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HEMICERAS. By Dr. M. Dbaudt. 
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H. indistans Guen. (155 e). Forewing pinkish brownish with 3 straight white transverse lines, the indistans. 
middle one distally bordered with dark, the two others bordered inside with dark; an oval darker shadow 
at the cell-end; the indistinct light undulate line shaded darker inside. Hindwing blackish-brown with a 
darker stigma and whitish fringe. Brazil. 
H. turiafa Schs. Anterior body cinnamon brown intermixed with white. Abdomen brownish. Forewing turiafa. 
with a straight inner margin, fawn with a silky gloss and an olive tint, strewn with whiti-h, with fine brown 
transverse lines: a subbasal one bordered with light outside forms 2 small lunules; anterior transverse line 
bordered with whitish inwards, the inner margin behind it as far as the anal angle blackish-brown and clouded 
lilac grey; cross-vein and cellular veins dark and strewn with white; the straight postmedian line is bor¬ 
dered with white, and dotted somewhat white on the veins; a dark parallel shadow behind it; costal margin 
finely white. Hindwing and stigma brownish cinnamon, fringe white. Expanse of wings: 31 mm. Brazil, 
Rio Purus (Hyutanahan). 
H. echo Dyar (155 e) is marked exactly like indistans, but the ground-colour is a very light whitish echo. 
ash-grey, more intensely strewn with brownish-grey between the transverse lines, a lighter area at the anal 
angle. Hindwing whitish with brown veins, margins, and stigma. Guiana, Peru. 
H. proximata Dogn. (155 e) is very similar to the two preceding species and differs in the darker proximata. 
red-brown strewing on the white ground with a white costal margin and white transverse lines, the exterior 
one of which ends much nearer at the apex than in indistans and echo ; the marginal area is somewhat whiter 
with 2 small dark shadowy spots analwards. The whitish hind wing is brownish, especially at the veins and 
margin, with a contrastingly brown stigma. Expanse of wings: 40—46 mm. Brazil (Sa. Catharina). 
H. satelles Schs. Forewing dark olive brown with violet transverse lines, the two anterior ones bor- safeties. 
dered with reddish-brown inside, a darker streak at the cell-end; a lilac shadow behind the distal trans¬ 
verse line, a darker undulate linear shadow before the margin in the lower third. Hind wing very dark brown, 
veins and stigma still darker. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. French Guiana. 
H. plana Btlr. (155 f) is very similar to saielles, but the postmedian line is distally not shaded with plana. 
violettish-grey, the colour of the fore wing is somewhat more reddish, the hindwing not so dark brown. Brazil, 
Colombia. 
H. striolata Bilr. is also very closely allied to the preceding species, the red-brown colour of the striolata. 
forewing is somewhat darker owing to darker strewing, and the two interior transverse lines are not quite 
straight, but slightly undulate. Brazil. 
H. affinis Drc. ( = astigma Dyar) (155 f) is easily discernible from all the similar species by the black affinis. 
underside of the thorax. Forewing reddish-brown with two dark brown transverse lines bordered with light 
on the averted sides, the exterior line extending from the apex to the centre of the inner margin, the vertical 
interior one reaching neither the costal margin nor the inner margin. Hindwing white, brownish at the distal 
margin, without a stigma. Peru. 
H. chromona Schs. is most similar to the following jlavorufa. Head and collar cinnamon red, thorax chromona. 
more yellowish, abdomen brownish above, whitish beneath. Fore wing reddish-yellow with fine straight lines 
bordered with light on the averted sides, the anterior one vertical, blackish-brown, the posterior one cin¬ 
namon-brown, from the apex to the centre of the inner margin; a small round black, often extinct spot at 
the cell-end, small dark subterminal dots on 3 and 4. Hindwing and stigma light reddish-yellow, the margin 
dusted brownish cinnamon. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Brazil, Rio Purus. 
G. flavorufa Dogn. (155 f). Forewing light red-brown with a large black discal dot and 2 oblique -jlavorufa. 
red-bronze lines which are only 3 mm distant from each other at the inner margin, the exterior one into the 
apex. Hindwing white, veins, distal margin and stigma contrastingly red-brown. Guiana, Peru, Bolivia. 
H. tricolora Dyar (155f) is very similar to flavorufa, but it has double discal dots; forewing more tricolora. 
brownish pink, finely strewn darker, the transverse lines dark brown on the sides facing each other, red- 
brown in the middle, and ochreous on the averted sides; 2 dark dots connected by a faint shadow are in 
the centre of the marginal area. Hindwing whitish, veins, margin, and stigma brownish. Peru. 
H. maronita Schs. Forewing reddish-yellow, finely strewn with brown, with fine red-brown transverse maronita. 
lines which are dark grey on the sides facing each other, the exterior one from the apex to the centre of 
the straight inner margin. Hindwing whitish, veins, margins, and stigma light red-brown. Allied to leuco- 
spila. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. French Guiana. 
H. ochrospila Dyar (155f). Forewing lighter straw-coloured, very finely strewn darker, the feeble ochrospila. 
yellowish transverse lines extend as in maronita, bordered with brown on the sides facing each other; 2 dots 
at the cell-end. Hindwing straw-coloured, stigma very light brown. French Guiana. 
H. piccolata Dogn. Forewing brown, somewhat lighter in the marginal area, the dark, light-edged piccolata. 
transverse lines with white vein-dots on the averted sides, both ending close together at the inner margin; 
2 black dots at the cell-end, the veins are black and strewn with white. Hindwing light brown, without the 
stigma. Allied to calaonis, affinis. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. Colombia. 
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