/■»/,/. ;/. ///. ;;//';. liATKSI A. I'.y Dr. A. Sisirz. A(;i':i!.()M A. Ily II. I'lMii.snuirKi;. 537 



old place oil the road (A. H. Fassl). The $ of prociUa \^ quite similar to the ,^, hut hirger and l)eiicatli of a, 

 lighter colouring, the sulKXpical white sjiots .stTongei'. more diffn.se, often flowing togellier. — Tlicie air .ilso 

 larger specimens being above darker than fy]ii(al jnorilln. This is (he foini ocana Fnih\t. denoininaled liv (H-ami. 

 the domicile of Ocana on the Lower Magdalen lliver, where it was found. — In tV)lond)ia there occui', on (he 

 coidrary. also smaller specimens: salacia Fruhst. with a decorative band of the forewings being not broader, sdlm-ii,. 

 but more golden-green. The preapical spots as in typical ■procilht, but the white stripes on the under surface 

 of the forewings shoi'ter than there, moi-e like in oaDi.u. — lysiniache N. and G. was founded upon a single ii/siunnhr. 

 J from the volcano ('hiri((ui, being probably not of a differeni species, because i( de\ia(es only by the steel- 

 green, })ostmedian band of (he forewings nearly as broad again and by the submaiginal ocelli of the hindwings, 

 which form a beautiful regular chain in procUhi. being almost extinct, — divalis Butes is also nearly allied to iliraD.-i. 

 proclllii, but the under surface of divalis has a stronger red hue; the eye-spots are absent altogether, or thei'e 

 a.i'c only i! to 4 smaller ones. From the Upper Amazon. 



P. chalcothea Heir, (lo.ld). From (Colombia; the u])])er surface is similar 1o prorilhi. cr sdll more so (■l,i,l<oih,a. 

 ((I I iisiiiiurhi:, though there are no small spots before the apex, but only an enlirely subdued diffuse stri])e. 

 The hindwing.s are of a magnificent lighl red beneath, cloufled towards the aj>ex. — The species thus forms a 

 ti-ansition to prola. 



P. prola Dbl. and Heir. (103 c). .\bove recognizable by (he broad j)ostmcdia-n iiand of the forewings iiml,,. 

 and by the row of eye-spots in prorilln on the hindwings, being also replaced by aii indis( inct ly bordered, dai-k 

 green metal-band. Beneath the hindwings and the tipex of the forewings are of a magnificent red, mosdy without 

 any markings at all, the transverse vein and a very narrow margin of the hindwings being sometimes black 

 at most. In Colombia not rare. — zaraja Fruh.il. from Merida in Venezuela is larger and has broadei- bands ■.uniju. 

 than Colombian specimens; the subapical band of the undersurface of the foi'ewings is darker, more diffusely 

 powdered with light green than with blue, the under surface of the hindwings more subdued red. — aiTiazonica 

 Frii/i.sl. from the U])per Amazon is larger, with a broader band of the forewings and more distinct black longi- 

 tudinal bands. Under surface of hindwings brighter red and without any traces of a dark submarginal band, 

 — dubia Kret'ichiii. is the denomination of specimens with especially glaring-red aj)ex of the forewing beneath. ihihi,i. 

 We must, however, remark that the red colour of (he under surface' varies very much ; in some Jo it is entirely 

 pui'e and without markings on the hindwings, or sometimes tarnished by layers, oi- j)rovided with margi- 

 nal markings, a cell-end streak or some discal sjjots, as are almost always noticed in the $. — prolifica Friih.it. pmliji 

 has on the upper surface of the forewing a broader liand, on the under surface the b:!nd cutting off the apex 

 is of a ))urer white and distally boi'dei-ed in darker green. Ecuadoi'. 



P. regina Butes (lO.'te). tJreatly resendilc-: prohi. but (he hindwings being red beiicadi, have dark 

 markings; in the ('ell the red Ijasal spots are absent on the under suifacc. P^iom the Ui)|)er Amazon. --- victrix rhir 

 Fruh.it. from Ecuador has a, darker total t uring, the black stripes of the upper surface being more prominent. 

 The band of the hindwing is anally I'ema biy nari'owed. Undci' surface considei-ably darki'r with nioi'c pro- 

 minent snlimarginal rinus. 



iiiiiir.iiiii(:i. 



Iirii. 



nifitifi . 

 rirti't.r. 



531^ onus: Bjilcsia Fh/r. 



The differences in the veins between this genus and the preceding, which were formerly combined by 

 the (pi-eoccupied) name of Piiiidom Wir.. are stated under Piniriren. This genus consists oidy of a single species, 

 a large butterfly with a most consjiicuous colouiing, living on the U])per Amazon and on the Rio Negro in Ecua- 

 dor and not being very rare. There is nothing known about its habits. 



B. hypochlora Fldr. (103f). Above black with dull blue reflection, leaving free a black submarginal Inniorhloni. 

 l)and. The distal part of the forewings exhibit a very large oval, scai'let sjjot. The undi'r suiface of the hind- 

 wings is metallic greyish-green. — hypoxantha S. and G. likewise fi'om the Upjicr .\ma/,on, has beneath loam-/».y/"*.™/i//(('. 

 y<'llow hindwings with a. slight greenish hue, while in heniichrysa S. and G. ( 10.'! e) (he undei' surface of X\\c hrniirhrusii. 

 hindwings is of a brigld yolk coloiu', in (he ',' duller; fiom Kcnador. 



Group of Ageronies. 



\liM[i;iii 1)1' 111.' full \\ int;s witliiiiil .-1 s|ii,v, cildii s,ii i if. .riiil\ iiil l.il .■!! :il 111.- 1m^.'. 'I'll.' , -I'.iirj.u-, li:i\.- -piiiiv-. :il lln- 

 I'iisl (ii Iniiilli joiiils. l..ii\a s,l uilli ^iiirics. ru|i;i :i( t lu- li,-;i.l \\ it li 2 lout; U:iinl>. 



54. fJcMuis: A^'oroiiia Hhn. 



The sj^ecies belonging to this group have so many jiecnliarities that they ai-e to be reckoned among 

 th<' biologically and morphologically most interesting neoti'o])ical HJiopalocera. Besides they ai'e structurally 

 and anatomically so very sharply confini'd, that no closer affinities with the gron])s of da\-bntteiflii's sui mmiii- 

 ding tliem are traceable. 



The Ageronin are structurally distinguished by the uncommonly thicki'iied costal and the poNtcrior 

 discocellular of the forewings being cui'ved sliaiply convex. 



The veins themselves a.re ^•ariable fi'om one species to another, and e\-en. as in some .Vriivmiides. within 

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