dehorah. 



zuniiarcyi. 



530 ADELPHA. By H. Frfhstorfer. 



A. deborah Weeks has a dark oclu'e-yellow zone of tlie forewings running more regularly than A. ineio)ia. 

 Tlie hindwing^' have no white median stripe, but only two dun antemarginal bands, imder surface similar to 

 .4. attica, only with darker brown bands. Colombia, very rare. A co-type of the author is in my collection. 

 'lUirrx. A. zunilaces spec. nov. approaches A. attica by two small yellowish j^reapical spots, and somewhat 



A. erotia and A. jordani in the course of the very broad ochreous median zone. The under surface is closely 

 allied to A. deborah, but all the longitudinal stripes are still darker than in A. deborah. Icpiitos, type in the 

 Coll. Staudinger. 

 },}c(l,-nii(niiu. A. biedermanni .spec. nov. Upper surface black with two reddish-brown spots in the cellule and small 



reddish-brown adnerval stripes ending radiatiformly and not reaching the distal margin. The latter stripes are 

 also seen on the under surface in brick-red colour. Base of the under surface of both the wings as white as 

 chalk. The white basal area distally bordered by a broad light brick-red longitudinal band. In the white area, 

 on the forewing, there is also a small red transverse band, on the hind\^•ings two furciform, small longitudinal 

 hands. The whole outer zone of both the wings black. 



The following tliree species inseited here are the only ones that have remained nnknown to me in nature and 

 of which tliere exists not even a figure. 



iiniHrihi. A. makkeda Hew. from Para. Ui^per surface dark brown. Both the wings traversed by a broad band. 



On the forewings this median band is orange-coloured and divided into eight parts by the veins. The fourth 

 component is distally somewhat advanced towards the apex, projecting thereby beyond the others. The white 

 median area of the hindwings distally with an orange hue. Forewings with some black lines and a short orange 

 band in the cellule and below it, besides with a subapical bipartite spot. Forewings with two, hindwings with 

 three submarginal reddish stripes. In the anal angle of the hindwings an orange-coloured spot. The under 

 surface hardly differs from ^4. erotia. makkeda is, however, on the upper surface easily distinguishable fron^ 

 all tlic known species by the median zone of the hindwings being divided into a white and a reddisli half. 

 i-iijihini. A. caphira Hew. is denominated according to a 9 from Venezuela and jDrobably belongs to the group 



of ^4. ixia and A. naxia; forewings dark brown. Both the wings with a white band beginning at the second 

 median vein of the forewings, where it is crossed by black veins. Forewing with a large spot near the costal 

 margin and soinewhat outside the wing-centre. Two smaller spots above the middle macida and also beneath 

 it, all of them orange-coloured. Forewing with two, hindwing with three submarginal bands. 

 orhiiim. A. Orinoco Weeks is described in the 38tli volume of the , .Canadian Entomologist". It originates fro)n 



Venezuela. 



TI. Section. Species w i t h o u t dorsal a p ji e n d a g e (chmicula) of t h e v a 1 v c. 



The species belonging here all show the same character of markings on ttie imder sm-tace of the forewings: lilack 

 cancellated markings before the cell-apex. 



A. celerio may be looked upon as one of the most variable and, therefore, most interesting species 

 of the genus. Hardlj' anything had been hitherto known about the multifariousness of its forms. Kirby believed 

 to be right in uniting celerio with A. serpn, but this species itself sends forth a ramification as far as Central 

 America, and besides, there are anatomical characteristics by means of which we may easily separate the two 

 collective species; the uncommonly slender, boldly bent uncus of celerio being pointed like a needle and remar- 

 kably contrasting with the clumsy uncus of the races of the A. serpa- and A. 7;?/ffs-group. The valve is like- 

 wise narrower, less robust, and the ends of the scaphium shorter, more pointed. Another characteristic, though 

 quite exterior, is the scheme of markings on the under surface of the hindwings. There we find in A. serpa a 

 submarginal double-row of long-stretched crescent-shaped maculae united to bands, whereas in celerio short 

 small square spots separated by black lines. On the upper siu'face all the races belonging to the series of forms 

 of A. celerio are conspicuous by a greenish hue of the diaphanous median zone. Like in the other Adelphes, 

 the extent of the reddish-yellow area of the forewings, the width of the white median zone, and especially also 

 the dimension of the yellowish anal spot of the hindwings vary according to the season and locality. Range 

 (lifi<lr,iii(iii. from Mexico to Peru, presumably also Bolivia, to the east and in \'enezuela. — diademata .subsp. nov. (107 d $) 

 is based upon the form of the dry jjeriod lying before me from Western Mexico and Orizaba. The reddish- 

 yellow embedding of the forewings in both the sexes more extensive, and the transparent greenish white median 

 i/nilnifiiii. band broader than in the name-type. — As godmani form. nov. (107 d) I should like to mention a darkened 

 deviation being conspicuous for its narrowed greenish median bands, a larger reddish-yellow anal spot of the 

 hindwings on the upper surface, and gloomy, expanded brown longitudinal stripes on the under surface. Type 

 rrlrrio. from Orizaba in the Tring-Museum. — celerio Btlr. (107 d), originally described from Guatemala, but distributed 

 all over Central America and as far as the Cauca- Valley (Colombia), is at once distinguishable from the more 

 .■<!/niii. northern diademata by the smaller reddish-yellow preapical spot. — syrna form. nov. is the name of a mela- 

 notic form analogous to godmani, which was wrongly denominated massiUa Fl.dr. bj' Godman and Salvin and 

 phiiiikis: also figured on table 28 fig. 7, 8 of the Biologia Centrali-Americana. — phintias subsp. nov. (107 c), of which 

 wo figure a $, approaches diademata from which it differs by the darker, somewhat narrower and more iiTC- 



