590 ANAEA. By J. Rober. 



noiia. A. nenia Druce (120 C a) from tlie Upper Amazon (tSao Paulo) has another shape of the wings (a less 



sinuous inner margin of the fore-wings), and tlie under surface differs considerably from that of odilia, being 

 dull dusty-grey, irrorated in white, with a darker median band and marginal band the latter of which exhibits 

 on the hindwing light clouded spots. 



lavra. Of A. laura Druce (120 A d, 120 B d) from Veragua and Colombia (Muzo, 400 to 800 m, A. H. Fassl), 



only (J(J seem to be known. They are above intensely black with an indistinct, dull greenish tinge growing 

 somewhat more prominent at the base of the forewing. The under surface is also chestnut-brown with silvery 

 white scaling; before the ajsex of the hindwing there is a large silvery white costal spot, in front of it a light 

 undulate band composed of silvery interspersed, small scales. 



romc. A. rosae FassJ (120 Cd) from West Colombia (Rio Aguaca Valley, 2000 m) is one of the best disco- 



veries made by the author during his investigating and compiling work of many years in tropical South America. 

 The (^ is extremely distinguished from its allies of this genus especially by the sight the under surface affords 

 being not nearly attained by any other species of Anaea: nevertheless the $ carries off the palm, since it is 

 besides fitted out with a beautiful upper surface. ]\Ii-. A. H. Fassl also captured a ^ in which the greyish- 

 blue marking of the upper surface of the forewings is especially well developed, whereby an intermediate stage 

 has been created between the appearances of the upper siu-face of both sexes. — $$ with an almost doubly 

 id.iiciiirta. broad band on the upper surface of the forewings are denominated ab. laticincta Fassl. — This species has 

 hitherto been found (by Mr. A. H. Fassl) only in the western valley of the Aguaca Valley at an altitude of 

 1800 to 2200 m. The stay in this part of Colombia is especially injurious to health. — The discoverer gives 

 the following statements about the early stages of this species : The egg of this prominent new species is about 

 as large as an egg of Pergesa elpenor, light-green, diaphanous in yellowish, with fine longitudinal ribs. The 

 larva, about the size of a grown-up larva of Phalera bucephala, is jet-black, naked, between the rings where 

 the interior of the body shines through, dark carmine; head black, glossy; on each ring stands a girdle of about 

 6 snow-white pretended pointed, but not thorny spines. The larva lives on a poorly-leaved tree with hard, 

 lanceolated foliage which it rolls up from outside towards inside and fastens it together loosely; only in the 

 evening it comes out from this case and visits the nearest leaves for its meal. The pupa rests on the upper 

 surface of a leaf being slightly drawn in in the shape of a boat and is spun on with the cremaster. Having 

 the size of a pupa of Limenitis pojruli, it is of the well-known comi^act shape of the ^Inaea-pupae (lycaenid- 

 like), but of an extremely conspicuous and singular colour and marking. On an ivory, white-shining ground 

 it is symmetrically covered on the whole surface with jet-black dots and streaks, the detailed descriptioii of 

 which would be too circumstantial; the wing-cases bear 5 long black wedge-shaped streaks based at the distal 

 margin of the forewing. The pupa was apparently motionless and dead; after 6 weeks it yielded a ^J of 

 A. rosae. The size of the female larva and pupa may be about again as large as that of the male, according 

 to the proportion of the size of the butterflies. 



rt/ias«(. A. anassa Fldr. (= ada Btlr.) (120 A e) from Veragua and C'olombia is known to us only in the 



itidicu. male sex. This form seems to be very constant. It is not rare. — aulica subsp. nov. from Chiriqui is smaller, 

 has broader and more coherent blue marking on the forewings ; the margin of the hindwings is more green- 

 ish and proximally more sharply defined. The under surface is darker without any rust-brown marking at 

 the inner angle, it is more profusely scaled in whitish and the brown bands on the hindwings are absent. 



chii-d. A. elara G. and iS". (120 C b, c) from Costa Rica is allied to the awoA-sa, but still it shows such differences 



that it has to be considered a proper species; it resembles beneath proserpina (120 B e), whereas the ujjper 

 surface resembles that of ambrosia (120 Da). On the under surface, however, ambrosia is less iri'orated in white, 

 of a more monotonous brown, especially on the hindwing. The 9 of elara has tails like most of the following 

 species; the species seems to be rather rare or very local. 



llncaki. A. lineata Salv. (= vestina Hew., betillina Hpffr.) (120Ae) from Bolivia. Peru and Ecuador is a 



species of very different sexes. The upper surface of the 5 resembles that of a schausiana (120 C a), but 

 it has a fainter blue decoration, especially on the hindwing and the apical part of the forewing is without 

 spots. The mider surface is marked like in indigotica {120 Ch), of which it has also the faint hue of violet- 

 pink wliich is sjjread across the luider surface and is of an especially magnificent lustre in the sun. 



vichuiil". A. vicinalis spec. imv. (120 A e) from .South Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Espiritu Santo, Santa Catharina) 



greatly resembles lineata, but those parts of the wings which are above green in lineata, are blue m vicinalis. 

 Also the $$ of the two species greatly resemble each other, but the under surface shows differences in both 

 sexes. It is not impossible that lineata and vicinalis are subspecies of one and the same pecies. 



mai/d(i/rii,i. A. magdalena Wei/m. i. 1. (120 be) from East Colombia (Upper Rio Negro, 800 m) and Bolivia (Co- 



roico, 1200 m, A. H. Fassl) is somewhat larger, but it has, with the exception of a small tooth at the third 

 median veui of the hindwing which is hardly noticeable with the naked eye, the same shape of the wings 

 and above almost the same marking as drucei (119 e). from \\hich it is, however, as slio\\-n by the under svu"- 

 face, entirely different. The $ has lustrous light-blue basal halves of all the wings, bluish-white subapical spots 



