Ptibl. 31. X. 1936. 
DRACONIA. By M. Gaede. 
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I. Hindwing without an excision at the apex, the distal margin rather uniformly notched. Both wings with 
two points at the apex. 
D. denticulata Pagst. (175 g). The forewing somewhat extra-angular at veins 3 and 4. with 2 excisions deniiculata. 
at the anal angle. Ground-colour yellow, the marking red-brown, of a variable extent, dull. Forewing mostly 
with a narrow interior band, the median band very broad in front, often extinct between the middle of the 
cell and vein 2, then narrowly to the inner margin. Submarginal band very narrow in the middle, broadly 
triangular at the costal and inner margins. Besides numerous fine reticular lines. Hindwing only with a rather 
indistinct median band, narrower in the middle. The bands are more distinct beneath. 40—45 mm. Chiriqui. 
crassiorata form. nov. (175 g) is much more intensely and contrarily marked. The ground-colour with its crassiorata. 
reticular lines is not different, but the bands are broad, dark red-brown. The whole costal margin of the fore¬ 
wing is red-brown as far as vein 7, and so is the inner margin as far as the median band. The interior band 
is distinct, narrow, the median band strangulated above vein 2, the submarginal band interrupted, its apical 
part situate a little farther outside. Hindwing likewise with a very distinct median band. Beneath only the 
forewing is paler, red-brown at the costal margin, the bands less distinct than above. $ 40 mm. South Brazil. 
Type in the Senckenberg Museum, no particular habitat mentioned; another specimen from Brazil in the same 
Museum. 
II. Hindwing with an excision or truncate at the apex above vein 7. 
D. peripheta Cr. (175 e). Forewing only with a slight excision at the anal angle, the margin undulated peripheta. 
in both wings. Wings red-brown with yellow hyaline spots partly crossed by red-brown reticular lines. A few 
separated spots at the base of the forewing. A very distinct median and exterior band, and one at the middle 
of the distal margin. Hindwing with predominating hyaline places. An irregular red-brown median band, 
more or less interrupted. More extensively red-brown enclosing hyaline spots at the apex and anal angle. With 
an expanse of 85—90 mm it is the largest Thyridid known. Chiriqui and in the West Indies. 
D. accipitrma Warr. (175 d) is likewise very large. Both wings with a pointed apex, the distal margin accipiirina. 
undulated. Ground-colour whitish yellow, veins and reticular lines pale brown, the bands dark brown. The 
base of the fore wing is faded brown. A broad oblique band proceeds from the middle of the inner margin, and 
a coniform spot from the anal angle, both uniting above vein 5, from where they extend as a broad band to 
% costal margin. The whitish transparent ground-colour is therefore reduced to a narrow oblique band between 
the basal spot and the median band, it extends to below the costal margin. Besides a broader light postmedian 
band, extending to vein 5, and 3 round hyaline spots between veins 4 and 7. Apex whitish. Hindwing narrowly 
brown at the base. The double band like that of the forewing. The central area narrower, numerous hyaline 
spots at the apex. A brown streak from % costal margin to a brownish cloud at the middle of the distal margin. 
70 mm. Described according to 1 £ from Bogota. 
The following species exhibit a larger excision at the anal 
angle of the forewing, and a smaller one above it. 
D. mirabilis Stgr. (175 d) is the strangest Thyridid. Distal margin undulated only on the hindwing, mirahilis. 
Wings somewhat oblong. Forewing pale red-brown. Costal margin interrupted narrowly light in the distal 
half. Broad hyaline spots at the inner margin as far as the cell and vein 3, one near the base, one each before 
and behind the middle. Marginal area pale brown. Hindwing with a hyaline spot behind the cross-vein. A 
somewhat darker band behind it. The exterior band light, distinct only at the inner margin. Darker red-brown 
spots at the light costal margin. $ 70 mm. Peru. 
D. rusina Drc. (175 f). Distal margin not undulated in both wings. Dull red-brown with hyaline spots, rusina. 
An interior and median spot in the submedian fold, one above them at the cross-vein, divided by dark lines. 
A larger group of spots in the marginal area upwards as far as vein 5, small ones also above them. Hindwing 
with a group of spots at the base at the inner margin and a stripe from the anal angle to the middle of the 
costal margin. In my only specimen the costal margin of the forewing is not nearly so distorted as it is on 
Deuce’s figure, and the little tail on the hindwing is quite inconspicuous. 52—56 mm. Guatemala, Panama, 
Venezuela. 
D. angulipennis Dgn. Forewing with 2 excisions at the anal angle, then straight as far as beyond vein 3, angulipen- 
where it is well angled or bent, the apex somewhat prominent. Hindwing straight from the anal angle to the 
apex, slightly angled at the veins. Ground-colour chocolate brown with a lilac gloss, with fine black irregular 
lines. Costal margin of forewing fine white. In spite of this short description, the species will be recognized 
by the straight distal margin of the hindwing. $ 38 mm. Colombia. 
D. stenoptila Warr. (175 h). Distal margin undulated in both wings. The shape of the wings is oblong, stenoptila. 
Forewing brownish ochreous, the marking dark brown. Irregularly dull brown at the costal margin. Inner 
margin dark brown in the middle, from where two dark oblique bands proceed; one of them in the middle to 
a quadrangular subcostal spot behind the cell; the other one forked, from the anal angle and before it, united 
above the middle and extending to a broad triangular subcostal spot near the apex. The rest of the wing with 
numerous brown reticular lines. Hindwing with a spot at the base and a broad interior band, the rest with 
brown reticular lines. $ 32 mm. Trinidad, Honduras, stenoptila resembles a small light denticulata. 
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