BARDAXIMA; PHEDOSIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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17. Genus: ISardaxiina Wkr. 
Antennae of <$ tuftedly ciliated, the third joint of the palpus long. Distal margin of forewing dentate; 
areole long and narrow, the two lowest subcostal branches not stalked from the end of it. 
Type of the genus: B. lucilinea Wkr. 
B. lucilinea Wkr. (= fulgurifera Wkr., demea Drc.) (144 d) is a large, common and well-known species lucilinea. 
with greyish-brown forewings which are transversely irrorated in a darker colour, a jet-black longitudinal streak 
on the discal fold extends to the margin and is interrupted in the middle by a silvery white streak; a dark brown 
posterior transverse line is more or less completely marked, above the inner margin, near the base, there is a 
brown spot which is distinctly bordered by a twice angular velvety brown line distally; a spot of whitish clouding 
is above the anal angle. Hindwing brownish-grey with lighter yellowish fringe. Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia 
B. hippioides Sells, is much smaller than lucilinea, dark violet-brown, dull brown towards the base, a hip ij hides. 
short, dark velvety brown streak edged with white below the cell near the base, a greenish spot behind it before 
the brown anterior transverse line; a dark velvety brown lunar spot is in a brown sjiot at the cell-end, a similar, 
wedge-shaped spot behind it, a white streak above the latter spot along vein 5, bordered by a short white line, 
both bordered by dark brown, the apex is parted by a light brown oblicpie shadow. Hindwing brownish-grey. 
Expanse of wings: 45 mm. Costa-Rica. 
B. perses D)C. (= demera Schs.) (144 d). Eorewing grey, shaded with brown subterminally and at the perses. 
costal margin, with darker grey double transverse lines, the posterior one with lighter spots bordered with black, 
followed by a series of black spots; a velvety black strigiform spot at the cell-end, a grey spot below it; a black 
strigiform spot is in a whitish apical spot which turns reddish-brown distally. Hindwing brown with lighter 
fringe. Guiana, Amazons. 
B. belua sp. n. (144 d) is a large species with broad wings; the whitish ground-colour of the fore wing belua. 
is reddish-violet at the inner margin and behind the lower cell-end, otherwise light green, broadly dusted with 
olive green and strewn with blackish at the costal margin, the double transverse lines are blackish, undulate- 
dentate, rather inconspicuous; a blackish-brown crescentiform spot is at the cell-end, before it, from the costal 
margin, a broad curved olive green shadow which extends to vein 2 down to the posterior transverse line, behind 
which — between the costal margin and vein 4 — a broad blackish-brown shadow is situate, forming a broad 
distal concavity between 5 and 7, a greyish-brown spot is below it before the undulate-dentate subterminal line; 
the anal-marginal half is purer whitish. Hindwing greyish-brown, fringe whitish, speckled blackish-brown on 
the veins of the forewing. Abdomen brownish-grey with a broad light grey dorsal stripe. 2 $$, 1 $ from 
Pachitea, Eastern Peru, and Santarem. Types in the Berlin Museum. 
B. molossus Rothsch. is a very large species, peculiar for the double preapical excision of the costal margin molossus. 
of the fore wing; forewing greyish-brown, densely transversely striated darker, the distal three fifths of a more 
yellowish tinge, the striae arranged in such a way that, especially in the. distal half, they make the impression 
of dentate transverse lines; a double, slightly bent blackish-brown median line extends through the centre; a 
large chestnut-brown subapical spot. Hindwing greyish-brown with lighter fringe. Expanse of wings: 73 mm. 
Amazons. 
B. marcida Fldr. (144 d). Forewing dark brownish-grey, dusted with white behind the centre towards marcida. 
the inner margin, with double dark transverse lines, the anterior line strongly curved, the posterior line dentate, 
with a black cellular dot and discal streak. Hindwing greyish-brown with lighter fringe. Colombia and Brazil. 
B. terniinalba Jones (144e). The brownish ochreous forewing dusted with dark grey is greyish-white ierminalba. 
at the base and in the lower two thirds of the marginal area; the double transverse lines are reddish-brown, 
the anterior line is darker; a subterminal row of black internerval dots, and two short black streaks at the cell- 
end. Hindwing yellowish-brown. South-Eastern Brazil. 
B. dissona sp. n. (144 e) has narrow wings. Basal area of forewing narrowly yellowish-grey, spotted dissona. 
reddish-yellow towards the black defining subbasal line, a glaring silvery white crescentiform spot distally 
bordered with black behind this line below the cell; light greyish-brown and irrorated with blackish-brown 
as far as the posterior transverse line, a reddish-yellow spot behind the anterior transverse line at the costal 
margin, a black streak at the cell-end; posterior transverse line black, undulated, projecting far distally behind 
the cell; the distal part of the wing is densely strewn with brownish-black on the white ground, a black lunular 
line before the margin. Hindwing greyish-brown. 1 $ from Icpiitos; type in the Berlin Museum. 
18. Genus: I*he«losia Mschlr. 
Distinguished by uncommonly long antennae which may be almost as long as the forewing, provided 
with terminal bristles in the male; palpi long, also the third joint, and densely clad with short hair. The long 
abdomen exhibits an anal tuft; the legs, inclusive of the tarsi, are densely haired. Neuration of forewing like 
