RHODONEURA. By M. Gaede. 
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the middle of the inner margin. Besides a narrow median band to the anal angle. The apical spot is dark, 
its interior edge bent. 1 <J, 30 mm, from British Guiana. 
R. ophiographa Hmps. Body and wings red-brown with a violet shine and somewhat whitish. Fore- ophiographa. 
wing with darker brown strigae. Interior band oblique, pale, laterally edged with black and white lines, ex¬ 
tending to the median vein, a round white spot below it. A similar median band from the costal margin to 
the inner margin, with undulating edges, widened at the costal margin and enclosing a small red-brown spot 
at the costal margin. Exterior band forked at the costal margin, broader below vein 2, extra-angular behind 
the cell. A black spot at the lower cell-angle. Submarginal line fine, black, obliquely inward at the apex, 
forming oblique pale-centred spots at veins 4 and 3. Hindwing with a basal and median band of white spots 
edged with dark brown, a small white postcellular spot behind the median band. Exterior band of irregular 
spots. 38 mm. Peru, described according to two <$£. 
R. euprepes Hmps. Body and wings pale rusty brown. Forewing with a silky gloss, with numerous euprepes. 
uniform indistinct red-brown strigae. Hindwing with an oblique red basal line. $ 20 mm. British Guiana. 
R. myrtaea Drury is preferably Indian and distributed as far as the Sunda-Islands. Cf. Vol. X, p. 755 
and pi. 91 k. It seems doubtful whether it really occurs in the West Indies. 
R. furva Warr. (173 e) may be merely a form of myrtaea. Thorax iron grey, abdomen brick-red. Fore- jurva. 
wing light reddish brown, lighter at the costal margin, with numerous dark faded short transverse streaks. 
An indistinct dark spot at the cell-end, a silvery hyaline black-edged spot below it under vein 3. Hindwing 
slightly darker, redder, the cellular spot black. 26 mm. San Domingo, Cayenne. 
R. myrsusalis Wkr. (173 e) is also widely distributed, similar to myrtaea. It has been treated upon in myrsusalis. 
Vol. X, p. 755 and pi. 91 k, and also figured in Vol. II, on pi. 56 f. Further names given to specimens from 
the South-American Regions are: cinereola Fldr., radiata Pagst., scallula Gn. Body and wings greyish brown 
with dark strigae. — fk.va’iis Dgn. is ochreous with much less striation of a pinkish brown. Forewing with flavalis. 
many white spots. A large one below" the base of vein 3; besides 4 smaller spots below" vein 2, all of which 
are edged with pinkish brown. Moreover a spot between veins 5 and 6 behind the cell, and 3 at the margin, 
two of which are in the middle, one at the anal angle. Cayenne. — immaculata Mschlr., contrary to flavalis, immaculata. 
shows no light spots at all. Porto Rico, Brazil. — We figure a $ from Brazil, taken by Zikan in the Itatiaya 
Mts. on the 26th of November 1926. 
R. gilva Hmps. Body and wings creamy white, slightly tinged with red-brown. Forewing more in- gilva. 
tensely red-brown in the basal area and at the costal margin as far as beyond the middle. A few dark dots at 
the costal margin. The interior and median lines of brown streaks. A small square hyaline spot below the 
cell-end, laterally edged with brown. Exterior line of brown double streaks, filled with red-brown between 
veins 3 and 1. A series of dark brown streaks from the costal margin near the apex to the margin at vein 1. 
Hindwing with a few red-brown streaks and a curved brown median line. $ 14 mm. Sa. Lucia. 
R. extravagans Warr. (173 e) is also allied with myrsusalis. Greyish brown with dense dark strigae. extravagans. 
Forewing with a brownish orange spot in the middle between the subcostal and submedian veins, containing 
several whitish hyaline spots between the veins, besides a few spots in the submedian fold. Hindwing without 
markings. 30 mm. Upper Amazon R. 
R. pammicra Dyar. Bronze brown with dark brown reticular lines. Forewing with 2 lines forming pammicra. 
an exterior band widening at the costal margin, one of the lines being distinct and straight. Hindwing with 
stronger reticular lines enclosing a pale elliptical spot which extends to the costal margin, and one at the anal 
angle. Besides a few fine streaks. 14 mm. Taboga I. (Panama). 
R. amethystea Fldr. (173 g) seems to be little known and may be identical with aurifera Hmps. which amethystea. 
was placed far off by H amps on. We describe the species according to Felder’s figure. Forevdng reddish brown 
with a violet shine and few dark reticular lines. Yellowish white spots at the costal margin, an oblique rect¬ 
angular one before the middle as far as the lower cell-angle, adjoining to it inside a narrow spot as far as the 
base. A flatly triangular spot behind the main spot, and an obliquely cut off apical spot. Hindwing paler, 
with few and fine reticular lines. $ 30 mm. Amazons. 
R. nebulosa Warr. (= rotundula Pagst.) (173 f). One of the commonest species. Body and wings in- nebulosa. 
tensely red-brown with ochreous bands and spots of variable extensions. Forewing with a yellow median band, 
broad at the costal margin, extra-angular below it; then narrower vertical to the inner margin. Yellow spots 
before it towards the base, almost absent or also in numbers. An exterior band of round yellow spots, often 
with black scales inside, the band extra-angxdar at vein 6, mostly interrupted above it, often double below 
the angle. An isolated spot at the margin below the apex. Hindwing mostly more ochreous, with blackish 
brown spots and scales behind the cell. Traces of a red-brown median band at the inner margin. 42— 60 mm. 
Brazil, Bolivia, Peru. 
