AKCHUMAS. I!y .1. Hny.Ku. 07 



P. callinice l-i</r. (21c), from Venezuela, Colombia and South Peru, has likewise black antennae. (■(;////;/f(>. 

 The upper surface is black brown, the bluish scalinii; occupies the whole basal half of the liindwinw but is 

 completely wanting on the forewing. The light red median band of the forewing is only represented l)ehind 

 the discocellulars by a very small spot, is distally rounded and does not reach the distal margin. The under 

 surface is as in cal/inin), but much lighter. The butterfly tlies on foi-es(-paths and is fond of drinking at 

 moist places on the ground. 



P. telthusa Iliir. ('21 c), from Peru and Ecuadoi-, differs nnu-h from the preceding species. Antennae tclthusn. 

 white. Upper surface black, with subapical yellowisli macular band, small light sul)marginal spots, bluish 

 white inner-marginal part of the forewing and blue-scaled basal part of the hindwing, which also shows 

 small liluish mai-ginal spots. The under surface is black, the forewing has the pattern of the upperside and 

 the hindwing a small yellow stripe at the costal margin and also three red basal spots. — magna sulisp. magna, 

 ixir., from the Lower Amazon (Obidos), is larger, the light area at the inner mai'gin of the forewing is 

 smaller and completely scaled with blue, the blue spots at the distal margin of the hindwing are larger, the 

 under surface is darker and the yellow stripes at the costal margin of the hindwing very small. — boli- /'o//!'/«;;(j. 

 viana s/ihtip. nor., from Bolivia, has a broader and more strongly yellow sul)apical baiut on the forewing 

 above and beneath. The light area at the inner mai-gin of the forewing is larger on both surfaces and only 

 scaled with blue at the margins, the blue spots at the distal margin of the hindwing are smaller, the under 

 surface is somewhat lighter (more brown) and the yellow stiipes at the costal margin of the hindwing longer 

 and In'oader. 



9. (Tenu.s: Ai'clioiiias HOn. 



The characters of this genus are rather uncertain, the facies of the butterflies forms the best criterion 



for deciding as to their genus. The subcostal is four-branched, the 2. branch originates beyond the apex 



of the cell and the 3. and 4. branches form a short fork in the apex of the wing; yet this character is not 



constant even in one and the same species. It will be advisaltle to place in this genus only the ^/vr/s-like 



forms which mimic I'd/nl/o. 



A. tereas (jodt. (^ iulus llbn., ? = marcius llbn.). The specimens from Hio de Janeiro and Espiritu tereas. 



Santo may be regarded as the so-called typical form. It can scarcely be sepai'ated from uniplaga Frithsf., 



(21 d), from Rio Grande do Sul and Sao Paulo. This form is said to have only one white median spot on uniplaga. 



the forewing. which liowever among the material before me only occurs in one specimen from Santa Gafharina; 



the remaining eight specimens from Santa Gatharina and Sao Paulo have three median spots, one of which 



is placed in the cell. The ? has always somewhat more white marking on the forewing and more red, of 



a deeper colour, on the hindwing. — critias I'ldr. (21 d), from Venezuela and Golombia, is very variable as critias. 



regards the white maiking on the forewing, the red marking of the hindwing is moi'e extended and of 



a deeper tone than in tmax. To ab. hades Fmhsf. belong specimens with the forewing entirely black above hades 



and to ab. nigripennis lif/r. entirely black specimens — approximata Ilf/r. is the form from Genfral America. '««'''/«''""-s- 



. . ,- , .. TT T 1 ■ Tr. V 1 •, , ii r • 1 ii appro.Kimaia. 



— papilionides l-nf/i^l., from Honduras, has somewhat modified white spots on the foiewmg and tin-ee papiuonides. 



intensively carmine-red spots on the hindwing; beneath the spots on the wings are yellowish. — regillus legillus. 



Fiuhst., from Ecuador, is smaller than ti'vvus, the forewing has two white spots jilaced one under the other, 



the hindwing three small pale red, lighter-margined ones. — archidona Frnli^t.. from Ecuador (Balzabamba), airhidona. 



has a completely black forewing or at least but little white marking, and on the hindwing above and beneath 



yellowish or white instead of red spots. — rosacea Bllr., from E^cuador ((Juito) and Colombia, has light red rosacea. 



spots on the upper surface of the hindwing. — 'in Santa Gatharina In-cas begins to fly early in September 



as one of the first hei-alds of spring, and animates in well-watered valleys almost all the sweet-scented 



flowering shrubs with its quiet beauty and its delicately coloured garb" (Fiu Hvroiii'Ei;). 



A. bellona 'V. {— ? erycinia ('r., brassolis /•'.. liraselis <iii<ll.\. from Guiana, although regarded as a bellona 



separate sjiecies, is jjrobably really another form of tcrnig, which is extraordinarily nujditieil in the wooded 



west. A. bellona is but little different from negrina /•'/'//■.. from the Rio Negro. The cf is black abo\e with negr/na. 



large light yellow spots on the forewing and red streaks on the under surface of the liindwing. whilst in 



the ? the upper surface of the hindwing is also for the most part red. ciitila Fnilisl. (21 d). from Ecuador, mti/a. 



has large yellow spots on the forewing and three red streaks on thr upper surface of the hindwing. — phaioma. 



phaloreia /''/7//(.s/., from Peru, has black upper surface with small yellow spots on the f irewinu'. — hyrnetho hymi'tho. 



Frnhst. (21 d), from Bolivia, has more rounded wings than the preceding forms, the spots on the forewing 



are somewhat lighter yellow and a little larger, the upper surface of the hindwim;- is black, but the under 



surface has narrow red streaks, a yellow stripe at the costal margin and yellow marginal spots. In the ? 



the hindwing above is for the most part red. — sabrina Frnhst.. from Argentina i?), has very infensrve yel- sabiina. 



low spots on the forewing, of which the curved one in the cell is ver\ large: the underside of the hindwing 



is similar to that of liijrn<i]i<>, the yellow marginal spots are very small. Baron G. von Pi.kssen observed this 



species in large numbers and in both sexes in a thicket, so it may be assumed that the butterflies had 



emerged in this thicket; hence we may further conclude that the larva is gregarious. The butterflies are 



fond of settling on leaves. 



