Full. 14. IV. 1934. 
ANTAEA. By Dr. M. Draitdt. 
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Type of genus: C. croesus Cr. 
C. croesus Cr. (= croesa Hbn., imperialis Wkr.) (158 b). Forewing light reddish-yellow, of a deep purple croesus. 
brown at the inner margin and apex, with two similar oblique antemedian stripes; numerous large and small 
silvery spots are basal, around the cell-end, and at the apex; the dentate double transverse lines and the sub- 
terminal line are filled or edged with a silver or gold colour. Hindwing light reddish-yellow, more brownish in 
the female. Brazil. 
C. moneta Fldr. is very similar, with somewhat narrower wings, more intensely dusted with purple rnoneta. 
red, especially in the median area at the costal margin, the silvery spots somewhat reduced, particularly at the 
base and apex, especially in the basal area. It may be only the northern representative of croesus. Panama. 
C. mediostriga Rothsch. (158 b). Forewing reddish orange with numerous cinnamon red antemedian mediostri- 
and postmedian lunular lines, the centre itself purple reddish-brown with two reddish-yellow spots at the cell- 
end; the double subterminal line is black just as a longitudinal stripe from the base along the median vein 
and the upper median nervule. Hindwing light reddish-brown. Guiana, Amazons. 
C. gaedei n. sp. (158 b) resembles mediostriga , but it is much larger and with longer wings. Forewing gaedci. 
reddish fawn, with a large whitish subapical spot, the lower end of the reniform macula also filled with whitish; 
with the same black longitudinal stripe and a black subbasal line composed of two reverse bows; anterior trans¬ 
verse line marked by black vein-dots and a shadow-like feeble grey lunular line; a very small pear-shaped ring 
in the cell, another ring outside above it, the reniform macula is formed by an oval ring-line with a distal in¬ 
dentation on vein 5; postmedian line oblique, shadow-like, only the two bows betwen 2 and 4 more distinct, 
with a few vein-dots behind it. A fine black submarginal serpentine line. Hindwing light reddish-brown, some¬ 
what transparent in the disc. Type: 1 $ from Chuchuras, Peru, in the Berlin Museum, another <$ from Colom¬ 
bia. antennae hardly dentate, finely ciliated. On examining this species closely it is found to belong rather 
to Hapigia. 
C. rovena Schs. is still more similar to mediostriga and much smaller. $ antennae serrate with long rovena. 
ciliary tufts. Forewing light reddish-brown with the black longitudinal line of the preceding species, the origins 
of veins 2 and 3 being also black; a black spot in the centre of the cell, the black reniform macula line is open 
above, the median area below the median vein darker, brownish, and lighter, more reddish, above it; traces 
of a double postmedian line, with black scales before and behind it between 5 and 6; subterminal line between 
the costal margin and 5 only composed of a few black scales, undulate dentate below; small black spots above 
and below vein 4. Hindwing slightly transparent, light reddish, the veins, the inner margin broadly, the distal 
margin narrowly reddish ochreous. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Sa. Catharina. 
C. svidberti Schs. differs in the pectinate antennae of the Forewing reddish-yellow with a violet svidberti. 
tint, the median area slightly darker, though not so much as in rovena ; transverse lines extending as in medio¬ 
striga, very indistinct before the centre, the outermost line bordering on the median area inside, with black 
vein-dots; a small white spot at the cell-end, black and white vein-dots behind it; the posterior transverse 
line is double, scarcely darker than the ground. Hindwing reddish, darker at the inner margin. Expanse of 
wings: 43 mm. Guatemala. 
C. novicia Schs. shows tuftedlv ciliated antennae in the <$. Forewing reddish-brown, dusted with lilac, novicia. 
and striated darker below the cell; the anterior transverse lines are broken up into single vein-dots, the pos¬ 
terior one is double in the J, single in the $, with black vein-clots behind it; two small black-edged ring-spots 
in the cell, a cross-shaped spot at the cell-end is blackened at its distal end in the $; the fine irregular black 
marginal line ends in a black apical spot in the <$, in a shadow in the $. Hindwing light reddish-brown. Ex¬ 
panse of wdngs: $ 42, $ 56 mm. French Guiana. 
151. Genus: Antaea Hbn. 
Separated from Chliara by a longer terminal joint of the palpus and the slightly notched distal margin 
of the forewing. Neuration the same except the costal vein of the hindwing branching off here from the centre 
of the cell, while it extends more parallel and does not bend down so much in Chliara. Only 3 species are known. 
Type of genus: A. juturna Cr. 
A. juturna Cr. (158 c). Forewing red-brown with 6 dark transverse lines, all of which are faded distally, juturna. 
distinctly defined inwardly and edged with light here, so that they look somewdiat embossed; the second ex¬ 
tends only to the median vein, the fourth is scalariformly interrupted on the upper median branch and removed 
inwardly as far as the lower cell-angle, the fifth extends more obliquely than the others, and the submarginal 
one is scalariformly interrupted on the two median nervules; a reniform macula at the cell-end shows a some¬ 
what darker filling and meets outside a short oblique line. Hindwing dark greyish-brown. Panama to Brazil. 
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