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are constant differences distinctly noticeable, often combine several forms, in case they prove to be confined 

 to finding-places, but not to districts being definable with respect to the fauna. They are then nothing else 

 but sub-races picked out ad libitum or by chance, just as they were before the author, and their separation 

 would necessitate an almost never ending continuation of further descriptions which would also be in future 

 increased by every fresh exploitation of a new finding-place. Many specues are rather common at their habi- 

 tats. They come to the water early in the morning and. in day-time, they fly round the tops of high bushes. 



A. aulestes (V. Blackish-brown with a straight and entirely uniform band of the upper surface, whicii anlcsies. 

 may be sometimes narrower, more scarlet, sometimes broad and ver_\ bright red. The ,^ is eha) acterized by 

 the small red anal band extending with its middle tip far into the anal lobe of the tail. The $ may have 

 white, yellow or also red bands; it even occurs, as the figured $ sliows, with yellowish-browji bands; but 

 the middle Ijands are always straight and in the hindwing they bend round towards the middle of the inner 

 margin in an almost right (thougli not sharp) angle. Beneath, the ,^ is of a deep metallic blue with dark 

 shades being differently distributed at evpr^V habitat ; of the red banfTs there has remained here the end of 

 the band of the forewing before the inner angle and the angular part of the band of the hindwing. It is 

 not possible to define geographically the numerous forms of which there are before me about 10 more roughly 

 discernible ojies; Stichel tried to do so in 1909, but he partly gave it up again in 1910. In order to maintain 

 the names applied to them as much as possible, we may distinguish the very narrow-banded (^(J, to which 

 there are white-banded $2 before me, as eryxo Syidrs. (129g), l>roader-banded ones as iamprotaenia Stick, rr,/.,;,. 

 (129 f), and those with very broad and bright red bands as oiivencia iStgr. i. I. The numerous transitions '"'"'"■'"''"'.- 

 of these variations may very well remain nameless. The $2 may have whitish bands (eryxo), yellow (tadema .iiivoiria. 

 Stgr.) to brownish bands (aulestes typica) or also red ones (aulica Stick.), glaphyra Sn/lrs. lias, like twleina a tadema. 

 yellow, though much broader median band. — jocuiarts Stich. {129f, g) are ,^:J with red bands on the upper "u'l^hyra. 

 surface as thin as a thread; at some finding-places thej occur in uncommonly great numbers, especially in jorulari'i. 

 Colombia, and they are usually contained in the so-called ,, Bogota-Collections". — ab. vaslata Stick, is the raslaia. 

 denomination of a very common a!)erration which looks very much altered by the red band above being ab- 

 sent on one or both wings or being incomplete or interrupted. Sometimes in the ^ the band of the upper sur- 

 face is white instead of red (= insclita Stick.): we figure such a specimen. In spite of some 30 $$ before us iiisoVt/a. 

 we cannot discover 2 c^uite ecjual ones, since they all originate from different collections (consequently from 

 different finding-places). The small red anal band is mostly far remote from the median band, but it may 

 also toucli it- arid be broadly confluent with is. vt'hat may occur in 9$ with yellow, brown and white bands. 

 ■ — pandania Sn'lrs. (129g. 130 a) which I figure according to specimens taken in November, is a rather />an<lai„(i. 

 large race with very uniform red bands; 22 of it I have not captured: normal specimens are said to be provided " 



with bright red bands: from Santos in South America. Finally there occur also ,^^ witli a light band in the 

 distal part of the forewing and such with a faint hue of a blue reflection between the red median band "and 

 the distal margin. Among the more than 1000 specimeris of this species before me, of which there are 

 alone several hundreds in the Tring Museum, the above-mentioned cliaracters occur combined in manifold 

 variations; any further denominations of these combinations would only lead to a confusion. — The aulestes 

 are good flyers; I only found them at an open space in the woods, but always at the same bush from the toy* 

 of which they sometimes were playfulh whii-ling uj). They were not easy to capture. — Northern parts of South 

 America to Peru and South Brazil. 



A, nieliboeusi'\ (129 d, e). Very much like the preceding species, but in the ^ there is instead ef the iiirJil,„ni.'i. 

 small undulated red band before the anal lobe of the hindwing a red crescent. Among the very numerous 

 forms of this species there are also such forming the transition to the preceding, so that I doubt whether 

 both groups can be sharply separated. Here are also forms with median bands as thin as a thread, \\hich, 

 of course, can be denominated just as much (or as little) as in aulestes and which probably represent the 

 rubrofiium Stich. ( 129 e). Staudingers i.-l. -denomination holiviaiia was for good reasons not used by Stichel, nihrniiliiii,. 

 for n(iiro./i7;/?/i occurs also outside of Bolivia, and in Bolivia itself there are also found such with broader bands. 

 — Julia Smhs. (129 e) is a form with very glaring-red markings on a jet-black grou)ul, with niore intensely /"'"'■ 

 white-chec|uered fringes and with a broad anal crescent of the hindwing, the margin of which is deeper un- 

 dulated. The 2 (always?) exhibits a white transverse stripe between the red band and the distal margin. — 

 eudaemon >S7«-/a. is without the light dot near the base 01 the hindwing, which is said to occur always in typical cudacnin,,. 

 (JcJ of meliboeus; the red band of the forewing also stands steeper and in the hindwing it terminates at the 

 inner margin nearer to the anal angle, whereby the 2 is said to be recognizable. — In miniola Bat. the small minidlfi. 

 whitish basal spot of the male hindwing is present, but the shape of the wings is different: the apical part 

 of the forewing is broader and the anal lobe of the hindwing is more prolonged: the red median band uncom- 

 monly broad. — niendita D/c. has a flatter position of the band of the forewing and, in contrast with the pre- nnudita. 

 ceding form, shorter and rounder anal lobes of the hindwings. — In melior Stick, the faint blue lusti-e of the mriior. 

 distal area of the preceding form is stronger, partiouJarlj' in the anal area of the hindwing also above; 

 a faint bluish lustre suffuses the whole upper surface in a very oblique light, producing on the median band 

 a more dull -crimson than scarlet colour. The names pyretus Cr., pyriius Hfjqg., pyrete Hbn., phonia Stick., 

 silvicultrix Stick. I take to be denominations of quite insignificant transitions; etias Sudrs. fI2flf) is a forni dia.'i. 



