ra ntnitrjuhi. 



CYKEJS'IA; NECYKIA. Ey Dr. A. Seitz. 669 



The band is nearlj' always CDiitiimed also un the hiiulwuig which thou, howcvt-}-. exhibits freqiie'itly only a 

 small orange-yellow tiiangle in the centre of the costa. Wo also figure a specimen (from bencHth) in which 

 the orange band traverses broadly the whole hindiving above and beneath, ending broadlx at t)ie inner margin. 

 Mexico and Central America to Colombia. ■ — In ocol'.O Sndrs. (= pausias Fldr.) (130 e, d) the light yellow ocolh. 

 narrow band run'- through both the wings also in the q". Colombia. 



A. pulchra Hen\ (130d). Forewing of the ,^ with a red. very obliciue band-like spot; hindwing with inihhni. 

 a band-shaped blue reflection being parted by the v^eins. Peru, Ecuador. — Tn miranda Heir. (i;J()d) from utiramla. 

 Bolivia the spot of the forewing is vermilion instead of miniate, more upright aiul with an outwardly convex 

 distal margin. The blue iridescent spot of the hindwing is cuneiform — sogamuxi Fass! represents niirnnda s,)<iii,jiii.i-'i 

 in Colombia; the band or the forewing is shajjed like in miranihi. but not of .'^ui h ;i glaring colour and not 

 so sharply defined; the blue band of the hindwing is narrower and very brilliant. — In the form xanthozona '""l/' 

 Stick, from Peru the spot of the forewing is oiaiige. — In formosa He>r. from Ecuador the red spot of t 

 fore.ving is narrower, the blue spot of the hind\\ing bioadei- than in mirandn. — Not very rare. 



38. Genus: C^yreiiia Wv. 



(Uumsy, stoutly built aninuvls with broad wings, the forewings hav^e not the long-extend"d apical part 

 of the preceding group. Metal colours are absent, but there are white central clouds and hemochrome lu- 

 minous spots. The cohnu'ing is otherwise insignifioajit. The butterflies are r;ither rare, being distribuied 

 from Pananui tliroughout Colombia and the Amazon district to Bolivia. 



C. martia IFjc. (130 d). Very likely all the forms of this genus, except belphegor Wir. from tlie Ama- murtKi. 

 zon being uid<nown to me, belong to one species, as they are distinguished by the size and intensity of the '"'/''"'!/'"■• 

 white spot ol the hindwing. — pyrippe Godm. and *S'rt,'r. is the snuilier form from Panama; it has sho'ter, iii/rippc. 

 rounder hindwings than marcin, their marking being hardly visible, the white discal spot obsolete. — ah. 

 androgyne Stick, is, according to the author's figure, the form \vithout the w.nite spot of tlie hindwing. It (HKlniin/iic. 

 is, however, impossible to found a subspecies upon it, because specimens with entirely grey hindwings rarely 

 occur everywhere among the original species and there are, on the other hand, also specimens from Bolivia 

 possessing the white spot of the hindwing. 



39. Genus: Efecyria Wir. 



The forms belonging to this genus exactly agree with the preceding genus in the structure of the body; 

 the br(jad head with the vaulted forehead beyond which the bent-up palpi are hardly ])rojecting, the short, 

 laterally glaringh coloured abdomen, the bright red spots of the wings which are at least beneath always 

 present, the antennae attaining a length of more than half the costa and being scarcely thickened at the tips, 

 as well as the whole habitus join the genus to the preceding Cyrenin as well as to the following Lyropteryx. 

 From Cyrenin and Ancylnris, however, they are distinguished by the regular shape of the wings, the hijid- 

 wings exhibiting neither angulations nor the formation of lobes or tails. It seems that the genus consists of but 

 very few, extremely variable species. At least the three frequently occurring species show that constant forms 

 are living at the single flying-places, l)ut that specimens of the same species from two different flying-))laces 

 are hardly ever equal. Also in the habits the Necyrirt seem to resemble the preceding genera: they certainly 

 remain very much hidden like these. 



N. bellona. This species is above black with a dull steel-gloss which grows more intense only in the 

 marginal part of the hindwings, where it forms radiate pointed wedges. Also beneath it is much duller than 

 in the Ancyluris and is sometimes altogether absent in the disc of the hindwing. Beneath there are hemo- 

 chrome band-like spots. ■ — In whyteliana Drc. (129 b) flying in Peru and receirtly broxight in great numbers iriniiiiintin. 

 from Pozuzo these spots may also show through above, though the male ujiper surface is often without true 

 red bands ; only below the middle of the inner margin on the hindwing a hemochrome spot faintly shows through 

 from beneath, in some specimens, as in the figured one, it is scarcely noticeable. Stichel denotes such spe- 

 cimens without any red on the upper surface as foinia obliterata. — I.i westwoodi Hpffr. ( 129 b) this inner mar- ohlitcmfn. 

 ginal spot is already more distinct, and also on the forewing a siuall c'ostal <'ell-end-l)aiid slun\s through above, ""' "'"" '' 

 From Marcapata being separated fi'om Bolivia only by a narrow range of hills. — In enyo form. nov. (129 b, c), cnno. 

 from the interior of Bolivia, the red bands do not only show through from beneath, but they are also above 

 glaring hemochrome running as an uninterrupted chain of sjjots on the hindwing as far as to its centre. — 

 In the typical bellona Ww. (129 c) from Bolivia, the adjoining Brazil and the southern parts of Peru they hdhnui. 

 are greatly expanded, beneath particularly on the hind\\ing, above on the forewing. The butterflies are local, 

 but not rare. 



N. duellona IF. (129 c). The blue lustre is confined to a macular band, but of a nuich more luminous iinrllond. 

 metallic cohnu' than in bellona, warming into greenish, and the red inner marginal spot of the under surface 

 of the hindwing is oviform. Ecuador. 



N. saundersi Heic. (= hewitsonii Sndr.s.) (129 c). Also the 2 has the blue, brilliant uuicular chiun ■sanmli-r.-.-i. 

 on the upper surface of the hindwings. The forewing exhibits a light red band being in the $ bright light red 

 and traversing the whole forewang as far as towards the anal angle, whereby the species is distinguished from 



