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Under surface very similcar to that of partis, but with chains of connected ocelli and very large apical eye-spot 

 on the hindwing. The longitudinal bands of the under surface in the (J either blackish or reddish, iii the $ 

 a beautifid red-brown. According to recent observations made in the Central Cordillera of Colombia it sails 

 along proudly in the middle of a crowd of black Satyrids on grassy mountain-slopes on the road to the Quindiu 

 Pass. Difficult to catch, particularly in good condition; also occurring in the East C!ordillera from 2 — 3000 m. 

 — zephyritis Btlr. (on Butler's plate in Lepid. Exotica erroneously called lympharis) was described from zcphyrUis. 

 Huasampillo in Peru. As a rule somewhat larger than sidkowskyi and with the longitudinal bands blackish 

 and somewhat broader than in Colombian examples. The ocelli on the underside of the hindwing connected. 

 The bands of the under surface showing through more clearly above, the submarginal band in particular stand- 

 ing out very sharply. I have examples before me from Pozuzo and Huancabamba, Central Peru, 1500 m. — 

 eros suhsp. 710V. (Stgr. i. I.). Wings somewhat shorter, broader, with the black apical bordering nuich widened, cms. 

 on the other hand the hindwing withoat any black distal border. Upper surface with yellowish opalescent 

 gloss, under surface with yellowish brown, more diffuse marldngs. Apical ocellus of the hindwing placed free. 

 Bolivia, South-East Peru, sulkowskyi has recently been discovered also in Ecuador and the local form from 

 there described as sirene Niep. sirene is said to be considerably larger than the race from Colombia, length sircne. 

 of the forewing 60 against 55 mm. Wing-contour sharper, apex and inner angle of the forewing angled instead 

 of rounded. The mother-of-pearl gloss more intensive and pure blue, without greenish admixture as in sulkoicskyi 

 and eros. Under surface white with somewhat more strongly marked bands. 



M. rhodopteron Godm.., from the Sierra Nevada in Venezuela, apparently represents sulkowskyi there, rhodop(ero> 

 comes very near this in size, but bears only one instead of three ocelli on the undei'side of the forewing and 

 three isolated, not connected as in sulkowskyi, rounded eye-s^jots on the hindwing. Very rare, only kno^n to 

 me from the figure. 



M. aurora agrees with portis Hbn. in the shape of the wings and the arrangement of the black 

 distal spots. Upjjer surface with light blue, distally darkening glos-i. Under surface grey-white, with mother- 

 of-pearl gloss, basal area purple. The ocelli show through distuictly above and are yellow in the middl(>, with 

 white crescents and sharply ringed with black. On the forewing four or five, on the hindwing always four eye- 

 spots, the apical one sometimes doubled, being accompanied anteriorly by a halved eye-spot. The species flies 

 rather high; Garlepp met with it at Cocapata in Bolivia at elevations of about 2600 m. The $ still awaits 

 discovery. Two geographical races: aureola suhsp. nov. (66 c as aurora), apparently not rare at Pozuzo and aureola. 

 Chanchamayo, is somewhat smaller and darker than the Bolivian sister-form, aurora Westw., which according aurora. 

 to Staudinger also (Iris 1894, p. 72) is notable for its relatively large size, aurora seems to be rarer than the 

 Peruvian aureola. 



M. adonis, the longest known species of a small group, is transitional from the pm-tis series to the 

 rhelenor group, and with it begins at the same time the series of species in which the ^lorphid character reaches 

 its highest development, accompanied by a striking sexual dimorphism such as we find nowhere else in the 

 Satyromorphids and which is only surpassed by a few Papilionids and Nymphalids. — adonis Or. (= eugenia adonis. 

 Deyr. ,£') (68 a), originally described from Surinam, inhabits Guiana and the northern banli of the Amazoii. 

 Deyrolle had it from the River Oyapok on the borders of Cayenne and Brazilian Guiana, Micilaelis found 

 it at Obidos on the lower course of the river, Dr. Koch on the Upper Rio Negro, Dr. Hahnel reports its capture 

 at Iquitos and Pebas. There afZo?i*s flies quickly and impetuously (sometimes at an elevation of 12 ft.), dashing 

 out from among the branches, crossing the road and following clearings among the trees, in which they sail 

 along just over the tops or in and out among the branches. The c? resembles the generally known aega (66 b) 

 above, but the blue is duller and lighter. Forewing also above with the two white costal spots which our figure 

 of the underside reproduces and with less black at the apex. — In adonides Stgr., an aberration from Icpiitos, adonides. 

 however, these white patches are absent, and the white stripes of the under surface are more blurred, nearly 

 effaced. The $ is much larger with the basal part of both wings above black-brown, and has extended yel- 

 lowish white, proximally strongly dentate longitudinal bands. The under surface is predominantly silver-M'hite 

 with pure \\hite median area, reddish anteterminal band and the ocelli ringed with brilliant yelloA\ . It ^^'as fi- 

 gured as long ago as 1785 as marcus Schaller, afterwards rechristened iirania by Devrolle, and Kirby is not 

 altogether to be blamed for having referred the $, from Schaller's figure, to the Zeuxidiids, to which it shows 

 a superficial resemblance. 



M. uraneis Bates is an extraordinarily rare species ; in addition to the type only three examples seem to uraneis. 

 be known, which were collected by Dr. Hahnel at Iquitos and Pebas. According to Staudlnger uraneis has 

 the upper surface blue -with brUliant mother-of-pearl gloss and is larger and broader-winged. Its flight is more 

 regular and not so rapid as tliat of adonis. 



M. aega, one of the best known and in the cJ one of the commonest Morphids, shows a tendency, 

 within its relatively narrow range of distribution, to interesting geographical variation. The name-type, aega aega. 



