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(i\- less (lislinct white eye-spots, Hindwiiig with 5 or 6 whitish oeeili wiiich are bordered by brown and are 

 ahnost entu-ely filled up by a black crescent. In the middle of botli tlie wings a black zigzag-band and two 

 exti-emely fine black lines before the distal margin. Diagnosis according to a specimen sent bj' ftlous, de L"t)Kz.v 

 from Costa Rica. We knew already a similar one from Yucatan. 



A. ferox. A rare species occurring from Mexico to Ecuador, bul hitherto known only in single speci- 

 mens, feiux is nearly allied to glaiiconome. but its spots are n'oved mure to tlie centre of the forewings and 

 there is no compact white area, but two or three series of isolated macuhie varying in extent acc((rding 

 1o the locality. — fictitia vubsp. hoik (lOoe) forms a transition from A. jehrua to *-l. oenoe. Ground colouring /"nfiiin. 

 of tlie uj)per surface approximating ipore megala Fruh.st. from Mexico (ginuconome 105 b), the under surface, 

 however, more .4. fehrua sodalia Fru/hst. from Southern Mexico. Forewing differing from uenoe by the comj)letc 

 white area being replaced by single white spots which are isolated by greyish-blue intermediate margins. The 

 ocelli of the hindwings more intensely decorated with red, under surface with a reddish-bro\\n, obsolete bent 

 s|(ot, resend)ling A. jebrutt, at the apex of the forewing-cell. Hindwing i:)re])onderantly brownish-grey with 

 distinct reddish-brown bands and an increased black marking resembling A. jehn/d. Mexico. Godm.w and 

 S.VLVix mention a similar form from Manaure, Colombia, the chalk-\\hite area of the forewings of it being ii'oic 

 extensive and divided into single spots, the hindwings having al.^:o son>e white sjicts. This is presumably ferox i< m.r. 

 Sigr. with a broad effaced whitish band running from the costal margin to the proximal margin and exhibiting 

 dissolved whitish spots. Cauca \'alley (Colombia), very rare. — tegyra .sKhsp. iiov. is the name of a geographic al /';///,-,(. 

 race from Ecuador with more sharply delimited white median region of the forewings and predominant bluish- 

 black of the hindwings. Type in the Coll. Staudincjek. — diasia .skIksj). nov. has the most extensive white of iiiitsm. 

 the forewings, excelling thereby even fictitia. Porto Rico and Hayti, type in the same collection of the Beilin 

 Museum. 



A. atlantis Bates (105 e). Distinguished by the abundant greenish hue of the upper suiface and blue- ailuiiiis. 

 pupilled ocelli of both the wings. The $ has a white subapical band of the forewings and resembles somewhat 

 Dichormgia nesimach/us from the Himalaya. The under surface resembles that of A. gvatemakna (105 c). but 

 the ochreous hue of the hindwings is less intense, the white parts of the forewings of the $ are n:ore extensive 

 and the hindwings exhibit the same brown bordering as A. fehrua. Guatemala, from the Rio Montagua, from 

 ail altitude of 1000 m. Mexico, Guadalajara, everywhere rare. 



A. lelaps G. and S. (l()5e) has a preponderantly greenish-gicy upper sulfate, except the (,(clli being /,/»//.v. 

 pupilled in lilackish instead of blue. Wry rare; known only from Mexico and Guatemala. 



A. chloi' forms an interesting and connecting transition from the guni]) of A. fehrua and .4. atlantis to 

 the most brightly coloured species of the Periilroinia-gioup. cJiIoe is the smallest sjiccics known, with prejioiidc- 

 rantly dark steel-blue or slate-grey ground-colouring being by far lighter in the V than in the (5*. According to 

 the locality there are either no spots at all on the forewings. or grey, greyish-white or puiely white square spots. 

 The under surface of the ^Jd* i^ slate-grey, of the ?$ white, both th.e sexes have a reddish-brown distal margin 

 of the hindwings in common. In each of the cells of all the A\ings there are two reddish-brown spots. 

 Besides there is a more or less proniinent series of reddish-brown median spots. The species formerly known 

 only from the Amazon district and .Southern Peru, was lately ascertained by myself as a novelty in Central 

 Brazil and now also discovered in Bolivia in two distinct races. — chloe Cr. Upper surface bright steel-blui' r/,/,,/-. 

 with jirominent red spots. Rare, in Surinam. — obidona subsp. iiov. (105a). Approximates chloe the most. ,,l,i,l,,i,(i. 

 but differs from Stole's figure liy the absence of grey sjiots in the apical region of the forewings and by a series 

 of red submarginal and discal maculae appearing on the hindwings. The under surface of the forewings of 

 oliiiloHa shows dull-white, instead of the violet-grey spots we notice on Stoll's possibly somewhat inaccurate 

 figure. The $ above dark grey, with only indistinct blue undulated bands. Ocelli of the hindwings larger than 

 in chloe, distinctly pupilled in w liite. Forewing of the $ white with large black maculae, hindwing whitish-grey. 

 Obidos. Amazon. — nais snh-ip. nov. (105 a), more intensely blue without the grey lustre covering obidona. ,„ii.-<. 

 Under surface with larger white spots of the forewings than the race of the Lower .\mazon. From Tarapoti) 

 on the Huallaga in Peru. — daplinis Stgr. has on the forewings two rows of light s])ots the prea])ica! ones of ,i,(,,liiii.-.: 

 which are almost purely white, the transcellular ones being covered with grey; South Peru. — nomia sz/^.s/). ,i,,,iiiv. 

 nop. iniiabits Western Bolivia. Habitus larger than that of daphnis, the anterior spots being also dusted with 

 grey. Mapiri. — xenia .mhsp. nov. an excellent territorial race of Eastern Bolivia and conspicuous by very large. .miUi. 

 purely white preapical .spots of the forewings. — rhea Frvh.st. (105 a) is moie closely attached to the Suiinam- /■/,,</. - 

 and Amazon-race. Forewing with blackish-powdered preapical spot, under surface duller grey than in obidona. 

 Hindwing with black instead of reddish-brown median spots. Espiritu Santo and Minas-Geraes, Brazil. 

 daphnicia subsp. nov. Habitus smaller than in rhea, still more finely spotted in black than rhea, exhibiting be- da,,ln,i,i,t. 

 sides purer white preapical spots on the forewings. Pernambuco. Type in the Coll. St.vudinger. 



A. albicornis Stgr. Upper surface most similar to A. chloe rhea Fruhst.. of a somewhat intenser and alhiraniis. 

 more brilliant bluish-green, forewing with but one reddish-brown cellular spot, hindwing without any red spots 



