin; genital organs very different. Only known from Mexico 
and Guatemala. — opima R. & J. is a much more decidedly greenish form, with longer wings than in muscosa, 
the o antennae thicker; the thorax bears a narrow black lateral line, and the black submarginal band of the 
hindwing shows a more uniform proximal border. Much darker than Mexican sesquiplex which is whitish-grey 
above; the two black median bands on the hindwing are much nearer together and the transverse lines on 
the forewing are stronger. Costa Rica. 
P„ muscosa R. & J. (= sesqiiiplex Drc .) (92 b) has remarkably broad wings of a dark olive grey colour 
with numerous black dentate bands and very dark hindwings in which the lighter bands are scarcely promi¬ 
nent. Mexico to Costa Rica. 
P. berg! R. da J. is somewhat like a small, light and narrow-winged muscosa, of a much lighter and 
more yellowish ground-colour; as to the black transverse bands, two of them, an antemedian one and one 
extending through the centre, are more prominent, the others being quite blurred and indistinct; stigma 
absent. Argentina (Tucuman). 
P. bergarmatipes Clark is intermediate between bergi and armatipes, but the genital organs are reported 
to be identical with those of bergi. The first palpal joint is white, the following joints are much intermixed 
with black. Thorax reddish fawn, tegulae ash-grey, bordered with brown; abdomen without the white basal 
hair, ash-grey above, white beneath with 2 small black median spots. Fore wing light reddish-yellow above, 
less mixed with white than armaiipes, marking very similar, but less distinctly prominent than in armatipes, 
and much more intense than in bergi; stigma crescentiform, but smaller and less distinct than in armatipes, 
the dark submarginal area is absent. Hindwing black above, darker than in the two other species, the white 
double median line is distinct anally and broader than in armatipes, vanishing towards the costal margin. 
Inner margin yellow. Length of forewings: 45—47 mm. 2 Co from Tucuman (Argentina). 
Pc armatipes R. db J. (93 a) is very similar to lichenea, but smaller and easily separated by 4 or 5 
long spines on the 1st joint of the anterior tarsus, and a similar apical one on the 2nd joint. Colour and marking 
almost exactly as that of lichenea, but the basal area of the hindwing above is more extensively grey, the 
black median band more distinct; transverse lines of forewing strongly developed and sharply dentate. Co¬ 
louring very much like that of Chlaenogramma undata which, however, shows 2 black longitudinal streaks in 
the disc of the fore wing. North Argentina (Tucuman). 
Pc carrerasi Giac. (92 c). This peculiar species which we figure from a water-colour sketch kindly placed 
at our disposal by the author, is compared with bergi. Ground-colour yellowish pink, abdomen above coal- 
black excepting the two first pinkish carmine segments, intermixed with single pink hairs. Antennae pink above, 
blackish beneath, face, palpi and legs black, forewing with 4 blackish dentate lines, the two first nearing each 
other, the third being the strongest and rather near to the fourth, between the two latter a brighter pink 
parallel line; all the rest as in bergi. 1 $ from La Rioja (Argentina), taken in spring. 
P. corallina Drc. is so much like lichenea externally that these two species flying at the same place 
are difficult to separate, except by the genital organs, corallina has somewhat longer and narrower wings than 
lichenea, the tarsus is without a pulvillus. The white apical spot of the forewing bordered by the black oblique 
streak below is very distinct. Only in Central America: Mexico to Honduras. — extrema Gelilen (90 c) has a 
darker ground-colour with more contrasting markings, with more oblique and less curved transverse bands 
which are darkened in the basal third, with a yellowish postdiscal transverse band. Bolivia (Rio Songo). 
P. lichenea Burm. (= rufescens Btlr., brontes Roth-sch., corallina Rotlisch., florestan Bonningh., pam- 
philius Burm., schausi Clark) (92 e) is a large strong species, profusely intermixed with greenish-yellow scales, 
the basal and median areas darkened especially in the with a white stigma. Hindwing deep blackish-brown, 
anally lighter, so that the black dentate transverse lines are more distinct. Tarsi with a pulvillus. Larva green, 
granulated yellowish with narrow pink lateral oblique stripes. Distributed from Mexico to Argentina. 
P. florestan Stoll (= brevimargo Btlr.) (92 d) is not separable from lichenea structurally, but generally 
smaller, more unicoloured, with finer and duller markings, not so intensely darkened, the black streaks stronger 
on veins 2 and 3; mostly tinted reddish-brown dis tally to the stigma. Hind wing lighter and more brownish. 
Larva with broad white oblique bands narrowing down dorsally. Mexico to South Brazil. 
P. vestalis Jord. is much purer white than florestan which it resembles most. The black lateral spots on 
the abdomen are narrow and not contiguous above, so that the white spots directly pass over into the grey 
dorsal colour. Fore wing marked as in florestan, the black basal stripe broader, the margin before the anal angle 
