P,M. 1. r. 1917. SYM^rAfHrA, By Dr. A. Skitz. fisl 



Under surface silky smoke-brown, dotted. The diagnose does not state whether the costa of the forewing 

 is sinuous, as in Symm. tigrina or uniforndy round (as in C'riro-t. Jeopard imivi). Not lying before me. BoHvia. 



S. virgaurea .S7m-/?. (142 c). Similar to virgalnla. but whereas the latter has a more red-brown gi'ound- riranvrm. 

 colour, that of rirgaurea is brighter red, so that it reminds us of our CJiri/sopIianvs virgaureae. The apical 

 area of the forewing broad, the border narrow lilaek. Between the 4 coniform, costal transverse stripes a 

 fine striation. Larger than figrina. Colombia. 



S. praXila Ww. (128 g). Bright yellow dotted on a black gromid, the small spots next to the base pm.rihi. 

 and border of the forewing red. The most conspicuous of it is the colouring of the hunch of the base of 

 the costa, which seems to represent plastically a thick, curved appendage, looking like a feathered an- 

 tenna laid over the costal margin of the forewing. South Brazil. 



S. norina Hew. (128 g) greatly resemblts the preceding, but it is smaller, the fine markings sparser )i<yrhia. 

 and d idler yellowish instead of white. Amazon. 



S. calligrapha Hew. stands in the middle between the two preceding species, with respect to the cairuiiiijiha. 

 size as well as to the copious light small spots. From the Rio Tapajoz; a sonunvhat duller s])otted speci- 

 men from Guiana was regarded as the $ of the species. 



S. calliste Hew. (128 h, as hippea) already resembles the following species cleonyvta by most of the mUisle. 

 tiny spots of the upper surface being colom-ed in a bright red-brown; only above, at and below the cell-end 

 they are yet of a light colour. — A somewhat smaller form of another flying-place, which, however, is not 

 to be denominated and represents a transition to norina, we have figured 128 h; it was by mistake denoted 

 as .,hippea" on the table, Brazil. 



S. cleonyma Heir. (128 h). All the small spots of a bright red-brown; but besides the disc of the cinimjiiin. 

 hindwing is rather extensively brightened up by red-brown. We figure a specimen from Nicaragua ; Hewitson 

 supplies a rather deviating figure; we reprod^ice the copy of it 134 g, which was by mistake denoted as 

 ,,calagidis" on the table. — leena Hew. (128 g) is somewhat smaller, but otherwise quite similar, some of the Irrua. 

 small spots of the upper surface ring-shaped, as for instance at the base and anal angle of the forewing. 

 Likewise from Nicaragua *). — harmodius G. and <^'. from Colombia is like leena, but the forewing without hnrmodiu.i. 

 spots, the brown cloud in the hindwing, however, distinct. — multesima Stick, from Colombia is said to be }iiiilic<i]ma. 

 similar, but to have a whitish costal spot, and in the forewing (like Jeena) a red-brown area. 



S. pardalis Hew. resembles praxila (128 g). but it is very much more densely and brightly coloured pardalix. 

 in a reddish yellow, with red-yellow, small transverse bands in the costal part of the forewings. In the disc 

 of the wings the small spots are lighter yellow. — The last 9 forms, together with juratrix Wuk being unknown jiirnfri.r. 

 to me in nature, are undoubtedly very closely allied to each other. Most of them are of only one very narrowly 

 circumscribed flying-place, and known only in 1 specimen, and it is not unlikely that they are modifications 

 of very few widely distributed, but throughout rare species. 



S. menetas Drury (= tacitus F.) (128 d). A great part of the fortwing and the whole hindwing bright mcmiax. 

 red, the costal part of the forewing black with white spots. In the $ (= eurina Srh.s.) the red nms before the 

 distal margin towards the apex. An extremely conspicuous butterfly already resembling in the flight certain 

 Lithosiids (which are also imitated by Microlepidoptera) in which, however, the proximal half of the wings is 

 red, the distal part being black and white, so that the resemblance disappears in the resting animal. South 

 Brazil. — In pilarius »S7*f7r (128 d) the black in the wing is increased, particularly the dark border of the hind- jiUdi-hi.t. 

 wing is broader. Likewise in South Brazil. — The species is very rare. 



S. rubina Bat. (= irata Sfgr.) (128 d). The black-white part in the forewing towards the red not nihiud. 

 straight, bid irregularly defined, moreover, the base of the forewing is broadly black. Mexico to (.'olombia. — 

 In technema <S7/(7(. (128d) from Guiana the hindwings are still broadly margined in black. — The latter fcrhncvKi. 

 is also the case in maeonius Stgr. from the Amazon, but here the black-white part of the forewing is so much maroiiiii.i. 

 developed that the bright red is confined to the inner-marginal part of the forewing. — Very rare. 



S. titiana Heir. (128f) is orange-yellow, with black margins of the wings and a black costal triangle liliima. 

 embedded with white on the forewing. Ecuador. Very rare. 



S. arcuata Hew. (128 e). The red is here more miniate and confined to the inner nuirginal part and <ir<ii(ii,i. 

 the disc of the hinrlwing. In the black part of the forewing only sparse, small white spots. Amazon. 



S, hetaerina Heir. (12Sc). originating like arcuata from the Amazon, is a very closely allied species jwliunnn. 

 or form, in which the iinii'r spot of the wings is dull bone-yellow. — hesione Slicli. has the median area pale lir.sidin: 

 ochreous or pale reddish; Upper Anuizon. — Rare. 



*) (iODM.W and Sai.vi.v call our attention to a. lia-ir-pencil in the nii<liili' of I In' cosinl iiiMr'nin i>f llir liiriduiiiL;. Iiy 

 wiiiili Irriia is said to lie distini(iii-ilicd from nearly all the other Sj/iiiiiiiii-lthi. 



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