582 ' ' ANAEA. By J. Ruher. 



iiiorrifioni. 



tured in August), lias above more dark marking and i.s also less fiery eoloured than ops Drnce ( 117 e) from Texas. 

 morrisoni Edw. (117 e) is probably only a' $ form of andria being more prominently marked in dark and 

 (lidcd. with more constrasting colours. — aidea Guer. (118 a) from Honduras and Nicaragua is remarkable, because 

 the forewings are not like in the other forms produced into a point, which is, however, again the case in 

 tijiiiiviala. appiciata Stgr. i. 1. from Mexico being also somewhat more brightly coloured. — The larva lives on Croton capi- 

 tatum, is light green, irrorated in dark green, especially above, and has on each segment 2 or 3 white dots, 

 the stigmata being also bordered by white, the dorsum being set with small blackish bristles. The pupa is green, 

 at the sides yellowish, at the borders of the abdominal rings, of the wing-case and on the ribs of the wings red- 

 dish-brown, of the same coloiu' are the stigmata and the cremaster. — In the southern parts of North 

 America the butterfly hibernates in hollow trees. 

 JmUcc. Ill A. lialice Oodt. (118a) from South Brazil (for instance Santa Catharina) the forewings are more 



or less drawn out into a point; the $ has tailed hindwings. Sometimes the dark spots in the middle of the 

 forewings are only indicated. 

 diry^ijilui- A. chrysophana Bates (= pyrrhothea Fldr.) (118 a) from Costa Rica, Vcragua, Panama, Colombia 



and Peru, as well as South Brazil, has also in the male sex tailed hindwings. The dark jiarts of the forewings 

 exhibit a fine blue reflection. The $ has no reflection, but large white spots. According to Salvin and Godman 

 rare. 



iiionltd. A. moretta Druce (IlSb) from North Brazil resembles chfyvvp/i<nitt. l)ul it has no blue reflection. 



The under surface is grey, irregularly and densely strewn with brown scales and all the wings have a sub- 

 marginal row of very small white sjjots. 

 hir/ii. A. liirta Weym. The description runs as follows: ,^ length of body 15 mm, of a forewing 25 mm (thus 



somewhat smaller than the (^ of chrysophaiui). This species is in its colours the most closely allied to A. helie L., 

 but not in the shajie of the wings. The forewings are deeply cut out at the outer part of the inner margin, 

 like in moe.ris Fldr. (119 c), so that the inner margin forms in the middle a sharp corner and at the distal margin 

 a ]K)inted tooth. The apex of the forewings forms a right angle. The distal margin is otherwise straight. The 

 hindwings exhibit a caudal point of 6 mm length and I mm width, being somewhat broader only at its base 

 and rounded at the tip. The ground-coloiu- of the forewings is reddish-brown extending, however, only 

 across the posterior part of the discocellular, the base of cellule 3, the greatest jiart of the cellules 2 and 1 b, 

 and half of the cellule 1 a, but towards the base and at the inner margin it is covered with a violet reflec- 

 tion. The other part of the wing, thus a part of the base, the whole costal margin, the apex, the distal margin 

 and the outer part of the inner margin are blackish-brown. In the dark space before the apex there lies a broad 

 violet band of 10 mm length and 2 mm width extending almost horizontally through the cellules fi, 5 and 4, 

 touching, however, neither the costal margin nor the distal margin. The reddish-brown ground-colour of the 

 hindwings likewise has towards the base a violet reflection. The base itself and the distal margin are brown. 

 The latter, however, does not quite reach the border, so that a narrow stripe of the reddish-brown ground- 

 colour separates it fi-om the border. It is anteriorly broad, posteriorly Jiarrower and ends at the brown caudal 

 point. In each of the cellules 3, 2 and 1 c there is a black dot before the l)order. The cellules 1 a, 1 b and 

 half of the cellule 1 c are yellowish-grey. In the adjoining part of cellule lea brown stripe extends as far as 

 to the base. The under surface is brownish-yellow, finely marbled in whitish in the basal half. On the 

 forewings, from the middle of the inner margin, a straight white stripe extends towards the apex, being proxi- 

 mally accompanied by a dark brown line, disa]ipearing, however, at the vein 5. A triangle coloured somewhat 

 lighter than the ground-colour adjoins distally this band and occupies the space as far as to the inner angle. 

 The inner margin itself is dotted dark-brown at this place before the excision, as well as the costal margin at 

 two places in the discocellular and before the apex. The hindwings exhibit a similar, somewhat curved white 

 stripe running from the middle of the costal margin to the inner angle and bordered in its anterior half proxi- 

 mally by dark brown. The tip of the minute tail is beneath dark brown. The three black dots in the cellules 

 1 c, 2 and 3 are like above, there is besides yet an irregxdar dark brown dotting at the costal margin in the 

 cellules 6 to 8. Brazil. 



ri/phra. P, ryphca Cf. (I18l)) is very widely distributed, for it has been found in Mexico, Gtuatemala, Nicara- 



gua, Costa Rica, \'eragua, Ecuadoi', Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela and Colombia. There occur specimens without tails 

 as well as with tails, also transitionary forms. Under surface light yellowish brown, tinged reddish, forewing 

 with a yellowish, dark-shaded oblique line from the apex to the middle of the inner margin, hindwing sooty 

 black in the disk, the margins with a rosy hue. 



phidilc. P. phidile Hbn. (118 b) distributed from Costa Rica to South Brazil, has mostly smoothly-edged, 



rarely angled hindwings; the paler yellowish-brow ii V? have tails of the hindwings, no violet reflection and 

 yellow subapical spots of the forewings. According to W. Mueller, the larva lives on Croton (staminosus V 

 and macrobotrys?); it has only at the head small short hoins and protuberances, but is otherwise smooth, 

 almost cylindrical and somewhat thickened only in the first third; at the head there are white stripes, below 

 the horns there is a reddish transverse band but faintly indicated, the horns are blac'k, the protuberances yellow, 

 the ground-colour of the body is yellowish-red, below the line of the stigmata white, tlie lateral stripe and 

 the transverse band on the 5th segment are carmine; the lateral stripe is most variable: shortly before 



