ANAEA. By J. Rup.er. r,sn 



the pupation the animal grows diaphanous green. In the first 3 stages tlie larva mostly attaches small pieces 

 of leaves to the browsed middle rib of the leaf between whicii it is sonievvluit protected. The pupa is short, 

 stout, of a .shape similar to that of Chnrttxes jasins; it has no excision of the wings. After the :h-d skin- 

 ning tiie larva constructs from a pit'ce of a leaf drawn together at its rims a cylindrical funnel lined w ith spun 

 threads and being just large enough as to shelter the stretched a.nimaJ; in this funnel it remains hidden 

 in the 4th and 5th stages, while at rest. The species is common. 



A. helie L. {Clerrk) seems not to have been found again or to be a very doubtful species, since it lirlii-. 

 has no more been mentioned by any autiior foi' nearly 100 years; only Drt'ce mentions that it may be the 

 5 of rj/phea or •phidile. 



A. erythema Bat. (118 c) is said to occur on the Upper Amazon. Herbert Druce considers eri/- rriiihnnit. 

 tliP)ii<i to be synonymous with 'phiclile, O. Staudinger takes it to be an insignificant local form. We have figured 

 a Colombian specimen whicii corresponds M-ell with the description of eryfhenid, but we are unabk- to decide 

 whether erythema is a ])roper species or a local or aberrative form of pliidile. — Bates says about the 9- 

 sha])e like that of the ,^, but hindwings with a long, spatulate tail being outwardly obliquely expandcfl. 

 The coloui'ing is the same, but tiie upper surface has no purple gloss and the irregular scaling on tlii' under 

 siu'face is nuich coarser. 



A. euryphile FJdr. (118c), distiibuted from Mexico to Brazil, differs from phidile by the short tails (iirmthUr. 

 of the hindwings. Tiie ujtper smface of the hindwings is mostly lightei' than in phidile, but it may be just as 

 dark as in the latter. The under surfa-ce afso shows hai-dly a.n\- constant differences. Whether it is a, 

 pro])er species ? 



A. sosippus Ilpjjr. (lISc) fi'om Pei'u Chanchamayo) and I'^cuador has a dull violet reflection. Tin' -.o.v;/, /!».<;. 

 under sui'face is brown with numerous, small white scale-s])ots and two parallel dark oblique liands on the 

 hindwings. The $ seems to be still unknown. 



A. cratais Hew. from Bolivia does not lie before us. This sjiecies is smaller than (/h/cfrivm which i m/tiis:. 

 it resembles, though it has a band of white spots on the under sui'face of the hindwings. 



A. glycerium DM. and Heip. (llSc) fi'om Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Chiriqui. iihirrr'nnu. 

 Panama, \'ei'agua, Colombia and Venezuela, is in some places veiy common, but the $ is very rarely captured. 

 Drttce states that the specimens from Mexico are the smallest and darkest, but that they agree the best with 

 specimens from Colombia and Venezuela. — The form from Bolivia (Coroico, leg. A. H. Fassl) exhibits stronger 

 colours, more and more coherent dark markings, often a considerable blue reflection and an under surface with 

 nutch more pronounced dark mai'kings, exhibiting also often a series of white glossy spots in the middle of 

 the hindwings. We denominate this form oriiata ■^uh'^p. imp. onitiln. 



A. echemus Dbl. and Heir. {= poeyi Lef.) (Iisd) is .said to occur, according to Dofbleday and ,;h,„,i(s: 

 Hewitsox as well as Drfce, in Honduras, which is, however, contradicted by O. Staudinger. The figured 

 specimens originate from Cuba. The species is renuxrkable for its coloui' ol (hi' upper surface, the black 

 distal pait of which, on the forewing, gradually- changes into the fiery red basal i)art, and for the maiking 

 of the under surface reproduced by our figure. It is the type of the genus d/iiKitograniDia Dbl. and Heic. 



A. verticordia Hbii. the habita.t of which is stated by several authors to be Cuba, occurs in Hayti iirlininlin. 

 according to otlier auth(jrs. According to (Jodmann and Salvin it differs fiom dominicana G. and S. (llSd),/ minifinin. 

 from the Island of Uominica chiefly Ijy the absence of the yellow spots near the inner angle of the forewings. 

 Jioth are, therefore, presumably forms of one and the same species. 



A. nobilis Bat. from the valleys of Central Guatemala has a somewhat curved costal margin and iinh;n.-i. 

 pointed forewings, the distal nuirgin being somewhat sinuous before the inner angle, the inner margin straight, 

 the distal margin of the hindwings slightly undulated, the tail long and somewhat widened at the tip. Fore- 

 wing above of a prominent dark purple-red, 2 curved lines from the costal margin (behind the discocellular) 

 towards the inner maigin, all the veins blackish, hindwings blackish, at the base of a deep purple-red, near 

 the tail a series of whitish spots being encircled by black. Under surface reddish, glossy, with a slight, irregular 

 dark brown, hindwings with 2 dark and indistinct oblicpie stripes. 9 of a shape aiul colouring similar to the 

 cJ, but the forewings with 2 curved oblicpie series of brownish-white spots, distal margin of the hindwings lighter 

 with a gloomy brown shine, the submarginal spots larger and more com])lete. Under surface like in the q, 

 but much lighter. Seems to be very rare oi' to occur oidy in little fien(pienle(l places; as for instance on the 

 Salama Plateau, near San Geronimo. 



A. nessus Lair. (= cleodice FIdr., tempe FIdr.) (IlSd) occurs in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia ((cv.s-^.s'. 

 and Venezuela. The (J(^ are frequently captured, the $9 rarely. The ,^ exhibits a blue reflection being very 

 intense on the longitudinal band and near the inner margin of the forewings. The 9, as is shown by the figure's, 

 differs extremely, exhibiting the broad white median band of the upper surface of the forewings also on the 

 inider surface, where it is, however, strewn with small brown s])ots. Otherwise the under surface resembles 

 ent;irely that of the ^. 



