Puhi. /.;, r. 191/:. ANAEA. By .1. Rr>HER. r.S5 



It has a characteristic marking of the under surface of the forewings. — appiades vuhsp, nor. ( 1 20 J:> a, h) nji/iiiuhx. 

 of wliicli there are lying before us from the I'ollection of Mr. A. H. Fas.sl: 2 ,^J from ^^'est ("olomliia (Agiuica- 

 Valley, 2000 m), 1 $ from ('olonii)ia (Muzo, 40() lo SOO m). 3 VV ti'""' K"^t Colomiiia (Upper Rio Xegro. 

 SOO in) and 2 $$ from Bolivia (E^io Sonuo, 7")0 ni). The J j are intensely blue or green on the ba-al half of 

 a.ll the wings, and the light sjjots are all of a j)uie l)lue (not parfl\- white). 1'lie Lf V have likewise a mucli 

 moi'c distinctly blue basal part of the wings and are on the distal half darker than in app'i'.i-<. 



A. artacaena Heir. (120 B a) is distributed all over Central America a^ far as ("olomljia. Init eveiyw heic tuliuuiiKi. 

 very rare. Both sexes possess a white band of the forcwing being pierced licliind the cellule, whereby the 

 species is at once recognizal)le. It is also beneatli distinguished by a liifht lingi- whicli strongly contrasts 

 with the dark proximal part of the forewing. * 



A. eribotes F. occurs on the Lower Amazon and in (iuiaiui. In the ,^. a bright rust-brown distal iriliuh-a. 

 part of all the wings sharply contrasts with the black basal third exhibiting a blue gloss; the apex of the 

 forewing is black. The $ is of a dull slate-grey, the base of the forewings liroad light blue, near th(> apex 

 of the wing a short, undulate, dirty-white shine. Distal margin of the forewings sliglitly sinuate, the under 

 surface with distinct black spots. — The larva has the usual shape of the .-I w«p«-larvae, it is black and has 

 single white, small bristles standing on small white warts, two rows of which are on each side of the dorsum 

 and one row below the stigmata ; the small, short, black horns on the head have in the middle a white streak, 

 another similar one at eacli side of the face and 2 more intersecting ones in the middle of the face. The 

 pupa is I'elatively slender with black and red markings. 



A. porphyrio Bates (T19a) from the Amazon is characterized by its peculiai- colouring of the upper i,i,ii<liiir'iii. 

 surface. It i^ very common in the forests of Peru. 



A. testacea spec. nov. (11!) a) from Peru (Coll. A. H. F.\ssl) has on the ba^al part of all the wings iisiacra. 

 the same violet reflection as porphi/rin. from which, however, it diffei's greatly beneath: the under sui'- 

 face is buff with small brownish and blackish sj)ots; the centre f)f the hindwings is traversed by a very hazy 

 brownish band; the distal margin is biownish, hazy, from the innei' angle to the tail there stand black small 

 spots bordered by a broad whitish one. 



A. leonida Cr. from Surinam is a dubious species; Drfce takes it to be the $ of eriboies which Icinida. 

 supposition however, is erroneous according to O. Staudinger. It has biow n distal margins of all the wings. 

 (!ramer figures specimens as i^ and $ which are presumably both i^q and l)elong to different s})ecies; they 

 are said to originate from Surinam. We do not possess any material of it. 



A. xenocles Westw. (= xenoclea Stgr.) (119 a) is distributed from (Juatemala to Bolivia and Rio de .miorl.'x. 

 Janeiro and seems to be very common. Here the l)asal parts of the wings are of an intense metal-blue gloss; 

 the submarginal row of spots on the forewings, however, is irregular. ap})roaches the distal margin at the inner 

 angle and is continued on the hindwings in the shape of obsolete internerval, diffuse spots before the border. 

 Under surface finely, though brightly silvery irrorated. The i has a lighter blue base of the wings and only 

 two white subapical spots of the forewings. — subbrunnescens Stgr. i. I. from Bolivia seems to lie only suhiinnini:- 

 an aberrative form being beneath, especially on the liindwings, scaled more in bicjwii. ''"" 



A. OCtavius F. the pa,tria. of which lia^ been reported by the author to lie India by mistake, has nr/nrhi.-,-. 

 not been seen in nature by any of the modern authors. The description, being entirely insufficient, runs as 

 follows: wings tailed, black, a shortened green band: beneath grey, a red-brown strijie. 



A. morvus F. (= laertes F.) (119a) is a widely spread and gieatly variable species. The figured »i(. /■<■».«. 

 specimens originate from the Amazon. Here the submarginal sjiots are entirely al)sent, the basal half of the 

 forewings, however, is of a very bright metallic gloss. — mortua Stf/r. (not Driice) is the Central American and ninrhin. 

 Colombian form with obsolete spots. — By far larger Colombian s))ecitnens. distinguished also by a far more 

 greenish gloss at the distal margin of the forewings, were denominated pseudiphis by (). Staudixcjer. — It p.'^'iiitijiliis 

 is still undecided which form has to be considered as iphis Latr. (119 a, b). We have figured a Colombian s))eci- iiihix. 

 men of that form, which is generally thought to be iphis. It is a large butterfly with long tails and a very 

 much falciformly protracted inner angle of the forewings, the apical part of which exhibits bright blue spots 

 being, however, not continued along the distal margin. Beneatli the light small scales are arranged to a narrow- 

 marginal band and an oblique line cutting off the part of the inner angle. — niorpheus <S7f//'. (119 b) friim the nun-fihi-nx. 

 Upper .\mazon. Bolivia and Peru, is generally larger than itiorriis and has blue sjiots at the distal margin 

 of the forewings. The under siu'face is darker (browner). 



A. aracline Cr. from Surinam, uliich was unitcil with iiKirrii-^ as bcinn synonymous by several authors, (tradnti. 

 is certainly another species. Shapt' about like that of niDrvits. though we cannot ascertain from Cra.mkr's figure 

 whether the inner margin of the forewings is siiuiatc: nothing is said about this in the descri|)tion. The hind- 

 wings, except the narrow black border, a.re entirely green, the forewings green on the basal half, all the wings, 

 however, are traversed by a moderately broad black subbasal band; a, large green s})ot is in the apex of the^ 

 forewing. The under surface is brown with whitish markings near the base of the hindwings. and all the wings 

 are traversed by a rather bioad bluish submarginal band: the under ^urfat-e is, thert'foi'c, rather variegated. 



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