( 498) 



plate, however, the name aeiieides appears instead. No mention of this new name 

 being made anywhere in the text, we think Espc'r was not responsible for it, bnt 

 the engraver of the plate, aeneides being perhaps a missjielling of aeneas. Anyhow, 

 as the name aeneides was proposed for a supposed species of which the "female" 

 had already a name {aeneas L.), aeneides is a synonym of this older name 



aeneas.* 



Hiibncr introduced for the same two insects the name of (jn n/as,/s. This 

 name, covering exactly the same species as aeneides, is a pure synonym of the 



latter. 



The first name given to a specimen of the present species alone is neophiliis. 

 We employ it accordingly for the entire species. We add that the name aeneides 

 on Esper's plate was entirely overlooked or perhaps sujipressed by tlie older 

 authors. Gray introduced it again, erroneously referring it to the Para form of 

 the present insect. 



S. Cell of hindwing red, except extreme base. The cell-patch and more or 

 less also the bases of the spots around the cell have a purplish appearance, owing 

 to the presence of black scales among the red ones. On the underside, the red 

 area is reduced to a row of spots standing distally of the cell ; these spots are 

 pale, the upper scales being white, transparent. 



? . Resembles that sex of P. li/sander and aylaope, but is easily distinguished 

 by the different position of M- of the hindwing, this vein originating from cell as 

 much proximally (or nearly as much) as vein SC-, the cell therefore being almost 

 symmetrical in P. neophilus. From P. eurimedes, which has practically the same 

 nenration as neophilus, the latter is distinguished by the forewing bearing two 

 or three white patches on disc and a streak in cell, or being devoid of white 

 patches, or being intermediate between these extremes ; there is never a patch 

 across the cell, as in areas. 



Genitalia: S. Harpe truncate or oblicjuely rounded, usually with three long 

 apical teeth, sometimes with four, many specimens bearing one or two small 

 additional teeth ; sometimes, especially often in Peruvian specimens, there is a 

 row of minute teeth at the ventral edge. 

 Early stages not known. 



Eah. Colombia to Bolivia and Paraguay, the range extending eastwards to 

 Southern Brazil, the Lower Amazons, Trinidad, and to the Guiauas ; not found 

 in the western districts of Ecuador and Colombia ; also not, occurring in Brazil from 

 Rio de Janeiro to Pernambuco, being here replaced by P. zat'i/nthus. 



The subspecies are not very sharply defiued in characters. Unlike P. li/sandei; 

 the males from the various fauuistic districts are fairly well separated, while the 

 females of some of the geograjihical races come very close to each other, occasionally 

 overlapping in characters. In the Guianas the female has usually small or no 

 white patches, rarely fairly large ones. On tlie Upper Amazons and on the 

 eastern slopes of the Andes from Peru to Colombia, the forewing never bears 

 distinctly marked spots, while in Venezuela and Trinidad, on the Lower Amazons, 

 and in Bolivia, Paraguay, Matto Grosso, and Southern Brazil, the white spots are 

 always large. Bates did not meet with the s])ecies at the Middle Amazons, bnt it 

 is hardly likely that it is entirely absent from that district. We have it from the 

 Rio Jnrn^ and Mandos (received from dealers), and Felder descrilied a specimen 

 from the Rio Negro. 



• See r. 418. 



