300 OPSIPHANES. By H. Prxjhstorfer. 



although still strongly undulate (particularly at the median veins), near the distal margin with complete band, 

 well developed to the hinder angle, its posterior part more or less shot with reddish, somewhat weakly 

 coloured; there is also a faint rust-red tinge m the part of the wmg which adjoins this anteriorly. ? of the 

 same shape as the preceding subspecies, as a rule with the ground-colour somewhat paler, forewing not essen- 

 tially different, the hindwing near the distal margin with a very broad band, which is anteriorly pale to red- 

 yellow, from the middle onwards changes gradually into a bright rust-red and posteriorly is diffused into a 

 large, vaguely defined rust-red area, gradually shading into the ground-colour. Forms transitions to the 

 precedmg race. Larva cylindrical, thickened in the middle, green, sprinkled with white dots, further with dark 

 dorsal and lateral lines and stripes and yellow stigmata. Head yellowish, brown-striped, with reddish horns. 

 Anal end with long tail-fork. Lives on palms. (According to Burmeister, Pavonia quiteria.) me.ridionaUs 

 differs from philon, apart from its smaller size, chiefly in having the band of the forewing in the ^ broader and 

 paler yellow, in the $ narrower and more sharply defined. The hindwing has the anterior part lighter and 

 the anal area clearer red-brown than in philon, also the general colouring of the under surface is always paler, 

 more washed out, with the submarginal area predominantly yellow, hence more gaily coloured than in more 

 northerly forms. The yellow oblique band on the forewing beneath appreciably narrower than in 

 philon, also in the $. Santa Catharina, probably also in Parana; not yet observed in Rio Grande do Sul. In 

 Sao Paulo and Paraguay on the other hand transitions occur and the examples before me approximate to philon 

 in the deep colour of the under surface, to meridionulis in the narrow band on the forewing beneath, and differ 

 from both in the more extended and much darker chestnut-brown tinge of the anal area on the upperside of the 

 oresbios. hindwing. If this race is constant it might be called oresbios -siibsp. nov. 

 hadius. C. badius Stich. Hindwing strongly dentate. Band of the forewing contracted into a narrow yellowish 



white macular band. This is placed close to the cell, touchmg its posterior angle, but is anteriorly more or less 

 indistinct as far as the subcostal and runs obliquely nearly to the distal margin at the lower median vein. 

 Sometimes it is prolonged beyond this into a curved point at the hinder angle. Hindwing without spots and 

 bands, but strongly tinged with rust-red in the anal and basal area. Under surface very brightly marked 

 and differing from the preceding subspecies only in the narrower band of the forewing. The ? (hitherto unknown) 

 is considerably larger than the i^. Forewing predominantly black, only towards the base slightly tinged with 

 rust-red — the pure white oblique band about three times as broad as in the (J ; hindwing deep rust-red with 

 narrow black terminal border. 3* very similar to quirinus Godm. $, however, larger. Band of the forewing 

 more broken, hindwing above without the subapical rudiments of a yellowish band. The white transverse 

 band on the underside of the forewmg considerably broader even than above, also more extended than in quirinus. 

 badius ^\as united by Stichel with quiferin. But the discovery of two further races more nearly allied to qui- 

 rinus makes it seem advisable to raise this form, which is strikingly different in the S, to specific rank. Loca- 

 lity Muzo, 400—800 m., Colombia. 

 camcna. C. camena Stgr. Dark brown. Basal area paler brown, apical part black-brown. Distally to the cell 



runs a narrow ochre-yellow macular band, which is anteriorly closed and obliquely placed, sharply angled in 

 posterior direction on the lower radial, and broken up into separate, irregular spots standing in the interneural 

 spaces. It terminates in a double .spot in the hinder angle, immediately before the submedian. Near the apex 

 there is a small white double spot and behind it a somewhat larger white spot. Under surface pale brown with den- 

 tate and curved lines, which form irregular darker figures. Near the apex the three small white spots of the 

 upper surface, between the radials a black, yellowish-ringed eye-spot finely bordered with black-brown. Distal 

 area brown, posteriorly yellowish, near the margin two dentate lines, which disappear towards the hinder 

 angle. Hindwing with the distal margin strongly undulate, with ochre-yellow lunular spots and a row of curved 

 or lunular spots of the same colour near the distal margin, as well as the two hair-pencils, in the cell and 

 at the submedian, characteristic of the group. Under surface pale brown. Anteriorly, somewhat beyond the 

 middle of the costal margin, a large, oval, obliquel^y placed eye-spot, which is proximally clouded with broAvn, 

 bears a white curved streak and is margined with black-brown. A second, rounded eye-spot beyond the cell near 

 the hmder angle is black, dusted with yellowish, anteriorly edged with white, ringed with yellow-brown and fine- 

 ly margined with black-brown. Costal margin strigulated with white. Across the cell iims an in-egalar brown 

 transverse band; base of the wing dark brown. The rest of the wings clouded, striated and marbled with blaek- 

 brown. Not far from the distal margin there is a row of lunular .spots composed of very dense striation. showing 

 up lighter against the darkened distal border. 5 larger than the ^, apex of the forewing less produced, subapical 

 patches purer white, all the ochre-yellow bands strikingly widened and lighter, particularly on the forewing, 

 basal area and cell of the forewing as well as the whole upper surface of the hindwing rust-red. The black sub- 

 marginal band of the hindwing bordered with ochre-yellow on both surfaces. Forewing beneath with broad 

 whitish, purple-tinged transcellular area, the submedian area bi'oadly ochre-yellow to the base. Hindwing 

 lighter brown with lighter bordering to the ocelli than in the c?- Colombia, West Cordillera, Rio Aguaca Valley, 

 about 2000 m. According to Fassl the egg is similar in size and shape to that of 0. bogotanus Dist. ; it is merely 

 more green-yellow and less transparent; the longitudinal grooves have sharper edges. He more than once ob- 

 served the eggs laid on the underside of the leaves of a species of palm with non-feathery fronds of a metre in 

 length, in groups of 4: — 12, arranged in 1 or 2 rows, regularly one beside another. Whilst bogotanus inhabits 



