364 ACTINOTE. By Dr. K. Jordan. 



basewards far beyind the origin of the lower median vein, triangidar, distally rounded, the bhxck di.^cocellular 

 spot distinct. Many specimens have traces of red on the upperside of the hindwing before and in the cell. 

 $ with distinct grey striping on the upperside of the hind^ving about halfway between cell and distal mar- 

 amoena. gin. East Cordillera of Colombia; rather rare, especially the ?. — amoena subsp. nov. (9 81 d, as calUanihe). 

 c^ : the patch on the forewing deeper red than in callianthe, similarly shaped, but not extending beyond the apex 

 of the cell, the discocellular spot consequently almost entirely confluent with the black distal area. Beneath 

 the patch as in callianthe, but much redder. The hindwing of the ? has no stripes on the upperside; the 

 band of the forewing is posteriorly somewhat shorter than in callianthe and at the lower angle of the cell 

 somewhat broader; on the under surface the band is distally somewhat more distinctly bordered with black 

 and the hindwing is more conspicuously blackened distally to the cell. West Cordillera of Colombia, found by 

 A. H. Fassl in the Rio Aguaca Valley at elevations of 2000 m. The species flies high and very swiftly and is 

 rufa. difficult to catch. — • rufa Jord. (^; the patch on the forewing is red-ochre, reaches much nearer to the distal 

 margin of the wing than in the other forms, but distally to the discocellular spot there are only a few red 

 scales and the stripe b?low the lower med-an is basally much more abbreviated than in amoena and callianthe. 

 TJie basal area of the liindwing beneath paler yellow than in the preceding forms and the stripes between 

 cell and abdominal margin indistinct. Rio Zamora, South-East Ecuador, 1800 m., 1 (^ found by .Simons in 

 May. The specimen is not in good condition and this is perhaps the reason why the blue gloss is less strong 

 than in the other forms. 'ys! ,r-| .-'S-^ Jt d i .M4' i 



A. naura. A small species ; breast and base of the hindwing beneath with ochre-red spot, a spot of the same 

 colour also at the costal margin of the forewing. <^ Forewing with ochre-red triangular basal area, wh'ch does 

 not reach the apex of the cell and is sometimes reduced to a cell-spot. Hindwing with red patch in and below 

 the cell and a row of red discal spots; these markings very variable and often entirely absent. Under surface 

 of the forewing similar to the upper, the red area paler; the liindwing and apex of the forewing striped 

 with yellowish grey, with nebulous dark discal band, the cell of the hindwing almo.st entirely filled in with 

 naura. yellowish grey. $ much larger than the (^, paler. Venezuela and Colombia, rather rare in collections. — naura 

 Driice (= ozinta Schaiis). Upperside with rather strong blue gloss. Area of the forewing reduced to some 

 subbasal spots, of wh'ch the ceU-spot is the largest. Forewing more rounded than in the following form. 

 chea. 9 quite similar to the (^. Merida, Venezuela. — chea Drnce (81 b). Upper surface with slight blue gloss; 

 the red area of the forewing large, many examples with traces of a red subap-cal band; markings of the 

 hindwing sometimes united into a rathsr large central patch, sometimes almost obsolete. In the 9 the area 

 of the forewing is much paler, at the hinder angle a reddish grey area, from which a narrow macular 

 band, either distinct or very indefinite, runs to the costal margin in a uniform curve ; markings of the hind- 

 wing reddish grey, more extended than the red markings of the cJ, the abdominal area in particular is also 

 light-striped. Beneath the whole hind-\\-ing and an anteriorly broad distal border on the forewing are yellowish 

 grey, finely striped w ith brown-black. Colombia, in the East Cordillera, found by A. H. Fassl at Pacho (2200 m.). 



irinacria. A. trinacria Fldr. (81 a). Smaller than A. naura, the veins intersecting the triangular red area on the 



forewing somewhat more broadly black, the hindwing without red markings. Beneath the forewing usually 

 bears one or two red spots just distally to the end of the cell, while in A. naura a red spot further distad 

 is usually traceable outside the blackish discal band. 9 unknown. — Colombia. This species is received in 

 "Bogota collections" and probably occurs in the East Cordillera; more exact localities are not laiown to me. 



ienebrosa. A, tenebrosa Hew. (82a). Only a few 9? known; possibly belongs to trinacria or segesta. Black- 



brown with slight blue gloss. Forewing with reddish — orange oblique band running from the costa across 

 the apical part of the cell to the hinder angle, where it joins a narrow discal band of the same colour; 

 these markings indistinct above ; beneath better developed, the proximal band in particular much broader, 

 hindwing and apex of the forewing yellow-grey, the discal band of the fore^\•ing gradually shaded off distally, 

 hindwing with dark nebulous band about the apex of the cell. — Ecuador. 



segesta. A. segesta Weijm. {— dognini Schaus) (82 b). Much larger than trinacria, resembling it above. Beneath 



the hindwing and the distal border of the forewing are strijied with reddish ; the scaling of these stripes 

 is condensed into a very narrow band at the di.stal side of the black discal band of the forewing. 9 similar 

 to the (J, larger and somewhat 2:)aler. — • In eastern Ecuador: Huamboya, Zamora, Loja. 



flavibasis. A. flavibasis Jord. (= diceus atict.) (81 e fig. 4, 9- erroneously called ozom.ene, 81 g ^J)- The material 



which I have been able to compare since sending off the manuscript of the Acraeinae for Wagner's Lepi- 

 doptorum Catalogus makes it probable that the forms enumerated there under diceus and callianira are geogra- 

 phical races of one species, with the exception of flavibasis, which I must now treat as an independent 

 species. This common Actinote in "Bogota collections" does not seem to be confined to the East Cordillera 

 of Colombia, as Weymer states in "SxiJBELS Reise" that this species with yellow base (which he erroneously 

 took for diceus) occurs in the Central Cordillera together with the form with red-striped ujider surface (the 

 true diceus). The sexes are similar. ^■. the patch on. the forewing orange; nodiscal band above, while 



