NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXVI. 1919. 9 



Castnia licoides licoidella Strand 



Castnia licus licoidella Strand, in Seitz, MacroUp. Erde, vol. vi. p. 8. pi. 26 (1913) (Peru). 



1 believe this is nothing but an aberration occurring in all the races of 

 licoides, but until I can prove it I record here imder this name the specimens from 

 the Peruvian Amazons and Rio Negro. There are 5 specimens at Tring : 



2 (J (J, 1 ? Rio Negro (ex coll. Felder) ; 1 (J Iquitos, 1 ^ Rio Cachiaco (Max- 

 well Stuart). 



Castnia albomaculata Houlb. 



Castnia albomaculata Houlbert, Etud. Lipid. Camp. fasc. xiii. p. 59. pi. iv. f. 4 (1917) (Amazons, 

 Peru). 



This may turn out to be an extreme form of licoides, but apart from the 

 fact that both S and $ have the white subapical spots above, it appears that 

 a true licoides race occurs with this species in the Peruvian Amazons. 



There are two specimens at Tring : 



1 :J, 1 ? Bogota (Lindig, ex coll. Felder). 



Castnia albomaculata microsticta subsp. nov. 



This race differs from ulh. albomaculata in having the subapical white spots 

 above very small. 



There are 5 specimens of it at Tring : 



4 SS San Ramon, Rio Wanks, Nicaragua, 375 ft.. May — June 1905 (M. G. 

 Palmer) ; 1 $ Esperanza, May (W. Schaus) (type San Ramon). 



Castnia (Erythrocastnia) syphax (Fabr.) 



Papilio sijpliax Fabricius, Syst. Entom. p. 480. No. 165 (1775) (in Indiis). 



Of this species there is a series of 19 specimens at Tring, one of which 

 belonged to the Van Lennep collection, and is one of those examined by Cramer : 



3 oij Suruiam (Klinkenberg, ex coll. Felder) ; 1 ? Surinam (ex coll. Van 

 Lennep, ex coU. Felder) ; 1 S Amazon (Bates), 1 S America CentraUs ; 1 cJ Berlin 

 Museum, 1 <? ? (ex coll. Felder) ; 2 (JcJ South America ; 1 S Para -,2 33 Saint 

 Laurent de Maroni, Cayenne, September 1905 (E. Le Moult) ; 3 <?<?, 2 ?? Itaituba 

 to Obidos, January — April 1906 (W. Hoffmanns) ; 1 cj ViUa Franca, Amazonas 

 (M. de Mathan). 



Xanthocastnia Houlb. 



In this section there are 3 fairly distinct groups : ( 1 ) evalthe and subspecies, 

 (2) viryi and subspecies, and (3) euphrosyne. Messrs. Houlbert and Oberthiir 

 make this section consist of 7 species, but I consider that there are only 3, viz. 

 evalthe with 4 named subspecies, viryi with 2 named subspieces, and euphrosyne. 

 The forms of evalthe are distinguished above by two transverse bands on the 

 forewing, and the yellow band on hindwing is narrow, while the red margino- 

 submarginal spots are small ; euphrosyne has on the forewing two transverse 

 bands as in evalthe, but the yellow band on hindwing is transformed into a 

 large irregular patch, and the red spots are much enlarged, lengthened and 

 coalescent ; in virtji above, the 2nd transverse band on the forewings is 

 absent. The fact that Mr. Talbot found the pulviUus of evalthe differing some- 

 what from that of evalthonida does not necessarily mean that it is distinct, and 



