ACiRIAS. By H. Fruhstorfek, • 571 



the design of markings of the undei- surface (113d(^) follows the tendency of tlie South Bra/.iiian forms of rhtu- 

 (lia in as much as the yellowish- or greenish-grey areas at the base of the hindwings of hugens and sdrdiDiapaluv, 

 as well as the median bands of them, are peculiarly discoloured into greyish-violet. The distal margin of the 

 hindwings likewise participates in this modification, and the submarginal zone surrounding the ocelli assu- 

 mes a deejjer brown analogous to diivdiimus. Another thing remarkable is an uncommonly broad, almost purely 

 white snbapical band of the forewings, followed by a transcellular spot of the same colour, higitift, in its varia- 

 bility, is better known than lugens and undoubtedly subject to greater differences in colouring than the Peruvian 

 race, f^,^ have, as a rule, no blue reflection whatever distal from the red basal area. — Specimens with a 

 magnificent blue band of the fcu-ewings, as we figure 113 c, arc rare and have been denominated sardanapaloides '^unliuKiiiii- 

 Fassl. The blue spot of the hindwings in this form leaves free only a narrow black distal margin. But speci- I'ndcs. 



mens with a reduced blue disk are of more fccjuent occurrence, and we may even expect ^J without any at all, 

 although none has been discovered so far. A specimen captured by F.vssl is interesting for possessing in the 

 blue spot of the hindwing at the end of the discocellular another small oblong red diffuse spot, thus forming 

 already the transition to A. godmani Fruhst. the habitat oi which is further inland. The $$ generally resemble 

 the $ of A. amydon (113 d), Init the forewings exhibit a nuu-h narrower, darker red covering and an insignifi- 

 cant whitish, instead of yellowish, diffuse spot before the apex. The 5, being by far the most common, is cer- 

 tainly that with unicolorously brown-black hindwings. Fassl captured also sucji a specimen, though only 

 one, in which the white-blue double pupil of the occellated band in the anal angle of the hindwing shows 

 very distinctly through above. A second $ foi'ni is that with traces of red in the hindwing. One specimen has. 

 analogous to the extent of the large blue spot of the holivianms-^ (113 c), a. uniformly red tinge at the hind- 

 wing; in another specimen the red is confined ujjon a slight hue across a short distance in the median of the 

 hindwing. The third V-f<»i'iii- finally, with blue in the hindwing, thus retrograding to the colouring of the o, 

 has a faint discal blue tinge of the hindwings. Sometimes the blue spot of the hindwing is of almost the same 

 size and intensity as in the ,j of boliviamts. This magnificent 9 form, with extensive blue in the hind- 

 wings, is denominated thusnelda Fassl. We might mention yet a $ with unicolorously black hindwings possess- fitwsncldu. 

 ing, however, a faintly blue tinged apex above the red arc of the forewing; it may be a cross-breed between 

 a richly coloured sardancrpaloides-^ and a poorly coloured lugina-9- 



A. aedon, the third of the red species, has uncommonly pointed wings in the J aiid resembles above 

 a very dark snrdnnfipulns. The red area of the forewings remains relatively narrow, it is covered with a dark 

 purple hue, the inner margin of the forewings being broadly bordered with black. The magnificent spot of 

 the hindwings darker blue than in A. sard(vuip:this, the .scent-pencil with reddish tips of its liairs. The mulcr 

 surface is most peculiar and cannot be confounded with any other Agrias. Both the wings, except the pale 

 reddish median area of the forewings, of a peculiar bluish grey. Forewing with two brown oblique bands; liind- 

 wing with three red-brown longitudinal stripes, being proximally bent inwards between the medians. Bet- 

 ween the bands there is no variegated filling at all, like in the other Agrias. The basal area likewise exhibits 

 only a most scarce brown spotting. The $ has round wings, is larger than the q, above unicolorous with a 

 red median area being distally lightened by yellowish. Two local races: aedon Hew. (11' a) is based upon an acdmi. 

 abnormously coloured ,j* which we copied according to Hewitson's figure. The ground-colour of the under 

 surface is greenish instead of light brown, and the black eye-spots do not exhibit a white pupil as in the (^^ 

 of my collection. The latter mark is presumably quite individual, whereas the greenish colouring indicates 

 a local or temporal form which rarely comes to Europe. Statdinger, moreover, seems to have had before 

 him specimens of both the different colourings, because he mentions that the under surface may be dark green 

 or bluish-grey. The $ uncommonly approximates the $ of A. amydon (113 d), but the yellow preapical band 

 is absent altogether, and the red median spot expands beyond the cell in Chiriqui-specimens. There are but 

 few specimens known, that of the Coll. Godman having been shot down with a gun, since it always remained 

 at a height not approachable with the net. ('olombia and the \'olcano Chiriqui where the species occurs yet 

 at a rather considerable elevation. — salvini Fruhst. (113 c) is a light, local form of A. aedon Hew., differing xaU-ii,}. 

 in the ^ on the upper surface by the bright red discal band resembling the o of damlina and on the hind- 

 wings by the larger blue discal spot. Forewing beneath grey as in aedon, but with obsolete subapical 

 bands and nearly disappearing dots in the cell. Hindwing with very small white-pupilled submarginal ocelli, 

 without any submarginal band, and red-brown discal bands and spots. $: larger than the q. with lighter, 

 yellowish-red discal spots which are of a much narrower shape than those of aedon ow ing to the extensive black 

 ground-colour of the forewings, being especially conspicuous at the inner margin which is bordered by a nuich 

 broader black. Hindwings like those of the (^, but more roundish and with intense red-brown discal bands 

 and dots in the cell which are blackish in the $ of aedon lying before me from the Chiriqui. Legs. j)alps and 

 thorax whitish-grey, much lighter than in aedon. Description according to a couple from Manaure in Colond)ia. 

 Collection Godmax. 



A. amydon, a species distributed from Colombia to Surinain ami the whole Amazon district as 

 well as Central Brazil and advanced along the Andes a-; far as Bolivia, of the utmost individual raodifiability 



