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dentate on the veins as in moresca. Hindwing white, brownish at the margin with a contrasting stigma. Also 
allied to velva. French Guiana. 
H. clarki Sells. (156 a) is a large reddish-yellowish brown species with fine olive brown transverse lines 
bordered with reddish-yellow on the averted sides, with a large black spot at the cell-end, united with a smaller 
subcostal one above it; veins finely strewn grey; subterminal shadow indistinct. Hindwing brown, stigma 
also brown. Mexico, Costa Rica. 
H. siderea Schs. Forewing reddish-brown dusted with grey, the outermost costal margin white, trans¬ 
verse lines dusted with whitish on both sides, with white vein-dots and black-strewn and broadly white-striped 
veins of the marginal area, strewn with reddish-brown, subterminally spotted blackish-grey; distal margin 
deep yellow, inner margin slightly cut out and dentate. Hindwing blackish-brown, fringe yellowish-white. 
Costa Rica. 
H. serana Schs. Forewing light reddish-yellow, dentate at the inner margin, the interior line very 
feeble, with three black vein-dots, the exterior line red-brown from the apex to the centre of the inner margin, 
yellowish outside, with black vein-dots, slightly incurved in the lower half; a dark dot at the cell-end. Hind¬ 
wing white, veins, distal margin, and stigma reddish-brown. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Venezuela. 
H. liboria Schs. is near modesia from which it differs in the different colouring and the subbasal line. 
Forewing light reddish-cinnamon, strewn with brown with reddish-ochreous lines, an undulate excurved sub- 
basal line is present; a thick brown streak at the cross-vein, and 2 small spots, one subcostally before it, the 
second behind it at the origin of 6; postmedian line remote from the apex, incurved towards the inner margin, 
a feeble dark subterminal shadow behind it. Hindwing light reddish-yellow, a fawn-coloured shadow along 
the inner margin. Stigma brown. Expanse of wings: 50 mm. French Guiana (St. Laurent). 
H. modesta Btlr. (156 a) is a very common large species with red-brown forewings shaded darker in 
the costal-marginal halves, with fine dark transverse lines bordered with light on the averted sides, of a some¬ 
what curved course; 2 small blackish spots obliquely above each other at the cell-end. Hindwing scantily scaled 
feebly brownish, somewhat darker on the veins and margin, with a scarcely conspicuous stigma. Mexico. 
H. transducta Wkr. (156 b) is smaller than modesta, otherwise very similar, separable by the costal 
margin not being shaded darker; forewing somewhat broader, more brownish-grey, shaded blackish in the 
inner-marginal third excepting the light anal angle, on the whole strewn somewhat more whitish. Hind wing 
as in modesta. Mexico. 
H. climaca Schs. belongs to the transducta- group. Anterior body cinnamon-brown, intermixed with 
white hair; forewing light brownish cinnamon, shaded darker in the median area below the cell as far as be¬ 
hind the postmedian line, costal margin narrowly white as far as the postmedian line; a small black and white 
subbasal spot below the cell; lines light reddish-yellow, shaded darker on the sides facing each other, the an¬ 
terior one vertical, the posterior one from before the apex to close behind the centre of the inner margin; dark 
subterminal shading from the costal margin to vein 2, veins white, strewn with blackish-brown. Hindwing 
white, margin narrowly dusted brownish-cinnamon, stigma of the same colouring. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. 
Mexico to Panama. 
H. dentata Dogn. (156b) is very similar to climaca, but separated by the more deeply dentate inner 
margin of the forewing, a somewhat darker ground-colour of a more red-brown impression, strewn with yellow¬ 
ish, the transverse lines somewhat more distinctly dotted on the veins, hindwing more light brown. Expanse 
of wings: 38 — 39 mm. Described from Colombia. 
H. nigrigutta Schs. (= yuntasa Dogn.) (156 b). Forewing dull brown with a straight inner margin, the 
fine yellowish transverse lines dotted black on the veins on the sides facing each other; a black spot at the cell- 
end with a smaller one above it and a little before it. Hindwing light reddish-yellow with a darker distal margin 
and a contrasting dark brown stigma. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Bolivia. 
H. castanea Dogn. (156 b). Forewing chestnut-brown with a more yellowish tinge than in nigrigutta 
transverse lines rusty brown, bordered with yellowish on the averted sides, with black vein-dots, the black 
cellular dots much less prominent; veins of marginal area somewhat lighter. Hindwing brown, yellowish 
towards the base, stigma absent. Expanse of wings: 52 mm. Colombia. 
H. castaneoides sp. n. (157 a) is very similar to castanea, red-brown, the transverse lines the same, but 
without any black vein-dots, the veins of the marginal area blackened and strewn with white, the black discal 
dots very intense, connected by a bar. Hindwing brown, stigma brown. 1 from West Colombia (Rio Micay); 
type in the Coll. Niepelt, taken in February-April. 
H. trinubila Guen. (156 b) is a larger species very similar to modesta ; forewing brown, not shaded 
costally, with the same transverse lines and 3 thick black triangularly arranged dots at the cell-end, 
darki. 
siderea. 
serana. 
liboria. 
modesta. 
transducta. 
climaca. 
dentata. 
nigrigutta. 
castanea. 
castaneoi- 
dcs. 
trinubila. 
