272 PRONOPHILA. By G. Weymer. 



■protogcnia. 0. protogcnia Hew. (59 a). The bright red-yellow band of the upper surface is especially broad on the 



hindwing and the row of browai spots placed in it is complete. On the iniderside of the hindwing the basal 

 transverse line is absent, by which the species may be known. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, "Bolivia. 



curyphilc. 0. euryphile 5//r. (= euriphyle) (59 a. Upper surface. The U on the plate is incorrect). May be konwn 



by the li^ht yellow colour of the band, which on the upperside only shades off somewhat into red-yellow in its 

 distal part, but on the underside into white, and on the forewing is entirely broken up into spots. Beneath 

 the foreuing has 4 ocelli and before the apex several white spots, the hindwing in the pro.ximal part some 

 \\o\\i markings and distally a row of eye-spots. From Costa Rica (Irazu), Panama (Chiriqui). 



hilurus. 0. hilarus Bates. Instead of the band there are here on the upper surface 2 rows of small, irregu- 



larly placed red-yellow spots on both wings. On the under surface of the forewing the spots are white and some 

 of them joined together in pairs. Between them are placed black spots bordered with red-yellow. Hindwing 

 brown, all the vehis white, 2 sulphur-yellow transverse bands cross the middle, so that a latticed pattern 

 is formed. In addition a white dentate line is placed at the margin. Guatemala (Volcan de Fuego, Cerro 

 Zunil, Purula), Mexico (Xantipa and Omiltcme in Guerrero). 



55. (rattling': Proiiopliila Westw. 



In consecjuence of the division proposed by Butler only a few out of the large nujuber of Proiiophila 

 sj)ecies figured and described by Westwood, Hewitson, Feeder and others are still regarded as belonging in 

 this genus, and indeed only those which are similar in shape and markings to the first two species cited by 

 Westwood (thelehe and Cordillera). The greater part of the others form the present genus Pedaliodes Btlr. 

 (p. 250). The Pronophila species (in the restricted sense) have broad wings, the hindwing nearly round with 

 the distal margin more or less undulate, the inner margin of the forewing comparatively long, its distal 

 margin consequently vertical (not oblique) and nearly straight. On the underside of the forewing almost all 

 bear a row of black eye-spots with blue pupils; the upper surface is black-brown, sometimes unicolorous, 

 sometimes with white, brownish red or grey-brown spots before the apex of the forewing. They are mostly rather 

 large butterflies, and inhabit the high Andes from Central America to Bolivia. 



I'lminithcs. P. timanthcs Salv. (59 a upper and under surface). The black spots, whit^h on the u])perside are 



placed on the long Ijrownish red oval patches, bear on the under surface blue pupils. Costa Rica (Irazu), Panama 

 intcrcklona. (Chiriqui). — intercidona Thieme (59 a) may perhaps be regarded as a form of timanfhes in which the proxi- 

 mal halves of the oval patches are wanting with the exception of the anterior ones and which has these spots 

 brilliant golden brown."^ Sometimes there is further a red spot between the 2nd and ;}rd median veins. From 

 Ecuador (Santa Inez). 



dcvcrnt. P. deverra Thieine has before the distal margin of the fortnving a row of light reddish spots, the anterior 



ones somewhat larger. The under surface resembles that of Pron. thehbe (59 b), especially the hindwing. On 

 the forewing the macular band is continued further, to the inner margin, and is not white, but'has the light 

 reddish brown colour of the upper surface. From Ecuador. 



assarhad- P. assarhaddon Thieme (= rosenbergi Lathy) (59 b). Above black-brown, at the base somewliat lighter, 



^^o"- the forewing with tiie same white macular band as on the figured under surface. Hindwing only with the tips 

 of the fringes between the veins white. Ecuador (Santa Lucia) (H.^ensch). 



thdcljc. "" P. thelebe Dhl. d- Hew. (59 b) is the best known species of the genus. The white spots on the 



upper surface vary in number, size and shape. Examples from Peru and Bolivia are more copiously spotted 

 with white than those from more northerly localities. The $ has the ground-colour of the upperside much 

 jjaler i)ro\A'n and the hindwing is more strongly dentate. Venezuela, Colombia, Ec\iador, Peru, Bolivia, — 

 obsoura. obscura Btlr. is probably a thelehe form. According to Butler's description the colouring of the upper 

 surface is as in thelehe. Hence we must assume that the upperside has white spots on the forewing. But 

 the under surface, which Butler figures, shows no such spots, only the apex is whitish. The 4 black eye- 

 spots with light blue pupils are placed in the disc in a straight row on a dark grouiid. The underside 

 of the hindwing is almost exactly hke our figure of thelehe, pi. 59 b. Venezuela. 2 examples hi the Brit. Museum. 

 tliclcbliia. — thelebina Thieme (59 b) is a further form of thelehe, somewhat smaller and with smaller white spots, only 

 the first is the same length as in thelehe and bears above a black dot at its proximal end. The hindwing 

 is smooth-margined. On the under surface the ocelli and the red dots are indistinct, as also are the mark- 

 ings on the hindwing. Colombia (Rio Dagua), Peru (Chanchamayo), Bolivia (Yungas de la Paz). 



brcnni(.-i. P. brennus Thieme (59 c upper and under surface). The row of pale brown spots on the upper 



surface is sometimes dirty white or reddish ; sometimes there is also a further small red-yellow spot at the proxi- 

 mal side of the first of these spots. In the $ the ground-colour is not so deep black as in the cj, hence 

 the row of eye-spots on the under surface is sometimes visible in the $ on the ujjperside also, as was the 

 case, in one of the examples found by Fassl. Hitherto only found in western Colombia, in the Cauca Valley 

 by Hahnel, Popayan and Rio Dagua by Kalbreyer, Rio Agna Valley by Fassl. 



