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S. gertrudans Dyar. Wings obtuse, dark umber-brown, with a slight reddish tint, blackish stripes r/ertrudans. 
through the cell and submedianly, the dots extinct. Hindwing purple brown in various shades. Expanse of 
wings: <$ SO—35 mm; $ unknown. Mexico. 
S. permessa n. sp. resembles gertrudans , but it has distinct large yellow dots on the forewing. Expanse permessa. 
of wings: $ 31 mm; 2 unknown. Brazil (Minas Geraes). 
S. sabis n. sp. differs from permessa in the subapical dots forming a narrow continuous line. Hind- sab is 
wing lighter. Expanse of wings: <$ 30 mm; $ unknown. Peru. 
S. quellans Dyar. Forewing pointed, glossy dark brown with contrasting areas, subapical and sub- quellans. 
basal reddish spots, without dots. Hindwing rather dark brown. Expanse of wings: 30 mm: 2 unkown. 
Colombia. 
S. rollans Dyar. Wings obtuse quadrangular, light pinkish red-brow n with a narrow blackish stripe rollans. 
below the cell, the inner-marginal area below it bronze red. Hindwing rather dark reddish brown. Expanse 
of wings: £ 25—27 mm; $ unknown. Guiana, Peru, Brazil (Amazons). 
S. eucleides Dyar. Wings obtuse, costal and inner margins almost parallel, dark blackish brown with eucleides. 
one subbasal white dot and 3 small subapical ones. Hindwing rather dark purple brown. Expanse of wings: 
32—34 mm; $ unknown. Brazil. Paraguay. 
S. francescans Dyar resembles eucleides, but it is somewhat less dark brown, and the black stripe francescans. 
below the median vein is more distinct. Genital apparatus different (cf. synopsis). Expanse of wings: 36 mm: 
2 unknown. Bolivia, Colombia (Rio Negro). 
S. quadratilla sp. n. is allied to the following zellans, but of a more mahogany-red ground-colour, the quadmtilla. 
forewing with a dark stripe along the median vein as far as the apex the centre of which is grey. Expanse 
of wings: $ 33 mm; 0 unknown. French Guiana. 
S. zellans Dyar. Forewing narrow, pointed; hindwing triangular with a straight distal margin; dark zellans. 
purple brown, without any markings. Hindwing almost as dark as forewing. Expanse of wings: <$ 37 mm; 
2 unknown. Brazil (Para). 
S. berthans Dyar is like the preceding species, but blacker, with less pointed forewings; the distal berthans. 
margin of the triangular hindwing convex. $ less intensely blackish, with a red apical spot and a yellowish 
subapical stripe. Hindwing lighter brown. Expanse of wings: £ 34, $ 54 mm. Paraguay. 
S. sarans Dyar is a small dark species with obtuse wings, with small white subbasal and subapical sarans. 
dots. Hindwing dark brown. Similar in marking to stimulea, but the penis is spined. Expanse of wings: 
$ 23 mm; $ unknown. Guatemala. 
S. pauper Dyar (164 e). Monotonously very light purple brown; hindwing still lighter, veins and inner pauper. 
margin of a pinkish reddish tint. Expanse of wings: £ 21—28 mm; 2 unknown. Mexico. 
S. nesea Stoll (= vidua Sepp, fumosa Wlcr.) (164 e). Forewing glossy, very dark brown, with a silvery nesea. 
shine at the inner margin towards the anal angle, a narrow subapical silver streak, and subbasally with silvery 
dentate lines which are quite indistinctly connected. Hindwing much lighter brown, darker at the inner 
margin. Expanse of wings: $ 35—40, £ 52 mm. Larva elliptical, flattened, the anterior and posterior sub¬ 
dorsal horns long, the lateral ones rather long, too; light green, the horns purple, a quadrangular grass-green 
spot in the centre of the dorsum is framed by a yellow quadrangle. Guatemala, Costa Rica. Panama, Colombia, 
Venezuela, Guiana, Peru. Brazil (Amazons). 
S. stimulea Clem (164 f). Dark red-brown, glossy, the cliscal and submedian areas shaded blackish; stimulea. 
the subbasal and subapical dots white, rather large, the latter in one line, confluent in the 2. Hindwing dark 
brown. Expanse of wings: 20—26, $ 28—38 mm. Larva elliptical, arched, the subdorsal horns on the 5th 
and 11th segments long, the others short; purple brown with a large bright green spot in the centre of the 
dorsum, extending laterally down to below the horns of the 11th segment and enclosing a purple spot dorsallv. 
all of them edged with white; one yellow dorsal spot each between the horns of the 5th and 11th segments, 
two larger spots behind them. It lives on many shrubs and trees. Massachusetts, New York. Maryland. 
Virginia, Florida. — A form differing neither in the colouring nor in the genital apparatus, but which may 
nevertheless be a good species, occurs in Paraguay ( 1896, Heyne, Dognin Coll.), and a red form, probably 
also from Tropical America, is newly described (Zoolog. Museum, Berlin) as — ausa n. /. ansa. 
S. apicalis Dyar (164 f) resembles stimulea, but it has broader wings, the hindwings are lighter brown, apiealis. 
the dots yellow and more extensive, sometimes augmented by a stripe in the cell. Expanse of wings: <$ 25 
to 35, 2 35—50 mm. Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica. 
