TOO APODEMIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



(i.i-eiius. E. axenus Hew. (140 e). Wmv similar to the preceding species, the bands above broader, in the 



$ also lighter yellow. The under surface, however, not like above, but the costa of the forewing and the 

 base are a,lso yet yellow, so that this colour outweighs the dark one. South Brazil. 



leiicoiiipiis. E. leucotopus Stick. This species inserted here by its author has a white discal and subniedian spot 



of the greyish-brown forewings and white hindwings bordered in grey. The under surface has more white. 

 We figure a $ from Buenavista (Bolivia), which has a small white spot in the anal angle of the forewing 



nnpludica. and a light patch in the border of the hindwing (= subsp. emphatica Stic/i.) (140 e). Typical specimens as 

 they lie before me from Tarapoto (Coll. B.\ng-Haa.s) have this light patch somewhat duller, and the white 

 .spots of the forewings are smaller. 



Hi. Genus: Apodeniia Fklr. 



This genus consists of about a dozen species showing a remarkable, though only superficial resem- 

 blance with Melitaea. A likeness with the genus Stalachtis seems to be due to mimicry, though it is distinct 

 enough to deceive even eminent experts, so that one species was described as Stalachtis. The genus is absent 

 in the supertropical forest-district, occurring only from Mexico to the north and again far to the south. 

 The veins do not exhibit any deviation from the general type of the American Erycinidae. 

 '""■•<•• A. nais Edic (141 g). Reminds us of a Melitaea. of the didyma-group, also beneath; a distant resem- 



blance with our A^emeo&i«,« may be only secondary. Bright reddish-brown, spotted in black, behind the middle 

 below the costa, in the $ mostly also above the proximal margin, small whitish spots. — The green, turban- 

 shaped egg with an hexagonally netted upper surface yields the larva which, being full-grown, is drab, across 

 the dorsum with whitish-yellow spots and fluffy hairs, the shape being something like that of a wood-louse, 

 flat and posteriorly pointed. It feeds on wild plums. Pupa dark brown, fastened by the cremaster and held 

 loosely by a belt. Mexico and the southern states adjoining to the north of it. Not rare; fond of the open 

 country. 

 nioniio. A. mornio Fldr. (= dumeti Be/ir, mormonia B.sd.) (141 d). Somewhat smaller, with copious white 



dots on a blackish-brown ground, the disc of the forewing reddish-brown. Beneath the hindwings are almost 

 vin/iilii. white, with blackish markings. California to New Mexico; not rare. — virgulti Behr ((^ sonorensis Fldr.) 

 (141 e) has above in the hindwing a reddish-yellow band and on the under surface of the hindwings in- 

 ryfhcra. tensely blackish-brown shades; South California and Mexico. — cythera Edw. (141 e) has almost the whole 

 ground of the hindwing tinged with reddish-yellow; the white spots are enlarged and assume, particularly 

 driD-i/i. on the under surface of the hindwing, an oblong, more radiatiform shape. Arizona and Mexico. — druryi 

 H. Edw. (= druryi Edw.) (141 d) is above lighter yellowish-red, the black and white spots are reduced. 

 maxima. New Mexico. — maxima Weeks (141 e) which may perhaps deviate little or not at all from mejicanus Behr 

 mejicanus. being unknown to me, is not only larger than the other forms of mormo, but also than the nais resembling 

 it. Here the whole ground of the wings is yellowish-red, the white spots not radiatiform. but like in druryi 

 bordered intensely in black, the black being united to irregular bands. North California. — Local, mostly 

 not common. 

 pabncrii. A. paimerli H. Edw. (141e, f). Much smaller than the preceding, about comparable with the Eu- 



ropean Melitaea a.sterie. Blackish-grey, finely spotted in white, between there are small red-brown spots 

 on the hindwing. Under surface marked like the upper, but of a dull ochreous-grey, white-powdered ground- 

 hypoglaiica. colour. — hypoglauca G. and *S'. (141 e) not lying before me in nature, is reported to belong hereto*); 

 it has above an iron-grey ground-colour, without white spotting; beneath yellowish-white, with rows of dark 

 spots and, lines. — The larva looks almost like a small wai.s-larva; on Beleperone calif ornica. Western parts 

 of the southern states and Mexico. — Local, but not rare. 

 hepburm. A. hepbumi G. and S. (141 f). The smallest species of the genus; forewings reddish iron-grey, sparsely 



spotted in white, the under surface almost ochreous-yellow with white spots being faintly bordered in dark; 

 differing from pabnerii by the lighter, more reddish upper surface, a sparser white spotting and a paler under 

 surface. Mexico, the figured $ from Sonora. 

 icalkcri. A. walkcri G. and S. (141 f). Above grey, the bands and spots somewhat lighter, but not white; 



under surface with cpiite a faintly pale ochreous tinge. Mexico, local, but in some places very common. Speci- 

 mens from Oaxaca are beneath more intensely marked in black; in those from Tehuacan the pale-yellow tinge 

 is nearly altogether absent. 

 mitltiplfiijd. A. multiplaga .S'c/w. (141 e). Much larger than the preceding, the spots of the upper surface of a 



pure white, the anal angle of the hindwing forms in the ^J an apex provided with a fringy beard. Basal half 

 of the hindwings beneath almost white. New Mexico. Rare. 

 '■'"''"''• A. carteri Holl. (141 a) from the Bahama Islands deviates somewhat from the other Apodemia. like 



the following species. Our figure most exactly reproduces the original. Under surface more dark greyish- 

 brown with small blackish transverse spots in the forewing and small transverse streaks in the hindwing. In 

 the anal angle of all the 4 wings a large, round, l)lack spot. 



* It probably belongs rat-hci- to waltcer'i. 



