( 457 ) 



e. P. aeiieas locris subsp. nov. (PI. VI. fig. 20). 



<S. Like (/amis, red area of hindwiug rather larger, and spot M' — M'' of 

 underside of hindwing mostly obliterated. 



?. Similar to the Gniana ?-f. specularis. Forewing deeper black, the 



apical area being less transparent ; cell-patch larger, extending from M' to lower 

 aiigle, reaching ncarlj- across cell, the spots rather more sharply- defined and spot 



R' — M' longer; fringe with or without minute white spots. A row of six 



spots on hindwing, standing nearer cell tlian onter margin, bnt being ijnite remote 

 from cell, all separate, spot li^ — M' tlie largest ; fifth spot smaller than first, 

 and the sixth vestigial, both small on underside and separate. 



Hub. Bolivia. 



In the Tring Mnsenm : 'i i S , 2 ? ?, from : Mapiri ; Province Sara, S. Cruz 

 de la Sierra, April — June lOiU (J. Steinbach). 



/. P. aeneas bolivar Hew. (I85i>). 



PapiHo hiVirnr Hewitson, Tram. Ent. Sue. Loud. (2). i. p. 97. t. 10. fig. 2. J (1850) (.imazons) ; 

 Doiibl., Wastw. and Hew., Gen. D'mrii. Up. ii. p. .529 (1852) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. Im. Brit. Mas. i. 

 P«p. p. 57. n. 265. t. 10. fig. 7. ? (1S52) (E^a) ; Wall., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lund. (2). p. 256. 

 (1854) (Upper Amazons; forest) ; Gray, List Lep. Ins. Brit Mas. i. Pap. p. 69. n. 280 (1856) 

 (Ega) ; Bates, Trans. Ent. So/;. Land. (2). v. p. 342, 357 (1861) (Upper Amazons) ; id., Juarn. 

 A'«/";/i. I. p. 226. n. 15 (1862) (Upper Amazons, abundant, "local modification " of a«ncn«) ; 

 Felder, Vtrh.Z„<A. B„t. Ges. )!>« xiv. p. 29.5. n. 81 (1864) (Ega) ; Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. 

 p. 528. n. G3a (1871) (U|iper Amazons); Hopff., Stett. Ent. Zcit. xl. p. 50. n. 7 (1879; 

 (" Brazil '•) ; Oberth., El. tV Ent. iv. p. 96, 117. n. 2:i3 (1880) (Teffe ; Sao Paulo de Olivenva ; 

 Pebiis ; Iquitos) ; Staud., Ej-nt. Tagf. p. 19 (1884) ; Hahnel, Iris iii. p. 275 (1890) (S. Paulo 

 deOlivenyi) ; id., I.e. p. .307 (1889) (Jurimaguas) ; Haase, Untersueh. Mimicry i. p. 79 (1893) ; 

 Michael, Iris vii. p. 214 (1894) (Sao Paulo de Olivensa). 



Hates, I.e., considered this to be the Upper Amazonian form of P. aeneas, in 

 which he was doubtless right. The differences, thongh consjiicnous enough, are 

 not very trenchant. 



S. Green ])ateli of forewing as in the Peruvian subspecies, spot M- — SM^ 

 proxiiually rather more reduced than in most Peruvian and Bolivian males. lied 

 area of hindwing deeper red and smaller, the spots around the cell being reduced ; 

 these spfits without bright red tijis, or oidy spot R^ — M' with small red dot at 



apex; fringe with small wi}it,e sjiots. On underside all the spots of hindwing 



cream-colour, one or the other with a few red scales at the edge, spot M- — SM^ 

 much the largest. 



?. Forewing without wliite patcli ; fringe with white spots. Hindwing 



with tlie baud cream-colour injstead of red, last sjiot separate, often absent ; width 

 of band vaiiiilile. 



Hub. Upper Amazons ; Orinoco. 



Iii the Tring Museum : 8 c?c?, 5 ? ? , from : Maipures, Orinoco, December 1S98 

 (("henie) ; R. (^achyaco, affluent of R. lluallaga (Stuart); S. Paulo de 01iven(,'a ; 

 Tefle, January 1'.I(I4 (M. de Mathau). 



The fenuile resemliies that sex of the Peruvian subsj)ecies e.\cept in the 

 colour of the band. One of our males of the Bolivian subspecies has all the spots 

 of the underside of the hindwiug creain-coldur and cm the uji]ierside only the two 

 middle spots tipped with bright red. 



