HELTCONINAE, ArMitions. Bv Dr. A. Seitz. 593 



Additions 



t o t h e A ni e r i e a ii N y 111 ]> li a I i il ;i e. 



The American Nymphalidae s. 8. are the most favourably classified into 4 subfamilies: 1. Acraeinae, 

 2. Heliconiinae, 3. Clothildinae, and 4. Nymphalinae. Thus they would have to be enumerated: 

 P. 358 Acraeinae (1. subfamily). P. 402 Clothildinae (3. subfamily). 

 P. 375 Heliconiinae (2. subfamily). P. 403 Nymphalinae (4. subfamily). 



Heliconinae. 



Mr. H. Neustetter (^Vienna) has subsequently denominated some additional Heliconies and, besides. 



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;t kindly sent me some corrections to the Chapter of Hdiconius: 



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snif<rit:^. 



To H. narcaeus (p. 378) we must remark that the extreme specimens of narcaeus are all ,_J,;J. whereas 

 the specimens denoted as ab. connexn with a broad black oblique band, distal to the yellow band of the fore- 

 wing, are always $$. The name ab. connexa is, therefore, to l>e eliminated. — The specimens exhibiting the 

 liand of con7iexa tempered or narrowly interrupted, may be ^,^ as well as $9. — ab. phystea occurs particularly 

 in the ,^, but not exclusively, so that the name may remain. — ab. brunnescens Neust. from Rio de .TAnoivohnomfscens. 

 exhibits the oblique band of the forewing and the median band of the hindw ing dusted with red-brown. 



To H. ismenius we must add: ab. albofasciatus Neust. differs by the confluency of the discal white nil, 

 spots of the forewings forming a broader median band; presumably from , .Bogota", which is undoubtedly 

 a mistake. 



To numafa (p. 379) we must remark that Riffarth describes the $ of the form guiensis with such a 

 broad median band of the hindwing that it is in the middle confluent with the costal margin, whereas in the 

 (^cJ of numatus it does not touch the costal margin. Guiana. — Riff.arth denominates as sincerus a form like 

 ■^nperioris Bilr. in which the small yellow apical spots of the upper surface of the forewings are altogether absent, 

 thus creating a resemblance with hippolit Hew. (72 c) in which, however, the median obliciue band of the hind- 

 wing is not yellow, but rusty brown like the ground-colour. Venezuela. 



silvana: According to Neustetter (i. 1.), his hopfferi is not identical with ethm Hbn.: it corresponds, 

 however, to our figiire of eOira (72 e), but not to Huebner's figure which is identical with our figure of silvana 

 (72 c). Neu.stetter (i. 1.) confines the name silvana to those specimens in which the yellowish spots in the 

 distal part of the forewing are larger than in our figure of silvana, so that they almost touch each other; in 

 typical silvana the hindwings are also more blackened before the middle of the border. 



— brasiliensis Neust. is a form of ethra from Espiritu Santo in which the median band of the hind- (oT/.vi/iVn.v/.v. 

 wings is brown, instead of light yellow, about the same difference as between satis and narcaea. 



.As a synonym add to the form silvana-dijju.ia: (= divisius Kaye). Insert beliind mentor (p. 380), before 

 numismaticus : 



— orchanius Weyrn. Similar to mentor, larger with entirely black unspotted apical part of the fore- nrrhamu.-i. 

 wing; the basal half darker, more red-brown; on the hindwing the red-brown bands of the under surface extend 



only from the inner margin to the middle of the wings. Villavicencio. 



To novatus (p. 381) we have to add artemis Rijj. which stands between typical novatus (72 f) ami levaens nrlimix. 

 (78 e). The darker dots of the row beyond the middle of the hindwings are enlarged to small spots, but scar- 

 cely half as large as those in novatus; the cone extended proximally between the median veins by the black 

 distal margin, does not cohere with the apical black in artemis: the sul])hur-y<>llo\\ oblie^iu' band is yellower 

 than in novatus, but not so extensively yellow as in lenaeus. Bolivia,. 



To the 18 forms enumerated of aristiona (p. 381) we have to add yet: 



ab. lepidus Riff, froni Ecuadoi' which, however, flies also in C'olombia with other forms of aristiona, icpUlux. 

 greatly resemV)les euphrasius (73 b); the forewings are almost exac^tly as in the latter, though lighter, brighter, 



