POSTANITA; NAVARCOSTES. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
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a small velvety brown spot in the cell, a ring-shaped macula at the end; another submarginal black 
dentate line. Hindwing dark brown. Expanse of wings: 44 -50 mm. French and British Guiana. 
A. essequeba Schs. (155 b). Forewing broadly light yellowish-brown at the base, distallv bordered by essequeba. 
one brown spot each at the costal and inner margins; light brown behind it, whitish in the upper half of the 
median area, traversed by a dark brown lunular line bordering on the basal area below the cell; at the cel 1 - 
end there is a narrow spot filled with grey and white, a deeply notched blackish-brown line behind it, follow¬ 
ed by the brown postmedian line, which is distally bordered with white, with long black vein-streaks behind 
it; marginal third strewn white in the upper half, with 2 black dentate lines in it. Hindwing dark greyish- 
brown. British Guiana. 
A. definita Dogn. (155 b). Basal half of forewing blackish-brown, strewn with lilac, separated from definita. 
the light red-brown, white-irrorated distal area by 2 black parallel lunular lines, with a white and red-brown 
reniform macula and a double short line filled with light lilac behind them; the black postmedian line is strong 
and irregularly dentate, black subterminal lunae are bordered with white, the two uppermost form spots with 
2 tiny costal spots before them; the margin is of a pinkish tinge with a dark line in it. Hindwing white, grey 
at the costal and inner margins, narrowly grey at the distal margin. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Amazons 
(Taperinha). 
A. albipalpis sp. n. (155 c) is very similar to definita-, interior half of forewing light reddish violettish albipalpis. 
grey, light brownish cinnamon in the distal half, somewhat lilac subterminally, of a pink tinge before the 
margin; some indistinct, slightly darker and feebly dentate antemedian transverse lines, shortly before the 
centre there is a fine black transverse line bordered with reddish on both sides; behind it follows, as a boun¬ 
dary between the grey and reddish tints of the wing, a whitish somewhat notched transverse band which con¬ 
tains the white reniform macula centred with red-brown at the cell-end and recedes a little in the submedian 
area; the fine black postmedian line somewhat lighter reddish on both sides, before and behind it there are 
yet very indistinct violettish-grey transverse lines parallel to it, white dots behind it on the veins; subterminal 
slate-coloured spots are between the veins which are strewn with black and white, a large white spot is before 
the two anal spots; behind the fine irregular submarginal line the veins exhibit white dots, black ones on the 
ends of the veins; fringe whitish, finely spotted red-brown above and below each end of the veins. Hindwing 
light reddish-brown, lighter discally. Described according to a $ from Brazil. Palpi white laterally. Type in 
the Mus. Senckenberg. 
A. lassa Schs. (= squalida Dogn.) which was recently placed to Kurtia has light brown forewings, lassa. 
shaded dark steel-grey in the basal third below the cell and from the centre of the cell to the costal margin, 
moreover subapicallv at the costal margin and at the in erior angle, with 3 small velvety black antemedian 
spots below each other, a postmedian double row of black vein-dots with internerval streaks behind them, 
and oblong grey marginal spots bordered with black. Hindwing dark brown. Expanse of wings: 50 mm. 
French Guiana. 
A. divisa Schs. (155 c) is deep blackish-brown in the smaller basal half, traversed by numerous velvety divisa. 
black undulate lines and defined towards the reddish cinnamon distal area by a notched velvety black ante- 
median line; inner margin and subterminal area shaded with violettish-grey, before and behind the regularly 
dentate postmedian line there are yet several undulate-dentate parallel lines of a somewhat darker colour 
than the ground; a whitish reniform macula filled with violettish-grey is at the cell-end, the ground behind 
and before it being shaded with violettish-grey; a subterminal row of small slate-coloured spots. Hindwing 
white, narrowly brownish at the margin. Colombia. 
137. Genus: Postanita Dijar. 
Separated from Anita by the costal vein of the hindwing arising only at the cell-end; the only smaller 
species of the genus is otherwise very similar to Litodonta, but it has a very feeble, almost absent vein 5 of 
the hindwing; besides the $ has plain antennae, and the hindwings are not hairy beneath. 
Type of genus: P. decurrens Dyar. 
P. decurrens Dyar. Forewing yellowish-brown, shaded dark purple brown behind the base, obliquely decurrens. 
to the costal margin and along the inner margin only strewn to the distal margin; a blackish-brown dot at 
the cell-end, a grey stripe from the cell to the margin, and a spot above it. Hindwing whitish-brown, grey 
at the costal and distal margins, spotted brown at the anal angle. The $ is strewn darker with traces of dark 
transverse lines, the anterior one of which borders on the violettish-brown area, and with a very large blackish- 
brown discal spot. Hindwing chocolate-brown. Mexico. 
138. Genus; 5tavarcostes Schs. 
This genus has much longer and narrower wings than the preceding genera, morreover the antennae 
of both sexes are pectinated beyond the middle, and above the thick palpi with a short terminal joint there 
is one hair-tuft on each side of the frons; the legs also exhibit thin hair-tufts, the abdomen projects far beyond 
the hindwing. Neuration similar to that of the preceding genera. Only 1 species. 
