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under surface 114 1), but the red is paler and there is yet a eons])ieui)us, ])n)niinent subapieal yellow band. 

 — As tryphon sub-sp. nov. two ,^,^ -aw introduced which are in Stai'dinger's collection: the one from Sao Paulo, iri/i'lKni. 

 the other from the discharge of the Ucayali. Both specimens lack the small yellowish streaks before the distal 

 marsiin of the hindwings. The J from the Ucayali shows at any rate no trace of blue, whereas the Oliven(,'a-j* 

 exhibits a rather large blue s])ot parted black by the veins, being about of the size as in the ^ figured by 

 Hewitson. In both, moreover, the red of the forewings appears more extensive, extending down as far as 

 to the submedian, while in niiii/floniii-^ it is cut out in the shape of a segment. — trajanus Fru/isl. denotes a irnjciiis. 

 very much differentiated territorial form of the Lower Amazon. Habitus smaller than that of all the vicarious 

 types lying before me, above conspicuous by a pale, nearly yellow-red basal area and a prominent subapieal 

 yellow macular series of the forewings. The hindwings are overpowdered by dark red as far as to the middle 

 of the cell, the subanal streaks are short, broadly confluent and of a bluish-grey colour. The forewings are 

 beneath almost orange-yellow, with a very broad light sulphui-yellow preapical band. The hiiulwings exhibit 

 a very broad black submarginal band with white instead of blue ocelli. The proxinud band reduced to a thin 

 yellow line. 9 larger than the (^, the wing-contour more roundish ; the purple spot of the forewings less deeply 

 strangulated, and the paler yellow apical spots flown together to a rather broad l)and. Base of the hindwings 

 more extensively blackish, dusted with orange. The 5 subanal mat-ulae somewhat more obsolete than in tlu^ 

 ^. The under surface of the hindwings is especially distinguished by a dark orange-red discal band which is 

 hardly indicated in the J and absent altogether in (uin/donms. The type of nmydonvus Stgr. of which only 

 one ^ was known till 1S97, originates from Pebas situate on the Upper Amazon at 72 degrees Longitude. 

 1 ^ and 1 $ of trajruvm were captured by Julius Michaeli.s near Obidos on llie L(A\cr Airazon at 5(i degrees, 

 in August and Sei>tember 1S99. A second ,^ from Obidos was taken in July Hino. Tyjjc in the Coll. Fruh- 

 STORFEE. — aurantiacai'V?f/;.:>/. (114 b $) resembles fr'ijami.s by a rather narrower bluish-grey dusting of the 

 subanal zone of the hindwings. Upper surface of the f(U-ewings with a huge, orange-yellow basal pait. a broad 

 black apex and a black distal margin being narrowed l)etween the second median vein and the submedian, 

 gr(jwing somewhat broader at the distal angle al)ove the submedian and running along towards the inner margin. 

 Li the apical part 3 oblique large yellowish spots. Hindwing above deep velvety black with a straw-coloured 

 costal margin, dark orange dusted base and 2 ]>aiv of bluish-green short streaks embedded divergently bet- 

 ween the first and second median veins. The ciliae of all the wings are yellow. Under surface of the forewings 

 like above, the orange, however, is somewhat lighter and the black apical space is traversed, beginning some- 

 what below the costal margin, by a segmentary broad yellow band. The subcostal veins are likewise slightly 

 covered with yellowish. The black at the anal angle is less broad than above and consists of thinly strewn 

 scales. At the median vein near the base of the wing there is a black, short and thick stripe. The basal area 

 of the hindwings is filled up with 3 l)lack and 4 yellow bands the two outer ones of which are strongly 

 bent, generally rather equalling those of zenodorm. Antennae black with a yellowish tip. Head black with 

 yellow palps; the red-brown eyes stick in a whitish collar. Thorax black, above brown-orange, beneath whitish 

 haired. Abdomen anteriorly and above brown with a black point, beneath on all the segments covered with 

 white scales being divided into white areas by a black longitudinal line aiul the black ringlets round the seg- 

 ments. Legs above black, beneath yellow. By the brown colouring of the thorax aiul abdomen, (mninthtai 

 greatly contrasts with zenodorus Heii\ and the local form hvliviemis Fruhsi., in which these parts of the body 

 are provided with jet-black scales. The under surface of the hindwings is rather analogous to that of zeuodorii.s. 

 but darker than in hollviemis. Length of forewings of my V 42 mm. (miranfiaat was surprised at a defiled puddle 

 from which the magnificent l)eing was eagerly drinking, which hal)it is also jirefei'ably indulged in by its allies, 

 the hulian Gharaxes wdiich arc by no nutans inferior to them. As an aJmosI (rui' copy of (mraidiaai, ('titinjraiiniKi 

 ■siiiiDinirii Hew. 9 *) appears, which was captured beside the A(/ria.s of the same cohnu's. Suriiuim. — zeno- ■■.rnvdo 

 dorus HeiiK, having hitherto been known only in some specimens from Ecuador, was founded upon a $ form 

 forming the transition from A. amydoii from Colombia to A. (iiiij/doii boliviensis. The forewings exhibit a light 

 orange oblique band sending forth only a narrow spur along the costal towards the base. This area, however, 

 is somewhat larger than in bolipicN.si.'i. 'i'lie ///o/7*/;o-blue disk of the hindwings fills up the whole distal part 

 of tlu' \i\Hvv and is siu-passed in extent only by A. sardnnnpnlus. But Hewitson already knew a $ in which 

 the disk already exliibits a reduced blue, and also in the Coll. Honrath there was a specimen in which the 

 nuignificent spot did not surpass the extent of the disk of the wings of .4. timydon. The ^ of zenodorus seems 

 to have been recently discovered in Ecuador, according to a photograjih l)efore me from Mr. Heil in Frankfort 

 on the Main. It resembles above entirely the ^ of nmydonim (115 d), but the hindwings bear only two adncrval 

 strigae and above them at the posterior median yet a darkened accumulation of scales about the coloui- ot w liidi 

 nothing was communicated to me. The under surface of this (J is the most closely allied to that of our amy- 

 don-^ (115 d). — In some parts of Ecuador another, remarkably modified areal or temporal form is tVnmd, 

 deviating from A. zmodorus and approximating rather the Colombian nmydon-type. This is eleonora Fruli.sl. 

 (115c). The $ type originates from Ecuador, a 3* of it from Bolivia. The u])per surface of the J resembles 

 that of amtjdon muzoensis Fruhst. and boliviensis fa. (unydonides Fruhst. The subanal blue spot of the hind- 



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