:\Iir.ALEElA; AERIA. Bi/ I!. Haensch. 157 



P. primula Butcs. fi-oni the U]))!!'!- Amazon, is :i spri-ics similar to rcstilln: the <lai'k ol)li(jui' haiul at priinala. 

 the cud of the ci'U is forked at the 'i'"' and :>"' me(lia,n veins, 'i'lic vitreous parts of l)oth wings are for the 

 most part dusted with yellow. The distal mai-gins a,re hroadly blackish brown, broadest in tlie ai>ex of the 

 torewing and the middle of the distal margin of the hindwing; on the under surface tliey are suffused 

 with light brown, yellow-bro\v\i at the base and the inner angle of the hindwing. — tenuis Hscli. (40 c), tenuis. 

 from Colombia, is a similar form willi delicate wings. Between the 2'"' and o"' median \-eins of the fore- 

 wing is placed a triangular additional yellow sjiot. The yellowish obliijue band is ai'c-shaped. On the 

 under surface the margins are paler and in the distal maigin of the hindwing theie are no wdiite dots as 

 in primida. 



P. auricula HacJi. (40 e), also fiom eastern Cidombia. is laigei-, with broader black margins. The aiiriinla. 

 proximal edge of the distal border of the hindwing is nearly straight, not jiarallel in the outer e(lge. On 

 the under surface the edges are dark, except at the end of the cell of the forew'ing and at the costal and 

 distal margins of the hindwing, wliere they are yellow-brown. 



P. glauca Hsch., from western Ecuador, recalls LcucotJi iiris quadratd, but (hi^ ^■itl■eous spots in the glauca. 

 apex of the forewing are absent. The wings have a strong blue-wdiite sheen. The obliijue band at the 

 end of the cell is forked at the median \eins. At the costal mai'gin then' is only one snuiU whitish spot. 

 On the under surface the mai'gins ar(i red-brown, dark-edgeil; with 4 wdiite dots in the apex of (he fore- 

 wing, and 5 in the apex and distal margin of the hindwing. 



2S. tieiiiLs: j^liralfriii //.s(7(. 



Here belong only a few forms, which may be recognised by tlieii- ha.\iug the end of the cell 

 straight in the hindwing. Thi' lower and nhddle discocellulars are of eijual lengtli, weakly curved and 

 alone closing the cell, whilst both the upper discocellular and the npper radial aie aljsent in the q. The 

 rj has an oblong scent-spot, wdiich. as in Hiipolcria. is not closed distally. 'J'he known forms are plain- 

 looking, medium-sized butterflies, and occur only in the north-west of Soutli America; tliey are not rare. 



M. cymothoe Hew. (40 e), from Venezuela and Colombia, has colourless wings with brown margins, cyvidlhoe. 

 of wdiich the distal ones are proxirnally dentate. The subcostal of the forewing is red-lnxnvn: the costal 

 margin of tiu^ liindwing ami all the margins on the under surface are yellow-brown. fieside the brown 

 half-band of the forewing is placed a wdiitish liand and in the ajx'x of l)oth wings on the under surface 

 2 whitish dots. — In ab. flavomacuiata Hscli.. from Yenezmda. the jjand a,t the end of the cell is yellow, ||,"^,""""^"" 

 and also the dots on the underside. 



M. sylvella Har. (40 e), trom western Ecuador, closidy resembles the smaller Episcada sylpha (39 e). stjlrrUa. 

 The .^ has ni addition to th<.' retl-brown subcostal a broad streak at the median of the forewing and 

 also a partly reddish brown distal margin to the hindwing. The half-ljand at the eml of the cell is proxi- 

 rnally narrower and beside it is placed only a small white sjiot at the costal margin. In the $5 the red- 

 brown colour is absent above, only the subcostal of the forewing is slightly red-brown. — In ab. ornata omaia. 

 Hsvli. the forewing has a liroad white half-band, which in the ^ i^ sometimes continued, though here less 

 distinct, to the distal margin. 



2'J. (ieiius: Aeria Hhn. 



Here begins the group of genei'a in which the lower discocellular of the hindwing in the J is not 

 angled and forms an acute angle with the median. In Acria-^ the lower discocellular is slightly undulate, 

 the middle somewhat shorter than the long upper one; in the $ the lower is angled, the upper is absent, 

 as the upper radial liranches off from the subcostal. The ^^^ of some forms ha^•e at the end of the cell 

 of the forewing on the ujjjier surface a largi'r spot of thickly massed, glossy brown scales. Th(> few known 

 forms are all very nearly allied and recall species of Scada by their yellow-black colouring. They mostly 

 occur in noifhern South America and in Central America, and are not rare in open places in the woods. 



A. eurimedia Cr. (= aegle Hhv.. ind(da Dhl. ((■ Hew.) (40 f). Typical examples of this species occur cHnvmUa. 

 only in Guiana and on the Lower Amazon. They hnw a, large, half oval yellow subapical spot in the 

 forewing and also broad black (d)liiiue l>and and margins, there being only an oblong yellow spot at the 

 base. — In the form negricola Fldr.. from the Upper Amazon, the subapical spot is longer and the yidlow ncgrirula. 

 basal patch is broader and triangular. On the undei- suid'ace of both forms the margins are variegated 

 with red-brown. — pacifica Godni. d- Salv. is the form from northern Central America. The black pacifica. 

 markings are very bioad. so that only narrow yellow stripes renuiin a.t the base of the forewing and in the 

 disc of the hindwing. The subapical band of the bnewing is very large and like the other yellow mark- 

 ings darker than in cunmedia. The under surface, as in the latter, is variegated with red-brown. — agna (npiu. 

 Godm. d- Salv. (40 f) is the form from southern Central Anu-rica as well as Colombia and Venezuela. It may 

 be recognised especially Ity the absence of the red-brown colour on the under surface. The pattern and 

 colouring are otherwise similar to the preceding, with somewhat broader yellow bands at the base of the 

 forewing and on the hindwing. — palmara Hsch. is a form from western Ecuador. It differs from ngn(( in palmam. 



