312 Mr. H. W. Bates on the Nymphaline 
term “ closed” has not, however, the same signification in this case 
as in the Heliconide and Satyride; for the lower discocellular 
nervule is never tubular and perfect in the hind wings of the true 
Nymphalide (except, perhaps, in Clothilda), but is partially or 
wholly a rudimentary seam. This character is a good one to distin- 
guish true Nymphalide from the allied groups. 
74. Ageronia Chloé, Stoll. 
Papilio Chloé, Stoll, pl. 5. f. 3. 
Pard and Lower Amazons. I did not find it on the upper river ; 
nor does it appear to occur in New Granada or further northward. 
The species, therefore, seems to be confined to the Atlantic side of 
Tropical America, ranging from Surinam to 8. Brazil. Specimens 
from Bahia do not differ from those I took on the banks of the 
Amazons. The species haunts the shades of the forest, differing in 
this respect from the rest of the genus, which prefer open groves or 
thinned places near the skirts of the forest. 
75. Ageronia Ferentina, Godart. 
Nymphalis Ferentina, Godt. Enc. Méth. ix, 428, 248. 
Papilio Feronia, var., Cramer, 362 A, B. 
Ageronia Februa, Hiibn. Samml. Exot. Schm. 
A common and widely distributed insect, being found from South 
Brazil to Mexico, and in the West India Islands. It frequents orange- 
orchards and open sunny places in the forest, settling on trunks of 
trees with wings expanded, and when sporting or quarrelling with a 
companion makes a sharp cracking noise with its wings. The same 
habits are observed in A. Feronia, A. Amphinome, and A. Arinome. 
76. Ageronia Feroma, Linnzus. 
Cramer, 192 &, F. 
The commonest species of the genus in the Amazons region, being 
found in spaces in the forest where there is no underwood, or in 
orange-orchards and plantations, settling on the trunks of trees. 
The caterpillar has its sides of a brown colour, marbled with darker 
brown, and the dorsal surface pinkish. 
77. Ageronia Alicia, n.sp. (Pl. XTII*. figs. 1, 1 a.) 
3. Expanse 3’ 8'". Slaty green, silky. Fore wing, above, with many 
black or dusky variously shaped spots; namely, four within the cell, be- 
sides one on the disco-cellulars, the two middle ones transverse and linear, 
enclosing a deep red spot, the one next to these preceded by a pale brown 
spot, and two to four between each of the longitudinal nervures, nearly 
