660 LYMNAS. By Dr. A. Skitz. 



„„.,.;„. L. unxia Hew. (131 b) has a superficial resemblance to a xarifa, but the oiange spot of the fore- 



wing is not phxced at the apex of the wing, but removed somewhat hito tlie wing. In South Brazil, near Rio 

 de Janeiro, Santos, probably very widely distributed (over the whole of South West Brazil), but everywhere 

 very rare, and like most of the Erycinidae, of a very local, insular occurrence. On hundreds of excursions 

 in its proper range, I have never come across one specimen, and also v. Boennitstghausen who collected 

 for 33 years near Rio de Janeiro, told me that on innumerable excursions he saw but few specimens during 

 all this time — It flies on the Monte Corcovado near Rio de Janeiro. 

 ^.^l^^g■^^^_ L. volusia Hew. nec Boenningh. (131 c). This species already forms a transition to the numerous forms 



with a white or yellow oblique band of the forewing which, however, is here simply indicated by a stripe- 

 shaped clearing obliquely across the disc of the forewing. The form which I know only through Hewitson. 

 almost looks like si Xenandra, and v. Boknninoh.\usen considered it to be the (^ of the 2 figured by Hewit- 

 son as rtgria (131 h). Described from Rio de Janeiro; extremely rare and probably not flying in the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood of the town, but in the Organ Mountains. 

 lycca. L. lycea Hbn. (131 c). Hindwing with an orange margin, forewing with orange spots before (not i u) 



the apex and smaller ones along the margin. In the centre of East Brazil, near Bahia, Pernambuco. Rare. 

 crijihrK.s. L. erythrus Men. (131 c). The orange marking of the forewing is reduced to an oblique band before 



the apex, being continued in triangular spots as far as to the anal angle. In the marginal band of the hindwing 

 there appear black marginal dots. Larger than the preceding; the typical form has near the base of the fore- 

 .reniadcs. wing a large red dot. — In xeniades Slick. (131 c) the red basal dots are absent and the orange is more red. 

 dcponipata. — In ab. depompata Stick. (131 <■) being in some districts more common than xeniades that part c" the band 

 .vcnia. of the forewing which outs off the apical part is absent. — In xenia Hew., on the contrary, this part of the orange 

 band is present, but the chain of spots to the anal angle is entirely or almost entirely absent, and the dot near 

 the base of the forewing is small and yellow instead of red. South and Central Brazil, mostly rare. 

 ainbryUta. L. ambrylUs Hew. (131c, d). This less rare species which some time ago was introduced in great numbers 



from Paraguay, has an oblique band before the apex and a band before the margin of the hindwing of a white 

 colour. It varies at every habitat. The band of the forewings is either widened, or prolonged, or narrowed 

 or shortened, disproportionate, divided into pieces, pointed or truncate. Beside these possibilities, the band 

 of the hindwing may be broad and coherent, or narrow or rudimentary. Apart from this, there may be at the 

 base of all the wings or only the forewings red dots varying again in their turn according to the parr, of the 

 forest where the animals were captured. Furthermore, there are a.lso yet differences of size, smce larger 

 specimens predominate in the west, smaller ones in the east. By the combination of these deviations we obtain 

 about 30 forms according to the material before me. Stichel denominates one of them dialeuca. Just such 

 a specimen as Stichel figures it, is not contained in the abundant material before me; it is characterized 

 by a (as stated) broader band of the forewing and a narrower one of the hindwing. Our figure of a Para- 

 guay-? approximates it, but above it has the white band of the forewing by no means broader than that 

 of the white Bolivian ambryllis collected in great numbers by Jo.se Steinbach. — ambryllis is not only less 

 rare than most of the Lymnas, but it also flies lower and does not stay, like most of the other species of the 

 genus, almost exclusively on the tops of the trees. 



cvplusc. L. cephise Men. (131 d). Black with light veins, like the preceding, but without bands, the red 



dots, however, appear very prominently near the base of the wings. Mexico and Central America. In typical 

 acroh'iicu. cephise the fringes of the forewing are black; in acroleuca FIdr. (131 d) the apex and wings are distally bor- 

 nifjrctla. dered by a narrow white. Both the forms occur in the same districts. — nigretta form. nov. (131 d) has the 

 fringes at the apex of the forewing and at the border of the hindwing orange-yellow; from the Itaituba, pro- 

 bably the blackened form of another species from the M6Ja-group, entirely smaller and less distinctly veined. 

 Not common. 



arcKjuaijd. 



L. araguaya sp. nov. (131 d). Clround-colour like in cephise, the fringes dark, the veins less white; 

 across the cell-end runs a dull bone-white, narrow oblique stripe being continued to the upper median vein. 

 C4oyaz. 

 iitynk:,-. L. aegates Hew. (131 d). Similar to the preceding, but the fringesatthehindwingsand theapex of the 



forewing of a bright white, the oblique spot of the forewing of a purer white and more than twice as broad as 

 in araguayn. All the specimens before me are exactly alike and originate from Tanampaya in Bolivia, evidently 

 nii/rapc.r. from the same locality, collected by Garlepp. — In the form nigrapex form. nov. (131 d) from Paraguay the 

 apex of the forewing is without the white fringes, the oblique spot is above shortened and oviform, the red 

 rn/iiiUnja. dot near the base of the forewing enlarged beneath. — ■ cretiplaga Stich. (131 e) which I received in great 

 numbers from Steinbach, from Salta and Tucuman in North West Argentina, is an intermediate form between 

 the two preceding, scarcely differing from aegates, only the white oblique spot shortened and narrowed beneath. 

 Icucophleg- — leucophlegma <S7»c//. is not known to me; but in the Tring Museum I find specimens from Peru with a bone- 

 white band of the forewing and a broad white margin of the hindwing, apparently only differing from it by 



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