364 RHOPALOCEKA. 



SPIONIADES. 



Spioniades, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schm. p. 114 (1816); Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 58. 



Papilio artemides, Cramer, has been designated the type of this genus by Hiibner, 

 and with it Nerula abbreviate/, and N. pelia of M. Mabille must be associated. Nerula 

 nautes of the same author, which Mr. Watson considers the type of the genus Nerula, 

 belongs elsewhere ; and having tufts (in the male) on the secondaries, just as in Cogia 

 chalcas, had best be placed next the genus Cogia, if not merged with it *. 



The antennae are like those of the other members of this section, having a rather 

 stout club with a short attenuated end. The palpi have a short porrect terminal joint. 

 The primaries are blunt, almost truncate, the outer margin being much rounded ; the 

 cell is less than two-thirds of the length of the wing, the subcostal branches well sepa- 

 rated, the fourth subcostal segment considerably shorter than either of the two segments 

 preceding it, the lower and middle discocellulars subequal and slightly oblique, the 

 third median segment very short, the second longer than the first ; the secondaries are 

 slightly produced at the anal angle, the discocellulars and radial very feeble, the third 

 median segment very short, the first median and first subcostal subequal. Hind tibiae 

 with two pairs of well-developed spurs, which are fringed along their sides next the 

 joint; there is also a long tuft of hairs from the inside of the proximal end of the 

 tibiae. 



The range of Spioniades extends from Nicaragua to Bolivia and the Brazilian 

 provinces of Matto Grosso and Minas Geraes. 



1. Spioniades artemides. (Tab. LXXXII. figg. 28, 29, 30 s .) 



Papilio artemides, Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 391. ff. L, M \ 



Spioniades artemides, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schm. p. 114 2 ; Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 59 3 . 



Alis anticis nigricantibus, squamis caerulescentibus sparsim atomatis, punctis quatuor subapicalibus in figura 

 quadrata positis semihyalinis, alteris tribus (una costali duabus in cellula) lineisque angustis infra 

 cellulam ejusdem eoloris ; posticis ad basin nigricantibus, angulo apicali brunneo, dimidio distali albo, 

 maculis submarginalibus fuscis ea ad angulum analem maxima : subtus anticis et dimidio posticarum 

 proximo fusco-nigricantibus, barum dimidio distali albo, maculis submarginalibus nullis : palpis infra 

 griseis, abdomine ad apicem albo. 



Hal. Panama, Chiriqui {Bible, in mus. Staudinger), Lion Hill (M'Leannan). — 

 Venezuela; Amazons Valley ; Guiana 1 ; South Brazil. 



In Cramer's figure of this species the hyaline spots of the primaries are scarcely 

 shown, and the secondaries have a more continuous dark border, which is not broken 



* We have specimens from Dr. Staudinger named Nerula nautes which agree with the types of ffesperia 

 Jlbrena, Hew., in the British Museum. The latter specific name, given in 1877, has several years' priority, 

 and the species must stand as Nerula Jlbrena (Hew.). If the name Cogia is rejected for the reason already 

 stated (anted, p. 338), and Nerula prove to be congeneric, the latter name may be used instead of the former 

 for this genus. 



