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hand of the hindwings ocourriiig also in a, spot at the inner margin of the foicwiiigs. 'I'he }ilacl< l)an(ls of 

 the under surface have brown filHng. 



D. coeades Burm. Somewhat hirger tiian iit/ieiiioii. of the saiiiie shajie, and very simiUti' also with respoot coeadm. 

 to the colouring and markings, body above black, beneath white. Antennae with fine white ringlets. Hind- 

 wings entirely white, forewings anteriorly with l^lack costal margin and distal margin, expanded at the ter- 

 minal angle, with H concave sinus, the first being longer, at the end of the cell, the second shorter but broader, 

 in the 5. cell of the distal margin, and the third smaller, in the last marginal cell. Base of costal maiginal 

 band somewhat expanded with a bluish-green metal-sjiot. Beneath like above, but in the basal part of 

 the black costal band there is a yellow ray penetrating yet into the first sinus and being proximally accom- 

 panied by a blue metallic bonier; the apex of the wing, finally, is white and the black band before it bordeicd 

 in yellow. Taken in the north of Buenos- Ayres, near the village Las Conches. 



D. amazonica spec. nov. (ini A a) from the Amazon, is presumably a temporal or local form of nthe- miiazDiiini. 

 nion. It differs by its greater size and by greater extent of the blue l)rilliant colouring on the forewings as 

 well as in the black margin of the hlndwings. The brown band in the middle (jf the undci- surface of the hind- 

 wings is stronger. 



D. coenus F. (lOl Ab) from Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia, has a very narrow black margin of the menus. 

 hindwings and a bright bluish-green gloss of the basal part of the forewings. The under surface has much 



browner filling in the black markings. — leucothea Bales from the Amazon has broader dark markings, albi- '''"™'"'"- 

 ~ _ p " albiduld. 



dula Weeks (= cocninus Stgr. i. I.) from Bolivia, however, narrower dark markings, so that the posterior sub- 

 marginal spot and the white discocellular spot of the forewings are in coherence with the white ground-coloui-. 



D. theseus FhJr. ( loi A b) is distributed frr)m Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela. The species is remar- ihfsens. 

 kable foi' the stretched shape of the wings and the broad black margins. 



D. limbata Btlr. (101 A b) from Bolivia is somewhat larger than agacles. has broader black margins, limhata. 

 a crescent-shaped white spot in the middle of the black hindwing-margin and verdigris colouring on the basal 

 part of the forewings. The under surface has nuich more verdigris markings. 



D, niveata Btlr. from Bolivia differs from pittheus Stgr. { 101 A b) from Venezuela, Colombia and Panama nh-eafa. 

 above by full black margins and beneath by having an interru])ted, posteriorly also only suggested brown me- /""'"'"•'•■• 

 dian band of the hindwings. 



D. pieridoides Fldr. (101 A b) from Colombia, Venezuela and Panama, differs from anubis by somewhat iiicriiloUlc.^. 

 smaller size, somewhat narrower black margin of the hindwings, and on the under surface of the hindwings, by 

 the absence of the brown half-band in the centre of the costal margin. 



D. anubis Hew. (101 A b, c) from the Amazon is larger than the preceding species. The ground-colour fmuhls. 

 is above and beneath white, the black margins are very broad. The black margin of the hindwings is parted 

 in the middle by a white line, at the distal margin of the forewings there are two white spots and in the centre 

 of the costal margin there is a large white sjjot. The under surface has much browner markings of the 

 distal margin and wing-base and an elongate spot filled with brown in the centre of the costal margin of the 

 hindwings. 



In D. myrrhina DhJ. (101 Ac) from South Brazil and Paraguay the hindwings are above and beneath ni>/n-hiiiii. 

 fully white, only the centre of the under surface of the hindwings exhibits a brown dot sometimes hardly 

 visible. On the basal part of the upper surface of the forewings there is likewise bluish-green gloss, and the 

 under surface of the forewings is rather broad white at the distal margin. 



D. ate (joihii. and Salv. (101 Ac) from Guapiles is unique among the white species for having on the "'''• 

 under surface of the hindwings 2 submarginal blue eye-spots which are placed at the outer boundary of 

 the submarginal brown band running parallel to the wing-margin and, therefoie, being curved. Beside a sub- 

 basal hindwing-band there is a- ))i'emedian brown one with little bluish-glossy marking. The marking of the 

 under surface of the forewings corresponds to the upper surface, altliough the common lusli-ous blue markings 

 are present. 



B. U p ji e r surface v a i' i e g a t e d , 



a) Ibider .mrfdce of the hhulirltigs irilhovt eye-spots. 



D. tithia Hbn. (101 A (•) from South Brazil is one of the smallest species. The urgper surface is greenish- 

 blue in the ^, but much more greenish in the $ having also purer white spots on the upper surface and one 

 such .spot on the anterior part of the hindwing-centre. This species is characterized by a broad brown median 

 band of the under surface of the hindwings, with a light filling. — Larva according to Wilh. Mi'LLER, when 

 being grown up, with considerably shorter acce.s.sory spines than the larva of mylitta, head pale yellowish, 

 body on the first 5 segments quite green, on the following 6 segments green above the stigmata, only the 4th 

 s(>ginent brownish-red, beneath the stigmata whitish-green with 1' white dorsal lines begiiming from the 0th 



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