HEMEROPLANES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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another dark brown spot at the base does not reach the inner margin and encloses a silvery white spot. 
Mexico to Rio de Janeiro. Larva not described. 
M. pluto Cr. (= deborrei Bscl., plntonius Hbn.) (98 A b) is easily distinguished from the other species pluio. 
by the pointed apex of the forewing not being once more produced on 7 and therefore looking truncate; 
the latter, however, seems to be somewhat the case also in Central-American and Colombian specimens. The 
colour is a dark purple brown or chocolate; the lower silvery spot is very long triangular, its lower side 
being longest; no white dot in the dark basal spot. Mexico to Bolivia and South Brazil. The light brownish 
larva is the most similar to a larva of Gatocala or, in the resting position, when the middle part of the body 
is raised arc-shaped, to a Geometrid larva, whilst in the terrifying attitude the thoracal segments are raised 
and inflated, whereby 2 bluish-black eyespots again copy a snake’s head with an opened red mouth. It lives 
on Melastomaceae. 
M. bubastus Cr. (= didyma Gmel., lyncus Bsd., oiclus Bunn., parce Bunn.) (98 A e) has more olive brown bubastus. 
wings, the scheme of markings rather much like that of pluto ; a white dot in the dark basal spot; two 
distinct light postdiscal lines, the interior one being rectangular on 7, the exterior one extending to the apex. 
The nomenclatural type has a strongly produced apex, deeply concave below it, with a more dentate distal 
margin. Ecuador and Venezuela to Sa. Catharina. —- butleri Ky. (98 A c) has a less deeply concave and less butleri. 
dentated distal margin of the fore wing, the black discal band of the hindwing is narrower. Mentioned from 
British Honduras, before me from Mexico; according to Moss also in the West Indies (St. Vincent, Sa. 
Lucia, Martinique), where the larva which has not been described lives on Tecoma leucoxylon (Bignoniacea). 
M. pseudothyreus Grt. ( = oiclus H.-S.) (98 A c) is easily separated from the other species by the dark pscudo- 
short marginal band below the apex being undulate-dentate inwards; the dark subbasal spot is divided into two thyreus. 
small spots, without the white dot; the lower one of the two silvery spots is angle-shaped, the postdiscal 
lines are dentate. Florida; Cuba. Larva unknown. 
36. Genus: Hemeroplanes Hbn. 
Palpi more pointed than in the preceding genera, the scaling somewhat coarse between the antennae 
which are slender, not club-shaped. Body smoothly scaled, with a tricuspid anal tuft in the G ; the $ with 
a long pointed tuft. Hindwing of most of the species reddish ochreous or cinnamon-red. 9 partly very similar 
species. 
Type: H. pan Cr. 
H. nomius Wkr. (98 A c) is the only species with dark brown liindwings which are light reddish nomius. 
ochreous only at the base. Forewing deep dark red-brown, with a light cinnamon-brownish triangle at the 
costal margin and a similarly coloured marginal area ending pointed towards the apex and analwards; a 
diminutive silvery dot at the cell-end. Larva unknown. Guatemala to South Brazil. 
H. pan Cr. is the only species with a somewhat truncate apex of the forewing and a dentate mar- pan. 
gin, the hindwing being red, otherwise rather similarly coloured and marked as parce. A smaller species from 
the Upper Amazons, Para, Surinam, and British Guiana. Larva unknown. — denticulata Sells. (98 A d) is denticulata. 
the form from Mexico, which however occurs as far as Peru, with a more deeply dentate margin, hind¬ 
wing with a broader black anal spot and a less darkened margin. 
H. grisescens Rothsch. (98 A d) is light bluish-grey, marked brown, more densely dusted brown in grisescens. 
the basal and subterminal areas, with a blackish median band close before the silvery spot. Hindwing cin¬ 
namon-red with a black anal spot. Hitherto only known from Argentina. 
H. gracilis Jord. Size and colouring similar to the G °f grisescens, but the margin of the forewing is gracilis. 
still deeper concave below the apex; the dark median band extends more obliquely than in grisescens, the 
silvery spot is composed of a thin interrupted streak on the cross-vein and a thicker longitudinal streak in 
a right angle to it. Hindwing with a more brownish margin, but less distinct anal spot. Cuba. Only 1 d 
known (type in the Berlin Museum). 
H. calliommenae Schauf. (— ellacombei Rothsch., pan Maass., lutescens Btlr.) (98 A d) is the only 
species with ochreous hindwings with a blackish-brown margin and a dentate distal margin of the forewing, other¬ 
wise resembling grisescens in colour and marking, the $$ generally more monotonously coloured, often with 
a distinct spot of crecents below the costal margin behind the centre; the GC are browner, often intensely 
strewn with blackish-brown. Colombia, Venezuela; Haiti. 
H. parce F. (= galianna Burm., licastus Stoll) (98 A d). The reddish-grey ground of the forewing suffused 
with a deep rusty brown, the darkest in the basal and subterminal areas; the discal area with black reticu¬ 
lar markings and bluish-white dusting; a thick silvery drop at the cell-end, a small Y-shaped mark is attach- 
calliom- 
menae. 
parce. 
