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PODALIA. By Walter Hopp. 
albescens. 
'fuscescens. 
ivalkeri. 
nigricostata. 
semialba. 
lanoeris'pa. 
tympania. 
nivcsa. 
mallas. 
vicina. 
intermacu- 
lata. 
angulala. 
gamelia. 
peclacia. 
pedacioides. 
is open to doubt whether it is a distinct species or only a form or race of orsilocha. Almost the same forms are 
besides at hand from Guatemala and Peru. 
P. albescens Schs. (163 b). Lighter in all its parts than orsilocha. Hindwing white with brown mar¬ 
ginal spots at the distal margin. Specimens occur with very dark forewings. Regarding the contours, the $<$ 
are almost intermediate between orsilochus and schadei. The $ is still unknown. South-Eastern Brazil: Minas 
Geraes, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Sa. Catharina. 
P. fuscescens Wkr. (= megalodia Dyar ) (163 b) varies in size but little in colouring and marking. The 
9 has the same marking and colouring as the South-Eastern Brazil, also on the Amazons, the western 
coast of Colombia; probably its range extends still farther. 
P. walked Berg ( = Malmis Dyar, fieldia Schs.) (163 b). This species has a different exterior in nearly 
every district of South-Eastern Brazil. The most extensively white are specimens from Sa. Catharina, whereas 
those from Minas Geraes exhibit but scanty white markings. Intermediary are specimens from Sao Paulo 
and Rio de Janeiro. The 9 has the same colouring and marking as the but the hair along the costa of the 
forewing are white and curled. Argentine specimens (from Tucuman) are — nigricostata Dogn., they are blackisli- 
brown, especially on the costa of the forewing. We figure another race from the Province of Sao Paulo — 
semialba Hopp (163 b). The tibiae and tarsi of all these forms have black and white ringlets. 
P. lanocrispa Jones (= interlineata Dyar) (163 c) is closely allied to walkeri, likewise with ringlets on 
the tibiae and tarsi. Forewing with pale yellowish lines between the veins, a dark postmedian line crosses the 
wing from vein 5 to the middle of the inner margin, but it is only indistinctly visible. The basal area with 
several black curled locks of hair which easily fall off. The 9 does not differ from the <$ in marking and colouring. 
Parana and Minas Geraes, Brazil. 
P. tympania Drc. (163 c) is an extraordinarily variable species, especially in the postmedian white mark¬ 
ing of the forewing, the zig-zag lines of which may be centred black or almost quite extinct. Base and costa 
of forewing broadly white, with black veins, vertex white or yellow. Thorax blackish-brown, abdomen some¬ 
what lighter. Legs with long white hairs on one side. Tibiae and tarsi brown. 9 with the same colouring and 
marking as the J. Widely distributed from Mexico to Peru, on the Amazon R., in Colombia, Guiana. 
P. nivosa Jones (163 c) is allied to tympania and represents it in South-Eastern Brazil. Femora with 
long white hair on one side, tibiae and tarsi blackish-brown. The species looks like a Meg. alhicollis with very 
intensely white markings. 9 unknown. Parana and Minas Geraes. 
P. mallas Drc. {= Bedalia corops Dyar) $ (163 c). The blackish-brown forewing exhibits a broad white 
costa, a black basal and cellular spot and a narrow white transverse median line extending almost to the inner 
margin. Hindwing brown. Head blackish-brown, white around the antennae. Thorax, abdomen and legs 
blackish-brown, the legs with long white hair on the femora. Basal half and more of the forewing with curled 
hair. 9 unknown. Minas Geraes, Parana, Rio de Janeiro, Sa. Catharina. 
P. vicina Hopp (163 c) differs from Mallas in the white thoracal tuft, lighter hindwings and another 
direction of the shorter, broader, median white mark on the forewing, which extends below the cell towards 
the interior angle and is composed of curled white hair. Differences in the sexual armature have also been 
ascertained. 9 unknown. From Itatiaya, also from Villavicencio, Colombia. 
P. intermaculata Dogn. This species, very similar to vicina, shows the median white spot on the fore¬ 
wing divided into two finely split parts, the lower one hollowed out outwards, prolonged, almost to the inner 
margin. According to Heinrich, this species also shows differences from vicina in the male sexual armature. 
9 unknown. South Peru, Eastern Bolivia. 
P. angulata Hopp $ (163 d). The median white spot of the forewing is almost triangular here and is 
not composed of curled but of smooth hair. All the white is interrupted by black veins. 9 unknown. Macas. 
Ecuador. 
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P. gamelia Drc. J; (163 d). Excepting the blackening of the costal region of the forewing, all the brown 
markings are broken up into spots. 9 unknown. Peru, Guiana, Western Coast of Colombia. 
P. pedacia Drc. (163 d) has a black head, collar, abdomen and legs. The tegulae are grey, the anus 
and underside of the abdomen white. Antennae ochreous. The marginal spots of the hindwing are variably 
developed. 9 unknown. Peru, Carabaya. 
P. pedacioides Dogn. Antennae of <$ with a white shaft and greyish-black pinnae. Thorax blackish- 
grey, tegulae blackish-grey, edged with white. Forewing with a narrower white distal margin than in pedacia, 
the marking about midway between pedacia and pseudo pedacia. Colombia: Tolima. 
