PH ASTI A; EUPHASTIA; DUGONIA. By Hr. M. Dratjdt. 
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ufipuncta. M. rufipuncta Drc. (152 i) is the most easily discernible species with silvery grey forewings with fine 
black double lines, large red-brown round spots, one at the base, one in the cell, two behind it and one at the 
anal angle. Hindwing greyish-black, yellow at the base and inner margin, fringe speckled yellow and black. Peru. 
93. Genus: Pliastia Wkr. 
Extraordinarily near to the preceding genus, chiefly separated by the more slender, straightly porrect 
and not so thickly haired palpi and also more slender hairless legs. Costal margin of hindwing straight, 
distinctly convex at the base in the preceding species. No difference whatever in the neuration. Half a dozen 
of tropical species are known. 
Type of genus: P. basalis Wkr. 
basalis. P. basalis Wkr. (152 k). Eorewing greenish olive with an oblique blackish stripe from the first quarter 
of the costal margin to the anal angle, strewn with reddish-brown below it, with a light round, dark-centred 
macula at the cell-end and a distallv concave postmedian line. Hindwing brownish-grey. Colombia, Brazil. 
alcimede. P. alcimede Drc. (152 k). Forewing dark brown, a reddish spot at the base and 2 yellowish transverse 
lines, a postmedian and submarginal row each of small greyish-white spots, the latter row containing black 
dots. Hindwing dark brown with somewhat lighter fringe. Panama to Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia. 
duronia. P. duronia Drc. (152 k) is light reddish-brown on the forewing, with a white subbasal line bordered 
with dark brown outside, a very oblique transverse row of black dots behind it from near the apex to the 
centre of the inner margin; a curved submarginal row of black dots edged with white inside. Hindwing dark 
brown with lighter fringe. Costa Rica, Panama. 
umbrata. P. umbrata Schs. (= rufolineata Dogn.). Forewing light brown, shaded with grey basally, also at 
the distal margin above each vein; a round reddish-brown spot above the base of the inner margin, indistinct 
darker brown transverse lines proceed from the shaded lilac and grey costal margin, a whitish undulate-linear 
shadow before the margin. The whitish ground of the hindwing is densely dusted with lilac brown. Expanse 
of wings: 30 mm. French Guiana. 
ochreaia. P. ochreata Schs. looks quite different: forewing ochreous above the median vein and the lowest radial 
branch, violettish-brown below it with a grey submedian shadow; the base of the cell, the outermost costal 
margin and the two upper radial branches are violettish-brown. Hindwing smoky grey, darkest at the inner 
margin, the ends of the veins and a marginal shadow reddish-brown. Expanse of wings: $ 32, $ 36 mm. French 
Guiana. 
94. Genus: Eiipliastia Dogn. 
The only small species is similar to the preceding species, but the second palpal joint is somewhat more 
hairy; vein 5 of the forewing arises from the centre of the cross-vein, and 6 and 7 of the hindwing are not stalked, 
but arise from the same base, and the costal vein arises before the cell-end. 
Type of genus: E. nubila Drc. 
nubila. E. nubila Drc. (= ophidera Dogn.) (152 k). Eorewing yellowish ochreous with a slight greenish 
tinge, a blackish transverse band at the base and another one beginning in the cell, bending distally above 
the inner margin and rising again subterminally, terminating at the cell-end in a thick black small round spot; 
subapically strewn with brown. Hindwing light brownish, darkened at the margin. Guiana, Colombia. 
95. Genus: Dug’oiiia Schs. 
The only species has longer palpi with a smooth terminal joint, antennae of the $, which is only known 
so far, serrate, with ciliary tufts basally, then only ciliated as far as the middle. Hind tibia with 2 pair 
of long spurs. Fore wing long and narrow, margin slightly undulate-dentate; veins 3 and 4 from the lower 
cell-angle, 5 from the centre of the cross-vein. Areole short, arising from the cell-end, 6 from the upper cell- 
angle, 7- -10 from the end of the areole. Hindwing with a straight costal margin and a rounded apex; 4 and 5 
from the lower cell-angle, 6 and 7 from the upper cell-angle, 8 arises before the centre of the cell. 
cliera. D. eliera Schs. Forewing chestnut-brown, dusted with cinnamon-orange at the inner margin, expanded 
analwards as far as between 2 and 3, before which there is a white triangular spot and a white streak above it 
as far as the margin; double postmedian and subterminal rows of blackish-brown spots, and a brown oblique 
shadow from the cell to the apex; small white lunules subterminally between 5 and 1. Hindwing brown, 
cinnamon-orange at the inner margin and strewn with white and spotted black. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. 
French Guiana. 
