71(1 NYMPHIDTUM. By Dr. A. 8p;itz. 



by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of which being now and then 

 preponderant. The wings have a normal shape without indentations, tail-appendages, lol)ing or coiling. The 

 larva is known of but 1 species, shaped like a wood-louse, hunched, green with a yellow lateral streak, the neck- 

 organ out of a transverse row of green spikes or bristles. It has a guard of ants. Papa green, fastened by a 

 belt-like thread. The butterflies rest on the under surface of leaves and are chased up l)y beating the bushes, 

 whereupon they fly like (leometrids for some jiaces, in order to hide themselves again. The swarming-time 

 seems to be dawn, or the early morning, l)ut I came across the Q$ yet in the sunshine of the morning on blos- 

 soms. They are easily taken and fly low. 

 /;/;». N. titia Cr. (= tytia F., gnosis Rsd., eroe Heir., lytia Kai/e) (140 b). ^ dark purple-brown with a 



small white spot below the costa of the forewing and a. light-brown, blurred distal band of the hindwing. '^' dark 

 sepia-brown with :} white spots of the forewing (in the disc, below the costa and before the anal angle), the 

 hindwing with a white distal band. Under surface of both sexes similarly marked, but in the j at the margin 

 o/r/ii.s'. slightly brightened up, in the 5 very much white-speckled. Guiana, near Cayenne not rare. — arctos He.ir. 

 (140 a, b) is larger, the ,^ w'th a very faint brightening before the border of the hindwing; the $ also lighter 

 before the border of the hindwing, but without a real white band. Amazon. — $$ from Teffe form the inter- 

 mediary between the two forms; they have a very narrow white band. — ^J fi'0]n Ecuador and Peru are quite 

 dark brown, without the briglitening before the border of the hindwings, the small, white subcostal s):)ot of 



iiriddiic. the forewing being larger (=-^ ariadne tS/ic/i.) 



arr.^lrs. N. orcstcs ('r. (I40c). Th(^ Initterflv occurs in 2 forms which, however, are not definable according 



to patriae. The typical form has above (piite unicolorously dark red-brown ,Jo being faintly dark-speckled, 

 looking almost like the ,^o of (iicfos in which the ))rightenings below the costa and before the border of the hind- 

 (iirhi: wing are absent; the Q h;\y an ochreous-ycllow band of the forewing. — The second form, arche Heiv. (140b) 

 has above an irregular transverse band being in the q only slightly indicated, in the $com))osed of large white 

 spots. Guiana and the Amazon, common, also the 2$; according to Stichel, also in Ecuador. 



cfitiflarr. N, candace Drc. Unknown to me in nature, mentioned from Rio de Janeiro. Size of the preceding, 



but the hindwings larger, rounder, the border not bevelled as in the preceding species. .Above of a red-brown 

 colouring without markings, beneath only faint traces of the numerous ring-marking of the proximal half. — 

 Unless the patria be confounderl, it must be very rare. 



xonniii. N. sorana Stall ap])roximates oresfes and originates from Guiana: above dark red-brown, the oblicpie 



band of the forewing yolk-coloured, uniform. 

 (ihdiin. N. abaris Or. (— tenes DM., sperthias Fldr.) (140 c). ^ above velvety brown, at the border, some- 



times also across the centre, copper-red. Belcw the costa a small light spot may stand as in our figure, but it 

 may also be absent altogether. The dark-brown 9, however, always has this spot, and besides the anal angle 

 of the forewing and the border of the hindwing is bone-yellow or marked thus. Guiana and Amazon, very 

 connnon; in Trinidad apparently rare. 

 plijilli'iis. N. phylleus Cr. (= phyleus M.<ii-hl.. phylacis Godt.) (140 a as phijleu-i). ^ with a red-brown forewing 



with fox-coloured bands and rings, and a fox-coloured hindwing exhibiting black antemarginal dots, a dark- 

 brown base and a similar median band. Belcw the costa a bone-coloured sjjot. The 9 i^ dark-brown, with 

 a broad bone-white liand of the forewing and disc of the hindw ing and a similar strij^e in front of the border. 

 The 5 varies extremely; the white bands are of a different shape at every habitat; we figure an aberration 

 ayiamr. in which all the whitish baiids are darkened by a brown scaling (artificial production V). -- apame Heir. ( = magni- 

 fica Stick.) scarcely differs in the male from typical phylleus except the red bands being narrower; in the $, 

 iirarrliirti. howcver. the w'litc is greatly narrowed on bcth wings; from the .Amazon. — praeclara Bat. (140 a), on the 

 contrary, has the l)one-yellow colour inci'eascfl at the cost of the dark-brown ground-colour; from Guiana. 

 The species is not common. 



lirhi'idx. N. licinias Stgr. ( 142 f). Dark-brown, in the marginal area red, in the basal area with black markings; 



both the wings are traversed by a joint band bent proximally towards the costa of the forewing, being in the 

 J of a bright golden yellow, in the $ lighter, more brownish-yellow. From the Rio San Juan in Colombia. 

 Staudingebs figure of a 3 which we copy corresponds well with a sjiecimen in Godm.\>'s collection. Apparently 

 ver^' rare. 

 ilorilis. N. dorilis But. resembles licinia-'i to which it belongs according to Stictiel; but the red-yellow median 



area has here the shape of the white band of cnlyce (139 e). 

 „!/iiijjlii(iio- N. nymphidioides Btlr. {= labdacus G. db S.) (141 c). Size of phi/llei(s; ,^ with light small median 



kIfs. t;pQts in the flisc of the red-brown forewing. $ white, the forewings with a ))rown border and a brown basal 

 jiarl , in the latter wliite. dai'k-pupilled rings. Central .\merica, rare. 

 filiiiii,ii,(. N. ethelinda Heir. (i:U)i). -J <^hestnut-brown, forewings almost without any markings; hindwing 



except Ihe basal third and the apex yellowish-white. $ similar to that of the preceding species, but at the 

 costa of the forewing a broad, at the IxndtM- of the hindwing an interruiited, brown stripe. Central and 

 South Brazil. Rare. 



iiiirli'iis. N. nydeus G. d- S. (141 c). ,^ similar to that of the preceding, but the hindwing, except the brown 



apex, snow-white, and this coloui- also passes over to the forewing before its anal a.ngle. 9 white, through the 

 whole forewing runs a broad, brown, black-marked longitudinal band from the base to the border above the 

 anal angle. Central America. 



