HYPOLEEIA. By Tl. Hncnxch. 159 



31. (ieiiiis: Ifypolcria (lodm. <(■ .S'a/r. 



The o,;J may lit' rfcu^-iiiscd liy the elongate oval sccnt-siHil nl llir costal margin of the liiniUviiig 

 and by the non-angled lower discocellular. which forms an acute angle with the median, is cui\c(l inwards 

 and mostly aborted at the lower radial. In the $ costal and sulicostal are coincident to the middle, other- 

 wise the neuration is as in the ,^. 



Tile forms which belong hi're haA'(^ mostly a rounded ajiex to the forewing and roundish hindwing. 

 In a.ilditiou to those with colourless wings there are als(_i gay-colouicil species, especially a group with iimI- 

 brown band in the apex of the forewing. such as may be found in Lriifatlt ifris .iml nlso in I'geudoscada. 

 Some forms also resemble the latter genus in other lespects, so llial it is ofti'u not easy to differentiate 

 ^$ of the two geneia. 



Of this not very extensive genus also the region of tin' eastern Andes iiroduces the largest number 

 of snecies, yet some forms also occur as tar as Soutli Bi'azil and in Central America. 



H. vanilia H.-ScJtdff. (40 g). from Colondda, is very similar t,o the smaller Pi^i-iido-u-iida Jdriiiin (41 b). lanilia. 

 The forewing is shaded with dark, with black margins and '2 obliipie bands at the end of tlii' ci'll and 

 before the apex. The interspace is di\ided by the dark-marked \cins into a, number of whitish spots. The 

 hindwing is rust-brown, with broad border at the apex: in the V with yellow-brown, jiroximally dark 

 brown costal margin, in the ,^ transparent at the C(jstal margin. — libera (Uxhn. d- Sale, is a local form of librra. 

 the preceding frtnn C'ential America (Panama, Costa Piica). It has more sti'ongly nuirked dark ]iatches a,nd 

 brighter red-lirown colour on the hindwing. — fumosa (jod)U. <('• Snlr.. from Pana.ma, is a form of the jiinwsa. 

 preceding with darkened apical spots and triangular spot in the cell of the forewing. 



H. hyalinus F.. from lira/.d, is a, doubtful form and unknown lo me in nature. According iu liijaliniis. 

 BuTMil! it is a form similar to nniilm. with transparent forewing ami black margins, and also a macular 

 band in the apex. Hindwing red-ljrown with narrow lilack distal Imrder. 



H. fausta Stgr., from the Upper Amaztm. is a smaller species with brownish hindwing and liase of faushi. 

 the forewing. Across the end of the cell of the forewing is placed a bica.d dark half-band, which is 

 divided at the median veins. In the end of the cell and a,t the dista.l maagin there are whitish patches. 



H. alema Hew., from Colondjia, has according to Hewitson's figure transparent yellowish wings with alcvvi. 

 dark nuirgins and narrow l)and across the end of the cell of the forewing; before the distal margin of the 

 latter with whitish dots. On the under surface the margins are reddish, except the blackish costal margin 

 of the hindwing. 



H. ina Hew., from Ecua,dor, is a similar species with a row of whitish submarginal dots at the inn. 

 distal margin of the forewing and without markings at the end of the cell. The inner margin of the hind- 

 wing is broadly reddish yellow-brown. In this the species recalls Nuiieoijenci upnha (3.5 f). 



H. ocalea Dhl. d- Hew. (41 g), from Venezuela, Trinidad and Cohunbia, has light yellow-brown wings ocaka. 

 with dark margins and an oblifjue band across the end of the cell of the forewing. winch is coidinued 

 beyond the 3"' median vein. The median of the forewing and the veins of the hindwing are yellow-lirown. 

 The macular band of the forewing is yellowish. — The white, longitudinally ribljed eggs are according to 

 GuPPY attached singly about 2 ft. above the giound. The larva,e hatched in 5 days. They are trans- 

 parent, green, with whitish head and take '.( days to feed up. 



H. gephira Hew. (41 g), from Colond)ia and the adjoining parts of Central America, is a sinnlar (jepkira. 

 species with broader margins; with whitish spots in the apex of the forewing a.iid at the distal margin of 

 the hindwing. Moreover the veins in the distal half of botli wings are black. 



The following forms have a broa.d yellow-red subapical band in the forewing and hence resemble 

 the similarly marked forms of Leucoilijins and Napeogenes, and also certain Erycinids. 



H. chrysodonia Bates, from the Upper Amazon, is ahnost the same size as aureliana Bale.s (= trom- '^^'',"/g'/|-f,"""'' 

 bona Srku.) (41 a), from the same district. In the former the yellow-red colour is proxiuuxlly semitrans- 

 parent. The 2'"' and S''*^ median veins of the forewhig are only na,rrowly margined with dark. In (turehwna 

 the yellow-red band is broader and the extremity of the median and also' its branches are broadly mar- 

 gined with dark brown, so that between the veins only 2 snuiller vitreous spots remain. Moreovei', 

 the base of both wings is also shaded with dark. The a,ntennae are black in both species, whilst m 

 karschi //.s-c//.. which is otherwise very similar to rhrij.wdonia and flies at the Upper Nape in Ecuador, they karschl. 

 have a yellow-brown club. In hir.'irhi the yellow-red subapical band oidy reaches the 3'''' median vein. — 

 Another' similar form is cidonia Hew., fi'om L'olombia. In this the antennae are black and betwei'U the (■((/«*((((. 

 median veins there are 2 larger colourless vitreous patches. The hindwing has a yellowish submarginal band. 



H. orolina Hew. {40 g), occurring at the Upper Amazon as far as the foot of the ^\ndes in Peru and oroluH'. 

 Ecuador, is a smaller, delicate S])ecies with almost colourless wings a.nd yellow-brown subapical band. — In 

 OCUlata H.sc/i., from the Upper Napo, which is tin' same size, there is another rounded vitreous spot be- ocidalit. 

 tween the end of the cell and the band, which is narrower. — A simibirly marked form, but larger 

 than ocidata, from Ucayali, which I call sedusa fnnn. nnr., has a, white patch at the end of the cell of the scditsa. 



