1198 
RHODONEURA. By M. Gaede. 
apicialis. 
bullita. 
hedilalis. 
mesosticta. 
fulviceps. 
lunula. 
trigoniphora. 
oxydata. 
albipunctu- 
la. 
gracilis. 
R. apicialis Pagst. (= erythrinalis Pagst.) (173 e) looks almost like a small lighter nebulosa (173 f). 
The white apex is quite straightly cut off. 30 mm. Peru, apparently not rare in Costa Rica, hedilalis Whr. 
is also very similar to apicialis. 
R. bullita Pimps. Body and wings dark red-brown. Forewing with numerous small round white spots. 
The ground-colour forms indistinct interior, median and exterior bands. The median band is widened at the 
cell-end, a fourfold row of spots behind the exterior band between veins 6 and 2. The apical spot as in nebulosa 
(173 f). Hindwing also with numerous white spots between which the ground-colour forms indistinct bands. 
Black patches below and behind the cell as in nebulosa. 52—56 mm. 2 BS known from Peru. 
R. hedilalis W At. Thorax and forewing reddish brown with an'ochreous marking. A bent median band 
does not always reach to the inner margin. Next to it, partly fused with it, faded below vein 5 as far as the 
distal margin, brownish ochreous, only in the middle of the inner margin there is yet a more or less isolated 
notch of the red-brown ground-colour. A sharply cut off light spot at the apex. All the yellow places with 
fine red-brown reticular lines. Hindwing ochreous, somewhat reddish. The beginning of a red-brown band 
at the middle of the inner margin. A distinct black dot at the cross-vein. The whole wing with fine dark 
reticular lines. 26—35 mm. Chiriqui, Peru, Brazil. 
R. mesosticta Pimps. Body pale yellowish brown. Wings whitish, densely striated with pale yellowish 
brown lines. A somewhat distinct median line, slightly incurved in the cell, then undulate. A brown spot 
between it and the exterior line above vein 1, then a brown spot at the costal margin; at the ends of the cross- 
vein 1 black dot each. Exterior line brown, incurved as far as vein 5, where it is extra-angular, more inward 
as far as vein 3, in the submedian fold near the median line. From the exterior line, at vein 5, a branch pro¬ 
ceeds to the submarginal line in the submedian fold. Submarginal line undulated. Two dark spots at the 
costal margin near the apex. Hindwing whitish with dense yellowish brown reticular lines. Three more di¬ 
stinct lines in the median area from vein 2 to the inner margin. A black dot at the lower cell-angle. $ 44 mm. Peru. 
R. fulviceps Fldr. (173 g). Head and end of abdomen yellow, all the rest dark violet. Both wings with 
numerous dark brown thick and irregular transverse lines. 28 mm. Amazons. 
R. lunula Fldr. (173 f) is a large, beautiful species with most remarkable dark reticulations.' The genus 
Belonoptera H.-Schdff. differs from Rhodoneura only in the very pointed apex of both wings. In lunula the 
hindwing is much more pointed than in the other Rhodoneura, but as the forewing is normal, the species re¬ 
mains better here, although Warren places it to Belonoptera. Body and wings dark orange, Avith numerous 
fine dark brown reticular lines. The forewing besides with an interior line, at first extending outward at the 
median vein, then bent round and very obliquely inward. Median band formed by a bundle of lines, straight, 
very obliquely inward, forked at the costal margin and inner margin. Behind it at vein 3 a spot from which 
a short line extends to the anal angle. A straight line from the costal margin near the apex to the margin 
at vein 4. Hindwing with a line from the middle of the costal margin to % inner margin, a thick silvery spot 
close behind it at the cross-vein. A spot at vein 3 as on the forewing also with an adjoining line, and an api¬ 
cal line. 65—70 mm. Brazil. 
R. trigoniphora Hmps. Hampson ranges this small species after the gigantic lunula, though it seems 
to be more allied to anastomosalis. Wings red-brown, with a golden gloss, with darker reticular lines. Fore- 
Aving Avith 3 grey triangular spots at the costal margin, and grey at the apex. Of the numerous transverse lines 
there are two exterior ones more prominent, distantly separated at the costal margin, united close above the 
inner margin. Besides an oblique submarginal line. Hindwing with two white spots at the cross-vein and a 
dark spot above the middle of the inner margin, q 22 mm. Brazil. 
R. oxydata Jones (173 e). Body dark brown. Forewing lighter brown, silvery spots at the costal margin 
are formed of hair-lines, and a few similar ones at the inner margin in the basal area connected by some silvery 
scales. A dark red-broAvn oval spot, divided by bluish, situate above :3 /4 inner margin, extending to the upper 
cell-edge. Three yellow metallic spots behind the cell, a larger one at the anal angle. Small silvery blue spots 
at the margin. HindAving brown. Fine blue lines at the base, blue dots and rings also in the apical area. A 
red-brown band from the middle of the inner margin almost to the costal margin, a black spot behind it in the 
submedian fold, the anal area behind it brass-coloured. Near the apex a large red-brown spot and a feAv small 
ones. 26 -30 mm. Type $ from Santos. We figure a $ from the Itatiaya from the Senckenberg Museum. 
R. albipunctula Pagst. (180 g). By the long abdomen it resembles the tAvo following otherwise quite 
different species. Body and wings brown with a slight reddish lustre. The only marking on both wings are 
two black dots at the cross-vein, beside dark dots distributed over the wings and somewhat less dark fine lines. 
Hindwing with a rather pointed apex. <$ 22 mm. Peru. 
R. gracilis Mschlr. (173 g). This species and the 3 following ones differ besides from the others in their 
very narroAV forewings. The type from Surinam is not very well preserved, for which reason my description 
refers to another specimen from Bolivia. Body light red-brown. Forewmg also red-broAvn as far as a line 
A'ertically on the middle of the inner margin. Exterior band someAvliat darker, slightly inward, somewhat 
