NAPAEA; ALES A. By i)r. A. Seitz. 051 



C. alector Hbn.-G. (12fi i). Similar to meleagris. the wings not so broad, black with blue chaiii-stripes, uU-clcr. 

 tough they are nuich more remote fi'om each other and more coherent than in meleagris; in the apical ])ai't 

 none or only 2 or 3 (= pupillatn Stich.) small white vitreous dots, in Dideagris 6 to 8. Beneath grey witli 

 a spotting like a guinea-hen. Guiana to South Brazil. Rare. — In Bahia there flies a form exhibiting in 

 the ajjex double dots instead of single ones (hipuncta Wei/m.). 



15. Genus: I^apaea Hbu. 



In contrast with the preceding genus, Napnea contains strong butterflies with a robust body. The 

 margin of the forewings is not projecting so far, the apex not so very falcate, the costal of the forewing not 

 connected with the subcostal. There are about 7 species which, however, vary a great deal and have therefore 

 many denominations. The butterflies rest in bushes near the skirts of the forests, out of which they are beaten. 

 They are not common. 



N. eucharila Bnt. {= actoris Hbn. nee Cr.) (12<i h). Brown, studded with numerous yellow, small ,iirliaril,i. 

 comma- or punctiform spots being partly prominent by dark shading. Hindwing with an orange-yellow striated 

 band before the margin. Guiana and the Amazon as far as Bolivia and Brazil. — In the smaller frustatoria ."■"^/"/"/"/. 

 Stick, from Guiana, the comma-spots are narrower and the orange band of the hindwing is absent. — In picina iii<iii<i. 

 Stick, the ground-colour is darker, the orange band stunted, the dots are almost entirely absent on the hind- 

 wing. — Also in rufolimbata Stick. (126 h) the dark hindwing is without the light spots, though here the distal n<toliiiih<i- 

 margin is broad orange. — merula Tkieine (126 i) has entirelv black hindwings and also few minute dots in , '"■ 



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the cell and apical part of the forewing. ST.\t'DiNGEE has described, but not denominated most of these 

 forms; rufolimbata is before nie only from Costa Rica (Orosi), merula from Paramba. — melampia Bat. (126 i) uic/iniipid. 

 may be a distinct species, or only a large form; the ,^ is without the orange stripe of the hindwing, the $ 

 has it thin and highly undulate. The irroration is insignificant, especially in the t^, and also on the under 

 surface, where the other eucharila-iorma exhibit yellow grating, melmtipia, shows only black-shaded comma- 

 spots. From Bahia, where it is rare, and Esjiiritu Santo. 



N. phryxe Fld7\ (126 i, k). Large, more grey than dark l)i'own, the small light spots confluent to iiJui/.re. 

 4 or 5 remote arcuate lines; beneath like above. Amazoji and Bahia. 



N. sylva Mscklr. (126 h). Stripes similar as in Cr. tkasu.s, but the light stripes diaphanous, as of light «i/lra. 

 bluish glass, and in the sunshine with a mother-of-pearl gloss. Beneath exactly like above. Guiana; before 

 me also from Peru (Galcazu), where it is, however, very rare. It approximates Cremna tk.a-sus. 



N. umbra B-sd. (= cebrenia Hew.) (126 i). Brown like Eunogyra, but differing from E. .satyru.s by iniihm. 

 a more curved margin of the forewing, ring- and hook-marking of the upper surface and 1 or 2 fine white 

 subapical dots in the forewing. Mexico and Central America. From specimens from Costa Rica and Guate- 

 mala those from Mexico differ by the postmedian line of the hindwing being coherent and straight there, while 

 here it is broken up into separate crescents. Not rare. 



N. beltiana Gotlm. (126 k). Almost like the form fru-vtatorla of euckarlla. but the submarginal rows hcliiniiii. 

 of dots do not run uniformly, Init curved: the anal part of the hindwing is above and beneath powdered as 

 if with flour and exhibits a half-band, being entirely white or interspersed with quite few shades; Guiana and 

 North Brazil; the figured specimen form Demerara. — In malis Godm. (126k) from Muzo in Colombia the umiu. 

 lacteous powdering of the hindwing is rather extensive, the white of the under surface greatly increased. 

 The white half-band, however, is absent. — lucilia M.'icklr. is an intermediate form witli a narrower white band lucilia. 

 of the hindwing, whereas in aza Drc. the white of the small spots of the forewings, in the anal jjart of the «:". 

 hindwings and on the whole under surface is increased; lucilia comes from Surinam, aza from Bolivia. From 

 Guiana, however, I possess also specimens of a form having on the forewing exactly the marking of beltiana; 

 the hindwing, however, is without the lacteous dusting of malis as well as the white half-band of beltiana. 



N. nepos F. (126 k). Forewing dark brown, strewn with white, one spot beyond the centre of the ncpo.-i. 

 ^\ing especially large. In the hindwing the whole anal half snow-white. From Guiana to Ecuador and Peru. — 

 tanos Stick. (126 k) from Bolivia is larger, the forewing more sparsely spotted. — Orpheus W'v. (126 k) from /<(/»<.<. 

 South Brazil and Paraguay is smaller than tkanos, the forewings spottecl like there, but the white area of the "''/''""•-• 

 hindwing diffcrenth' shaped. Less rare than the forms of beltiana. 



N. theages G. and *S'. (126 k). From Central America and the neighbouring Colombia has the white ikcdyrs. 

 area of the hindwing in the anal part tinged in bluish, and also on the forewing a band consisting of 2 white 

 spots and being sometimes inteiiupted l)y the ground-colour (a-steria Stick.). The spots of the forewings may 

 be larger or smaller (cribraria Stick.). 



10. Genus: Alesa Did. 



This geiuis is distinguished by a vast sexual dimorphism receding scuuewhat only in one species. The 

 body is slender, the head broad, slanting, with a flat forehead and closely appressed short palpi ; antennae very 

 long, only slightly thickened at their ends. Abdomen long, in the c^^ thin, in the $ stout, but likewise stretched; 

 forewings long with a very oblique distal margin, hindwings round, especially in the $. Cells of all the wings 



