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RHODONEURA. By M. Gaede. 
sparsireta. 
terminalis. 
tigridula. 
acygoniata. 
configurata. 
mescemem- 
na. 
leucosticta. 
the transverse lines brownish ochreous. Two black spots at the inner margin near the base. Hindwing with 
black lines ot the inner margin and the neighbouring distal margin. The hyaline spots are less numerous than 
on the forewing. $ 28 mm. Amazons. Only this one specimen seems to exist. 
12. Genus: Itliodonesira Gn. 
Only a small number (about 6 species) of the approximately 300 species of this genus occur in the palae- 
arctic regions and also only at the limits of the fauna in China and Japan. A larger number of species occur 
in Africa, and the rest is divided among the Indo-Australian and American Faunae (77 species). All that is 
necessary has already been told about the genus in Yol. II, p. 373, moreover in Yol. X, p. 754, and Yol. XIV, 
p. 491. In both wings there are not any veins stalked. Type: pudicula Gn. from Java. 
1. Antennae o f d pectin nated, of $ serrated. 
R. sparsireta Hmps. (180 h). Pale yellow, the lines red-brown. Forewing with a slightly excurved 
interior line. The median line somewhat stronger, forked at the costal margin, then oblicpiely inward, straight, 
slightly split also at the inner margin. The exterior line straightly outward as far as vein 6, inward as far as vein 3, 
outward to the submedian fold, where it is broadly forked. The upper angle is almost touched by the inwardly 
bent oblique apical line. Hindwing with a line bent median line, the exterior line similar to that of the fore- 
wing. Both wings besides with fine reticular lines. Beside the type there is another larger, darker d at hand, 
densely covered with uniform lines, d 18 to 28 mm. Cuba. 
2. Antennae o f d only thickened. 
R. terminalis Wkr. Pale reddish grey, with reddish spots, abdomen very long. The narrow forewing 
is rounded at the apex. A short black bent streak at the cross-vein. Hindwing with a pointed apex, the streak 
at the cross-vein shorter. 35 mm. San Domingo. 
R. tigridula Gn. (173 e). Forewing with a ponded apex and an angle at the middle of the distal margin, 
hindwing triangular. Both wings reddish brown, densely covered with lighter lines, not reticularly connected, 
but forming elongate rings. 32 mm. Cayenne. 
R. acygoniata Hmps. (180 li). Both wings with a pointed apex and angled at the middle of the distal 
margin. Pale red-brown with somewhat darker red-brown bands and a few lines. Somewhat darker at the 
base. Interior band extra-angular below the inner margin, then somewhat inward to the inner margin. Ex¬ 
terior band somewhat more extra-angular below the costal margin, then parallel with the interior band to the 
interior margin, distally forked above the inner margin. An angled apical band behind it, and a submarginal 
band beginning from vein 4. Hindwing with a somewhat darker interior and median band, narrower in the 
middle. Dark at the distal margin, very broad in front, ending pointed at the marginal angle. A feeble sub- 
marginal band behind it. G 32 mm. Colombia. 
R. corfigurata sp. n. (173 f). Similar to acygoniata in the shape of the wings and the scheme of markings, 
but larger, darker, more reddish. The angle on the hindwing is somewhat more rounded. Ground-colour 
somewhat hyaline. The interior band of the forewing projects considerably below the cell, not close under 
the costal margin. The median band is an oblique wedge ending pointed behind the base of vein 2. The ex¬ 
terior band is very much wider at the costal margin and especially at the inner margin than in acygoniata, 
otherwise similarly shaped. The margin from the apex to vein 4 is narrowly red-brown, then broader, but 
enclosing light spots of the ground-colour, united with the exterior band at vein 1. Besides there are single red- 
brown lines distributed over the forewing. Stronger red-brown reticular lines in the basal area of the hind¬ 
wing. The median band is present only in the anterior part, then broken up into lines. Apex broadly red- 
brown, similarly extensive as in acygoniata. The wing is covered with coarsely reticulated lines behind the 
median band. Ground-colour beneath yellow, the marking as above. $ 45 mm. Brazil. Type in the Sencken- 
berg Museum. 
R. mescememna Dyar shows the much smaller angle on the hindwing below the apex. Ground-colour 
lilac. Forewing with a few rows of black streaks. White at the apex with a black spot. A quadrangular red 
spot with black corners is at the cross-vein. Exterior band broadly red, widened at the costal margin. Marginal 
area with a reddish hue. Submarginal line dark, parted blackish at the angle of the wing. Hindwing dusted 
black and red in the interior third, divided before the middle by a reddish band which terminates as a white 
streak at the margin below the angle. 19 mm. Panama. Two specimens were found. 
R. leucosticta Hmps. Hindwing incised at the margin from the apex to vein 4, then excurved. Body 
dark brown. Forewing red-brown, dark brown in the marginal area, with a silvery lustre. Four indistinct narrow 
bands of dark streaks extend through the cell. Short black streaks behind the cell. An oblique dark median 
band from the cell to the inner margin, adjoining to it small white quadrangles hi the submedian fold. The 
exterior band from vein 6 obliquely to the inner margin, the submarginal line indistinct, bent. Hindwing pale 
red-brown, densely striated darker, forming reticular lines. Black dots at the base, at the cross-vein and in 
