662 XENANDRA. By Dv. A. .Seitz. 



ccrcopcs. L. cercopes Hew. (I'M g). This peculiarly coloured butterfly is without the red subbasal dots as well 



as the oblique band, so that only the orange-yellow margin oi the hindwing remains extending at ths apex 

 into the foiewing, at the anal angle of which it forms a point showing towards the cell-end. Peru; all the spe- 



andan'ia. cimens I examined, also the figured one, originated from Pozuzo. — andania Hew. (131 g) looks quite differently, 

 but it is connected with cercopes by a number of tra.nsitions. The yellow margin of the hindwings is often (not 

 always and mostly only above) smoothly cut off against the ground-colour, and the jellow ray showing from 

 the anal angle of the forewing towards the costa extends as far as t(j the subcostal or even reaches the costa; 

 from Bolivia and Peru. The figured specimen originates from Salampioni in Bolivi-a, 800 m. Specimens from 

 lower districts mostly are somewhat larger, 



cratia. L. cratia Hew. (131 g). Immediately recognizable by the broad purple abdominal parts leaving free 



only a narrow lilack dorsel stripe on the 2. to 5. ring. Wings jet-black; the foiewings ,vith an orange-yeDow 

 oblique band, the hindwings \^ith a narrow, incomplete golden-yellow marginal baiid. Colombia and ^'enezuela: 

 not rare. 



hodia. L. Iiodia Btlr. From Valdivia in ("olombia, has remained unknown to me. Cf. Additions. 



plHixciu.'i. L. phereclus Cr. (= seleukia Stich.) (]31 g, h). Exteriorly somewhat similar to Panara ■pherecln-s L. 



above blackisli-brown with an orange oblique band, but immediately discernible by the under surface, where 

 the hindwings exhibit a hemochrome basal spot and white veins, whereas in Panara they are velvety black, 

 sometime-' with a blue reflection. South Brazil, Guiana, Peru; in the range of Panara where it flies in the 

 company of other equallj' coloured Erycinidae, such as the $2 of Mestve sagaris, some ?£ of Aricoris etc., 

 but also with numerous patented Heierocera, such as Mvradaemon nrsnla Stall and others. — - Rare. 



murathoit. L. marathon Fldr. (= ctesiphon Fldr.) (131 h). I figure the type from the Coll. Felder which Lord 



Rothschild had the kindness to lend me. In this $ the band of the forewing is seen slightly curved proxi- 



stcnotaenia. mally. Colombia to Peru. — In stenotaenia Rob. (131 h) from Pozuzo the band runs rather straight and is 



ans'nniilala. narrow, in assimulata Stick. (131 h), the most cojiimon form from C'olombia frequently found in the so-called 



,, Bogota-Collections"', it is even somewhat proximally concave and shortened. — All the forms of marathon 



have magnificent jwrple sides of the abdomen, wherel\y the}' show an alliance with naiia Hew. 



barm. L. barca //eic. (131 h). This peculiar sjjecies from Pernambuco shoA'S a. first sight that is has bor- 



rowed the exterior of an Actinote together with which it must consequently fly. There is only a secondary 

 resemblance with a Slalachtis susaimu (which likewise copies Actinote). The model for Lymnas barca and Sta- 

 lachtis stisanna is probably an Actinote of the leptogramma- or hypsipetes-group. 



thyalini. L. ttiyatira Hew. (= phlegontis Stick.} (131 h). Thi.- Imtterfly is likewise subject to mimicry. It imi- 



tates Eueides alipkera. and. because in mimicry only the total appearance, but not the repetition of finer de- 

 tails in the marking is of a biological value, it is so inconstant that I have never yet beheld two equal spe- 

 cimens. Only larger series of the different habitats would permit ,, subspecies" to be established; but the butter- 

 fly is so rare that for the present the collections mostly contain only single specimens from the different ha- 

 bitats. The variation refers to the ground-colour, size, length of the black rays, width of the margins and their 

 delimitation. The figured specimen originates from Cuyaba and differs just as much from that iuHEWiTSONS. 

 collec.ion from the Amazon, as from the one figured by Stichel in Wtt.sm.ans Genera Insectorum. Brazil, 

 Bolii^ia, Colombia, Guiana; dispersed and rare. 



31. Genus: Xeiiau<lra Fldr. 



Is close!}' allied to the preceding genus, i. e. to its mimetic group of barca-tkyatira. All tlie species 

 belonging hereto are rare. The butterflies have still longer forewings than the Lymnas, from which they are 

 otheiwise distinguished only by the very stout (in the C) and quite short (in the ^) abdomen. Owing to the 

 narrow wings the flight of the ?? is almost whizzing, quite similar to that of the copied Heterocera (Cyllo- 

 podinae). May be that some more species having hitherto been treated as Lymnas v.ill prove to be better in- 

 cluded in Xenandrn. 



a;/ria. X. agfia Hew. (131 h, misprinted in argia). The ^ belonging to this $ which I only know from 



Hewitson is unknown to me. The $ is surely mimetic copying ?ome of the South Brazilian Pericopiins or 

 other Arctiids which partly fly in day-time or are often chased up. All the 4 wings with orange-} ellow mar- 

 ginal spots, the forewings with a broad, golden-yellow oblique band sending below the costa a ray towards 

 the base, the hindwings with a yellow cell. Very rare, in Soutb Brazil; v. Boenninghausen captured the 

 aniniiil only once in more than 30 yeais, near Rio de Janeiro; he presumed it to be the $ of lyymnas volusia 

 which is just as incorrect as Stichels presiyiiption that it belongs as ^. to Xen. keliodes. 



