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centre of the treble postmedian line; the distinct and small steel-black submarginal spots of the preceding- 
species are much larger here, but of a duller colour. Hindwing yellowish-grey with a broad dark marginal hand, 
not whitish, iridescent. Head and prothorax light yellowish ochre. According to 1 ^ from Misantla (Mexico), 
taken in June 1809; type in the Coll. Draudt. 
N. discalis Schs. (144 a) resembles very light whitish-grey specimens of nyseus, with finer and clearer dismlis. 
markings, especially the reniform macula is composed of a very fine black line shaped like a triangle with a 
fine appendage towards the base. Hindwing much darker, only a small basal area somewhat lighter. Costa Rica. 
N. kayei Schs. (144 a) is likewise allied to the preceding species, but smaller, darker, more intensely mixed kayei. 
with brown, and more extensively reddish-brown at the inner margin, with a black transverse spot in the centre 
of the cell, a brown line bordered with black behind it; a double row of white dots behind the postmedian line; 
a large irregular spot surrounded with grey is at the cell-end; the black undulate line is strongest at the interior 
angle, before which, at the costal margin, there is a large reddish-yellow spot enclosing a velvety black streak. 
The whitish hindwing is brownish-black in the distal half. British Guiana. — f. flavescens Dogn. shows a flavescens. 
brownish ochreous ground-colour strewn with olive with markings of the same colour, excepting the lighter 
yellow subapical spot with a very distinct black streak in it. Brazil. 
N. striata Schs. (144 b). Fore wing dark violet-brown with a silky gloss, darker brown internerval striata. 
streaks, the threefold transverse lines are only distinct at the margins, an irregular brown spot is in the cell-end; 
a long light brown subapical spot, striped reddish, is at, the costal margin. Hindwing brownish-grey, lighter 
towards the base. Costa Rica. 
N. inchoans Wkr. (144 b) is very similar to striata, but much smaller and of a duller greyish-brown inchoans. 
colour, the inner margin of the same colour, not lighter reddish-yellow; the beginnings of the threefold transverse 
lines are more distinct at the costal margin, the other scheme of markings is the same; the light, oblong, apical 
costal-marginal spot is not defined inwards, but gradually vanishes in the somewhat lighter costal-marginal 
area; submedian fold brown, narrowly edged with yellowish-white on both sides. Hindwing much more 
extensively whitish, narrower brownish-grey at the margin. Panama (Chiriqui). 
N. analeptris sp. n. (144 b) is also allied to the preceding species. Forewing much lighter red-brown, analeptris 
especially light in the inner-marginal half, scantily strewn with black and white on the veins, with somewhat 
darker stripes between them; transverse markings only visible at the costal margin, very long pointed dents 
of a reddish-brown antemedian line are very feebly marked in the inner-marginal area; the basal half of the 
costal margin is very dark brown, it encloses, 3 mm behind the base, a very conspicuous yellowish-white 
longitudinal spot of 3 mm length; a black dot behind the lower cell-angle and double black antemarginal dots. 
Hindwing light yellowish greyish-brown, somewhat darker at the margin. According to 1 $ in the Senckenberg 
Museum; habitat unknown. 
N. arimathea Schs. (144 a) differs considerably from the other species and copies certain species of arimathea. 
Dasylophia; forewing cinnamon-reddish with a yellowish tint, a fine dark line on the distal half of the median 
vein, and a black dot at the origin of vein 2; the cell is shaded darker, a curved whitish postmedian shadowy 
stripe is edged with ochre distally, another fine white line farther towards the margin, the apex behind it 
blackish-brown, traversed by a chestnut brown line edged with reddish-yellow inside, with whitish-grey outside. 
Hindwing greyish-white, broadly darkened at the margin. A small species from French Guiana. 
13. Genus: I*eiitobesa Schs. 
Rather near to the preceding genus and chiefly separated by the longer abdomen with a bipartite fish¬ 
tail at its end. Head behind with a tuft of hair-scales; vein 5 of fore wing arises from the centre of the cross¬ 
vein. Only 2 species are known: 
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Type of genus: P. xylinoides Wkr. 
P. xylinoides Wkr. (= pinna Drc.) (144 b) is a well known and very widely distributed species of a most xylinoides. 
variable colouring. The light yellowish-grey ground-colour of the forewing shows more or less a reddish tint 
and is strewn with brown, especially in a longitudinal shadow through the centre; below and above it the 
ground-colour is purest; rather indistinct double dentate antemedian and postmedian transverse lines are filled 
with light, a blackish dot is in the lower cell-angle. Hindwing yellowish-grey. Tegulae whitish-grey, mesothorax 
red-brown. The exhibits an area of modified scales in the lower half of the median area. From Mexico to 
Brazil and Colombia. 
P. valta Schs. (= placida Schs., roberto Dyar) (144 c) is smaller than xylinoides, lighter, greyer, scantily valta. 
strewn with black, without the transverse lines, instead of which there is a subterminal row of black dots, the 
black discal streak is very prominent. Hindwing white, narrowly smoky at the margin. Mexico to Colombia. 
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