288 Mr. H. J. Elwes on 



Taken at San Rosendo, San Ignacio, Lolco, and on 

 Lake Llanquihue in December, January, and February, 

 and at San Martin in Argentina up to about 3000 feet. 



LYCA^NID^. 



36. Scolita7itides collina. 



Lycsena collina, Philippi, t. c, p. 270. 



L. lyrnessa, Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Mag., xi, p. 107 



(1874). 

 ? Scolitantidcs phmihea, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



1881, p. 486.' 



This belongs to a group which is represented in the 

 Andes of Bolivia by S. speciosa, Stgr., in Peru by vcqxi, Stgr., 

 and in Ecuador by an unnamed species of which there 

 are specimens in the British Museum. I am uncertain 

 whether plumbea, Butler, is identical ; Edmonds thought it 

 was only a variety, and though the type is larger and 

 duller in tint, I find no character in it to enable me to say 

 decisively. I took a single specimen exactly like the 

 type oi plumhea, but am uncertain of the locality. I found 

 the species very abundant at 5000 to 6000 feet near the 

 Baths of Chilian in December, and also took it in the 

 Sierra de Pemehue in January. It frequents bushy ground 

 and also the bare ridges above timber-line. Philippi says 

 he took it on the hills near Santiago. 



37. Scolitantides andina. 



aS'. andina, Calvert, An. Univ. Chile, xxxiv, p. 832 



(1894). 

 ? Lycai7ia endymion, Blanchard, t. c, p. 37, PI. HI, 



fig. 8 a, b. 



I cannot identify this species with certainty, as, if 

 Blanchard's plate is correct, the under-side is different from 

 that of Calvert's species which I know from two females sent 

 by him to the British Museum, where they stood without 

 name. I found the same species common near Puente 

 del Inca on December 11th, flying on bare ground among 

 grass tufts at about 9500 feet near the entrance to the 

 Horcones Valley. It differs from collina in the colour above, 

 which is more greenish in the male and grey in the female. 

 Beneath the markings are very like those of collina, but 

 the female has no red on the under or upper surface of 



