ANAEA. By .1. R(iBEK. .i87 



A. beatrix Druce (l:2()('l)) fiom ('liiriqui is an imposing sju-cies. Tiic V '•'^ beneath niucli .ureyer hiatn.r. 

 \\\\\.\\ the J. Seems not to be i';ue. 



A. cleomestra Hew. (120 ('a.) from Nicaragua and Veragua, is a very rare species. The hiiidwings clrniittsini. 

 arc tailed and tiie inner margin of the forewings deeply sinuate. On tiie bhiekisii-bi-own ground there is across 

 the forewing and hindwing a broad bhie band before which there are also two blue suljapical sjiots. The under 

 surface is very plain, yellowish-gi'ey with yellowish and blackish, small strokes. 



A. ates Druce (119 d,e) from Bolivia. Peru anrl Ecuador. re]iorted alsn from Rio. ry^ are often ,/^■.^. 

 caj)tured, whereas the $5 seen^ to lie very rai'c. .Kbovc greatly rescniblinn jvldcri. whereas tlie under surface 

 is marked like in iphis (119b); it differs from ipJii'i, however, by the ))urei- tinge of the under surface and the 

 nuK'h smaller size. The Bolivian specimens have also greenish-blue submarginal spots near the inner angle 

 of the forewings. 



A. drucei Stgr. (119 e) from the Upper Amazon has only short teetli instead of the tails of the i/i-mri. 

 hindwings and a considerably different under surface, but above all the margin of the forewing of the J is con- 

 spicuous tor its broad blue gloss. 



A. cerealia Druce (119 e) from Peru (t'hanchamayo) seems to be a rare species. Instead of green, cimiiiii. 

 till' marking of the upper surface seems to be just as often dark blue. Resembles extremely ates Druce. 



A. pllila Drum (120 A a) from C.!olombia and Honduras seems to vary greatly, for a specimen from i>liil,i. 

 Honduras before us exhibits a very obsolete subapical and submarginal marking. The distal part of the upper 

 surface of the wings is of a deep velvety black and delimitates straightly, not marginally convex towards the 

 metal-glossy basal part of the forewings. 



A. boliviana Druce (120 B b, c) from Bolivia is ot very dim colours. The q is above deep bluish black, bolu-iana. 

 the lightest is the basal area of the forewings, near the apex of the forewing starts a band consisting of 3 spots 

 and running towards the inner margin. The $ is beneath lighter brown than the ,^ and has 3 grey spots l)et- 

 ween the tail and the anal angle. The metal gloss of the upper surface has not the bright shine of the 

 preceding species, but it remains considerably duller, particularlj. in the (j*. 



A. psammis Fldr. from Colombia agrees with morvus (119 a) in the habitus. ^ above blackish-brown, ji.-<(iiii,iii.-<. 

 steel-blue, basal third of the forewings greenish leaden grey, 4 to fi light steel-lilue submarginal spots, distal 

 margin light steel-blue, discal area of the hindwings dusted in greenish leaden grey, anal margin light steel- 

 blue, leaden grey submarginal spots gradually decreasing in size. 



A. stheno Prittw. (119 e) from South Brazil (Santa Catharina where it flies at the end of April, Pvio sihn,,,. 

 Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo) and Paraguay. O. Staudinger takes it to be the Brazilian representative of mor- 

 vus. whereas Druce considers .^theno to be a proper species. In the ^ of stheno the whole upper sin-face is almost 

 uniformly tinged with a dull violet-blue, without any real metallic spotting, the violet hue in the basal third 

 of the hindwing hardly growing somewhat more intense. — According to W. Mueller, the larvae live on different 

 Laurineae: Nectanclra vaga Meissn., Goeppertia hirsuta Nees and Camphoromoea litsaeifolia Meissn.; it has 

 the same shape as that of phidik; ground-colouring dirty orange, in the last stage the dark lateral stripe grows 

 so faded that it is hardly discernible. The habits of the larvae are the same as of ■phidile, except that the animal 

 always severs the piece of the leaf out of which it forms its funnel, altogether from the living leaf and fastens 

 it again by web-threads so that the piece of the leaf dries up. By this demeanour the animal deviates 

 from the 3 other Annea-\n.xva.e observed by W. Mueller and from the larva of Protogonius drurii. Pii))a in 

 the shape similar to phidile, being purely green diaphanous with white and dark green spots. 



A. otrere Hbn. (120 A a) from South Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul) is lu-ncath nlm-r. 

 like the preceding species, but somewhat more marked. Except in front of the apex there are blue reflecting 

 spots also before the middle of the border of the forewing; but they are much further away from the border 

 than in similar species. 



A. uzita Druce (120 B h) from Cayenne is a neat species. It is known to us only from the descri])tion ic'ita. 

 and figure, according to which the blue subapical spots on the upper surface of the forewings are extant, 

 though reduced, and on the under surface of the hindwings the centre is traversed by a series of punctiform 

 spi}ts of the sha])e of ocelli. 



A, pleione Godt. from the .\ntilles (?) has not been in the hands of a.ny modern author. The translated i,ln,,,ic. 

 descri])tion runs as follows: expansidii of wings between 5.4to8.6cm. U])per surface of the wings deep yellow- 

 ish brown, border of the forewings blackish brown marked, with two yellow ish brown spots, which are more 

 or less distinct. Inner margin of the hindwings bordered by a blackish line being curved and double oi)}iosilc 

 the distal angle. Under surface of the 4 wings yellowish, with reddish brown mcsliy markings and in llie 

 middle traversed by a brown stripe along the inside of which a faint mother of pearl colouring is noticeable, 

 which colouring is also seen at the beginning of the costal margin of the forewings. Body above yellowish 

 brown, beneath yellowish, with 4 white dots on the head. .Vntennac rust-coloured. — The statement that 

 the butterfly has white dots cm its head, is very strange. Such a, marking does not ovcuy^^dpy of the 

 ^■ftaea known to us, probably in none whatever, and we may, therefore, assume that pleione does not be- 

 long into this genus. 



A. philumena Dbl. and Hew. (^ hauxwelli Drc.) (120 A a) from the Upper Amazon and from Co- iilulumcm. 



