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HEMICERAS. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
amanda. 
hidulpha. 
co ns pi rata. 
color cila. 
gigas. 
levana. 
amazonica. 
nigriplaga. 
cinescens. 
mutoca. 
serrata. 
stigma of the same colour is only visible under the lens. 1 A from the Rio Micay (West Colombia), type 
in the Coll. Niepelt. 
H. amanda Schs. resembles muscosa ; forewing red-brown, with a violettish-grey reflection in the median 
area and in the anal area, the fine dark transverse lines with white vein-dots; cell-end shadow dark violettish- 
grey. Hindwing brown, lighter between the veins, no stigma. Mexico to Costa Rica. 
H. hidulpha Schs. is unlike any other species. Anterior body red-brown with white spots on the vertex 
and mesothorax, abdomen brown. Forewing red-brown with a white costal margin, deeply lobate at the 
inner margin and cut out before the anal angle; anterior transverse line dotted white, posterior line com¬ 
posed of white lunules at the costal and inner margins, dotted between them, marginal area suffused with 
red. Hindwing and stigma brown, cell and base of costal margin whitish. Expanse of wings: 41 mm. Brazil, 
Rio Purus. 
H. conspirata Schs. (156 g). Forewing violettish-brown, narrowly olive brown at the margin, widened 
in the middle, with a fine white costal margin, the transverse lines marked by fine black and grey vein- 
dots, the interior line connected by an indistinct red-brown line, the posterior one towards the inner margin 
by a grey line; a narrow dark shadowy spot at the cell-end. Inner margin deeply sinuate and dentate. Hind¬ 
wing brownish-white with darker veins, a narrow marginal shadow and stigma. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. 
Guiana to South Brazil. 
H. colorata Dogn. (156 g) has the same long-dentate and deeply cut out inner margin as conspirata 
and is easily discernible by the purely white hind wing with an extremely finely brownish margin and a very 
much contrasting chestnut brown stigma. Forewing lustrous dark red-brown with a lilac reflection excepting 
the marginal area, a fine white costal margin, and 2 transverse rows of black, white-centred vein-dots; cell- 
end spot quite faded. The $ has pectinate antennae. Expanse of wings: 48 — 58 mm. Guiana, Amazons. Peru. 
H. gigas sp. n. (157 b) is very closely allied to conspirata , but still much larger, with an expanse of 
up to 60 mm. Forewing of a deep purple brown, the two transverse rows of dots, formed of little heaps of 
white, black-edged scales, are accompanied on the averted sides by Pompeyan red bands, the exterior one 
distinctly undulate-dentate; the large triangular marginal spot with its point on vein 5 is bordered inside, 
between 6 and the costal margin, by a blackish subterminal band. Hindwing whitish only in the disc, broadly 
brownish at the margin and veins, so that the stigma is not very prominent. Hindwing and ventrum beneath 
white. 1 (d from Manaos, Coll. Stgr. in the Berlin Museum. 
H. levana Drc. (156 h) is very similar to colorata, but its forewing is darker brown, not so reddish, 
the hindwing brown, not white; the type was described from Ecuador. Expanse of wings: 56 mm. — The 
race from the Amazons is: amazonica Dgn. distinguished by more intensely dusted lilac forewings with more 
prominent dentate transverse lines and whiter hindwings, only brownish on the veins and margin, and a better 
contrasting stigma. 
H. nigriplaga Schs. (156 li). Forewing brown; interior transverse line dark brown with black vein- 
dots, the costal-marginal spot being the largest, exterior transverse line black, dentate, but extending only 
from the apex to the middle radial vein and appearing only again above the sinuate inner margin and below 
the centre in 2 black vein-dots; a few brown and black spots apically behind it; a large irregular black spot 
at the cell-end and a small one above it. Hindwing brownish-white, veins and margin darkened, stigma dark 
brown. Expanse of wings: $ 39, $ 43 mm. French Guiana. 
H. cinescens sp. n. (157 b). Forewing light violettish-grey, with a slight brownish-yellow reflection 
in the basal and marginal areas; the anterior transverse line forms two bows and is dotted black on the 
veins, the posterior one sharply dentate, fine black, a small indistinct brownish spot in the lower cell-end; 
undulate line notched between 6 and the costal margin, shadowy brownish grey below it, enclosing at the 
inner margin with the postmedian line a trapezoid yellowish-brown small spot. Hindwing brownish. 1 $ 
from Muzo (Colombia) in the Berlin Museum. 
H. mutoca sp. n. (157 c) hardly resembles any other species; forewing dark red-brown, intermixed 
with bluish-white liair-scales, especially at the inner-marginal part, along the costal margin, on the blackish 
veins of the marginal area, and along the notched bronze brown transverse lines; a very large black indis¬ 
tinctly defined discal spot in the cell-end; subterminal line shadowy very near the postmedian line, more 
blackened in the apical spot. Hindwing greyish-brown, darker at the margin with an inconspicuous stigma. 
West Colombia between Tumaco and Pasto; type in the Berlin Museum. 
H. serrata sp. n. (157 c). Forewing light violettish-grey, finely strewn black, the median vein and the 
notched transverse lines red-brown, the posterior one bordered lighter inside by the absence of strewing, more 
distinctly marked by black dots on the veins; 3 black dots at the cell-end; the postmedian line is bordered 
with rusty yellow outside above the inner margin and has here a black spot behind it; the undulate line is 
a sharply notched blackish shadowy line from the costal margin to vein 2, extinct below it. Hindwing brown, 
somewhat lighter towards the base, stigma scarcely noticeable. 2 d'c? from West Colombia (Tumaco). Berlin 
Museum. 
