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HAMEARIS, By Dr. A. Seitz. Toi 



A. stalachtioides Btlr. (141 f. misjjrinted into MalnrlitoHhs). Foicwing somewhat less pointed, otlier- f<l<iliii-MUn 

 wise of the sha[)e of the preceding, but above the blade «ings exhibit white spots, with a brown base of *' 



the wings and a brown anteniarginai stripe. Groiind-itilour of the under surface preponderantly red-brown, 

 much more copiously and densely spotted in white than the up])ei' surface. Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro. — 

 canidia Drc. is the smaller, more northern form (Central Brazil) with a jtrejxinderantly black ground-colour, ninidia. 

 — ■ The species is always recognizable by the abdomen being above of a silky lustrous white beginning at 

 the third ring. It imitates StnJachtis susainui from the same habitat. Rare. 



A. castanea Prittw. (141 f) somewhat resembles above Cali/duit punctdta (13Ga.) and Cn'unxi (tctoris msUnica. 

 (12(ih) with which it flies together, but the light d<its are transparent like glass, not so brightly white, as 

 they appear in our figure. Beneath something like Zab. tencfln (13Sk) of which it has also the same faint 

 median shade of the uf)per surface noticeable in a certain exposure to light. South Brazil; rare. 



82. Genus: Haiiieariii^ Hhu. 



Butterflies with an exterior like small Plnjciodes and certain Hesperids flying in their patria. The 

 genus is only with difficulty separable from A'podemid with which it is combined by some. The body is 

 robust in the larger species, the abdomen of the $$ stout and long. In the .^j' the upper surface is mostly 

 yellowish-brown with dark spots; the under surface of the hindwings is adapted to bark or stones. The 

 palpi are long with a long, thin, styloid terminal joint projecting anteriorly beyond the head; the veins 

 of the wings not deviating from those of Apodemia. They inhabit the Pampas in the south and the Llanos 

 in the north, being mostly local and varying greatly already at short distances, but not rare at their flying- 

 places. 



H. epulus Cr. (141 b). This is perhaps nothing else but the z'tchaeus F. Above blackish, with few cijuIhs. 

 small white spots in the disc of the forewing and a dull red-yellow macular series in front of the border, 

 Guiana. In specimens from Para also the (J,^ exhibit much more red-brown, so that this sometimes occupies 

 the greatest part of the disc of the hindwing. — campestris Bat. (= propitia Stich.) (141 b as propitia) has raiiipes/ris. 

 somewhat larger discal spots of the upper surface, which are also increased and all brown-red. From Itaituba 

 and Sao Paulo di Olivenga. — Bolivian specimens have the spots above bright light orange-coloured, almost 

 like erostratus: also the under sui'face of the hindwings, forming in ca»ipestris on a violettish-brow'n ground 

 in the middle a faint cloud out of tiny yellowish, mostly round spots, is in Bolivians more variegated, but 

 more confused. — In signata Stick. (141 b) the small spots above are increased, but nearly all, also those >:i<inat<i. 

 in front of the border, are whitish instead of reddish-yellow; South Brazil, North Argentina (Salta). — 

 Still more white-spotted, and with another under surface (hindwings beneath whitish, finely shaded by grey 

 and brown) are the very small minuscula Giac. (142 h) from la Rioja, in West Argentina, of which there tuiimsctiUi. 

 is before me a form being somewhat more variegated beneath, from San Ignacio (Missiones, East Ai-gentina). 

 In the open grass-districts, not rare. 



H. notialis Stich. is known to me from Stichels figm-e; above like erostratus (141 a) duller brown- iiotiali.<:. 

 red, of the yellowish-red band in the apical jiart only dull marks are noticeable, the hindwings beneath yellowish- 

 grey, in the middle a whitish, black-tinged, tooth-like spot. Argentina. 



H. erostratus ir«'. (141 a, b). Above yellowish-red, with a blackish-brown distal part in which a n-o.^lralus. 

 yellowish-red oblique band extends in front of the apex and behind it in front of the border a yellowish-red 

 macular chain. The under surface of the hindwings exhibits on a brown ground 2 yellowish-white transverse 

 bands converging at the proximal margin. Venezuela (on the Orinoco), Colombia, Panama, on grass-plots, 

 very conimon. — Near Merida in Venezuela occurs a form of double the size, in which the light transverse 

 bands of the under surface of the hindwings begin to be divided into large whitish spots; it is antaeus /orw;. aiitiiru,^. 

 nov. (141 b), presumaV)ly only an alpine form of the preceding. Type in the Tring Museum. 



H. chilensis i^?(/r. (141 b). Light yellowish-red, the whole apical jiart of the forewings black with nar- rliilcn.sis. 

 row, adjacent, small bands of tlie ground-coloui'; the vnider surface white, with confused grey and luowii 

 embeddings. The Andes of tlhile and Ai'gentina. 



H. cisandina sp. nov. (141 d) is larger, in both sexes resembling the preceding above, but beneath lisdiuliiHi. 

 much darker, so that the yellowish-red on the forewings bejieath and the white on the hindwings beneath 

 appears only inserted in smaller spots. Ai-gentina (Chaco de Santiago del Estero, on the Rio Salado). 



H. middletoni E.-Sh. (141 a). Above more or less dull brownish-red, with blackish spots, the distal miiiiiu-ioni. 

 margin likewise black. Immediately recognizable by the under siu-face of the hindwings, in which numerous 

 bone-white, partly black-pupilled, small oval spots are arranged to 2 or 3 regular arcuate rows. South Brazil 

 and Paraguay. 



H. dovina Schs. (141 c). One of the largest species, above red-brown, forewing in the dise spotted d<n-uiu. 

 dark, hindwing with a dark base, both wings have in the broadly blackish marginal area a chain of black- 

 pupilled eye-spots of the ground-colour. The under surface reminds us of that of niiddli-toni. ])ut the white 

 spots and markings are larger and not so numerous. Argentina and Bolivia. 



