AI)h;LI'IIA. Ily li. FKnisTOKL-Ki!. r)2r, 



a boss, strongly chitinized,. — aeolia Fli/r. (107b) according to the season changes tlie extent of (lie \\liiic .«.»/;«. 

 median band. Felder's type exhibits narrower bands than the moth'l of oui' figure, resembling thereby much 

 more the Central i\nierican ^ than it was described by Godman anil Sai.\ in. I have sjjecimens from ("olombia, 

 before me with light buff stii])es ,ind such with reddish-brown bands of the under surface. Range from Nicaragua. 

 throughout Colombia. — archidona ■s-ub-'^j). nop. (107 b) is found in the Amazon-district of Ecuador and Peru <inh'(,i,,„i(. 

 and differs from the Bolivian lerna Heir. { 107 a) by somewhat darker reddish-yellow spots and le.ss broad bands iin„i. 

 of the forewings. — leonina ■•<iib-sp. nov. (107 b) differs from all the /e/'na-races by the larger and lighter ochreous Inniiiui. 

 preapical spots of the forewings and the much narrower white median band of all the wings. The under sur- 

 face appears more copiously set with black sjiots than in the other allies of lernn. British Guiana, Essccjuibo 

 River. Ty|)e in the Tring-Museum. 



A. naxia belongs to a small grouji of sjiccies differing by the \arious though insignificant constel- 

 lations of the subapical sjKits of the foi-ewings. The under surface aj)])roaches that of ^4. delphicoJa and .1. 

 i/i/ilc/ii and deviates from A. lerna thereby. The clasping t)rgans exhibit trifling, but still immediately recog- 

 nizable diffei-ences. Valve of A. naxia shorter, almost quadratic at the base, the dorsal tooth forming an 

 isosceles triangle. Range from Mexico to Colombia, probably along the whole U])per Amazon and the chain 

 of the Andes, since I recently received specimens from Mato Grosso. One charming form also on the Isle 

 of Trinidad, naxia Fldr. (107 b) described according to a 5 from Onaca. Santa Marta (Cokunbia), resembles //('.'■((/. 

 beneath ,4. ipJiicla except the transcellular whitish-yellow maculae being nuuh larger. — mucia svbsp. nov. uiuciii. 

 is before me from the volcano Chiriqui. The white bands are narrowed compared to naxia and the Mexican 

 race, the reddish-brown apical spot is darker and the under surface with more intensive decorations in reddish- 

 brow n. — epiphicia Godm. and Salv. was denominated thus by its authors on table 38 f. 9, 10 in the Biologia, tpiiilnda. 

 Init itlentified with A. hasiha Cr. in the text p. 306. The name of epiphicia. however, holds good at all events, 

 since hasiha Cr. is replaced by the synonymous .4. ipJiicla L. The reddish-brown preapical spot of the fore- 

 wings broader than in A. mucia. Mexico, apparently rare. — liieronica suhsp. nov. (■107c) has, considering its Iih nniKn. 

 small size, remarkably broad white median bands, especially on the hindwings. The preapical spots of the 

 forewings are, however, extremely reduced. The under surface shows all the characteristics of the insular 

 races, it is conspicuously darkened, all the markings extremely pronounced. Trinidad, Tabaginte, Narieva- 

 district, (J-type in the Tring Museum. — dominula Moschl. from Surinam was based upon a $-form of impo- (linimiitld. 

 sing size, with a small reddish-brown apical spot and a more crescent-shaped transcellular reddish-yellow 

 area. Under sui'face remarkabl\' simihir to A. iphicla L. — Near Manaos on the Rio Negro, a territorial form 

 is found, diatreta suhsp. nov.. without the blai'kish-brown longitudinal strijjes seen in dominula, but pre- dininld. 

 ))()nderant reddish-brown ground-c;)lour. The preapical spots on the upper surface of the forewings are also 

 more intensively reddish-yellow. Type in the Collection Staudixger in the Berlin Museum. — zytlia .sub-sp. :.!iiii<i. 

 nov. distinguished by very broad, light ochre-yellow subapical spots of the forewings. The white luedian band 

 of bolli the wings about as in naxia. Under surface faded, paler than in the moie northern forms. The shape 

 only somewhat larger than in liieronica. Apparently very rare, Mato Grosso. Only 2 Jo i'l Fevji.storfer's 

 ( 'olleition. 



A. ixia differs from A. naxia by the appearance of a sui^plementary yellowish sjiot of the forewings, 

 so that the preapical area extends as far as to the middle median, while in ..4. ixia it terminates already at the 

 anterior median. White median band of the forewings always shorter. Hindwings narrower than in naxia and, 

 therefore, more protracted in the anal ])art. Under surface traversed by broader reddish-brown bands. \'alve 

 more slender, basally not thickened as in .4. nnxia, the tooth shorter, blunter. The species, according to the 

 matci-ial I was able to obtain, can be proved only from Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela, ixia Fldr.. \\\v i.'-in. 

 nomenclatural type, originates from Venezuela. Median band of both the wings something like in .4. naxia 

 (107 b), but shorter. The stripe embedded between the posterior radial and the anterior median in the pale 

 ochre-yellow area of the forewing.s much longer and narrower than in .4 . naxia. — In Colombia ixia is represented 

 by fundania subsp. nov. (109 b) with narrower w hite median area of both the wings and likewise stunted j)re- hniildiiid. 

 apical spot of the forewings. On that account the faded whitish-yellow transcellular spots of the under siu'face 

 also appear reduced in size. The influence of the season is evident on the luider surface by a dark tinge of 

 the longitudinal bands in the butterflies of the rainy months, and by pale reddish-yellow stripes in those 

 of the (\vy period. Colombia. — leucas vubvp. nov. is the name of a considerably different territorial form from /riiro.s. 

 Mexico, having already the second preapical stripe elongated and distally Iient uj) anteriorly, w hile the poste- 

 i-ior stripe is somewhat l)roader still than in .4. pseudomessana (107 b) with which thecharacter of thespottingon 

 the forewings otherwise nearly harmonizes. Under surface in spite of the greater size with a narrower w hite median 

 area than in .4. fundania and i.xia, the brown parts more extensive, also all the greyish-violet stripes broader. 



A. messana Fldr., hitherto known only in one specimen in the author's collection, has according to the iiu-.^.-idiui. 

 type that lay before me from the Tring-Museum, only one small reddish-yellow submarginal preapical spot of 

 the forewings, wdiile ixia and naxia exhibit two of them. Beside messana there exists already another form 

 or species of the Felder collection with three subapical spots of the forewings. It is introduced here as 



A. aufidia spec. nov. uniting the marks of .4. ixia and naxia: il has like A. ixia lobatedly protracted ddihlid. 

 hintlwings and like A. naxia reduced yellowish zone of the ujjper surface of the hindwings. Beneath it also 



