jalitiut. 



oryporr. 



fiOfi EMESTS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



vtilpiiin. E. vulpina G. and .S'. is based upon 3 ^(^ from Presidio in Mexico that are said to resemble tenedia, 



but to be of a brigliter. red colour, almost like fntima (130 f). The wings above are scarcely noticeably ruled, 

 the marking beneath is likewise obsolete. 



■inanrlana. E. mandana Or. (= iiolymenus F., arminius F., ops. Lair.) (136 e). Entire with regularly shaped wings, 



above dark red-brown, beneath brownisli-ycllow with dark transverse streaks being united above to trans- 

 verse lines. Specimens before me from Mexico (Guerrero) and those which I captured near Santos in South 

 Brazil exhibit but quite faint differences (Mexicans are marked somewhat more distinctly). $9 from Muzo 

 and the adjoining Central America sometimes have a slightly geniculated border of the hindwing and more 

 pointed forewings (tmgulariformis Strd.). — furor Btlr. and Drc. and nureliit Bat. from Maranham likewise 

 diof/rnia. do not exhibit any difference worth mentioning. — diogenia Priftw. (136 e) from South Brazil are said to 

 be smaller and lighter specimens, but it is just South Brazil where there occur especially large and dark spe- 

 cimens, and large and small ones are sometimes found I'esting on the same bush. — mandana is a common 

 butterfly visiting particularly the flower-buds of blossoming bushes and flying all the year round in warm di- 

 stricts; from Mexico to South Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. — The 9$ are often considerably larger than the (^(^. 

 Beside typical mandana and furor there occur some more forms approximating mandana in Mexico; as for 

 irguJa. instance tegula G. and tS'. (136f) which is about the mo.st closely allied to diogenia. 



rus-tnla. E. russula Sticii. (13(if). Smaller than normal mandana, above duller and often darker, between 



the transverse lines ,.a grey, almost bluish-grey tinge". Under surface light ochreous-yellow, the marking 

 reddish-brown, finer than in mandana, the nebulous band before the border is absent, sometimes replaced by 

 obsolete dots. The types originate from la Paz in Bolivia and from Sao Leopoldo in Brazil. — The marks 

 are partly those of typical mandana, partly they arc found in niandann from the most different countries; 

 it is presumably scarcely a distinct species. 



E. fatima Or. (= fatimella Ww.) (136f). Much more slimly built than mandana. with more delicate 

 wings and of a burning brown-red ((^) or brown-yellow (9) colouring. From Colombia to Brazil. Not rare. 



E. ocypore Hbn.-G. (136 g). Size and the shape of the wings of a small mandana. but the body much 

 more delicate and the colouring on both surfaces dark nut-brown. Marking almost exactly as in mandana; 

 aeilmlta. Amazon, Peru. — aethalia Bat. from Central America and Colombia has a produced apex of the forewing 

 and a similar anal angle of the hindwing and is beneath of a lighter colour than above; on the whole but 

 rrhiii'fs. little deviating. — zelotes Hew. originating from South Brazil and Paraguay has a red-brown ground-colour, 

 similar as mandana; the 9 entirely resembles a 9 of tenedlus, but it is more red-brown than dark yellowish 

 brown, and the band in front of the distal-marginal part is not so very light. Whether zelotes is a subspecies 

 of ocypore as which it has been dealt with, is doubtful. 



ovid'iiis. E. ovidius F. (=' fatima Or. p. p., cerea Hbn., caeneus Stick.) (136h as caeneus). We choose this 



name of Fabricius being still vacant in the Erycinidae, because a yellowish-red Emesis has been undoubt- 

 edly figured by Cramer as fatima and the name of caeneus was conferred on a small Charis, and therefore 

 certainly a confusion would be inevitable, ovidius has, on a dark-brown ground, numerous silvery arcuate 

 streaks which are united to a bossy chain. At the costa, before the apex of the foiewing mostly a honey- 

 yellow, light ])atch. From Guiana and Venezuela to Peru. Not rare. 



nccinidn. E. neeniias Hew. (137 a). Like the preceding species with silvery-blue arcuate streaks above, but 



dark blackish-brown, and easily distinguishable by the under surface being without any silver, whereas in 

 ovidius also beneath the dark transverse streaks are silvery. Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru; not common. 



E. poeas G. and »S'. (136f as psoeas). Recognizable by red-brown bands alternating with bluish-grey 

 ones above. On regarding fresh specimens in the sun, we find that the upper surface is covered with single 

 sparkling silvery scales. In specimens, where the long fringes are preserved, these also exhibit a faint lustre 

 and are speckled, what is not to be seen on our figure. Beneath red-brown. Mexico; in the Tring Museum also 

 from Zamora (Ecuador). 



E. brimo G. and .S'. ( 137 a). Size of the preceding; forewing with a somewhat more pointed apex ; upper 

 surface dark brown. In the cell and the distal marginal part some lighter, faintly yellowish-brown patches, 

 the disc of the (J with a cloud of a slight violet reflection. Very fine and sparse single, small silvery scales 

 are scattered across the surface of the wings. Under surface rusty yellow, covered with dark punctiform 

 streaks, except the distal marginal part. Colombia, and on the Chiriqui; often contained in the ,,Bogota"- 

 parcels. — progne Godm. (137 a) is somewhat smaller, the cloud with the violet reflection in the disc more 

 lustrous, lighter, the distal margin of the under surface dark brown. Peru, Bolivia. Not rare. 



E, emesia Hew. (= yucatanensis G. and »S'.) is not nmch larger than progne, has a strongly produced 

 basal part of the costa, like a Symmachia, but almost exactly the colouring and marking of a tenedius-'!^-. ex- 

 cept that the cell-end is traversed by a small bone-white band consisting of 3 adjoining spots. Mexico and 

 the adjoining Cential America; not common. 



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