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races there are yet remarkably darkened, brown-tinged places noticed, especially in the basal region, being 

 absent in continental area! races. Shape of the valve broader than in detnopho)!. tlie uncus dorsally sniootli. 



— gulina Fruhst., the northernmost branch, occurs from Honduras through the whole of Central America, i/hHiki. 

 even as far as Colombia, at least as much as I was able to ascertain (Cauca Valley) from the material. The 

 upper surface, however, resembles demophooii Hbn. from Surinam. The shape of gulina is, however, considerably 

 larger, all the blue bands are very much broadened and. in tlie $$, preponderantly of a golden green reflec- 

 tion. The under surface has the same purely white cell and an extremely broad white band before the cell- 

 apex of the forewings, as cmssina, the cell of the hindwings and the w hite discal band are even of a still jnner 



and broader white than in cnissinn. In common with the continental forms, i/vlhm has the centrally inter- 



iui)ted black an;'l spot of the forewings and the minute A\hite subniarginal dots in which we find no blue traces 



\\hatever. — demophoon Hbu. is the name of the territorial form from iSuiinam and the Amazon. The l)h:e (IciikijiIkiiii. 



apical spots of the ff)rewings are det'idedly smaller than in (//(liiiii. the nniler surface more uniform. eff;MH'(l 



pale ochreous. The name of denwp/ioon mounding very similarly to deiiiuphoti L., the name of aniazonicd Styr. 



lias been introduced for the Amazon r;'„ce, though this denomination will h;u(lly be maintainable. — andicola hiiiIki.Ih. 



Fndh^t., the (mtimache-f orm inhalnting the Andes, greatly approaches i/ii/imi from Central America, but differs 



from it by the still larger size and the somewhat narrower, thougli more intensely blue discal bands of the upper 



siu-face. The under surface resembles gidinn by the very broad, whitish i)ordering of the black discal bands 



of all the wings, on the hindwings, however, the marginal zone, especially in the $, is still more intensely 



white, furthermore, all the black dots and lines are much stronger. Only the anal angle of the forewings 



is dark yellow, the black anal spot very large and the submarginal (jcelli of the hindwings are very much 



larger than in demophoon and nntimache, in the ,^ reddish-yellow, in the $ greenish-yellow with distinct blue 



dots, andicola differs from anHni'irhe besides by the lighter, more white than grey-mingled basis of the under 



surface of the hindwings. Tlie type originates from ^'enezuela; I add yet specimens from Ecuador and from 



Pozzuzo (Peru). — thebais sub.sp. nov. joins demophoon, though it is of a larger shape and the under surface /lichni.-i. 



of the hindwings more variegated; the forewings exhibit distinct white transcellular parts. Mato-Grosso (Brazil). 



— lyde siibsp. nov. differs from thebais by decidedly narrower blue bands of the upper surface, resembling already li/ilr. 

 tyri'is (111 b). As to the habitus, hjde approximates the Andi?ie and the Matfi-CJrosso races; the subapieal spots 



of the forewings are just as prominent as in andicola, thebais and (julina, thus contrasting with the demophoon greatly 

 wanting of blue. The under surface of the hindwings, however, exhibits again connections with the South Brazi- 

 lian tyrias by an especially bright, light silvery grey. Bolivia. — antimache Hbn. occurs from Bahia to Rio de uiiliiiKidi,-. 

 Janeiro. The blue preapical maculae of the forewings are in the ,^(^ more prominent than in demophoon, moie 

 roundish, the magnificent band grows narrower. Beneath, the effaced ochre-yellow is confined to the median zone 

 of the forewings. — In tyrias siihsp. nov. ( 111 b) the blue median band is decreasing in both the sexes, and the li/ria.-:. 

 proximal subajjical sjjot is always intermixed with wh.itish or greenish, no more intensely blue as in the vicarious 

 types. Nomenclatural type from Rio Grande do Sul. also from Santa Catlnsrina and Paraguay in my collection and 

 presumably advancing to the north as far as Sao Paulo. — insulicola Fnih.st. (112 c). On the West Indian Isles, /n.-^iiiiioia. 

 anlimarhe Hbn. lias changed into a most charac-teristic local race. The blue discal band; especially on tlie fore- 

 wings, is narrower, and on tin- hindwings also much shorter than in the continental vicarious tyjjes. The discal 

 bands are not deep blue, but peculiarly light green with a violet reflection. The black distal margin of the hind- 

 wings appears very much broader than in antimache owing to the receding blue discal colour, the ciliae are 

 lighter, more yellowish and stand more densely than in continental specimens. The under surface has greatly, 

 changed, being more variegated than in antimache and the discal bands being brown instead of black, and 

 sti'onger. The white bordering of the brown discal band is extremely broadened, and there is a distinct, white 

 submarginal band noticeable on all the wings, in place of which there are only white dots on the forewings in 

 antimache. The black spot in the anal angle of the forewings is centrally not interrupted, but forms a compact 

 mass in which a yellowish-brown, almost four-cornered macula is embedded. The black streak in the middle 

 of the forewing-cell runs almost rectilinearly, while in antimache it is sharply angled. The hindwings are. further- 

 more, decorated with intense blue dots, the 4 last of which are the largest and provided ^^itll distinct reddish- 

 brown ringlets. The occurrence of really deep blue dots appears to me to be very important, because Godart 

 in his description of amphitoe speaks positively about small dots of a bluish (bleuatre) colour. Hayti. In the 

 Berlin Museum there are 3 j'.j' fully agreeing, especially on the under surface, with my type and are taken near 

 Port au Prince. — ilmatar subsp. nov., another insular race from Trinidad (Port of Spain), j with a somewhat ilnuiinr. 

 longer median band of the upper surface which is placed extremely steeply and seems connected with P. cra-f- 

 ■sina Fruhst. from Cuba. Preapical spots smaller than in the insiilicola-^ figured 112 c. Under surface prepon- 

 derantly dark grey, but nevertheless yet with antimachoidal silvery grey, band-like patches. Hindwings just 

 like those of insulicola. distinguished by magnificently blue-]nipillcd ultramedian ocelli. — crassina Fruhst. (m.s.sn)». 

 (ill c) is so closely allied to phnedra beneath that it might be considered a geographical form of the Central 

 American species, if it were not separated from it by a large black area at the inner margin of the forewings. 

 The black zigzag-line of the hindwings is n>oi-e jirominent, too, more like P. antimache. The upper surface 



