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fU'e connected Ijy short Ijrown stripes lyinjj; along the veins. There are 2 lu'own clots before the niarj^in 

 near the eye-spot. — Cayenne. 



C. philis Cr. (= cissa Hlui..) (4'2 li). Very similar to the }irt'ceding species, Init has tin- hrowii plulis. 

 marginal and submarginal stripes of the hindwing somewhat narrower and the median area before these 

 stripes sprinkled over with violet-l>lue dust, which, however, is laid on so thinly that the wing remains 

 transparent, only in certain positions showing a very distinct liluc reflection. Surinam. — harpalyce 7i///-. harpalyce. 

 is probaI)ly only a local form of the preceding, which has the Ijlue reflection along the median veins 

 specially distinct, and which in ad<lition to the eye at the anterior part of the distal margin has also a 

 small eye with a yellow ring l)etween the middle and lower median wins. From the Upper Amazon. 



C. esnieralda iJbl. (The nldei- name luulromeda F. cannot lie emplo_yed for this species, because esrncralda. 

 Fabricius lias mixed up several species together under this name.) Similar to the preceding species, 

 but the blue reflection in the central area of the hindwing is wanting. Instc-ad of this the posterior part 

 of the distal margin is bluish violet, and at each side of the lower median vein is placed in this bolder 

 a red-yellow ring with white centre. The eye in the anterior part of the distal margin is as in the other 

 species. Between this and the two posterior ocelli there are '2 round white spots. Para. — As bandusia handnsia. 

 Stgr. an esmeralda-iomi has been described in which instead of the two anal ocelli of the hindwing there 

 are two reddish white spots placed in a large cyaneous spot. From the Eio Maues, a tributary of the Lower 

 Amazon. 



C. pyropina (loihu. & S<ilr. (42 li). Forewing without markings. Hindwing at the anal angle witii piiropinn. 

 lu'oad, brownish violet distal margin which extends to the lower radial. In this are placed 3 rose-red 

 spots and close to the margin a narrow rose-red stripe. The ocellus in the anterior part of the distal 

 margin is as in the allied species, liehind this is a white dot. — From Bolivia and East Peru. 



C. polita Hew. (42 b). The only sjiecies of the genus which shows on the hindwing no red or lilue polila. 

 colour. The wings are shorter and broader than in the other species. Costal and distal margins of the 

 forewing are narrowly brown, 2 half and 2 entire narrow brown transverse striiies traverse the forewing, 

 whilst the hindwing has only a marginal and a submarginal band, of which tlie latter is strongly angled. 

 The ocellus in the anterior part of the distal margin as in the other species. — From Nicaragua, ('liiri(pii 

 in Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, rare. 



2. Genus: Haetera F. 



The butterflies are on an average somewhat larger tlian those of the genus Callitaera. but the 

 wings are equally delicate and transparent, and the submedian of the forewing is forked at the base. But 

 the costal vein of the forewing is less strongly inflated. The principal difference, however, consists in the 

 position of the lower discocellular of the hindwing. This vein ends at the origin of the middle median 

 vein. The 3 discocellulars are placed vertically and form almost a straight line, the apex of the cell 

 being acute. 



H. piera L. (9 = anacardii F. nee L.) (42 c). Forewing diaphanous, without markings, only with piera. 

 narrow brownish costal and distal margins. Hindwing in and behind the middle with fine ochre-yellow 

 dusting, with a fine brownish transverse stripe, which is strongly angled in the middle and whose posterior 

 part in the $ is darker and more distinct, with brownish distal margin, which forms in the middle a 

 somewhat obtuse angle. Before the distal margin anteriorly a larger and posteriorly a smaller black 

 ocellus, the former with obliquely placed, the latter with centrally placed white pupil. Both ocelli have 

 ochre-yellow iris and brown ring: between the ocelli 2 white dots. Common in Guiana and on the whole 

 of the Amazon, extending to the south of Brazil. In the forests of the Cordilleras of Colombia common 

 at elevations of 1200—2.500 m. Flight very slow. The egg is spherical, somewhat flattened at the base, 

 smooth, shiny white. — diapliana Luc. (= hymenaea FIdr.) is a form of piera, in which the ochre-yellow diaphana. 

 dusting on the hindwing is aljsent and the brown markings are more distinctly prominent. Bahia. — 

 negra '^Fldr. is another, larger, form of piera, in which the brown submarginal stripe in the <S is effaced ne<ini. 

 and the marginal stripe placed further from the margin. In the $ buth stripes are narrower and the 

 proximal one is more curved than in the type form. Eio Negro. — unocellata form. nov. (42 e), a hitherto unocellata. 

 undescribed local form of piera, has on the liindwing only the smaller ocellus before the anal angle. The 

 other larger eye-spot at the apex is absent or only indicated by a black dot. The brownish submarginal 

 band is only "distinct in the posterior half of the wing and the space between it and the brownish distal 

 margin is dusted with ochre-yellow at the anal angle. On the under surface the iris of the eye-spot is 

 not red-yehow, liut sulphur-yellow and twice as broad, tlie black centre on the contrary much smaller than 

 above. Bolivia. 



