184 TISIPHONE; ENODIA. By G. Weymer. 



protuberances, but only a flat rounded elevation on the middle of tlie dorsum. Wing-cases and ventral 

 side are unicolorous light brownish grey, the dorsum on the contrary has a yellowish brown colour and is 

 densely covered with many small black transverse streaks and spots. The food-plant of the larva is the 

 sugar-cane. The butterfly appears from the pupa in 11 days. It occurs in Guiana and the whole Amazon 

 region. 

 [imliiidlus. C. gerdrudtus F. (= gertrudtus Go^m. & S'flir., vespertilio Thieme) (44 a). The costal margin of the 



forewing is not bent so far back as in the preceding species and runs out into a rather sharph* 

 j)roduced ape.x, yet the distal margin is only a little incurved. Ground-colour brown with dark violet 

 reflection from the base to beyond the middle of the wing. Before the apex of the forewing a large black 

 eye-spot with white pupil, proximally bordered by a red-yellow crescent, below this a red-yellow spot. 

 In the figured $, somewhat nearer to the inner margin, is placed a second smaller eye-spot of the same 

 colour with complete red -yellow ring. This second eye-spot is absent in the ^. On the hindwing the 

 dark violot reflection is extended nearly to the distal margin. The pattern of the under surface is very 

 similar to that of chorinaeus. The brown transverse stripes proximally shade off imperceptibly into the 

 ground-colour, distally they have lighter borders. The scent-organ is not placed at the inner angle as in 

 the preceding species, but much further basally at the inner margin. It begins 8 mm. from the base, has a 

 length of 18 — 19 mm. and terminates 5 mm. before the inner angle. It consists only of a row of stiff, 

 closely approximated hairs, which are directed anteriorly, 6 — 7 mm. long, somewhat crimped at the tip 

 and of yellowish brown coloiu". The submedian is covered ])y these hairs and terminates at the end of 

 the scent-organ in the inner margin, which is much excurved. Also in this species there is a small, short 

 hair-tuft at the middle of the submedian near the inner margin on the upperside of the hindwing. From 

 Panama (Lion Hill), Costa Rica (Santa Clara Valley), Ecuador (Balzabamba), Colombia. ■ — As Butler 

 has compared the figure of this species (whiclr is one of the unpublished figures of Jones, used by 

 Fabricius in describing the species) with the example in Salvin's collection and found them to agree 

 (cf. Butler, Catal. of Diurnal Lepid. described l)y Fabrilius, p. 9), I have no hesitation in retaining 

 the name gerdrudtus Fabr. 



7. Genus: Tisiplioiie Hhn. 



Forewing with rounded apex, the distal margin slightly undulate, on the lundwing more strongly 

 undulate. The lower discocellular on both wngs is at least twice as long as the middle and upper disco- 

 cellulars. The palpi are densely scaled, the antennae with indistinct and weakly thickened club. The 

 claws of the middle and hindlegs are bipartite. Medium-sized and rather large brown butterflies with 

 white macular band on the forewing and a row of eye-spots on the underside of the hindwing. The range 

 of distribution extends from Mexico to South Brazil. 

 hercyna. T. hercytia H6w. (= anosia Gorfi.) (44 b). Brown, darker in the distal half of the wing, with a row 



of large wliite spots through the middle and a small spot before the apex of the forewing, as well as some 

 similar spots at the margin of the hindwing. Costal, median and submedian of the forewing are somewhat 

 tliickened at the base. On the under surface the ground-colour is somewhat lighter, brownish grey, the 

 white spots as above, the hindwing with several dark brown, strongly dentate lines, behind the middle 

 with a curved row of 6 large, round, white-centred ocelli, of wlrich the 2 anterior ones have black, the 

 ;^rd^ 4"' and 5"' grej'-brown iris, but the last is doubly pupilled with black. All the ocelli are surrounded 

 by a yellowish grey ring and outside that by a dark brown one. The apex of the forewing is l)eneath 

 likewise brownish grey with an eye-spot which is coloured like the anterior one on the hindwing. Habitat : 

 South Brazil (province of Santa Catharina, province of Parana, Piio de .Taneiro, in certain 3-ears in great 

 abundance), ^[exico. 

 viiiriildhi. T. maculata Hpff. (44 b). Similar to tlie preceding species, but considerably smaller, the ground- 



colour somewhat lighter, the* white spots on the forewing are much smaller above and beneath, are iso- 

 lated, and form a more outcurved series. On the hindw'ing they are entirely absent. The under surface 

 of the liindwing is much lighter than in hercyna, otherwise with similar markings. Habitat: Mexico, Guate- 

 mala, Nicaragua, Costa Pdca, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Bohvia, South Brazil (Eio Grande do Sul). 



Note. TisipJione lijssa, described by Burmeistkk, is = Pedaliodes (Pronophila) porina Hew. 



8. Genus; Enodia Hbii. 



Butterflies somewhat below medium size. The costal vein of the forewing is not strongly, but yet 

 visibly, swollen at the base, the upjier discocellular is very short, the middle one less than half the length 

 of the lower. In the hindwing the costal vein does not reach the apex. The distal margin on the fore- 

 wing is weakly undulate and below the middle somewhat incurved, that of the lundwing being more 

 strongly undulate with an obtusely projecting tooth at the upper median. The antennae are light 



