HEMICERAS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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extends finely undulate, almost parallel to the margin; the brown marginal shadow is bordered above the 
upper median vein by a darker brown shadow. Hindwing reddish-yellow, greyish-brown outside. The $ has 
pectinated antennae, that of angulinea plain ones. Expanse of w'ings: $ 39, $ 41 mm. Colombia, Guiana. 
H. reybumi Schs. is allied to commentica; forewing reddish olive, abdomen brownish sand-coloured, reyburm. 
Forewing whitish in the basal area, strewn with brown, with an undulate dark subbasal line, a brownish 
oblique shadow behind it; the fine black antemedian line is deeply undulate-dentate; median area behind it 
whitish, strewn brownish cinnamon above the inner margin; a small blackish-brown spot at the cross-vein, 
and a larger one each at the inner margin before and behind the postmedian line; marginal area dusted 
brown with dark white-strewn veins. Hindwing dull brownish. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Amazons (Teffe). 
H. scalata Dogn. (156 d) is very easily recognizable by the scalariform course of the postmedian line; scalata. 
forewing brown, dusted yellowish, the darker brown transverse lines bordered with yellowish ochre and 
marked by dark vein-dots; 2 black dots obliquely above each other are at the cell-end; a dark subterminal 
shadow. Hindwing yellowish-grey, brownish at the distal margin, without a stigma. Expanse of wings: 
41—45 mm. Colombia. 
H. jovita Schs. is unlike any other species. Anterior body purple brown, vertex white, abdomen jovita. 
brownish. Forewing brownish violet, suffused with cinnamon-brown at the base and inner margin, with cinna¬ 
mon-brown lines, the anterior one indistinct, undulate, vertical, the exterior one curved from near the apex 
to the submedian fold, darker purple outside; a black and light brown spot at the cell-end; inner margin 
rounded near the base. Hindwing white, dusted brownish towards the margin, with a dark brown stigma. 
Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Amazons (Sao Paulo de Olivenga). 
H. truncata Schs. (156 d) is at once discernible by the truncate apex; forewing lustrous dark brown, truncata. 
costal margin black; interior transverse line dark grey, followed at the inner margin by a reddish-brown, 
distally dark grey shadow; the exterior line is marked by a curved row of vein-dots with an indistinct olive 
brown shadow in the middle behind it; a large oblique reddish-brown oval at the cell-end, a broad dark 
shadow before the apex at the costal margin. Hindwing dark brown, whitish in the disc, with a large dark 
stigma. From Guiana and Colombia. 
H. undilinea Schs. Forewing olive grey, the exterior transverse line, a submarginal shadow, a large undilinea. 
anal spot and a basal spot below the cell are reddish-brown, the undulate transverse lines dark brown; a 
broad oblique dark spot at the cell-end; inner margin straight. Hindwing dark brown. Expanse of wings: 
35 mm. French Guiana. 
H. trapezina sp. n. (156 d). The reddish-white ground of the forewing is densely strewn with red- trapezina. 
brown; both the notched anterior transverse lines dark brown below the median vein, lighter lilac whitish 
on both sides, yellowish-white above the median vein; an oval reddish-yellow indistinct spot behind the ante- 
median line in the cell; the post median line forms almost a right angle on the uppermost radial bi'anch and 
is flatly undulate, dark brown, yellowish-white outside, with hardly any brown towards the costal margin; 
the cell-eixd shadow and subterminal shadow are broad, fadedly darker. Hindwing whitish, veins and margin 
brownish. Described from a female froixi Marcapata (Peru); type in the Museum Senckenberg. 
H. metallescens Schs. (156 d) has iridescent goldeix brown forewings, the two first thirds of the costal metalles- 
margin reddish-yellow, the cell and the space behind it are whitish lilac; a brown streak at the cell-end; cen 
2 black double dots below the apex, the dark brown traixsverse lines are rudimentary, the posterior one only 
marked by a brownish ochreous spot bordered with violet oix both sides; inner margin dentate, cut out be¬ 
fore the anal angle. Hindwing whitish, veins and margin brownish, stigma golden brown. Expaixse of wings: 
39 mm. British Guiana. 
H. vinicosta Guen. (157 d) is somewhat similar, well distinguished by the white collar; forewing metallic vinicosta. 
olive brown, broadly reddish at the costal margin, violettish grey in the cell, not distinctly defined against 
the dark inner-marginal part, the two colours gi’adually warming iixto each other. From Brazil. 
H. meona Gr. (= splendens Mschlr.) (156 d) is bronze yellow in the basal and marginal areas, dusted meona. 
with a faded violettish grey ixx the median ai'ea, lighter in the costal-marginal part, the two colours sepa¬ 
rated by the dentate blackish transverse limes; a large dark spot at the cell-end, subterminal shadowy spots 
distinct at the costal aixd inner margins, similar shading also at the inner margin before the postmedian 
line. Hindwing white with a dark stigma. — Cramer figures the larva of it: a green insect with violettish-brown 
saddle-spots on the dorsum, extending on the 6th and 9th segments down to the abdominal legs and bordered 
outside with black, then with white; between the 4th and 5th segments, and on the 11th, one short yellowish 
cone each. Guiaixa. 
H. sabis Guen (= ania Drc.) (156 e) exhibits a remarkably triangular shape of the wings, almost con- sabis. 
cavely cut out at the distal and inner mai’gins; whitish-grey, finely strewn brown, a brass lustre in the inner-mar¬ 
ginal and postmedian areas, the margin remains narrowly light grey; darkest is the bronze colour in a basal 
