258 PEDALIODE.S. By G. Weymek. 



cnipelrKv. P. COipetrus Thieme (54 e). Abovi" yellow-brown with a suhiuargimil row of white dots, larger on the 



forewincf, smaller on the hindwing. Fringes chequered dark brown and white. The butterfly seems to be 

 rare in colleetions. \'enezuela (Merida). 



Polusca Group. 



pancin. P. paiicis Heic. (54 e). Above unicolorous brown. The rust-red band of the under surface rises from 



the inner angle of the hindwing and runs -3 across the wing, gradually tapering to a point. Beyond this 



fyrv. a row of white dots. Peru, Bolivia, Colombia. — In the form tyro Thieme (= panels Heu\ pt.) (54 f) the 



rust-red band on the under surface is much shorter, occupying barely % of the breadth of the wing. Only 



one white dot, placed at the anal angle. The apex of the forewing is truncate, forming a right angle. 



phtn-s. Peru. — pheres Thieme (54 f) is a further form, in which the apex of the forewing is not truncate, but the distal 

 margin is straight throughout, and the white dot at the anal angle is wanting. The rust-red band has about 

 the same extent as in fi/ro. Peru, Bolivia. 



pltilonis. P. philonis Heir. (54 e) is a similar sijccies to piineifi with tlie apex of the forewing truncate. 'I'he 



red-yellow band on the underside of tJie hindwing is as long as in pnneis, beyond it is placed a light brown 

 submarginal band, strongly dentate distally, which l)ears a row of 5 black eye-spots with thick white pupils. 

 Ecuador, Peru. 



phcrdiua. P. pheretias Hew. (54 f) may be known by the elongate white costal spot on the underside of the 



hindwing. The red-yellow anal spot is rather small. The upper surface is unicolorous l)hick-brown. The 

 $ was found by Fa.s.sl at the Quindiu Pass, Coloml)ia, in 2 different forms. One is similar to the J, only 

 differing in the presence on the luiderside of both wings of a Ijroad grey-brown submarginal band, on the 

 hindwing reaching the white costal spot and the rust-red inner-marginal spot and marbled with dark brown. 

 orlicoki. The other female form (pi. 54 f), for which I propose the name griseola form. nov.. only differs in having the 

 ground-colour of the entire underside of the hindwing yellowish grey-brown, finely striated all over with dark 

 brown, so that the costal and anal sjjots have almost disappeared. From the Quindiu Pass (Fassl). 



ferratiti.'i. P. fcrratills Btlr. (= morenoi Dogn.) (54 f). Above dark brown, beneath lighter brown marbled with 



dark brown, the hindwing with broad ferruginous inner margin, from which arises a cpiadrate, light rust-red 



uncus, anal sjjot. Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia. — uncus Thieme is a form of ferrntiUs in which the rust-red colour 



on the underside of the hindwing is confined to a narrow distal border, and which l)ears 4 white dots on the 



underside of the forewing. From Tucuman in North Argentina. 



zoippus. P« zoippus Druce. A small species of 46 mm. expanse, above brown with the inner margin and anal 



angle of the hindwing red-brown. Under surface the same, the hindwing with some indistinct white spots before 

 the distal margin and a dark brown submarginal line. Peru. 



polusca. P. polusca Heir. (54 f). Above dark brown with narrow red-brown border at the inner angle. 



On the under surface distinguished by the 2 subanal white dots beyond the red-brown submarginal 

 band of the hindwing, which is more or less extended. The larger, ty^iical polusca occurs both in Colombia 

 jioUa. (where Fa.ssl took it on Mont Socorro at altitudes of 3500 m.) and in Peru and Bolivia. — polla Thieme 

 (= polusca Hew. pt.) is a smaller form, in which the rust-red band on the underside of the hindwing runs up 

 to beyond the cell. The inner angle is much lighter yellowish rust-red. The $ does not differ from the 3". 

 gi/lcus. From Colombia (Quindiu Pass, 3S00m., Fassl). — syleus Thieme. a further form of poluscn, in which the rust- 

 red colour on the underside is confined to the transverse band of the hindwing only, there being no rust-red 

 colour present at the anal angle and in the rest of the distal part of both wings. From Limbani, Peru. 



asconiu. P. asconia Thieme is a species similar to piolusca. The transverse band beyond the middle of the 



hindwing on the under surface consists only of a quadrate orange-yellow s])ot at tiie inner margin and 3 small 

 honey-yellow sjjots beyond the middle of the wing. A white dot between median veins 1 anil 2. The $ 

 is pale brown above, bordered with rust-red at the anal angle. The under surface of the forewing shows a pale 

 costal sjjot. From Bafios in Ecuador (Haensch). 



paunia. P. pausia //eM'. {=\()ca, St(jr.,\ox&, Sm. d' Kirhij). Above dark brown, distally reddish brown. Beneath 



the same, fonnving with 2 or 3 very small white dots before the apex, hindwing with a narrow, light rust-red 

 luci]iara. half-band, which crosses a row of 4 white dots. Bolivia (Yungas de la Paz). — lucipara form. nov. (55 a) 

 is a form of pausia in which the upper surface is not reddisli distally, but only lighter brown. On the under 

 surface the white dots of the forewing are absent and the hindwing shows only 2. From the Quindiu Pass, 

 bacami. 2500 m., Colombia (Fassl). — baccara Thieme is a form which has on the forewing beneath a broad light 

 brown submarginal band, finely bordered with white distally. The transverse band of the hindwing is twice 

 as broad as in pa:u.sta and only in its ]}osterior part rust-red. From the Coloml)ian ])r<)vince of Antioipua (Kal- 

 Bbeyer). 



