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XYLOPHANES. By Dr. M. Draitdt. 
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with 7 yellow oblique stripes bordered with bluish-green and extending across 2 segments each; horn reddish. 
It lives on Palicourea grandifolia (Rubiacea), the Cuban form, according to Gundlach, on Hamelia patens. 
X. hannemanni Closs (98 E a) may be only a form of porcus with somewhat differently shaped wings, hanne- 
a more falcate apex and a produced anal angle. Forewing reddish olive brown without markings, tegulae not 
bordered with white; but with red-brown; the forewing only exhibits the small stigma and a submarginal row 
of dots, the marginal area is dusted with grey. Hindwing with traces of a reddish transverse band. Described 
according to 1 £ from Mexico. 
X. schausi Rothsch.. (— arpi Schs., spec. B. Bonningh .) (98 E a) is larger than porcus; tegulae and head schausi. 
as far as the tips of the palpi laterally bordered with white; distal margin of forewing much more convex than in 
porcus; the 4 postdiscal lines are undulate-dentate, very feeble, the last marked by vein-dots; a small, distinct, 
dark apical crescentiform spot, from which a feeble line is continued to the dark olive green submarginal spot- 
above the centre of the margin. Hind wing similar as in mossi, the light band dusted with olive. Brazil (Rio de 
Janeiro, Espiritu Santo). —- serenus R. <b J . shows but very faint traces of the olive green submarginal spot of serenus. 
the forewing. From the Amazons (Rio Madeira) and Venezuela. 
X. gernien Schs. (98 E b) is near schausi and also pistacina, but not green as the latter, but brown, germen. 
Forewing with two indistinct antemedian lines, the postdiscal lines undulate-dentate, but not very prominent. 
Hind wing darker brown, lighter anally, with white fringe speckled dark on the veins; tegulae bordered with 
reddish towards the head; antennae reddish, laterally black. Margin of forewing feebly dentate, with a pointed 
apex. Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador. 
X. hojeda Gehlen (98 E b) has broader forewings than germen; body and fore wing from sepia to olive hojeda. 
greyish brown. Apex of forewing pointedly produced; marking as in germen , but the lines are more distinct, 
straighter and not so strongly notched, the distal one is only marked by vein-dots; discal area broader, stigma 
larger. A lustrous light reddish-brown submarginal spot between the veins 4 and 5. Hindwing as in germen. 
but the distal margin is not speckled on the ends of the veins. West Colombia. 
X. brevis Clark (98 E b) has shorter wings than germen, with relatively broader fore wings. More brevis. 
contrastingly marked, the median undulate double line distinct; another double line proceeds from the inner 
margin 1 mm before the anal angle and reaches the first double line midway between the inner margin and costal 
margin, so that a triangle is produced, the base of which is at the inner margin. Length of forewing: 27 mm. 
Described from an unknown habitat. 
X. juanita R. & J. (= mexicana Schs.) resembles brevis; abdomen with two dorsal rows of dark dots; juanita. 
tegulae anteriorly bordered with reddish as in germen. Forewing with traces of one or two antemedian lines, 
4 postmedian lines, the two first being undulate-dentate, the 4th intensified by vein-dots, a dark spot behind 
it on vein 5, an indistinct line in the apex. Hindwing darker brown than forewing, lighter anally, the white 
fringe with tiny dark spots on the veins. Vera Cruz (Mexico). 
X. fusimacula Fldr. (98 E b). Head, collar and tegulae green, mesothorax grey, abdomen reddish- fusimacula. 
brown with 3 dark longitudinal lines. Forewing green, with black undulate-dentate lines and reddish-brown 
spots at the cell-end, in an oblong-quadrangular spot before the centre of the inner margin, between the 2nd 
and 3rd postdiscal lines and in the antemarginal area, especially broad in the anal half. Hindwing black with 
a reddish median band and greenish margin. Brazil and Peru. — niepelti Gehlen has somewhat broader wings niepelii. 
and a less produced apex; the reddish-brown areas are mouse-coloured here, the light inner-marginal spot is 
triangular and much smaller, the light cellular spot surrounding the stigma is much smaller, too. Band of hind¬ 
wing more distinct and lighter anally. West Colombia. 
X. zurcheri Drc. (98 E b) resembles fusimacula, but the distal margin of the wings is distinctly dentate zurcheri. 
as in the following undata, but the ground-colour is a brighter green here and the markings are rather like those 
of fusimacula. Hindwing with a distinct yellow band through the centre. A rare species from Costa Rica. 
X. undata R. db J. (= irrorata Rothsch.) (98 E c). Margin of forewing and of hindwing distinctly dentate, undata. 
Forewing greyish-green, reddish ash-grey in the whole submarginal area and in the basal inner-marginal area; 
undulate lines similar as in zurcheri, but rather indistinct, somewhat darker olive-brown than the ground-colour; 
the most distinct line is the submarginal line intensified by vein-dots, with a roundish black spot before the anal 
angle at the inner margin. Hindwing blackish-brown with a reddish olive postdiscal band. Peru (Chuchuras). 
X. rhodina R. & J. Margins of wings not dentate; forewing greenish olive with a black stigma; basal rhodina. 
area violettish-grey with a reddish tint, of the same colour is the subterminal area near the inner margin; lines 
similar as in undata, but still more indistinct and less dentate, the submarginal line scarcely stronger than the 
others. Hindwing somewhat greyer than the forewing, with an indistinct lighter reddish postdiscal band and 
a brown extinct line in it. Under surface rusty red. Very rare and hitherto only known from Panama (Chiriqui). 
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