654 THEMONE: CARTEA; CHAMAELIMNAS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



esthema. T. esthetTia Fldr. (127 d). Ground of tlie wings diaphanous greyish-blue, the veins prominent as radiary 



stripes with intermediats rays. Forewing with a white oblique band traversed by the veins. Sides of abdomen 



beneath yellow. From Panama to Brazil and Colombia. Fresh specimens have a very bright blue gloss which, 



however, disappears soon. 

 dodonc. T. dodone G. and S. resembles the preceding species, but it has longer forewings and shorter hind- 



eulesca. wings. From the figured eutesca Dyar (127 d) from Mexico dodone chiefly differs by the blue gloss of the upper 



surface being brighter and the white longitudinal blurred spots in the subapical area flowing together to an 



oblique band. In C-osta Rica and Panama; on the Chiriqui it is not rare. 

 colaxes. T. colaxcs Hew. entirely resembles the following dinora (127 d), but the black margins are broader, 



the apical vitreous band thereby shortened in the shape of a spot ; the black oblique band separating it from 



the basal part of the hindwing is at the costa so broad that it encloses the small band of the cell-end. From 



Ecuador. 

 dinora. T. dinora Bat. (127 d). Ground of the wings throughout hyaline, the preapical ol)liquc band curved. 



The black margins of the wings are in freshly captured specimens of a magnificent blue reflection which, however, 



gradually disappears in the collection. Abdomen beneath brick-red. 

 dryino. T. dryitio G. and S. (127 d) is very near to dinora, but the subapical band of tlie forewing is not 



curved, but forms more of an oblique longitudinal oval of a whitish gloss. South Brazil. Rare. 



21. Genus: Tlienioiie Wiv. 



Shape and scheme of markings very similar to the preceding genus, but the colouring bright and varie- 

 gated, more adapted to the small coloured species of Ithomiins, yellowish brown, with black margins and a 

 light yellow oblique band before the black apex. The antennae are shorter, the cell of the forewing is not so 

 very long compared with the short cell of the hindwing. With respect to the habits, the species being distributed 

 from Guiana to Brazil and Peru do not differ from the other Erycinid genera. 

 pais. Th. pais Hhn. (= halius Dalm.) (127 i). Red-yellow with a broad black margin and apical part 



of the forewings; in the forewing of the (^ an oblique, in the 9 a bent yellow band. Above the cell of the hind- 

 wing a thick black cuneiform streak and in the margin of the hindwing of the $ yellow^ dots which are 

 only indistinctly indicated in the ^. Central and North Brazil. — In the extent of the yellow bands the species 

 etitacta. varies greatly according to the localities; thus they are in eutacta Stick, from Guiana very broad and long, 

 carveri. curved and beneath pointed, whereas the spot in the cell of the hindwing is narrow and short. — carveri Weeks 

 paidion. (127 i) are $$ from Venezuela in which the black cellular spot in the hindwing is absent altogether. — paidion 

 Stick, is smaller, with a narrower subapical band being indistinctlj' developed in its posterior part. From Peru. 

 sforthyiirja. — In storthynga Stick, from Peiu the black of the apical half of the forewing reaches into the basal red in 

 irivittata. the shape of teeth, and in trivittata Lathy (127 i) the basal red stands in connection with the yellow oblique 

 band on the veins; likewise from Peru. — The forms exhibit a conspicuous resemblance in the exterior to the 

 genus MetkoneUa (122i). 

 poecila. Th. poecila Bates (127 i). From the Amazon. Base of the wings ochre-yelk)w, distal half black. 



Apex of all the wings with a wliite margin. Beyond the middle of the forewing there is an oval oblique spot, 

 in the hindwing a reddish ochre-yellow punctiform spot. Apparently' very rare. 



22. Genus: Vartesi Ky. 



Of this genus, being distinguished from the Tkemone by the very short discocellular of the hindwing, 

 and from the Ckninnelimnas by tlie cell of the forewing ending before the middle of the wing, only 1 species 

 is known with red-yellow wings margined in broad black and a bone-yello\\- oblique spot in the black apical 

 part of the forewing. On the Upper Amazon and in the neighboiu-ing Peru the species is locally common. 



vituU. C. vitula Hev\ (127 h). Basal half of the forewing and disc of the hindwing with a miniate cuneiform 



spot on a black ground, the apical part of the fcrew ing in typical specimens with a very narrow brownish-yellow 



tapajona. spot which is broader in the form tapajona Stgr. (127 h) from the Rio Tapajoz (Humayta). ■ — trailii Btlr. and 



irailu. ucayaia Tkieme are also insignificant cleviations regarding the shape of the variegated spots; the former flies 

 like the typical form on the Upper Amazon (Iquitos), though probably hardly at the same places; ucayala 

 comes from Peru; here the oblique spot of the forewing- is still broader than in the typical fcuni and of a pure 

 white. '''^ 



23 Genus: Cliaiuacliiniias Fldr. 



Hereto belong 13 black and yellow forms with very long forewings, whilst the hind\Aings form an almost 

 quite uniform ellipsis, sometimes slightly tapering at the anal angle. The antennae are long, the palpi quite 

 short; the cell of the forewing extends beyond the middle of the wing and is very broad, that of the hindwing 

 short. They imitate night-butterflies from the genera Cyllojioda and Josia. sometimes in such a greatly decep- 

 tive way that even the connoisseur finds difficulty in distinguisliing them from these night-butterflies flj'ing 



