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LUC'INIA: PERL\. By Dr. A. Seitz. 475 



only red at the base, otherwise white. Typical edocla come from Colombia. — In aenaria Fruhst. (95 e) from aeimria. 

 C^entral America the apical spot i.s larger, the siibapical spot smaller than in the typical form, so that both 

 the spots do not differ so nmcli in size. — athene Fruhst.. without exact habitat, perhaps onl> a temporal form atlicnc. 

 of edocla, is smaller, with narrow, very pale bands which, on the forewing, are distally deeply notched by the 

 ground-colour. — lysatlias Fldr. from the Upper Amazon is immediately U< he recognized by the more obtuse /.v.w» »/.-.-. 

 forewings and the pale-green double as broad band of tlie wings. — maculata Stgr. (95 e) showing all the transi- „i„riiiai<i. 

 tions from ly.sanias is exactly like this, but has rows of white-green spots before the distal margin of both the 

 wings; Peru, especially known from the Chanchaniayo. — anthele Fruhst.. discovered by R. Haensch in Ecua- anihrir. 

 dor, is darker and smaller, without the dotting in the distal area., or only with remains of it, the light margin 

 of the wings on the unrler surface being narrower. Seems not to be so frequently occui'iing as neaerea is in its 

 district. 



P. Otolais B(d. (95 c). Mostly nmcli smaJIci' than the preceding, almost the whole upper surface of olol,il.'<. 

 the wings taken up by tlie very much broadened, pale Nile-green band, differing thereby from the long-palped 

 nuskn which has a narrower darker band not reaching as far as the inner margin of the hindwings; on the upper 

 surface very similar to the crameri. but below immediately discernible by the median of the forewings being 

 white-green, not hemochrome. From Central America. — neis Fldr. from Mexico is a little larger and has broa- "'■;.?. 

 der bands. 



P. crameri Auriv. (neaerea Cr. nee L.) (95 c). This is the only Pyrrhogyra in which the lower cell-margin crameri. 

 on the undersurface of the forewing does not sejiarate the cellule by a little hemochrome band bordered in 

 dark. Above almost like otolais. Guiana. — hagnodorus Fruhst. from Peru has a narrowei' black margin and ii(i,/tio,ioni 

 on the upper surface a brighter apical spot of the forewing, and nautaca Fruhst. fi-om Colombia and the Upper naniara. 

 Amazon is larger, the bands narrower and deeper green, and the distal mai'gin of the wings clouded in a bi'ighter 

 violet. — The larva seems extraordinarily similar to that of neaerea L.. with only a little more black markings, 

 and the pupa is quite equal to the pupa of that species; there may, however, also have occurred a mistake 

 in so far as, owing to the homonymy. indeed a larva of that species was taken for this species, 



P. nasica Stgr. yimilar to the preceding, but at once recognizable by the very nmcli elongated palps na.siai.. 

 and by the green very broad median band not reaching as far as the inner margin of the hindwings; this is, on 

 the contrary, of a brownish black. Colombia. — In oHvetlca Fiuhst. (95 d) the green area is as broad as in the olh-oira. 

 typical form, but the red band of the hindw ings is distally bordered in brownish black, to such an extent that 

 the bone-yellow in the distal area is diminishcfl to a little narrow band. — seitzi Fruhst. (95 d) from Bolivia .wi/;/'. 

 has narrower and darker green bands; the band on the hindwing is tapering behind and shows with this point 

 in the direction of the red anal dot. 



HO. Genus: T^iiciiiiii Hf)n. 



Little yellow butterflies with insignificant black markings on the upper surface, but below richly flecorated 

 hindwings with big metallic eye-spots. Head broad with broad front, palps a little elongated, but pretty slender 

 and bent upwards; antenna curled with well deposited clavola. The body slender, the forewings triangular, 

 with smooth or scarcely inidulated margin and a little below the apex quite slightly drawn in. The hindwings 

 in the anal part dented, the costa of the forewings weak at the base, the median strongly inflated, the cellule 

 broad. On the Antilles. Only fom- forms probably belonging to one species, interosculating a great deal and 

 hardly'to be'maintained as subspecies. 



L. sida Hbn. (97 b) from Cuba and Haiti, is sufficiently i-ecognizable from the figiU'C'The animals .svV/a. 

 vary considerably in the .size of the eye-spots on the under surface of the hindwings. and big-eyed specimens with 

 broad dark wing-margin were separated as subspecies and named cubana Fruhst. — cadma Drury from Jamaica lubuiia. 

 is larger, the upper surface of the hindwings has a greyish brown ground instead of white, and the metallic '" "'"' 

 violet-white line before the margin of the hindwings on the lower surface, being distin( t in sida, is ab.seiit. — 

 torrebia Mew.,^a form hardly differing from cadmn. occurs in Haiti. torrdna. 



31. Genus: I*eria Ky. 



The little species forming this genus I have never seen alive nor do I find anywhere an indication as 

 to its habits. The species known as Peria laiuis occurs in many places of northern South Ameiica and it differs 

 only with respect to its size. The head is moderately large, the palps short, the eyes naked. Antenna gradually 

 thickened to a thin clavola. Wings entu-ely bordered, the cells of all the wings closed. Cell of forewing veiy 

 broad, rather short, the subcostal with 4 veins. The first vein branches off close in front of the end of the 

 cell, the second one considerably further back, the third one terminates into the costa, pretty far before the 

 apex. Precostal of the hindwings bifid, branching off towards the deflection of the subcostal. 



