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SKAPHITA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
psittica. 
psitticula. 
ruptilinea. 
vircns. 
pisfacina. 
amaih ynta. 
gramina. 
tarn pa. 
schausi. 
■ podrida. 
salona. 
S. psittica Schs. is allied to herbida, forewing bright grass-green, the double transverse lines dark green, 
strewn with black at the costal margin, the posterior line treble, with a broad dark green shadow behind it, 
distally bordered with light green; distal margin darker green with a still darker interrupted marginal line. 
Hindwing light brown, distally dusted with grey. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. French Guiana. 
S. pslttlcula Dogn. is a small image of psittica with bright grass-green forewings and darker moss-green 
transverse lines, but of a much smaller size; palpi and ventral side pinkish yellowish, light brown in psittica; 
transverse lines broad, faded, partly bordered with light green, the cell-end streak light green. Hindwing 
yellowish pink, distally brownish, partly dusted with green. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. French Guiana. 
S. ruptilinea Schs. is still smaller than psitticula, forewing green, the double transverse lines broken 
up into single brown spots, the spots in the cell being largest, small below it, partly connected to indistinct 
lines; an irregular brown postcellular shadow, divided by the green veins; a dark brown shadowy stripe is 
before the whitish undulate line. Hindwing dull greyish-brown. Expanse of wings: 32 mm. Costa Rica. 
S. virens Dogn. is the smallest species, expanse of wings only 29 mm. Forewing of a delicate light green 
colour, the black transverse lines single, broken up into intemerval dots, the posterior one bordered with white 
inside. Hindwing yellowish-grey. Expanse of wings: 29 mm. British Guiana. 
S. pistarina Schs. (= maricolor Kaye) has light green forewings with a white basal transverse line and 
a large brown costal-marginal spot; a violettish-brown shadow is below the median vein below and behind 
the cell-end, a reddish-brown spot in the cell is partly bordered with black; the irregular fine black postmedian 
line is double, the undulate line consists of reddish-brown spots bordered with black and white. Hindwing 
smoky brown, lighter towards the base. Honduras. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. 
S. amathysita Dyar (148 h). Forewing light grey, dusted olive green at the base of the costal margin 
and subapically, the double brown transverse lines very indistinct; the undulate line consists of brown spots 
bordered with yellowish outside, with white inside, as in pisfacina. Hindwing light grey, darker at-»the margin, 
fringe white. Mexico (Vera Cruz, Misantla). 
S. gramina Schs. (149 h). Forewing olive green, strewn with black, brown and white scales which being 
accumulated form indistinct double transverse lines, instead of the undulate line a series of dark internerval 
spots. Hindwing blackish-brown. Expanse of wings: 38 mm. Mexico (Orizaba). 
S. taiupa Schs. (149 h) has dark greenish-brown fore wings with a large white area strewn with brown, 
between the cell and apex; before and behind the dark cell-end streak, which is bordered with brown inside, 
with white outside, there are double dark transverse lines, the posterior one filled with white; instead of the 
undulate line there are small irregular black shadowy spots. Hindwing smoky brown, whitish towards the 
base, with a greenish-brown spot before the whitish apex, bordered by two black lines. Expanse of wings: 
33 mm. South-Eastern Brazil (Sao Paulo). 
S, schausi Dogn. is a larger species, forewing yellowish ochreous with an olive tint, marginal part lighter, 
the median area strewn with olive from the costal margin to the lower cell-end, from there oblicpiely to the 
inner margin narrower, without any other markings than a submarginal row of brick-red internerval spots. 
Fringe slightly tinged with pink. Hindwing yellowish-white, broadly dusted with pink at the margin. Expanse 
of wings: 48 mm. Brazil (Joinville). 
S. podrida Dogn. Forewing whitish-grey with irregularly dispersed rusty brown spots, and scantily 
strewn with yellow and black scales. Hindwing whitish, dusted with red-brown at the inner margin and distal 
margin. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Ecuador. 
65. Genus: Skaphita Schs. 
Only two thirds of the antennae pectinated, the pectinations set with dense hair, the short palpi hairy 
with a small terminal joint. Anterior tibia with a large, almost circular hair-tuft. Forewing long and narrow 
with an oblique distal margin; neuration as in the preceding genera, with separately arising veins 3 and 4 on 
the small hindwing with a convex costal margin. Only one very widely distributed common species. 
Type of genus: S. salona Drc. 
S. salona Drc. (148 h). Forewing bone-coloured, lightest below the median vein as far as the margin, 
violettish-grey and brown at the costal margin, strewn with olive brown scales at the inner margin, with double 
indistinct and interrupted transverse lines and black longitudinal stripes submedianly and at the inner margin, 
before the centre, behind it, above and below the lower median branch, and between the lower radial branches; 
