Publ. 2. III. 1933. 
HEMICERAS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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H. latior sp. n. (157 b) is very similar to -punctata, but larger and, above all, the wings are much laiior. 
broader, more unicoloured red-brown, with the same marking; easily separable by the quite dark brown hind- 
wings. Several $3 from St. Antonio, Colombia; type in the Berlin Museum. 
H. celia Schs. Forewing red-brown with a silky gloss, dusted with violet excepting the distal margin; celia. 
the anterior brown fine transverse line is straight, somewhat dotted on the veins, the exterior one similar; 
a fine black streak at the cell-end; inner margin dentate and cut out. Hindwing brown, without a stigma. 
Costa Rica. 
H. nupera Dogn. Forewing dark red-brown at the base and margin, metallic violet in the median area nupera. 
with a red-brown discal spot, transverse lines not definable. Hindwing light yellowish, veins and margin brownish, 
stigma contrastingly brown. Expanse of wings: 45 mm. Amazons (Olivenga). 
H. constellata Dogn. (156 f). Forewing glossy deep violettish-brown, the transverse lines composed constellata. 
of rows of metallic greenish-white dots, the exterior row of which is double, the subterminal line is also re¬ 
presented by such dots, and at the cell-end there are 2 spots of the same colour. Hindwing brown with darker 
veins and margin and a not contrasting stigma. Mexico to Costa Rica and West Colombia. — f. albescens albescens. 
Dogn., from Guiana, Peru, Bolivia and the Amazons, has whitish hindwings. Antennae of $ pectinate. 
H. sparsipennis Wkr. (= canosparsa Wkr.) (156 f) is very similar to constelloM and also to muscosa, sparsipen- 
forewing greyish-brown with a fine white costal margin, marked as constellata, but besides with a large spot ms - 
of white scales below the base of the cell; hindwing without a stigma. From Panama through Guiana to Brazil. 
H. coatina Schs. (156 g) is coloured and marked like muscosa, but it has a white costal margin of coatina. 
the forewing and the white-strewn spot below the base of the cell, as in sparsipennis-, forewing purple brown, 
the vein-clots and subterminal dots are white. Hindwing dull light brown, without a stigma. Expanse of 
wings: 40 mm. Guatemala to Colombia. 
H. muscosa Schs. (156 g). Forewing brown as in the preceding species, with a silky lustrous lilac shadow muscosa. 
from the lower cell-encl to the distal margin near the anal angle; the interior transverse line is marked by 
3 white vein-dots, the posterior one by a double Avhite dentate line followed by a short third row before the 
apex. Inner margin with a strong dent. Hindwing light brown with darker veins, without a stigma. Mexico 
to South Brazil. 
H. evanescens Dyar seems to be allied to muscosa, but the inner-marginal dent much less strong, evanescens. 
entirely absent at the anal angle; forewing monotonously lustrous purple brown, the dentate transve.se lines 
marked by black vein-clots, the interior ones bordered with yellowish ochre towards the base, the exterior one 
slightly strewn white inside and with white vein-dots; darker clouding at the cell-end, a darker shadow at 
the margin, the middle of which reaches the postmedian line. Hindwing dark brown. Only 1 $ from Panama. 
H. poulsoni Schs. Forewing olive brown with a bronze gloss, violettish-grey at the costal margin, poidsoni. 
the interior black transverse line finely dentate, the exterior one replaced by small brown spots with 2 larger 
apical ones and an anal one behind them; a thick oblique black streak at the cell-end. Hinclwing white, stigma 
light red-brown. Expanse of wings: 51 mm. British Guiana. 
H. brunnea Schs. (156 g). Forewing brown, scantily strewn with grey, the rows of black vein-dots brunnea. 
forming the two transverse lines are connected by indistinct red-brown shading, an oblique dark shadow 
in the cell. Hindwing light brown, whitish basally, darker at the margin, without a stigma. Expanse of wings: 
45 mm. Bolivia. 
H. arbogasta Schs. is allied to brunnea, the inner margin of the forewing is only slightly excurved; fore- arbogasta. 
wing fawn-coloured with black lines, the anterior one intensified by black dots, a cinnamon-red shadow be¬ 
fore it, the posterior line from before the apex, undulate, with black vein-dots, a broad cinnamon-red shadow 
behind it, somewhat less distinct between 5 and 2; a blackish streak at the cell-end, a dark shadow below 
it extends to the inner margin; a subterminal cinnamon-brown oblique shadow between 4 and the anal angle. 
Hindwing whitish, veins and margin broad reddish cinnamon, only the $ is known. Expanse of wings: 49 mm. 
Brazil (Rio Purus). 
H. perbrunnea Dogn. differs from the very similar brunnea in the almost straight inner margin which perbrunnca. 
is sinuate in brunnea, with a basal excision; forewing more yellowish ochreons brown, in an oblique light 
with a reddish-violet shine, the transverse lines as in arbogasta, the postmedian dots thicker; discal shadow 
broad; subterminal shadow indistinct. Hindwing light brown, no stigma. Expanse of wings: 48 mm. Colombia. 
H. princeps sp. n. (157 b). Head and palpi as well as collar rusty brown, frons white, thorax violettish- princeps. 
brown, abdomen greyish-brown. Forewing deep lilac brown with a silky gloss and strewn with bluish-white 
scales, most densely so at the costal margin; both the notched transverse lines dark red-brown, bordered with 
bronze yellow on the averted sides, the posterior line bordered with a pure white inside above the inner margin; 
a comma-shaped black streak at the cell-end, and a dot inwards above it; margin deeper purple brown; ex¬ 
panded in a triangular shape inwards between 2 and 4. Hindwing dark greyish-brown, the small and narrow 
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