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TERIAS. By J. Rober. 



pers/stens. 



hvoiia. 



pyro. 



eleatheci. 

 plataea. 



vitellina. 



eugenia. 



cnhana. 



palmyra. 



Phoenicia. 



elatliides. 



sidonia. 



ella. 



tegea. 



medntina. 



priddyi, 



mycale. 



smilacina. 



albiita. 

 marginclla. 



di'florata. 



T. persistens BUr. rf- Dnia: Allied to deliu and vinjenia, upper surface yellow, costal margin and base 

 broadly ash-grey, apex and distal margin broadly black-brown, a black-brown inner-marginal band distally 

 bordered with gold-yellow; hindwing with black-brown apical spot, under surface as in ddiu. Honduras. 



T. hyona Men. (24 e), from San Domingo, is beautiful orange-yellow in the male above with black 

 margin, which is moderately broad on the forewing, narrow and sharply defined proximally on the hindwing. 

 The ? has much paler upper surface. Beneath both sexes are almost alike; forewing in the middle orange- 

 yellow, at the distal margin and in the basal part yellow, with a subapical row of small Ijlack spots, fringes 

 reddish: hindwing yellow with some blackish dots near the base, some small red-brown spots at the apex, 

 to which extends a narrow band of red-brown spots running towaiils the inner margin, and small, very 

 indistinct red-brown submarginal spots. 



T. pyro Gddi. Shape and size as hijunK. Upperside of the forewing vivitl orange-yellow, slightly 

 blackish at the base. Forewing with a black margin, proximally indented. Hindwing at the distal margin 

 slightly dusted with blackish. Under surface of the forewing lighter than above, with a black dot in the 

 middle and a dark apical spot. Under surface of the hindwing light yellow, with an orange-yellow central 

 spot, some brownish scales and a very large round rust-brown spot at the apex, and also a row of small 

 black marginal dots. Antilles or South America. 



T. eleathea <'r., from Surinam, is not essentially different from plataea l-hir. (246), from South 

 Brazil (Sao Paulo, Santa C.atharina, Rio Grande do Sul). The latter has yellow forewing and white hind- 

 wing, broad margin on the forewing and narrower one on the hindwing, also a black stripe at the inner 

 margin of the forewing, which is posteriorly edged with orange-yellow. The under surface is rather variable, 

 whitish to grey, the anterior part of the forewing j-ellow, mostly only with black dots at the discocellular 

 of both wings, not seldom with somewhat darker markings. The ? has yellow or yellowish ground-colour 

 on the hindwing above, the black and orange-yellow stripe at the inner margin of the forewing is absent. 

 The under surface is mostly darker and more abundantly marked. Tliis species also shows a number of 

 local forms, which have almost all been described as separate species, thus vitellina Fhlr., from Venezuela 

 and Honduras, with white-scaled inner-marginal stripe and the under surface entirely without markings; — 

 eugenia Wall. (= rhodia Fklr.), from Venezuela, (lolombia and .St. Josef, with very dark yellow forewing 

 and sharp and broader orange-yellow iinier-marginal stripe; — cubana Il.-Svliiiff'., from Cluba, with broad 

 black distal margin on the hindwing: — palmyra I'ocij (= lydia FIdr.], from Cuba and the Gulf States, in 

 which the black distal margin of the hindwing is reduced to a spot at the apex; — phoenicia Hdr., from 

 Golombia and Ecuador, has orange-yellow inner-marginal stripe reaching to the base and rather broad distal 

 margin on the hindwing; elathides N////., from A'enezuela, is larger, and has no orange-yellow inner-marginal 

 stripe; the ? is darker beneath. — All these forms can scarcely be separated from one another. Considerably 

 different on the other hand are: sidonia Fidr., from Mexico, in which the black inner-marginal stripe is 

 merged together with the black distal margin and the hindwing has verj' broad black distal margin ; — 

 ella form, nor., fi'om Ecuador, has no orange-yellow inner-marginal stripe, also the black inner-marginal 

 stripe is merged together witli the black distal margin and the hindwing has a broad black distal margin 

 which is sharply defined proximally. — tegea FIdr., from Golombia, is larger than riteHhui, with broader 

 wings, and may be recognised by the greater width of the inner-marginal band of the forewing and the 

 distal-marginal one of the hindwing. — medutina FIdr., from Venezuela, has narrower wings, the forewing 

 is more elongated and flie hindwing shorter. 



T. priddyi Latli//. from Haiti, differs from elcuthea in the yellow upper surface of the hindwing, the 

 shorter dark distal-marginal band of the forewing and the absence of the yellow stripe at the inner margin 

 of the forewing and of the dark distal margin of the hindwing, which is only represented by marginal spots. 



T. mycale FIdr. (24 e), from Brazil (Bahia, Sao Paulo), is very similar to flaif/ica. The dark distal 

 margin of the forewing is broader and confluent with the hindmarginal stripe, also the distal margin of the 

 hindwing is much broader. The under surface of the forewing is less yellow, otherwise not different. 



T. smilacina F/dr., from Colombia, was descriljed from a ?. Upjjcrside pale sulphur-yellow with black- 

 brown distal margin, hindwing with black marginal dots. Underside glossy white, at the discocellular a crescent- 

 shaped spot , a subapical red-brown macular band , a black dot at the costal margin near the apex of the 

 forewing; hindwing with spots at the discocellular, a subapical macular band and black marginal dots. 



T. albula T;., from Surinam, probably scarcely differs essentially from marginella /•'/'//■. (24e), from 

 Venezuela. This is white above and has moderately broad black margin on both wings. The under sur- 

 face is white, entirely without markings. — sinoe Godf. (= cassiae Sepjj, nise IIIni.), from South Brazil, has 

 more or less broad distal margin on the forewing and entirely white wings. The under surface is white 

 or sometimes yellowish. The ? has narrower and shorter distal margin on the forewing and some dark 

 markings on the hindwing beneath. 



T. detlorata Koll., from Colombia, is similar to ,i//>/d,i. Cjiper surface white, forewing with a yellowish 

 tinge, apex black, irregularly defined proximally, at Ihe distal margin of the hindwing three to four blackish 



