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HIPPIA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
mumetes. 
pulchra. 
punctillum. 
insularis. 
vittipalpis. 
mandela. 
packardi. 
matheis. 
salandera. 
pronax. 
distal margin does not differ in the neuration from the preceding genus except that all the cellular veins arise 
without a stalk or on a very short stalk at most. 
Type of genus: H. mumetes Or. 
H. mumetes Or. (= albopicta Dogn.) is a species known long ago and has been assigned to various 
genera. Forewing olive grey in the basal third, at the costal margin and in the inner-marginal half, distally 
with a broad white band enclosing a small black apical dot; inner margin dusted with brownish; the fine black 
dentate double transverse lines are quite indistinct in the upper portion of the wing and partly broken up into 
dots. Hindwing brownish-grey with lighter fringe. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. Guiana. 
H. pulchra Btlr. is somewhat like mumetes, but the fore wing exhibits beside the white subterminal band 
also a broad white costal-marginal stripe which is strewn with brown towards the costal margin and connected 
from the apex with the subterminal band by a white oblique line; the black apical dot is still larger here; the 
inner margin is contrastingly dusted with pinkish brown, the black notched double lines are much more distinct; 
a large white spot is at the cell-end; hindwing greyish-brown. Ecuador. 
H. punctillum Dogn. (147 a) has greyish-brown forewings without distinct transverse markings, with a 
black dot before the cell-end and two behind it, the distal lower one of which is centred reddish-yellow; several 
reddish-yellow dots and streaks on the submedian fold and behind the cell, and a subterminal row. Hindwing 
brownish, lighter towards the base, with reddish-yellow fringe. French Guiana. 
H. insularis Grt. (= lignosa Mschlr.) (447=a) introduces a group of very similar species which are very 
difficult to separate. Fore wing olive grey, thickly strewn with brown, with double dentate black transverse 
lines, the posterior one broken up into a double row of black dots and followed by a yellowish shadow; a dark 
streak at the cell-end is bordered with light only inwards and is distally followed by two black dots above each 
other behind the cell; the aj)ex is feebly parted by light, the light undulate line is shaded darker inside, with 
small dark internerval spots before the margin. Hindwing brownish-grey; Cuba. 
H. vittipalpis Wkr. is probably homogeneous with insularis Grt. and seems to be merely a somewhat 
greyer form; Dyar combines it with insularis and packardi and leaves vittipalpis as the legitimate name. 
H. mandela Drc. (= nigricaput Dogn.) (147 b) has brown wings strewn somewhat darker especially in 
the with double black transverse lines, the posterior one broken up into rows of dots, which are separated 
by yellowish dots, and preceded by a more or less complete row of internerval dots; a dark streak in a light 
ring is at the cell-end, an anal-angular blotch of darker strewing is before and below it; the apex is obliquely 
parted by light yellowish-white, the subterminal line is brownish, small blackish spots surrounded by a lighter 
colour are before the margin. Hindwing blackish with light fringe. The head, collar and mesothorax are 
blackish-brown in the d 1 , light reddish-yellow in the $. Widely distributed in Mexico and Central America. 
H. packardi Morris (147b) is smaller and stouter of a greyer, less brownish colouring, without the 
subbasal line, with a small blackish spot proximally bordered with whitish, in the centre of the cell; the light 
apical blotch is more distinct, more sharply shaded with black below, the postmedian line is more linear, deeply 
concave inwards behind the cell-end streak. Texas. 
H. matheis Schs. is also very similar, larger, darker greyish-brown, more plainly marked, with but one 
double anterior and posterior transverse line each; apical third yellowish-white, striped brown, with an undulate 
dark marginal line. Brazil (Petropolis). The species deviates somewhat from the genus, since a raised tuft of 
scales is at the base of the antennae. 
H. salandera Schs. (147 b) is very similar to matheis', forewing dark velvety brown with a light yellow 
stripe from the centre of the cell to the distal margin above vein 6, interrupted on 5 by a brown line, subcostally 
strewn with lilac and brown, with a preapical black dot; basal third likewise densely strewn with lilac grey below 
the cell, the lower anal third of the distal margin light brownish; the anterior transverse lines are quite absent, 
the posterior one and the submarginal line are very indistinct. Hindwing dark brown. British Guiana; Amazons; 
Eastern Peru. 
H. pronax Dogn. (147 b) has the same distinction of the antennae as matheis and resembles it except 
the apical spot. Fore wing brown with subbasal and anal brightenings; the anterior transverse line is marked by 
4 lighter lunulae, the cell-end streak is also light and only sometimes bordered with blackish; the postmedian 
line is indicated by double rows of black vein-dots, the undulate line by small brown, lighter ringed internerval 
spots; the ochreous apical spot begins in the upper half of the cross-vein, despatching a short hook towards 
vein 4 and narrowing down as far as the apex. Hindwing brown with light fringe. French Guiana, Eastern 
Peru; Trinidad. 
