372 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1018. 



(17) Coronidia evenus. 



Coronis evenus Blanch., C'uvier, Rejne Anim. Ins. pi. 145. f. '2 (1849) (J. 

 Coronis ducatrix Schauf., yung. Otiosus, i. p. 12 (1870) $. 

 Homidia snbevenus Strand, DeiUsch. Ent. Zeit. 1911. p. 645. <?. 



The male usually has only a few white scales in the cilia of the hindwing 

 towards apex, but sometuncs has the cilia wholly white towards apex ; it differs 

 from the male of C . briseis in the darli medial area of the forewing contrasting 

 much less strongly with the paler basal and postmedial areas, its edges more 

 irregular and waved, the subterminal line with a strong dark shade before it ; 

 the hindwing with the inner half of terminal area more variegated with grey. 



The female, Peru, Carabaya, La Oroya (Ockenden), m Coll. Rothschild, 

 has the head and thorax purplish red-brown and greyish, the abdomen grey- 

 brown ; forewing red-brown and grey mixed with some purple-red except on 

 terminal area, a whitish antemedial band suffused with brown, oblique and 

 narrowmg to%vards inner margin, its edges irregularly waved, a creamy white 

 postmedial band irrorated with brown on its inner side except towards costa, 

 rather oblique towards costa, then erect, its edges waved ; hindwing grey-brown 

 witli broad orange-yellow postmedial band slightly excurved below discal fold 

 and ending at vein 2, its edges waved, the inner half of terminal area variegated 

 with purple-red ; underside grey-brown, the forewing with the whitish post- 

 medial band as above, the hindwmg with the band creamy yellow tinged with 

 red and extending to the inner margin, a creamy white shade from vein 3 before 

 termen to tornus. 



Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru. 



b, Hindwing with the tail very short, rounded at extremity ; forewing 

 short and broad with the apex rounded. 



(18) *t Coronidia brachyura n. sp. 

 (J. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown ; frons with white lines at 

 sides ; palpi black-brown, the 2nd joint with white line in front, the joints ringed 

 witli white at extremities ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish 

 suffused with red-brown ; legs suffused with dark brown, the tibiae at extremities 

 and tarsi rmged with white. Forewing very dark reddish brown, the costa 

 with obscure blackish spots with greyish bars between them ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, blackish, oblique, sinuous ; medial lino blackish faintly 

 defined on inner side by grey, rather oblique to median nervure, then waved, a 

 small black discoidal spot just beyond it ; postmedial line blackish slightly 

 defined on outer side by grey, rather oblique towards costa, then erect and 

 waved ; an indistinct double crenulate dark subterminal Ime, ending at tornus ; 

 a series of oblique black striae in the interspaces before termen to vein 2, defined 

 on inner side by greyish. Hindwing very dark reddish brown ; the cilia pure 

 white except at base to below vein 7, then a sinuous black line before termen 

 to the tail on which there is a small round deep chocolate-brown spot before 

 its upper extremity, then deep chocolate-brown lunules before termen below 

 veins 4 and 3. Underside dark reddish brown ; forewing with two curved and 

 slightly waved dark postmedial lines filled in with greyish from costa to below 

 vein 4, the costal area beyond them greyish crossed by three famt waved dark 



