30G . OPSIPHANES. By H. Fruhstobfer. 



reduction in width is from the proximal side, so that the band api^ears to be placed nearer to the apex and 

 its angulation is more pronounced. Its general course anteriorly is oblique from the costal margin towards 

 the subapical eye-spot, which shows through from beneath, and from there in an obtuse angle towards the hinder 

 angle. The distal border itself is distuictly lighter, so that between it and the band only a narrow stripe of the 

 ground-colour remains, and this quite ceases posteriorly, the light shade of the l)and and that of the border 

 here running into one another. Distal border of the hindwing narrower and duller, sometimes very little lighter 

 than the ground-colour. In single cases the marginal band stands out somewhat more distinctly, its bordering 

 being then strongly dentate. $ with lu'oader, dull violet transverse band, less angled at the cell, anteriorly 

 indistinct and distally strongly notched at tlie veins in the vaguely dusted bordering. The eye-sjiot in the 

 apical part standing out very distinctly on the pale blackish ground-colour, distal margin more broadly bordered 

 with lighter smoke-broAvn. This border is strongly dentate and rather distinctly defined, on the hindwing 

 narrower and paler, light bone-coloured. 

 rivalis. 0. rivalis Niep. is said to be very similar to .vnnthus L., agreeing in habitus with xaxthus dohrni Stick. 



Wings somewhat narrower than in dohrni. Apex of the forewing almost pointed ( ?), distal margin more sinuate. 

 Upper surface velvety chocolate-brown. Forewing with three apical patches, after these a black ocellus showing 

 through from beneath, then posteriorly between the lower radial and the upper median a whitish yellow spot. 

 The submarginal macular band not obtusely angled but gently curved. It consists of 7 spots of unecjual 

 size and of dark rust-yellow colour, mostly pointed proximally. The hair-pencil in the cell light brown, that at 

 the submedian velvety black. Under surface as in dohrni, the yellow-brown colour more intensive, the white 

 striation more pronounced, the black markings stronger. The posterior ocellus is said to be pear-shaped. Length 

 of the forewing 54 — 55 mm. Maccas, Ecuador. 



xanthicles. 0. xanthicles, as its name already suggests, bears a certain similarity to 0. xanthus L., but the hair- 



brush at the submedian of the forewing is less broadly attached and more bushy, pencil-like, xanthicles Godut. 

 (J. Dark brown, the band of the forewing runs from the costal margin at some distance distally to the end 

 of the cell and parallel with the discocellulars obliquely to the upper median vein, is behind this bent round 

 posteriorly in an obtuse angle and gradually tapers to a point towards the hinder angle. The proximal boundary 

 is rather sharp and in places only a little notched, the obtuse angle somewhat rounded, the distal boundary 

 projecting at the lower radial, the angulation sharper, otherwise running in a fairly iniiform direction. Hind- 

 wing with several small, dull ochre-yellow apical spots or the rudiments of a marginal band at the apex. $. 

 Ground-colour of the upper surface pale grey-brown, the apical area darker. Band of the forewing broader, pale 

 ochrcous. The widening occurs chiefly at the proximal side, so that the band is placed nearer to the cell and 

 the obtuse angle is lost. The boundary-line forms here only a slight curve, whilst distally it shows exactly the 

 same characters as in the cj. Hindwing with more distinct, pale ochre-yellow marginal band, which, hoM'ever, 



cyparissa. just behind the apex is somewhat removed from the distal margin and vaguely diffused. Panama. ■ — cyparissa 

 Fruhst. (66 a). Ground-colour black-brown, forewing with the usual 3 white apical dots and with a^dark 

 ochre-yellow band traversing the wing from the costal margin (at a distance of about 7 — 9 mm.) distally to 

 the cell and about the upper median approaching the distal margin, which it nowhere cpiite reaches. Towards 

 the submedian the band is narrowed. On the hindwing it is continued as a moderately lu'oad distal border, 

 extending from the subcostal to the middle median and gradually narrowed posteriorly. Before the ujjper 

 wall of the cell a long black hair-pencil (m xanthus this pencil is light yellow, in 6erecfi/?;Y/;?ff black and small. 

 in atnphirhoe and orgetorix it is entirely absent), a still longer, thicker hair-pencil, distally strongly wavy, 

 arising from a fold before the submedian, and the usual small grey scent-tuft in the bare scent-cavity proxi- 

 mally to the submedian. Under surface : basal half of the forewing dark brown, the sidtmarginal area striated 

 Avith Avhite, the distal border anteriorly broA\n, posteriorly yelloAvish. From the black-pupilled apical ocellus 

 onwards a narrow, sharply pronounced violet-white submarginal band traverses the wing. HijidAA-ing Avith a 

 broad, oblique broAVn median band, crossing the lower part of the cell. Round the large broun-ringed anal 

 ocellus a broad, somewhat coffee-brown patch ; otherwise Avith dense, fine Avhite striation throughout AA'ith the 

 exception of the greenish brown distal border. Tavo black undulate antemarginal lines extend on the hmdwing 

 from subcostal to submedian, on the forewing they become indistinct before the middle median. $ uniformly 

 black-broAvn, the Avhite apical patches somcAvhat larger than in the cJ. Band of the forcAving nearly tAvice 

 as broad, only moderately narrowed costally and anally, between the lower radial and the upper median enclo- 

 sing a white dot in the distal part. Marginal band of the forcAving compact, ochre-yelloAv, proximally with 

 reddish gloss, sharjjly defined as far as the inner marginal vein. Under surface more copiously striated Avith 

 Avhite than in the ^. Terminal border Avith brighter yellow-broAvn edgmg. Muzo, Colombia, 4 — 800 m., 9 

 bclisar. discovered by Fassl. — belisar Siich. Larger than the typical subspecies, of a darker ground-colour. Band 

 of the forewing somewhat broader, bright reddish broAA'n; proximal boundary-line Avithout distinct angulation, 

 arcuate, distal boundary as in the typical subspecies. HindAving Avith a bright reddish ochre-yelloAv marginal 

 band 5 — 7 mm. in breadth at the distal margin, starting in a point at the apex, soon developing into the 

 full band and remaming distmct nearly to the hmder angle, Avhere it is lost in the ground-colour in a vague 

 dusting; its proximal boundary is somcAvhat curved. Othenvise like the tyjiical subspecies. Length of tiie fore- 

 wmg 54 mm. Bolivia (province of Yungas, La Paz). 



