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LEPASTA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
albo- 
notata. 
striata. 
tliennesia. 
punctulum. 
sericea. 
rectilinea. 
orbi- 
punctata. 
cossoides. 
chliara. 
bractea. 
the distal margin which exhibits a series of black, distally white internerval dots. Hindwing brown, fringe 
white, brown at the anal angle. Guiana. 
S. albonotata Drc. (145 e) resembles flocciferus in the red-brown forewings with yellowish-white trans¬ 
verse striae, though it has no discal spot, but a thick white basal dot; the inner-marginal stripe is grey, the 
marginal dots are absent. Hindwing red-brown with white fringe. Peru and Bolivia. 
S. striata Drc. The transverse striae of the dark brown forewing are black here instead of whitish, the 
inner-marginal stripe and the discal spot are absent, only a light brown oblique line from the apex to the centre of 
the inner margin is present. Described from Eastern Peru. 
S. tliennesia Fldr. Like the following species, it has unicoloured red-brown, not transversely striated 
fore wings with a broad blackish-grey inner-marginal stripe which is. bordered with white above and bends 
upwards at the anal' angle; discal macula absent, the fine oblique stripe is rather straight. Guiana. 
S. punctulum Schs. (145 e) differs from the very similar thermesia in the black cell-end dot, the inner- 
marginal stripe is white above and has a greenish tint, the black oblique line is shaded with dark violet distally 
like the distal margin, which shows black, grey-dusted internerval dots and analwards a curved marginal line 
distally edged with white and grey. Hindwing blackish-brown with a reddish-yellow inner-marginal stripe. 
Costa Rica. 
S. sericea Schs. is also very similar to the preceding species, but the forewing is lilac brown with a 
silky gloss, the darker brown costal-marginal stripe is broad, narrower towards the apex; the inner-marginal 
stripe is light lilac, strewn with red-brown, dark grey at the inner margin itself; a large triangular black linear 
marking at the cell-end approaches the red-brown oblique line which is edged darker outside, reddish-yellow 
inside; black, white-centred dots at the margin. Hindwing blackish-brown, yellowish towards the base, fringe 
white. Expanse of wings: 43 mm. French Guiana. 
S. rectilinea Dogn. (145 e) resembles sericea, but it is more red-brown, the discal spot is much smaller, 
more quadrangular and remote from the brown oblique line which does not proceed from the centre of the 
inner margin, but only from the distal second third; the inner-marginal stripe is glossy white, red-brown at 
the inner margin. Hindwing red-brown, lighter towards the base. French Guiana. 
S. orbipunctata Dogn. Fore wing rusty yellow as far as the oblique stripe behind which it is dusted with 
lilac, the inner-marginal stripe is violettish-brown, white above, in its continuation at the distal margin near 
the anal angle there are two white crescents bordered with red-brown inside, dusted with brown outside, 5 fine 
black internerval dots above them; a circular red-brown macula in the lower cell-end. Hindwing red-brown, 
lighter yellowish towards the base. Guiana. 
S. cossoides Schs. (145 e). Forewing dark brown, dusted with olive in the median area, with lilac in 
the marginal area, reddish-yellow at the base and inner margin, and with a long narrow reddish-yellow area 
at the costal margin behind the centre; posterior transverse line only traceable; two silvery white spots 
bordered with brownish-black are below and above vein 2, the upper spot being larger; an interrupted black 
line is above them. Hindwing dark brown, lighter towards the base. From British Guiana. 
S. chliara sp. n. (145 e) represents a very different type. Forewing olive grey with an intense silky 
gloss, with double subbasal, antemedian and postmedian curved transverse lines composed of blackish crescents, 
reddish-yellow spots strewn with red-brown below the cell before the antemedian line and in the centre of the 
inner margin, the former spot being small; a somewhat obliquely W-shaped reddish-yellow reniform macula 
at the cell-end is strewn with red-brown, and a small silvery white spot at the lower end outside and inside; 
this spot is followed outside by a black oblique shadowy line extending from the centre of the costal margin 
to the distal margin between veins 2 and 3; a subterminal row of red-brown, inside yellow spots, small red- 
brown, inside yellow dots behind them. Hinclwing light brownish-grey. Head and collar reddish-yellow, thorax 
and abdomen olive grey, base of abdomen with a red-brown tuft mixed with yellowish-red; middle and hind 
tibiae light scarlet. The magnificent species is described according to 1 $ from West Colombia (Coll. Niepelt), 
type in the Berlin Museum. 
32. Genus: liepasta Mschlr. 
On the whole, it differs very little from the preceding genus; separable by its somewhat narrower 
wings, vein 6 arising a little deeper near the upper cell-angle;, palpi more slender and erect, middle and last 
joints almost of the same length. 
Type of genus: L. bractea Fldr. 
L. bractea Fldr. (144 k). Forewing light pink mixed with greenish olive and strewn with black, very 
dark olive-brown along the sub median fold and before the fine double undulate submarginal line, broadest 
towards the costal margin; a yellowish-white longitudinal stripe along the discal fold is finely bordered with 
