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AMBLYGONIA; AMARYNl'HIS; hLXOPLISIA; NEL()NE. By Dr. A. Seitz. (i'.U 



66. (iciius: Aiiiblyjjfoiiia i-'A//'. 



After eliminating tlie species placed here by Felder. the name of the genus lemains Un- tlu- follow iug 

 species. A tiny, square-built butterfly with a robust body and broad wings traversed by a yellow band. 

 Silvery lines are absent; remarkable are 4 larger spots of the wings occurring in the $ • — '^ form of the scximl 

 dimorphism being otherwise not common. 



A. amarynthina FIdr. (=- monogramma Bat., barzanes Hew., ^ = quatrinotata Btlr.) (13:i h). A small mnaryii 

 species. Blackish brown with a small orange-yellow, above often darkened median band, the much rarer ^,' 

 with one light yellowish-white dot in front of the middle of the distal margin on each wing. The ^^ are 

 not rare in almost the whole of South America, from Argentina to t'olombia. The band varies considerably 

 in width and intensity of colouring, but it is in the q beneath always bioader and brighter than above. 



67. Gemis: Aiuar;<^'iitliis Hbn. 



This genus has likewise only one, very singularly coloured species. Largei' than the preceding species, 

 less robustly built, the wings very delic^ate; the veins deviate from those of the Auihli/gonin only by the 

 3rd subcostal vein not rising immediately before tiie cell-end, but immediately behind it. The species forming 

 this genus is very widely distributed. 



A. meneria Or. (132 f). Black with a narrow red transverse band and sparse light, small dots; 

 in the cell of the forewing a red cuneiform streak, behind it a small red spot. ■ — In superior janii. iiov. (132 g) suiKrinr. 

 flying near Humayta and lying before me in great numbers, the red band, particularly beneath, is more than 

 twice as broad and the dots are of a bright white, larger and increased ; the form itself is very large. ■ — In 

 contrast with it, ab. maecenas F. (132 g) is without any small white dots. A form being especially in the fe- uiinaKd-^. 

 male sex extremely broad-banded and rather small originates from Nouveau-Chantier in French Guianais 

 coccitincta form. nov. (132 g), but already in Cayenne there occur again narrow-banded specimens. This charac- iiiniiiiicUi 

 ter is local, but not temporal, for I possess homogeneous specimens from April, October. December and Fe- 

 bruary. — stenogramma Stkh. (132 g) contrasts with coccitincta by the red band being here as thin as a siiiiu.jriiiii- 

 thread, even extinct in some places; from Ecuador, where, however, there occui' also specimens harilly 

 distinguishable from Peruvians. — micalia 6V. (132f) is the connnon form living in almost the whole northern 

 part of South America, with a distinct, unabridged, but moderately broad band, in which there is in the cell- 

 end a small red spot isolated from the basal streak, which is confluent with the latter in ab. conflata Stirh. 

 meneria ist not so common as we might be induced to believe according to the numerous specimens in the 

 collections (before me are about 3(_»0); but it is one of the most conspicuous butterflies, being eqiuxlly keenly 

 collected by European and native collectors. — [ call the reader's attention to a strange coincidence: at 

 the same place ((Humayta on the Amazon), where A. meneria exhibits a broad, coloured band and a conspi- 

 cuously copious white dotting, the same sym])tom occurs also in another, but very distantly allied Erycimdae 

 {Riudina. ly sip pus L.) *). 



68. Genus: ]<^x«»plisui G. and S. 



This genus was formerly united with the preceding to wiiich it is very closely allied, but its members 

 have somewhat shorter palpi. Certainly the total appearance greatly deviates from that of the Atnarynthis 

 by the entu-ely different colouring, but the anatomical structure makes it doubtful whether Exoplisia is to 

 be separated from Anmrynihis. From the following Nehne. Exoplisia is separated by the finer clubs of the 

 antennae, the appressed palpi, the shape of the wings, particularly the stretched costa of the forewing. the 

 fringes at the anal part of the hindwing being prolonged to a regular beard. Only one species. 



E. hypochalybe Fldr. (= praxithea Bsd.) (132 g). Above dark brown, beneath of a lustrous light blue, hiiixnlm- 

 with black veins; on both surfaces numerous straight black transverse stripes. Reported from Central America '■'/" 



to Peru. — muscolor Weeks (132 h) differs scarcely above, beneath, however, the distal transverse stripe run- ,i,, >■■,■< olm: 

 ning parallel to the border of the forewing is absent. Bolivia. Not rare. 



69. Genus: JMcioiie Bsd. 



Distinguished from the E.voplisia by the projecting palpi, the more strongly clubbed antennae, the 

 quite different shape of the forewings exhibiting an arched distal margin, a curved border, a rounded anal 

 angle and a longer proximal margin, and by the absence of a regular beard at the border of the hindwing. 

 where only longer fringes are formed; the marking is quite diffei'cnt, the veins exhibit metallic rays before 

 their termination, the fringes are speckled. As the species are not congeneric with hypuchalybe, this l)eing, 



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