no. 3611 CALYSTRYMA FIELD H 



in C. keta and C. Mora. Without a white line around outer margin 

 and with anal lobe lacking red spot. Wings underneath like those 

 of the male with smaller black centers to the marginal ocular markings. 



Length of forewing 12.5 mm. 



Female genitalia as illustrated by figure 22 with ductus bursae and 

 bursa copulatrix relatively short, their combined lengths being just 

 under three and one-half times the width of superior genital plate; 

 the latter with its free edge divided into two lateral elements, each 

 with a large posterior and mesially directed spurlike process and a 

 small anterior and distally directed spurlike process, the latter greatly 

 reduced and tootlilike. 



Type-locality. — "Upper" Rio Maranon, Department of Ama- 

 zon as, Peru. 



Additional type data. — Described from the holotype male and 

 allotype female and three male paratypes with data as follows: 

 holotype, locality as given above, 6101 ft., Dec. 30, 1924, H. Bassler 

 Collection, genitalia preparation WDF no. 5003; allotype, same 

 locality, elevation, and collection, Jan. 2, 1925, genitalia preparation 

 WDF no. 50S5; one paratype, same locality, elevation, and collection, 

 Dec. 31, 1924, genitalia preparation WDF no. 3156; two paratypes, 

 Rio Santiago, Department of Amazonas, Peru, 6140 ft., Oct. 6, 1924, 

 and Nov. 20, 1924, H. Bassler Collection, genitalia preparations nos. 

 5001 and 5002. 



Location of types. — Holotypes, allotype, and two paratypes in 

 the American Museum of Natural History (New York). One 

 paratype in the United States National Museum. 



Distribution. — Known only from the Department of Amazonas in 

 Peru. 



Material studied. — Four males and one female, including their 

 genitalia. 



5. Calystryma meleager (Druce), new combination 



Figures 5, 21; Plates 1 (fig. 8), 2 (fig. 7), 3 (figs. 3, 4). 



Thecla meleager Druce, 1907, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1907, p. 618— Draudt, in 

 Seitz, 1920, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 5, p. 800; 1921, ibid., 

 vol. 5, p. 829. — Comstock and Huntington, 1961, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, 

 vol. 69, p. 165. 



Male (pi. 1: fig. 8; pi. 3: figs. 3, 4). — Wings above dark brown 

 covered with dull metallic purple. Wings underneath with ground 

 color gray, darker gray than in C. keta and C. Mora and with similar 

 markings. All red color darker and covering about same area as it 

 does in C. Mora and with the pupil centering the marginal ocular 

 marking of interspace Cu, very large, even larger than it is in C. atrox. 



Length of forewing; 13-15 mm. 



