57G AGRIAS. By IT. Fruhstorfer. 



The fiery red of Pcriclcri is replaeed by a pale bronze yellowish brown and the niagnificeni blue of it simply indicated 

 by faint marks." 



mapin. iliapiri Fas.-^l originates from tlic Rio Mapiri, where the Yungas forest-valleys extend already into the lowlands 

 of East Bolivia. The animal having an expanse of 65 mm is of the .size and shape of an A. amydonius-<^ and 

 has also similarly coloured forewings with glaring-red (not blue-tinged), strongly indented red arcs reaching 

 as far as to the base, and a very conspicuous yellowish-white subapical band being parted by 2 veins and much 

 broader and more conspicuous than in all the red forms of Agrias lying before me. The blackish-grey hind- 

 wings exhibit red dusting at the base of the discocellular; besides there extends from the anal angle a dark 

 blue, oblong spot being sharply defined towards the distal margin of about 1 ^2 i'>'"i'' width and turning here 

 into greenish, thus looking like the remains of the hindwing oi AgriiM. This blue sjjot is not identical with the 

 anal spot of the amydon-iorm>^, but owing to its more submarginal extension, it makes the impression as if the 

 colour of an originally cjuite blue hindwing had been reduced to this small extent. The inider surface exhi- 

 bits in the otherwise entirely undimned red arc a black stripe at the lower part of the median. The marking 

 of the under surface of the hindwing is much more concentric than in amydon, and the light zone bordering 

 first of all on the ocelli turns somewhat into red-bi'own in an upward direction. I do not dare to decide to 

 which forms this new animal is to be assigned though I presiune that it might be an extremely southern off- 

 shoot of Agrias perichs. 

 phnlridou. A. phalcldoil Hpic. (114 d) occurs exclusively in the district of the Lower Amazon. fTCOgraphical 



races are not known for certain, but only two, presumably individual forms. A. phalcidnn is. according to 

 Hahnel, somewhat larger than Callithea leprieuri (99 d) which it resembles on the whole, and like that blue 

 with a pale, silvery grey margin, the under surface, however, with a strong banded mai'kiTig and a row of blue 

 and white pupilled eye-spots. According to Micii\EL, the deep cyanean is of the most magnificent effect in 

 the midst of the tropical vegetation. 



,,When the sun has risen half the way to tln' zenith, .1. phaic-idoyi begins its flight about at the same time with 

 Morpho citscifi. a little earlier than Prepnna. The height at which they use to stay being very consideralile, varying bet- 

 ween .5 and 10 metres, the scent of the bait we occasionally applied did not penetrate to them, and we got all of the few 

 phnlc'ulon we caught sight of, down froin the tips of their lea\'es, whereas in the same load, the P?r/jo/i« repeating their 

 flight much oftener and occasionally coming further down to the gromid, scent the bait mucli easier and are then easily cap- 

 tured on it.'" 



The 2 has somewhat less blue colouring, in one specimen of the Coll. St-^.ttdinger it is al)scnt. Both 



the 9 forms, however, exhibit on all wings more extensive, verdigris bands before the distal margin. — Tn Villa 



pauhifi. Bella (the Paritins of to-day) a $ form was fouitd (paulus '^fgr.) with quite blue, not black-inti-rrupted fore- 



ana.rayoiris. wings. The verdigris bands of the hindwings are absent. — anaxagoras >^tgr. is an aberration with yellow basal 



third of the forewings and almost entirely blackened hindwings, captured near Itaituba. 



iicirrisuKK. A. narcissus Stgr. (Il5c, d) is considered by its author to be the most beautiful Agrias, ,,a ca]iital 



feast to the eyes", as I described it in 1897. St.\udi\GEE knew only one 9 from Surinam which he came 

 across in Sommer's collection. Later on Mr. Sahlke who collected for Honrath in Cayenne discovered two 

 couples at the beginning of November and at the end of December 1884 and at the end of April 1885. My 

 traveller Julius Michaeli.s succeeded in finding a (J near Obidos on the Lower Amazon, of which we represent 

 the under surface. The (J is a sardanapalus with reverse colours, because there prevails a wonderful, intense 

 cyanean blue acro.ss which a relatively narrow red band is laid on the forewings. Hindwings nearly C|uite 

 blue with a rel?otively narrow, jet-black very sharply delimited distal margin. The scent-pencil is smaller, but 

 just as beautiful and of a pure yellow as in A. sardunapalus. On the dark moss-green under surface of the hind- 

 wings are two conspicuous orange spots at the basal margin. 



A. hewitsonius has brought us so far the greatest coloristic surprises of which the Agrias are capalile. 



Nature has squandered the most magnificent shades of blue, green, yellow and red ujjon this collective species 



/i«'(/;/.90(iN(>:. occupying the Upper Amazon from where it has advanced to Ecuador and South Peru, hewitsonius Bates 



(114 c), the nomenclatural type, was discovered by its author near Teffe (the former Ega). It has remained 



extremely rare and is at once recognizable by the chrome-yellow basal part of the upper and under surfaces 



olirtiii'ui. of both wings. — It is geographically approximated by olivencia Sigr. from Sao Paulo de 01iven9a, situated 



somewhat higher than Teffe on the Amazon. There arc hitherto known only three q,^, without a yellow base 



x/iKirti. and an entirely blue surface of the forewings. — stuarti Godm. from Pebas and Ic^uitos tonus the transition 



to beatifica (114 d). The green zone of the forewings, however, is very narrow. The basal half of the under 



surface of the hindwings is undeterminedly reddish or orange. On the under surface of the hindwings there 



are some black spots dispersed in the yellow part, which vary in size. Sometimes they are absent or there are 



2 or 3 being distally bordered by greenish and not standing entirely in red or yellow. The $ of stuarti has 



above a black basal half of all the wings followed at first by a broad green band and, before the distal 



margin, by a narrower grey band. Beneath, the base of the wing is orange, the eye-spots are white-pupilled. 



beuli/icn. There is a striking resemblam^e with Callithea buckleyi (99 e) and degandei (99 f). — beatifica Heio. (114 c, d) 



is a very rare form from Ecuador with a very broad verdigris terminal band ot the up]>(M' surface of both 



