USUI. 



DYNAMINE. By J. Rober. 5(»7 



D. chryseis Bates (101 A f ) from the Upper Amazon and Nicaragua has a broad black apical part of chri/ficis. 

 the forevving. 



D. sosthenes Hew. (101 A f ) fi-om Nic^aragua has stronger bands on the under surface of the liind- sosthoics 

 wings. It differs above from ine.s by a narrower margin of the forewings and a broad black anal angle of the 

 hindwings. 



b) Under surface of the hindwings with eye-spots. 



^^'ith D. setabis DM. and Heu\ (101 A g) from Bolivia and the Upper Amazon begins the series of species selaUs. 

 bearing eye-sjjot markings on the under surface of the hindwings; .setabis has only one eye-spot being 

 placed at the anterior part of the subniarginal band. 



D. artemisia F. (= artimesia Ky.) (101 A g) from South Brazil and Bolivia is a small species, in artcmi 

 the male sex above verdigris or glossy bluisli. The $ resembles the $ of cgaea, it has, however, smaller white 

 spots and narrower white bands. 



D. neoris Hev\ from the Amazon has a verdigris upper surface with diaphanous marking of the ncori.^-. 

 under surface, uniform entire black margin of the hindwings and very much curved black distal margin as 

 well as a black triangular spot in the centre of- the costal margin of the forewings. The under surface has 

 white ground-colouring, on the hindwings there are 4 yellowish-brown stripes the outer one of which has, on 

 the outside, 3 blue eye-spots surrounded by black, the distal margin being also yello^\ish-brown, parted by 

 a blue line. The forewings have yellowish-brown marking on the distal margin, at tlie basal part of the costal 

 margin and at the costal margin near the apex of the wing, as well as in the centre black marking forming 

 a circle near the distal angle. 



D. thalassina B.sd. (= immarginata G. and <S'.) (101 A g) from Central America and Colombia, has ihfilas.sina. 

 a green-shining upj^er surface with black margins being, however, visible on the forewings only in a certain 

 exposure. 



D. pebana Stgr. (101 A gh) from Pebas is smaller than egaea, resembling it, however, above. The pchona. 

 marking of the under surface is rather different, as seen from the figure. The $ is still unknown. 



D. onias Hew. (101 A g) from the Amazon exhibits a verdigris upper surface with dark brown distal onia.-i. 

 margin, occupying on the forewings the whole apical third and forming a four-cornered spot in the distal angle. 

 On the forewings, the white median spots of the under smface are diaphanous. The under surface of the hind- 

 wings exhibits white ground-colouring with 4 brown bands of which the middle one is parted by a blue stripe, 

 the distal one having 2 blue eye-spots. The under surface of the forewings is black to a great extent, the basal 

 part .brown; in the black part there are 4 white spots, and small blue spots are at the inner margin, in 

 the middle of the distal margin, and a blue submarginal line borders the brown distal margin. The $ is brown- 

 ish-black, with a moderately broad white median band and a white subbasal band of the hindwings. which 

 are also provided with a submarginal bluish line. The forewings have 7 wliite spots varying in size. 



D. mylitta Cr. (= postverta Cr.) (101 A h) *) is nowheres rare in the whole neotropical region. — tiinliiid. 

 In ab. bipupillata Stgr. i. 1. the under surface of the hindwings lacks the blue-shining spot behind the second hijiKiiilhi/n. 

 eye-spot in the anal angle. According to the observations of W. Mullek the small larvae crept out on 

 the 5 th of November, the butterflies on the 1st of December. The larva is, in the last stage, rather short 

 and broad, not like most of the Nymphalidae entirely cylindrical, thus resembling on the whole more the habitus 

 of an Erycinidae-larva than that of a Nymphalidae-larva. The spines are in general as in tithia. In the 3 last 

 stages the larva is of a pale green with white dorsal stripes, the spines are also green, the ball-ended bristles 

 glassy diaphanous. In the 5th stage there is also a darker brownish-black form found beside the light form, 

 which has, however, been observed only in captivity. The larva has the same habits and the same food-plants 

 as tithia (cf. p. 505). The pupa is either light-green or light-brown, tolerably slender, the wing-partings are 

 closely appressed; it has 2 short coniform horns, 2 strong projectures at the second and fifth segments, both 

 are two-pointed at the ends, small not paired tips are at the anterior margin of the segments (5 to 10, 

 there is also a strong edge of the wings present. It has 3 movable connections of the segments and is only 

 movable to the sides, showing the following brownish markings : a stigma-stripe effaced towards above, a 

 distinctly circumscribed spot on the 7th segment in the middle line and 2 lines at the bottom of the wings, wings 

 and head being of dark colour. 



D. paulina Bates from the Upper Amazon is nearly just as large and above nearly of the same ihiuHiki. 

 colouring and markings, as vicnria, the under surface, however, resembles that of wylitta, though darker. 



D. egaea F. (= serina F.) (101 Ah) from Paraguay (and from the Upper Amazon?) resembles a cuiua. 

 great deal mylitta, though it has a narrower black margin of the hindwings and broader black marginal mar- 

 kings on the upi^er surface of the forewings. The $ has broader white bands and spots than the $ of mylitta. 



*) The valve of U. inijlitia Cr. is of a pocailiar shape, being at the base expanded like a board with a slight 

 depression in tlio centre and antlcr-like end, tlie three tips of which remind us in some way of the Lycaenidae-genus 

 Latnjndes (especially of L. celeno). (H. Fruhstobfer.) 



