722 THEOPE. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



blackish-brown hindwings: in front of the apex of the forewing a yellow band, before the border white dots. 

 The $ will presumably vary just as much as the (J; sometimes the forewings are carmine instead of yellow. Rare. 



flammula. A. flamiTiula Bat. (143 b). (J blackish-brown, before the apex a white oblique band and at the inner 



margin as well as on the hindwing hemochrome colouring. The rare butterfly of which not many specimens 

 are known, presumably varies just as much as the jireceding sjiecies. I figure a ,^ from Surinam; Amazon-(^cJ 

 have more red in the forewing, the hindwings are not so very lobate, and on the under surface of the hindwing 

 (where our specimen has only a moderately broad light ray) the whole disc is white. Guiana, Amazon. The 

 $ resembles about a MethoneUa-^ (1-2 i). 



cniodaia. A, crucntata BtJr. (142 h). (^ glaringly light-red with a narrow black border ; under surface yolk-coloured, 



the mai-gin more greyish-black, but somewhat broader than above. It varies at every habitat; the dark border 

 may grow considerably broader and enclose white pupils also in the ^, so that the exterior approximates more 

 the following form. The $ has a broadly dark distal part of the forewing and in it a white, band-shaped spot. 



hcliodora. — heliodora Stgr. ($ = crucntata Stg>\, helice Godm.) is a form not before me in nature, but certainly allied 

 to the preceding. Here the white subapical spot is band-shaped and stands in the broadly black apical part; 

 in the $ it is confluent with the basal red. The species has the attire of certain Mesene, of Lemonias hiceres 

 and so an; but certainly only secondarily, since both imitate certain night-butterflies (Arctiidae a-nd Geometridae) 

 which are very often met with in the trojjical parts of South America. 



ierlas. A. tcfias Godm. (142 h). This butterfly, which is not very rare in summer in Paraguay (e. g. Sapucay), 



is, in spite of its deviating colouring, a genuine Aricoris, as is seen by the antennae being not thickened at the 

 ends, but only somewhat bent, and by the long palpi being lowered in the $, as well as the whole structure. 

 Dull yellowish-white with a black border, similar to one of the Terias frequently flying there. Beneath, the 

 forewings are yellow, the hindwings brown with white rays. 



lulana. A. lutana Godt. (= tisiphone Dhl. and \Vw.. bahiana Fldr.) (141 g) exhibits a somewhat deviating 



structure and, above all, not sexual dimorphism being otherwise characteristic of the Aricoris and appearing 

 also in terias only faintly developed. These species are, therefore, better placed into another group from the 

 monotona. other species, tutana is on both surfaces unicolorously dark brown ; in the form of Casa Branca in Brazil ( = mono- 

 tona Stick., 141 g) almost without markings, in typical tutana. as they occur near Bahia and as I captured them 

 myself in the gardens of the town, with a, slightly marked under surface. Single, but not rare. 



cleomedes. A. cleoniedes Hew. certainly does not belong here; it resembles Lepricornis bicolor (136 b) and is perhaps 



aurujera. better placed near that genus. — Nor can aurigera Weeks, which is likewise not before me, be an Aricoris, if it 



has the structure of the palpi deviating from this genus, stated by Stichel (Berl. Ent. Ztschr. 55, p. 71). The 



hippocrafc. same is the case with hippocrate Godm. which almost looks like a small, somewhat narrowly and light-banded 

 lagus-Q (which, by the way, has incorrect antennae in our figure 141 k), but which may also represent a some- 

 what aberrative $ of the greatly varying A. jansoni. 



98. Genus: Theope DM. 



The forms of this genus, of which more than 50 were described, may be reduced to cpiite a moderate 

 number of species. Nearly 70 percent of them occur in the Amazon Valley. Some forms that are very much 

 alike each other and come from the same district, make the impression as if they were only so-called deviations 

 of the flying-place, so that they may be valued only as subraces. If we were to describe as new forms all those 

 specimens that are not in every detail adaptable to the diagnoses mostly set up by Bates, their number would 

 increase considerably. Whereas the Theope resemble in their exterior somewhat the Lycaenidae which, however, 

 is more due to their colour than to their structure, they are still to be considered genuine Erycinidae by their 

 neuration, the palpi and antennae, the eyes, though not circular, are never bean-shaped, and have the well- 

 developed forefeet of the $5 etc.; besides the only larva having become known hitherto (of Theope eudocia) 

 most conspicuously exhibits the neck-organ so characteristic of Erytinidae. The Theope mostly are very rare; 

 in contrast with most of the other Erycinidae, they frequently sit on the upper surface of the leaves with raised 

 wings and are mostly found only at quite circumscribed localities; a great number of forms has never been 

 discovered again except by their authors. 



pieridoidp.9. Th. pieridoides Fldr. (143 f). White, above with a blackish apex of the forewing. In the $ the wings 



are not so pointed and the apical black is narrower. The butterfly is very rare in Bahia, from where it is descri- 

 bed and from where also the figured specimen (a (J) originates. As the most common butterflies in Bahia are 

 entirely white Hesperiidae (Leucochitonea), it is probably also very difficult to recognize. 



ex(docia. Th. eudocia Wtv. (143 f). Above orange-red with a broad black costal and apical part of the male 



forewings. In front of their apex a large diffuse spot of a violettish-grey lustre. Under surface brass-coloured, 

 without the dark margin. — • Colombian specimens exhibit less black and no diffuse spot in the dark apical 

 part; we figure them from East Colombia (from the Coll. Fassl). Sticiiel denominates them acosma (143 f) 



