506 DYNAMINE. By J. Robbr. 



segment, from the 7th segment rather broad white oblique stripes enclosing the lateral spines of the preceding 

 segment and reaching as far as to the anterior end of that segment. White, glassy diaphanous are: the la- 

 teral spines 6 — 12, the spines beneath the stigmata 6 — 12 and those above the feet 6 — 12; the other spines are 

 black, but with hyaline knobs. The white oblique streaks are in the end so much widened that the ground- 

 colour almost disappears. The pupa resembles that of mylitta, but the horns, wing-edge, and protuberances on 

 the segments 2 — 5 are pretty mucli effaced, and besides, the pupa is, like that of Eueides isabeUa very much 

 curved towards the venter, so that the ventral part is nearly parallel to the place it is lying on. It is greyish- 

 green with a brown dorsal and lateral line and numerous dark lines on the second segment and the wings. 

 Beside this darker form there is another light one. The eggs are, as it seems, always deposited to or into a 

 rather young bud (inflorescence-bud) of Dalechampia triphylla Lam., but especially often on Dal. stipulacea 

 Miill. Arg. The little larva, hardly crept out, eats into a male bud, always selecting the spot where the upper 

 rims of tlie two resinglands meet. In this way it always gets into the oldest male flower-bud in which it then 

 remains hidden, eating the pollen, but ejecting its faeces out of the bud. Thus hidden in flower-buds, it goes 

 through the first two skinnings. During the 3 last stages it spins together the involucral leaves of an inflores- 

 cence in which hiding-place it finds its food at the same time. In this or a similarly created hiding-place the 

 insect also pupates. 



salpcnsa. D. salpensa Fldr. (101 Ad) from Colombia, Venezuela, Central America, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia 



differs from tithia only on the under surface of the hindwings by the brown median band being only plain, 

 narrow and regularly shaped, and, therefore, not sinuate. 



mdicHhi. D. radicula Hew. (101 A d) from the Amazon has a light bluish-green upper surface with black margi- 



nal markings and white spots. The under surface of the hindwings has 3 yellowish-brown bands bordered in 

 black. The $ has a black upper surface with white spots on the forewings, a white median band and a 

 blue submarginal band of the hindwings. 



sara. D. sara Bates (101 Ad) from the Upper Amazon is as large as radicula, has more distinct white 



spots on the upper surface of the forewings, the white spot at the inner margin being absent. The under sui- 

 face, especially of the hindwings is, as the figure shows, rather different. 



decimin. D. decimia Hew. (101 B a) from the Upper Amazon differs from the preceding four species above 



by lighter and more green colouring, the white spots being also larger and more intensively white. Owing 

 to the marking of the under surface of the hindwings, this species has an isolated position. 



(jetae. D. getae Godm. and Salv. (101 Ad) from Peru and Bolivia has lustrous greenish-blue upper surface 



with black distal marginal markings. The under surface differs greatly from tithia and salpensa, especially on 

 the forewings, as seen from the figure. 



(uines. D. agnes spec. nov. (101 B a) from Bolivia and Peru, resembles very much getae above, though it 



has a very fine black submarginal line of the hindwings and small green spots in the apex of the forewing. 

 Whereas the under surface of the forewings is quite similar to that of getae, the under surface of the hind- 

 wings is. as the figure shows, rather different. 



ines. D. ines Godi. (lOOAk") from Colombia has a green-shining upper surface. The under surface is more 



yellowish than in agues and the bands are finer. 



viearia. D. vicaria Bates (101 A e) from the Upper Amazon is the largest species of the genus. The very rare 



$ has, on the hindwings, a white basal and median band, broader than in mylitta, but before the distal 

 margin only some small white spots. On the forewings it has, like mylitta, an oblique but broader white 

 half-band at the base of the inner margin. Shortly before this band, more distally, we notice a larger, 

 irregular white spot and, at the costal margin, a long broad one, similar as in the egaea.-^. Besides there 

 are 2 rounded spots before the distal margin and one before the end of the inner margin. 



hecuba. D. liecuba Schaus (101 A e f) is similar to vicaria above, but is characterized as a good species by 



the rather different marking of the under surface. 



(unplias. D. amplias He^v. (101 A f) from the Amazon is most remarkable for its green upper surface with 



very black markings. The 9 i*^ above similar to the 9 of mylitta. 



erchia. D. ercliia Heiv. (101 A f ) from the Upper Amazon has ochre-yellow colouring of the upper surface 



witii a green tinge on the inner part and with dark marginal marking. On the submarginal band of tlie under 

 surface of the hindwings we sometimes notice the beginnings of an eye-spo,t marking. 



