Publ. 8. VIII. 1935. 
PODALIA. By Walter Hopp. 
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P. pseudopedacia Dogn. $ (163 d). Antennae brownish ochreous, very broadly pinnate. Head and pseudopc- 
body white, mixed with grey, abdomen above predominantly grey like the legs. Wings somewhat hyaline. 
The author states besides that vein 6 of the hindwing is nearer to 7, while in pedacia and pedacioides it is about 
midway between 5 and 7, but this mark is probably variable, for it occurs also that veins 6 and 7 arise on a 
short stalk. The $ is not different in marking and colouring. A remarkable fact is that, contrary to other 
Megalopyginae-QQ, vein 8 of the hindwing in the $ extends in exactly the same way as in the $3, except that 
it anastomoses in the basal part with the anterior edge of the cell. Colombia: Bogota. 
Contigua-group. 
P. contigua Wkr. ( Alpis) (= Bombyx habitus Edw.) £ (163 d) is extremely variable in size and colouring, contigua. 
We figure a specimen which corresponds most to the description of the type (the type itself seems to be lost). 
Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. — montana Sells. (163 e) is a form with montana. 
a lighter distal margin. We figure a most contrasting specimen, though all kinds of transitions between these 
two colourings occur. It is to be found wherever contigua itself occurs. 
P. salacia Drc. (163 e) differs in its more reddish-brown instead of dark brown colouring, and besides salacia. 
in the almost straight distal margin of the forewing, which is distinctly convex in contigua. Costa Rica: Irazu. 
P. cirrata sp. n. (163 e) differs from contigua, montana and salacia in the distinctly curled hair of the cirrata. 
dark brown basal area pierced by light veins. The transverse light line is scarcely visible. Abdomen, thorax, 
legs light brown, head somewhat darker. Hindwing even somewhat lighter than the broad distal margin of 
the forewing. The distal-marginal line in both wings, which is interrupted by the veins in the other species, 
is entirely absent here. Peru: San Domingo, Carabaya (G. Ockenden). Type in the Tring Museum. The 
type has much longer, more pectinated antennae than the specimens at hand of the other species of this group. 
Not one $ of all the species of the contigua- group has become known so far. 
Dimidiata- group. 
This group comprises four closely allied species which are rather variable individually and occur in 
most different districts; they can be distinguished from each other by certain marks in the male and female 
sexual form. 
P. dimidiata H.-S. (Limacodes dimidiatus H.-S. = Meg. [Gois Dyar ] nigrescens Schs., Cyclara [Repnoa dimidiata. 
Dyar ] amarga Schs., Meg. farmbri Kaye) (163 e) is variable in the veins, size, colouring, and marking. It has 
a wide range: Mexico (Tabasco) as far as Sa. Catharina and Peru. The species is discernible from the others 
by its thin, fragile body inclusive of the thinly scaled resp. hairy wings, and the specimens are smaller on an 
average and have narrower wings. The colouring of the basal area of the forewing is from dark brown to black 
and more extensive at the distal margin, generally leaving only a small part of the apex free, which is light 
brown or white. Hindwing in both sexes blackish hyaline, with a narrow light distal margin. 
P. thanatos Schs. (163 f). The dark basal area of the forewing is lighter below the cell and terminates thanatos. 
distally in pointed zigzag curves which are edged white outside. Hindwing from light brown to whitish, fringe 
blackened at the distal margin, more rarely at the inner margin. The $ is much darker, the hindwing as well 
as the distal margin and apex of the forewing are pierced by light veins; therefore also the white edging of the 
basal area of the forewing is more distinct. Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Guiana, Colombia, Peru, but 
not observed in South-Eastern Brazil. 
P. arpi Schs. (163 f). The border between the black basal area and the light brown distal-marginal arpi. 
and apical part of the £ forewing is irregularly dentate, but not in distinct zigzag curves, though it is also edged 
with white distally. A vertical row of cloudy dark spots in the distal-marginal area. Hindwing light, blackish 
at the base and inner margin. $ similar to the rather thinly scaled and similar to dimidiata- $ from which, 
however, it differs in the broader light distal margin of the forewing, especially near the angle. South-Eastern 
Brazil: Minas Geraes, Rio de Janeiro, on the Itatiaya, Sao Paulo, Sa. Catharina. 
P. walkerensis nom. nov. (= dimidiata \Ocha\ Wkr. is preoccupied by dimidiata H.-S.) (163 f, g). The walkercnsis 
species is about midway between thanatos and arpi. the light distal margin of the forewing near the angle 
is marked with pointed black spots, so that a white zigzag line is produced. Hindwing intensely blackened 
at the inner margin. hindwing similar to thanatos, forewing distinctly defined light brown in the apical 
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