• 596 HELK'ONINAE. Additions. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



rosacea, like ill notobilis, i. e. the anterior spot is distally carmine. Ecuador. — rosacea Jiijj- stands between nofabiles 

 and ochracea, the discal spots being more confhient; no basal red on the forewing and no rays on the upper 

 ilia, siu'face of the hindwing. Ecuador. — ilia Niep. forms a transition from notnbilis to estrelle Bates (= vestalis 

 Stgr.) and was, therefore, commented upon by us together with feyeri, ochracea and rosacea (p. 393). From 

 the forms of the groups of xenoclea and microclea we might undoubtedly be able to form a similar series as the 

 one collected by Oberthuer for the wsto-group; but if we would denominate all these intermediate forms, 

 fralcrna. we would get to an immense amount. — On p. 385 a form fraterna Niep. was yet mentioned which we were 

 unable to explain according to the description. In the meantime, a figure of it has been published in the fine 

 small work ,,Lepidoptera Niepeltiana", which we reproduce on table 110 A e. 



H. hecuba. Neustetter (i. 1.) remarks to this species having been dealt with on p. 388, that the specimen 

 inteniii'dia. figured as cassanclra on t. 76 e is not the typical cassandra itself, but its form intermedia Riff, representing 

 already a transition to hecuba. Genuine ca.ssandra are smaller, and the yellow macular band of the hindwing 

 is narrower. This last mentioned form was taken in Ecuador together with choarina. — 



H. aoede. The specimen figured t. 76 f. is not typical, but it belongs to the form aoede faleria Fruhst. 

 In the typical aoede the lemon-coloured spots of the forewings are smaller, farther remote from each other so 

 that the black space encompassed by them appears larger. (Nextstetter). 



H. xanthoclea. The form newly discovered by Fassl was described by Neustetter already before 

 fassti. our number appeared and denominated fassli. This name, therefore, has the precedence. 



H. xanihocles (p. 389). The second form quoted here is called vaJa (as it says also in the figure), 

 not vola. 



H. burneyi. According to Neustetter (i. 1.), the specimen of huebneri figured on t. 77 a is not typical, 

 since the lemon-coloured oblique spot in the middle of the forewing is too large, the red rays of the hindwings, 

 however, too narrow. This form represents a side-form from Mato Grosso which might be denominated 

 specially. 



petiverana and hydara. On p. 392 we have expressed our opinion that both forms are connected with 

 each other by the close affinity of the hydara-iorm colombina with the petiverana-iovm demophoon; for com- 

 pleteness' sake we state here that, while Stichel and Riffarth do not even mention the great resemblance 

 of the two adjoining forms, Mr. Neustetter writes ,,he cannot find any essential difference at all between 

 deynopJwon and colombina'\ although hundreds of specimens went through his hands. Thus, colombina would 

 have to be eliminated as a synonym of demophoon, and the latter would have to be placed as a connecting link 

 between petiverana and hydara. 



ockracva. Exactly between feyeri and lativitta stands ochracea Riff, forming a connection between the erato- 



{delila-)gro\i\) and the microclea-iorma (Neustetter i. 1.). ochracea exhibits quite uniformly ochreous spotting. 

 fid\(j\nosa. Hereto belongs also fuliginosa Riff., differing from the typical vesta, Cr. by the yellow macular group of the 

 forewings being prominently dusted in black; Guiana. 



hclcna. In the phyUisAike forms we must also mention the cybelinus-iorm Helena Riff, being closely allied to 



(tmalfreda (p. 393), but the distal yellow spots of the forewings are sometimes altogether absent. From Berg-en- 

 Dal in Surinam and from Obidos on the Amazon. 



We must add to cyrbia (p. 392) that specimens with an extremely narrow red band of the forewing 

 bi-la. were denominated bela Riff. 



In phyllis the following forms are to be mentioned yet: 

 (inaiih. P. 394 the anacreon-ioviVi ana'itis Riff, forming the transition from the typical anacreon (78 e) to artifex Stichel, 

 from the former of which it differs by the absence of the glaring-red basal area of the forewing and the thinner 

 rays of the hindwing. South Bolivia. 



diffcrcns. — ab. differens Riff, is a phyllis in which the red band of the forewing extends far into the cell; there is 

 mostly also red noticeable between the lower median vein and the sul^median. Peru and Bolivia. 



sperala. — ab. sperata Riff, approximates arnata Stgr., but the red spot of the forewing is inside tinged with an intense 

 yellow. Hindwings with traces of the yellow anterior band. Bolivia, South Peru. 



aihenc. — athene Neust. approximates aniata Stgr. (p. 394) from Bolivia, but all the yellow is absent here, so that 

 the hindwings are unicolorously blackish-brown with a red transverse band of the forewing; similar to hydara 

 (p. 392), but the band is light red, not scarlet. Bolivia. 



To H. hortense (p. 395) we must add yet Mexico as habitat. 



H. cly.sonimus. Of this butterfly Fassl has pxiblished two more forms; flavopunctatus and fischeri; 



flavopaiicta 

 ills 



fischeri. both from Colombia. 



