PHYCIODES. By J. Rober. 439 



South Brazil and Argentina which closely resembles above the Palearctic Melitam bearing the same name ; 

 Prof. Dr. Seitz who frequently captured this species in the Gardens of Agriculture at Palermo in Argentina, 

 reports that it also possesses the low, jerking and whu'ring flight of that species. 



Ph. geminia Hpfjr. (S9 i). from Peru, has a blackish-brown upperside, with a white subapical band geminia. 

 on the forewing, in which the posterior spot stands by itself; on the hindwings 3 yellowish submarginal lines. 

 Underneath the forewmgs are as above, but lighter, the hindwings with the usual brown markings on a greyish- 

 white ground. — nana Druce (89 i), likewise from Peru, has the ^liite band on the upper surface of the fore- nana. 

 wings complete, the underside more yellowish 



Ph. jana i^'Wr. As no specimens are available, I just give the original description: "Bogota (C^olom- /a»a. 

 bia)". o deep fuscous, forewings with an oblique, bhortened. excavated median band of dark brown, hindwuigs 

 with 2 indistinctly mottled, and a tiiird indistinctly undulate parallel stripe of ochreous brown. Forewmgs 

 dark brown underneath, with the basal third, a spot at apex and on inner margin ochre-yellow, indistinctly 

 marguied with black, and with 2 rows of brillant bluish-white :;ubapical lunules; hindwings ochre-yellow, 

 shaded with dark brown on the outer siibcostal, the small basal and discocellular fasciae as well as 2 other 

 bands confluent at the middle bluish-white, followed by rows of curved spots margined with reddish-brown, 

 and a few slightly silvered, confluent submarginal spots, edged with bluish-white and outwardly ringed with black. 

 In size it approaches hem Hhn. Forewings not angular, hindwings short along the inner margin, but elongate 

 at the costa". — Seems to be closely related to elaphiaea. 



Ph. carigia t'^cliaus from Colombia is de.scribed by the author as follows: "Forewings: Basal half deep carigia. 

 brown with black basal fascia and a double, black, inwardly oblique, undulate line, an obliciue ochre-yellow 

 spot at the apex of the cell, margined with black ; outer half black, spotted with ochreous, a large spot starting 

 from vein 3, a trifle beyond 2; an oblique row of spots from costa to 4, a large subterminal spot before the 

 inner margin, another, minute, between 4 and 5. and a third, small, curved spot at the costal margin, an irre- 

 gular terminal line internipted by the veins and enlarged between 3 and 4, obsolete between .5 and 6. Hind- 

 wing: Cell and the space beyond heavily brown, costa and terminal margin black, a ])road ochre-yellow me- 

 dian band beyond 7 ; inner margin brown dusted with yellow, an ochreous outer line from inner nuxrgin to 4, 

 followed by a similar marginal line from anal angle to apex. Under surface: On the forewings the spots yellow- 

 isii-white and larger, terminal border deep reddish-brown, crossed by a fine dark line, slightly grey at apex: 

 basal half yellowish-white, with a large, irregularly ring-shaped mark, at inner margin and between the large 

 spots black. Hindwings: Basal half whitish, with large buff blotches margined with reddish-browii ; a brown 

 median line, followed at the costa by a small dark area; a reddish-white space between 2 and 6, terminal 

 border broadly grey, mottled with tulvous, the extreme border reddish-brown, with a dark double marginal row 

 of lunules. Size as that of sejona\ 



Ph. elaphiaea //(//'. (Sit i), from Ecuador and Peru, is above blackish-brown; foi'ewings witli a brownish- elaphiaea. 

 yellow median band widening towards the termen Hindwings dusted with yellow, wdth 3 yellowish submarginal 

 Hues. Underside of forewings like upper surface, 1-ut with the dark markmgs paler: hindwings du-ty yellow, 

 with 6 rows of pale, brown edged lunules. — elaphina Stgr. i. 1. (89 i), from Bolivia, has on the forewings the elapMna. 

 median band lighter, on the hindwings the lines more distmct and reddish. Underside })aler. — abrupta abrupla. 

 subs p. nov. (89 i) is of smaller size; forewing with the median band much narrower and appearing as if torn 

 off between 1. and 2. median, accompanied by a prominent small round spot of similar colour. On the fore- 

 wing in addition a yellowish subapical s])ot, and the underside much paler. 



Ph. nussia Druce, from Peru, is about as large as crillionu; upper surface dark brown, forewing nussUi. 

 with a white subapical spot and, near the inner margin, a submarginal one of ecpial size. Hindwings dusted 

 with yellow, with the termen dentate and marked with 3 ochreous stripes. Underside as in nana. 



Ph. nazaria Fhlr. (= mazaria Ky.). Of this species we only can give a translation of the original nazaria. 

 description, as follows: "Bogota. ^ wings blackish-brown above, with the base dark and very faintly marked; 

 In the cell of the forewing a spot; small subapical bands followed by 3 spots, the inner broad and excavated, 

 ending at the costa, with a distal spot close by. Hindwing with a broad band, frayed out at the middle, 

 divided by dark brown scales on the outside, inside with 2 fine stripes outside of the cell, and, johiing them 

 posteriorly, very long, darkbrown lunules. Under surface ochreous brown, surrounded distally by similar sub- 

 marginal lunules; forewmgs with liroad \rA\v l)ands and spots, margined distally by a blackish border, with a 

 small pale basal band in the cell; hindwings with basal rings and stripes, partially confluent; in the middle a 

 curved streak from which another, quite faint shadowy stripe of dark brown goes to the costal area; in ad- 

 dition some minute blackish-browii lunules, and before the fringe an undulate slightly silvered stripe. Belongs 



