HELTCONTNAE. Additions, By Dr. A. Skit/.. r^m 



The following forms ai'c to lit' a.ddcd y''t to iiialpoiiicnf \y. :5S.5 — (>): 



— junchris ab. obscurata /»/'//. differs from rybele (Jr. (75 e) only liy the snl|iluu'ous s])ots roimd the ct-ll-end ni,s,-i,niia. 

 heing more prominently (Uisted in dai'lc; especially the spot in tlie et'll. From l->erg en Dal in Surinam. 



— ngliurpe ab. cognata Bilf. from Pozzuzo in Peru is like aglaope, but the yellow band of the forewing is nari-ow- r,„i„iii,i. 

 er. more irregidar, sometimes the spots forming it separated. The red basal band on the hindwing lirt>ader, 



the rays more in the shape of a wedge than of a nail. Transitions to typical titjhiope are not rare. 



The form timareta Hew. quoted on p. 3S5 and 38fi. has in its typical form only a large irregulai-. sul- Ihmircld. 

 phurous eell-end-spot greatly varying in the shape, so that its outward appearance reminds us of a yellow, 

 instead of white spotted hecah (73 a) without submarginal maculae; it comes fi'om Ecuador; we may form 

 an idea of its appearance by imagining all the red in its side-form richardi (70 b) being replaced by black, or 

 l:)y the absence of the red tornus-spot in the forewing and of the small yellow basal band in the hindwing, in 

 pluto (76 a); it is approximated the most closely by contigua (p. 386) and virgata exhibiting only narrow radiate 

 rays of the hindwings. — ab. insolita Riff, approximates timareta (p. 3S6), especially its form contigiid from ii,sai,i„. 

 which it differs by the yellow spot of the forewing lying outside the cell and being at most accompanied l)y 

 few small scale.s of yellow within the cell. Haensch brought it along from Ecuador. 



— vulcanus (p. 387). The form sticheli Riff, is to be added yet. Resembles cythern Heir. According .sOCZ/c/;. 

 to the figure by Riffarth in Deutsch. Ent. Zschr. 1907, t. .5 fig, 10, it is larger than cythera, the red band 

 of the forewing is twice. as broad, its inner margin only with traces of white, the costal marginal area of the 

 hindwing broad whitish-grey in the c^. It is described from Ecuador where it was collected in February (in 

 (he dry period). 



xenoclea-microclea. Mr. Neustetter writes about these species being only exteriorly similar, that 

 tlie former may be taken to the ^nelpomene-grouiJ. Of the other side-forms of xenoclea the very fine iris Riff, iri.s. 

 is to be mentioned yet. It greatly approximates oghwpe, but the yellow spot of the forewing is placed nearer 

 to the apex and is of the same shape as the red-yellow spot at the same place in plessejii ; it is also margined 

 in red at its distal border, whereby a transition is formed between the ple,'isem-{microdea) forms and the group 

 of nielpomene-aglaope. From Ecuador. 



In niepelti Riff, (see p. 385) wliich was in the meantime figured in the ,,Lepidoptera Niepeltia.na", 

 (he red spots of .venoclea are white, but the whole inner area of the forewing, from the inner spot to the base, 

 is fiery-red, and in the cell of the hindwing there are the beginnings of short, small rays. — In ndonides 

 Niep. these red rays of the hindwing are continued beyond the lower cell-margin, and the distal spot of the 

 forewing is bordered rosy on the outside; from Jibara in Ecuador. — adonis Riff., a form of ple-ssei. comes «,/,;„;.«. 

 from Ecuador (Pastaza) and resembles uninmndnta (75 f), but the spot of the forewing is white, and the ci'll 

 of the forewing is, before its end, traversed by another wdiite band-like spot. — In rubicunda Sicp. the two nihicuiKld. 

 spots are similarly placed, but they are red instead of white; pura Niep., on (he contrary, exhibits them all pum. 

 white, without a reddish margin or an interspersion of small yellow scales. All these aberrations occur in the 

 same district (Pastaza). — isoldiiNiep., likewise from Jibara, stands between niepelti and aglaope, being diffi- 

 cult to explain, according to Neustetter (i. 1.). ,,The small dark spot in the cell of the forewing in niepelti 

 is more prominent in isolda (especially the ^) at the proximal border of the ples.'ieni->^\)<.)i, whereby the latter 

 is more isolated . . , The white apical band-like spot in both sexes slightly margined in crimson within its 

 proximal contour." (Niepelt). — rnbripicta Niep. is an isolda-k)vm in which the remaining white of the discal 

 spot outside the cell, as well as the apical band-like spot being white in isolda are greatly strewn with red scales, 

 like in plesseni-ruhicunda Niep.: ("anelos. Ecuador; based upon 1 ,^. — gisela Niep. approximates adonides 

 and represents, according to Niepelt. a transitional form from aglaope to ples.sejii-pura . ..The pfe.se7a-spots 

 of the forewings are here white on (op. the discal spot at its proximal border' strewn with black scales and 

 bordered by a strong black spot. Hindwings like in adonide.s, as well as the under surface, the y)/e.s'.se??.(!-spots 

 of a jnn'e white" (Niepelt). Based upon I V. From Jiliara. 



On the whole, microclea and .venoclea (76 c) are probably ('omjjosed of a gi-eat luimbei' of transitional 

 forms running parallel to each other like the forms described first, belonging, however, as already^ mentioned, 

 to different groups, Neustetter enumerates (i.l.) the followdng forms of xenoclea: niepelti. plesNeni. adonides, 

 adonis, isolda, rubripicta. gisela. All of these probably belong, like .venoclea itself, to the 'tnelponieneAype and 

 are closely allied to its aglaope. — microclea belongs to quite a different type, and we quote yet the following 

 forms of it: feyeri Niep. resembling niepelti by the fiery-red basal area of the forewing and the red rays of the 

 hindwing, but the proximal spots situate before the cell-end of the forewing ar(^ already prominently tinged 

 in red, and the half -band behind the cell-end exhibits a pinkish inner margin. According to a $ from ('anelos 

 in Ecuador. — beata Riff, i-esembles aoede (76 f) by the red-yellow tinge in the forewing and in the rays of t,mta. 

 the hindwing: but instead of the vellow conglomeration round the cell-end we fincl licrc - reddish-white spots 



