704 



LEMONIAS. Bv Dr. A. Seitz, 



rhodope. L. rhodopc Hew. (137 e) rcseinljles Meiach. melusin.n above, but the under surface is marked very 



similarly to that of emylius, though it is duller violettish-green. The $ is unknown to me; the specimen 

 figured as anc.ile by Hewitson may perhaps belong as $ to rhodope; the forewings are similar, more orange- 

 coloured but the hindwings are unicolorously blackish-brown and the under surface is marked differently. 

 I was not able to obtain two equal ,S^ ; the boundary between the black and red of the upper surface varies 

 hiihn. at every habitat. Amazon. — bubo Btlr. has near the anal angle before the black distal margin a small 

 white spot, while tlie ? (according to Butler) has a kind of a light spot in the middle of the dark-brown 



ainphis. hindwing. — amphis Heir. (137 d) are specimens with a greatly narrowed margin of the hindwing. 



f(;m/i.v. L. cereal's Heic. {:3 = cuprea Btlr.) (137 g). o brick-red in the cell and before the border, some 



specimens also in the disc with black markings. Before the apex little spots of a blue lustre. 9 dull yel- 

 lowish-red, with a panther-like, copious marking. Under surface of the ,^ similar to that of emylius, more 

 one-coloured leaden-grey. Extremely inconstant, differently marked at every habitat, also the $ in which 

 the spotting in the disc of the forewing may disappear nearly altogether (= caecina Fldr.). From the Amazon. 



rather rare. 

 zctniger. L. zeangcr Stoll (137 g). Presumably scarcely specifically different from the preceding species which 



it replaces in Guiana. Typical zeanger reseinble cerealis, but the bluish-lustrous apical spots of the ,^ are in- 

 rhcsd. creased. Surinam. — rhesa //e«'. has the blue spot larger, more metallic, more remote from the apex, whereby 

 a certain exterior resemblance is created with Argyrogramma amalfreda physis Stick., so that the figure of the 

 latter was denoted by mistake as rhesa, although the blue-silvery line in front of the border of the forewing 

 shows that it must be a physis with which also the marking at the border of the hindwing corresponds. — 



pirene. pirene Godni. (137 g) from the Upper Amazon has the black apical part of the ^ forewing increased and tra- 

 (jygefi. versed by a broad blue band, and in gyges Stich. (137g) from Humayta (Amazon) and Peru the blue spot 

 is still la'rger, so that it occupies nearly the whole distal half of the forewing, and the clots in front of the 

 border of the hindwing are partly confluent. Varying at every habitat and representing an almost uninter- 

 rupted series of transitions. Not common. 

 parthiio,,. L. parthaon Dolm. (= thermodoe Hbn.-G., rhesa Btlr. p. p., $ = ancile Hew. p. p.) (137 e, as por- 



thaon). Here the red on the forewings has disappeared except a minute spot before the anal angle; the (J 



pekinjc. has blue, the $ white spots before the apex of the forewing; described from Guiana. — pelarge G. and S. 

 (137 e) scarcely differs from parthaon; the blue spot of the forewing is said to be smaller, but it varies in 

 both forms; as a chief difference the black colouring of the abdomen in pelarge (from Mexico and Central 

 America) is mentioned, which, however, occurs also in Amazon-specimens. — Rare. 



fionis. L. florus Stgr. (137 k). Approximating the preceding species, but the red of the hindwing shaped 



into an oval disc before the distal margin. The forewing brown, with a diffuse, bluish-violet lustre, above 

 the basal inner-marginal part with a reddish gloss. The 9 with a pale yellow oblique band of the forewing. 

 Ecuador to Venezuela. 

 last/ienes. L. lasthencs Hew. (137 i, k) greatly approximates the preceding, but in the .^ the orange-yellow band 



of the hindwing, in the 9 the bone-yellow band of the forew nig is shaped differently. Central America. Rare. 

 zenrippa. — zeurippa B.id. greatly resembles martia; on the forewing the violet reflection of the apical part does not 

 extend proximally beyond the centre of the wing; the orange-brown anal spot of the hindwing is shorter, 

 broader, rounder, the animal as large as lasthenes; the 9 like in lasthenes, but the band of the forewing with 

 a slight ochreous tinge and curved. Mexico and Honduras. 



mariia. L, martia Godm. (137 k) is allied to the preceding, larger; the ^ with a more intense reddish tinge, 



the apical part of the forewing of a bright violet lustre. The 9 is unknown to me. Described according 

 to a single q from Colombia (Rio San Juan). 



.siidias. L. sudias Hew. nee Stgr. (137 k). In the r^ the disc of the forewing is entirely suffiised by blue, the 



border of the hindwing broadly orange-yellow. The 9 resembles those of florus and lasthenes, but the obli- 

 que band of the forewing is white and does not reach the anal angle, quite similarly as in the 9 of argenissa 

 (137 i). Mexico and Central America. Rare. 

 (ipoihriii. L. apotheta Bat. From , .Brazil", without the habitat being more explicitly mentioned, unknown 



to me. Upper surface dark ochreous-brown, the wings traversed by few short, fine, darker streaks, the mar- 



macun. ginal part with a reddish tinge, in front of the border a regular row of dark, light-encircled dots. — maeoti 



Godm. (137 h) from Guiana has a darker apical part of the forewing and a greyish-white under surface; — 



(Hrtcomde.s. in maeotlides Godm. from Colombia (137 h) almost the whole forewing, except the narrow inner-marginal 



idnion. part, has a dark tinge, and the under surface is light slate-grey, without a very dark border. — idnion G. 

 and S. from Panama and the adjoining Colombia entirely resembles maeon (137 h), but the darkening does 

 not cover the costal and apical parts, but it extends also above along the distal margin and is not intense. 

 The 9 is larger, more dirty greyish-brown, uniformly coloured, witii distinct black markings. Beneath like 

 mneov, but the margins are developed more distinctly. Rare. 

 ararinir. L. arachne Stick. I do not know; it is said to be like idmon, the wings above rusty-brown with 3 



rows of black streaks; forewings with dark brown spots and obsolete whitish siibmarginal lunae, hindwings with 



