Tifama chera (Drury, 1773)

Drury, D. (1773). Illustrations of natural history. Wherein are exhibited
upwards of two hundred and forty figures of exotic insects, according to their
different genera ... With a particular description of each insect: interspersed
with remarks and reflections on the nature and properties of many of them. Vol.
II. London: B. White, p. 36, pl. XX, fig. 4. Described in the genus Phalaena
(Phalaena Noctua chera; the name is given in the index of the volume).

Fig. IV. Expands two inches and three-eighths.

Upper-side.--The Antennae are like threads, gradually diminishing to their
extremities.--The Eyes are black.--The Head, Thorax, and Abdomen are of a
greyish russet.--All the Wings are the same colour nearly as the preceding
insect.--The Superior having a dark brown irregular line, running near the
posterior and external edges, to the anterior near the tips.--The Inferior Wings
are of one entire colour, without any marks whatever on them.

Under-side.--All the parts on this side are of the same colour as the upper,
without any marks whatever on them. All the wings are plain.

I received it from Surinam.

I have not met with it in any author.

The "preceding insect" is Fig. III of the same plate (Phalaena egle), p. 36:

Fig. III. Expands an inch and seven-eighths.

Upper-side.--The Antennae are grey, and a little pectinated, discoverable by a
microscope.--The Head is grey likewise.--The Neck cream-coloured.--The Thorax
grey.--The Abdomen yellow, with seven small black spots placed along the
middle.--All the Wings are of a grey ash colour, without any spots or marks
whatever on them.

Under-side.--The Palpi are small.--The Tongue is curled up.--The Abdomen is pale
yellow.--All the Wings are the same grey colour on this side as on the upper,
without any marks or spots. The edges of all the wings are plain.

I received it from New York.

I have not seen it in any author.

Stoll, C. ([1780]). In: Cramer, P., De uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de
drie Waereld-Deelen Asia, Africa en America (Papillons exotiques des trois
parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique), vol. 4: p. 39, pl. CCCVIII,
fig. E. As Phalaena chera.

Translated from the Dutch and French original: Fig. E. Chera. Has thread-like
antennae and a curled tongue; the wings are beneath of the same colour as the
hindwings on the upper side. It belongs among the Phal. Noct. of Mr. Linnaeus.
It is found in Surinam. Drury, Ins. Tom. II. Tab. 20. Fig. 4. Phal. Chera.

Stoll, C. ([1780]). Same work, vol. 4: p. 36, pl. CCCVII, fig. E. As Phalaena
altrix (a synonym of chera).

Translated from the Dutch and French original: Fig. E. Altrix. The white spot on
the hindwings is somewhat transparent. Beneath, the forewings are grey, the
hindwings like their upper side. Its antennae are plumose and the tongue is
short. They are found in Surinam.

Draudt, M. (1933). Lusura. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of the
World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 1010, pl. 154 a (German
edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 6: 1010, 1932). As Lusura altrix.

L. altrix Stoll (= chera Stoll, megalops Sepp, simois Wkr.) (154 a) is not
dissimilar to discalis; forewing somewhat lighter brownish, darkened blackish
only before the antemedian line and behind the distally broadly lighter
postmedian line in the shape of broad shadowy bands, transverse lines slightly
notched, the distal cell-end not lighter; a fine black streak at the cell-end,
and a submarginal row of fine blackish internerval streaks, a thicker subapical
longitudinal streak. Hindwing whitish. Guiana, Colombia.

The discalis paragraph it refers to, same work, p. 1010:

L. discalis Wkr. has blackish-grey forewings strewn with brown, the darker, only
curved, not dentate transverse lines hardly noticable in the dark ground; the
exterior cell-end shaped like a quadrangular spot is filled with light
reddish-brown, its distal border being formed by a straight fine black cell-end
streak; instead of the undulate line there is a slight brightening behind which
there is one fine black longitudinal streak subapically and at the anal angle.
Hindwing white with a grey marginal band. Brazil.