374 ACTINOTE. By Dr. K., Jordak. 



in life ?), above the legs with dark markings; thoracic legs and head black. Spines of the pupa only about half 

 as long as the distance between the two spines on one segment. 



A. alalia. In this species also the spot at the hinder angle of the forewing is always rather large and 

 the submedian stripe extends much less far distad than the median spot of the basal area; markings sharply 

 developed; the penidtimate spot in the discal band often very small but never quite absent; median band 

 of the hindwing above and beneath distinct. Chiefly distinguished from A. surima by having the scales in the 

 distal part of the wings beneath strongly denticulate, while the marginal cellules of the forewing beneath 

 conspicua. bear no hair-scales posteriorly to the 3rd subcostal. South-East Brazd. I only know the (J. — conspicua 

 Jord. (82 e). A verj' large, perhajDs specifically different form from the province of Rio (Petropolis, Novo Fri- 

 burgo). Very deep orange, also beneath. The black median band of the forewing as ^^■ell as the marginal band 

 of the hindwing broad. Under surface of the hindwing orange-brown. Peters (Ms.) figures, together with its 

 larva and pupa, a butterfly which resembles conspicua on the upper surface, but beneath has the discal band 

 quite yellow instead cf orange-coloured (9 ?). The larva, which was found on Eupatorium triplinervia at Novo 

 Friburgo, is dorsally reddish grey with black transverse bands; spines light, the anterior and posterior ones 

 blackish, head grey-green, underside of the body yellow-green. Spines of the pupa short, the longitudinal 

 bands not interrupted, black with small light spots. According to Peters (Ms.) the butterfly lays its eggs in 

 January in small clusters on the underside of leaves. The young larvae make a common web close to the 

 place where they are hatched, afterwards in the top of the plants, where they draw together and spin over 

 leaves and flowers. They remain in the web from February to October, undergo a moult there and eat little. 

 With the arrival of the first rain they leave the web for good, eat voraciously, grow rapidly and remain toge- 

 ther until shortly before pupation. Peters found the butterflies in 1871 very common in aU the clearings, in 

 the following year rare. They shun the woods and \\'hen not disturbed fly with weak, slow flapping of the 

 wings like a Heliconian, often hang suspended in the air for a long time, sometimes mount up high, then 

 raise the wings somewhat and sink slowly without moving the wings. They visit the flowers of Composites, 

 alalia. Lantana, etc., and are here easy to catch. • — alalia Fldr. was described from an example without locality, 

 which is characterized by the especially strong reduction of the black markings on the forewing. This specimen 

 and others more broadly black, but undoubtedly belonging to the same species, are distinguished from conspi- 

 cua by the hindwing beneath bearing distally to the black median band a reddish brown band, followed 

 distally by grey longitudinal stripes, while the cell and the abdominal area are light-coloured and the ceU of 

 the hindwing has in the middle a short black transverse streak. Sao Paulo, Parana, Espiritu Santo. 

 surima. A. surima (82 f, g). (J: similar to the true alalia, somewhat paler yellow, the black median band of 



the hindwing above and beneath very strongly and sharply developed, forewing beneath \\'ith hair-scales between 

 all the subcostals (at least on the folds), the other scales entire-margined, net dentate as in alalia. Underside 

 of the hindwing with orange-brown tinge, distally to the median band somewhat more distinctly orange, 

 this colour, however, not well defined di.staUy as in ^4. a. alalia, but towards the margin gradually overspread 

 with black. The only two $$ before me (from Paraguay) are very pale, as the figure shows (82 g). — South- 

 East BrazU (Parana) and Paraguay. 



e) mamita Group. 



Wings semitransparent, with the same greasy glo.ss as in worn specimens of the preceding group, the 

 distal part of the wings above and beneath with numerous hair-scales and bristles. Claws almost entirely 

 symmetrical in the ,^ also. 



A. mamita. Alnaost hyaline. On the ui^perside of the forewing in the distal part and on the underside 

 of both wings about half the scales and in the distal part of the under surface nearly all the scales are 

 replaced by bristles. On the under surface the bristles in the distal part yellowish «ith the exception of those 

 placed on the veins and at the margin, which are black. $ similar to the (^, larger, somewhat paler. Larva 

 according to Burmeister dirty clay-coloured, head and the spines on segments 1 to 3, as well as the thoracic 

 legs and a thin lateral line black, the spines on the other segments red; on Amarantus, Evalus and other 

 low plants. Longitudinal bands of the pupa filled in with black, with round light spots, spines short. Argentina, 



mitama. Paraguay and South-East Brazil. — mitama ^Sc/wms (82 f), from South-East Brazil, is somewhat deeper orange 

 than the corresponding sex of mamila, the forewing a little more broadly black and the under surface less 



mamita. grey. — mamita Burm. occurs in Argentina from Buenos Aires to Tucuman, and in Paraguay. The difference 

 in the colouring of the sexes is greater in mamita than in mitama, at least in the examples before me. 



canutia. A. canutia Hpffr. (= pellenea Geyer nee Hbn.) (82 g). Less transparent th.a,n A. mamita; the upper 



surface with the exception of the distal margin much more densely scaled. Under surface, in addition to the bristles 

 which stand on the veins, with numerous black bristles, the marginal area consequently almost entirely black. 

 Cell of the hindwing beneath without bristles. Proximal area of the forewing and the hindwing broA\'nisli 

 orange, the discal band much more yellow. $ larger and much paler than the ^. — South-East Brazil and 

 Paraguay. The earlier stages not known. 



