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PSEUDANTIORA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
plexa. 
parvi- 
p uncia. 
plusiana. 
minasen- 
sis. 
contin- 
(jaia. 
rufescens. 
irregularis. 
apex and a very slight concavity before it at the costal margin; vein 5 arises above the centre of the cross-vein. 
6 from the areole. the subcostal branches from its end; the cellular branches of the hindwing are stalked by 
twos, the upper ones longer, the costal vein arises near the base of the cell. 
Type of the genus: plexa Mschlr. 
L. plexa Mschlr. Fore wing reddish-brown, shaded with violettish-grey at the inner margin and distal 
margin, with a white costal margin; the two broad dark brown transverse stripes are confluent above the 
submedian fold and together extend from here to the inner margin, producing a Y-shape; a black double dot at 
the cell-end; the undulate line is only marked by the contrast between the grey marginal area and the reddish 
interior part; dark internerval streaks are before the margin. Hindwing brownish-grey, a black spot divided 
by white is at the anal angle. Brazil, Guiana. 
L. parvipuncta Dogn. has vellowish-brown forewings with somewhat darker veins and a brown oblique 
line extending from the first quarter of the costal margin to the centre of vein 2, from where irregular, partly 
double red-brown strigiform spots run to the apex; a white triangular spot is behind the cell, its point showing 
towards the cell; brown internerval streaks are before the margin. Hindwing blackish with lighter fringe. 
Expanse of wings: 37 mm. French Guiana. 
L. plusiana Schs. ( = postpicta I)ogn.) i~±4MM) differs from the diagnose of the genus in the smoothly 
scaled anterior legs; a very small species, the forewing lilac grey mixed with olive brown, with an oblique white 
line from the submedian vein to the cell-end with a copper-brown shading behind it and a golden triangle in 
the centre of the inner margin, another shorter similar line below it at the inner margin; a blackish stripe 
extends from the cell to the distal margin, an oblique white stripe is behind it; the distal margin is brownish 
in the upper two thirds, mixed with coppery. Hindwing of $ white with a brown margin, of $ quite brown. 
Panama; Venezuela; Guiana; Brazil (Goyaz). 
L. minasensis Schs. Anterior body v r hite, mixed with a lighter and darker brown. Forewing reddish- 
yellow with a brownish cinnamon-coloured subbasal line, shaded with brown below the median vein, with a 
fine white line extending through the cell to the base of vein 4; an olive brown double antemedian line from 
the costal margin to the white cellular line, another line close behind it extends to vein 1, despatching a branch 
to the white cellular line, bordered with white above inside and below outside; a broad olive brown shadow 
behind it is partly bordered with blackish-brown, distally with a short blackish-brown line to the lower cell-angle 
with a dark oblique streak above it, and a velvety black dot in the cell before it, bordered with white; above 
it, at the costal margin, there is a double olive brown line bordered with white on both sides; the double 
postmedian line is olive brownish; a white crescentiform line in the centre of the inner margin, and a fine 
blackish-brown line above vein 4 does not reach the margin; subterminal line white, spotted olive brown on 
vein 5 on both sides, and with oblique white, brown-edgecl marginal streaks below it. Fringe spotted dark. 
Hindwing reddish-yellow, brown at the margin, with a dark anal spot parted by silvery white. Expanse of 
wings: 52 mm. Minas, Brazil. Larger and lighter than plusiana, without its golden brown marking. 
23. Genus: Pseiulantiora Ky. 
Antennae tuftedly ciliated as in all the preceding genera, the upturned palpi long, the second joint 
twice as long as the third; long hair-tufts between the antennae on the head as in the preceding genus. The 
neuration does not differ much from that of the species of Lysana. 
Type of the genus: P. contingata Mschlr. 
P. contingata Mschlr. (144 h). Forewing greyish-white with a slight olive tint and a straight broad 
blackish-brown longitudinal stripe from the basal third of the costal margin to the centre of the distal margin, 
a similar trapezoid spot above it subapically, and two small spots below the centre of the cell; traces of undulate 
transverse lines. Hindwing light brownish-grey, darkened at the margin. Guiana to Colombia and Brazil. 
P. rufescens Schs. (144 h) resembles contingata, but it is easily distinguished by the lighter red-brown 
colour of the longitudinal stripe which widens towards the base to almost the whole width of the wing and is 
more distinctly separated towards the costal margin by a white line from the light grey ground-colour; another 
black dot between the subapical costal-marginal spot and the longitudinal stripe. The range is the same. 
P. irregularis Dogn. is likewise very similar to contingata, the forewing is yellowish-white, the blackish- 
brown longitudinal band does not extend straightly and horizontally to the centre of the margin, but from 
the costal margin, where it occupies the whole basal quarter, obliquely rounded with a very irregular border 
to the margin between 2 and 4; the spots below the centre of the cell form a branch narrowing down towards 
the inner margin; another preapical costal-marginal spot is as large as the first; blackish-brown internerval 
spots on the margin. Hindwing blackish-brown with yellowish-white fringe. Expanse of wings: 38 mm. 
French Guiana. 
