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on the spot by breeding. Hitherto, however, none of the entomologists residing in Rio and the neighbourhood 

 have undertaken the task. Peters has bred from the larva two of the butterflies in question and there are 

 water-colour drawings of larva, pupa, butterfly and food-plant in his unpublished contributions to the Bra- 

 zilian butterfly fauna in the Tring Museum. In one of the larvae, ho-Hever, a mistake has evidently occurred 

 and the figures of the pupae, as is usually the case with such, are not sufficiently exact for reliable specific 

 cbfferences to be gathered from them. 



A. pyrrha F. (= ? euterpe Fldr.) (83 b). The example described by Fabricius from the Banks collec- pyrrha. 

 tion is still in the British Museum, but in very indifferent condition. Very variable in size, length of the fore- 

 wing 28 to 40 mm. The light markings of the fore wing yellow-grey to dirty orange, much lighter than the 

 hindwing; the basal area very much reduced, diffuse, mostly only the cell-spot well defined; the two poste- 

 rior spots in the discal band are absent or small ; the hindwing rarely yellow-grey, yet rather variable in co- 

 lour, base and abdominal margin commonly grey. The scales of the forewing easily get detached and the basal 

 half of the wing is usually transparent. The light scales in the distal part of the under surface of both wings 

 are dentate. The anal tergite of the ^ i*' either sharply pointed or obtuse. — South-Elast Brazil and Para- 

 guay, common. — ■ The description of euterpe Fldr. is so indefinite that the name must be allowed to sink, 

 as neither in the Viemia Museum nor in coll. Felder is there a specimen labelled by Felder as euterpe. 



A. carycina spec. nov. (83 b). A smaller form, length of the forewing 18 to 30 mm. Markings of the carycina. 

 forewing grey-yellow, hindwing orange with grey abdominal margin, rarely the hindwing with the exception 

 of the black distal margin and the markings of the forewing grey. The Ijasal area of the forewing broken up 

 into narrower stripes than in the next species by the very broad black veins. Under surface of both wings 

 yellowish grey, without orange tone, the brown-black median band of the hindwing usually well developed as 

 far as the lower median vein, rarely abbreviated. The liglit scales on the underside of both wings not den- 

 tate. — The larva which Peters (Ms.) figures as belonging here shows a pair of long liorns en the neck 

 (or head) and is probably a Dirpkia larva. The pupa, from which he obtained the butterfly, is more slender 

 than usual and bears 6 rows of sjiines (?!), Mhich are not quite as long as the distance of one pair from 

 another; the tip of the head is black, the cremaster on the contrary light; an uninterrupted subdorsal 

 stripe black; on the ventral side a pair of black stripes on each abdominal segment. The sketch is probably 

 incorrect. — • South-East Brazil and Paraguay, common; name-type from Siio Paulo. 



A. parapheles Jord. (83 a). A broad-winged and brightly coloured species. Discal band of the 

 forewing always yellow, sometimes slightly tinged with orange, especially at the veins, the basal area 

 either orange like the hindwing or as light as the discal band. (Jn the under surface the basal area of the 

 forewing and the hindwing either orange (f. parapheles) or as pale as the discal band of the forewing pamphcles 

 (at most slightly tinged with orange); the postmedian costal spot of the hindwing always pale (f. p&Ues- pallescens. 

 cens form, nov., name-tjqje from Rio). The light scales in the distal part of the under surface of both 

 wings dentate; valve of the cJ pointed. — Larva according to Peters (Ms.) with black head and blackish 

 double lateral line, dorsal surface pale reddish, from the 7th to the 9th or 10th segment white ; the spines 

 correspondingly coloured, but the anterior and posterior ones brown. On Boehmeria caudata. The larvae 

 when young gregarious and free on the leaves; before pupation they scatter. Pupa more weakly marked than in 

 carycina, tip of the head and cremaster in Peters' figure light, spines shorter than in carycina. According 

 to Peters the butterfly has a swift and powerful flight and is found at Novo Friburgo only in open, unwooded 

 places. The butterfly figured by Peters seems to belong to this species and to f. pallescens , but is possibly 

 a form of A. pellenea. — ■ South-East Brazil (very common near Rio), Paraguay, Matto Grosso. Examples 

 with orange on the under surface I only know irom Rio, where, however, the pale form also commonly occurs. 



The following forms are sharply defined and certainly specifically different from the preceding. 



A. quadra Schaus (82 f). A large species, which may be recognized by the large spot at the hinder quadra. 

 angle of the forewing and the uniformly grey under surface of the hindwing. The submedian stripe of the fore- 

 wing is divided by a fine longitiulinal line, which is not the case in the preceding Brazilian species; the last 

 spot of the always conqjlete discal band is about as large as the cell-spot or even larger and the submedian 

 stripe correspondingly abbreviated. — South-East Brazil, rare, known from the provinces of Rio, Sao Paulo 

 and Parana. Peters (Ms.) found a larva suspended for pujtation on a Composite (Conyza); it was entirely 

 yellow-grey, including the head (discoloured?). Pupa thicker than usual, spines moderately long, the lateral 

 stripe consisting of two lines. 



A. perisa Jord. (82 f). The whole upper surface in ^ and $ yellow, the veins and narrow streaks perisa. 

 between them in the distal area black; the black transverse nuirkings, as may be seen from the figure, sharply 

 developed, beneath as well as above. Margins of both wings beneath washed over with grey, apex of the fore- 

 wing even less black than above. — A pair found by J. Steinbach in Tucuman. The same collector also sent 

 from there two Actinote larvae and two pupae, which perhaps belong here. The larva is similar to that of 

 A. anteas (p. 36.5), but the spines are only half as long. Upper surface including the spines black, the latter light 

 at the base, bristles white, the ajiical ones brownish, body from the stigmata downwards light (3'ellow-green 



