820 BREPHIDIUM; LEPTOTES. By Dr. M. Dbaudt. 



ammon. H. aiTimon Luc. (144 k) is likewise similar, but easily discernible by two black anal spots above, 



the proximal one of which mostly exhibits towards the base an orange-red spot. Beneath more purely white 

 and black-grey, the hindwings all white with grey spots, the two anal spots jet-black, bordered with a bright 

 silvery blue, and those between the median veins proximally spotted broadly orange-red. Florida, Cuba, South 

 dovnnica. America. — f. domitiica Moschl. seems to be only an insignificant form in which, on the under surface of 

 the hindwing, the 3 small spots in the basal area are not prominently jet-black. Dominica. 



13. Genus: Hrepliidiiini Scudd. 



The costal vein is entirely coalescent with the upjicrniost subcostal. Very small, delicate insects with 

 comparatively narrow wings with rounded apices. Beneath the hindwings exhibit up to 7 metallic-pupilled 

 marginal eye-spots, of which mostly only 4 are fully developed. 



isophthal- B. isophthalma H.-Schaff. (= pseudofea Morris.) (144 k). Above brown with a brass or copper 



ma. reflection, on the hindwing with a mai'ginal row of blackish spots being pupilled thickly black and outside silvery 

 on the red-brown under surface. Fringes one-coloured grey-brown. Gulf States, Antilles. 



exUit. B. exilis Bsd. (= fea Ediv.) (144 k) is the same, but smaller, above mostly with a more intense 



brass lustre, and broad white fringes at the proximal angle and in the apical half of the forewing; on the under 

 surface, before the black, marginal, macular series, the ground is more distinctly white. From the Gulf States 

 through Mexico and Central America as far as Venezuela. 



14. Genus: Xieptotes Scudd. 



Very near to Heniiargus, but still more delicately built; the costal and ujipermost subcostal veins run 

 rather closely beside each other without coalescing. The hinchvings beneath exhibit at the anal angle 2 small 

 black eye-spots with metallic blue pupils. 



cassius. L. cassius Cr. (144 k, 1). An extremely common species widely distributed in the south; the (J above 



violet with diaphanous spots beneath, the hindwings are white, and at the costal margin and border lilac variable 

 in extent. Beneath white with numerous brown macular bands, 2 before the border close together, the distal 

 one consisting of punctiform spots, the proximal one of crescents, the 2 spots being placed the nearest to the 

 anal angle jet-black, bordered with silvery blue. The $ is white also above, towards the base of a silvery blue 

 opalescence with black-brown spots, costal and distal margins. From Mexico through the whole of Central 

 An:crica as far as Colombia, South Brazil, also in Cuba, Jamaica, Hayti, and Dominica; flies up to 5000 ft. 



iheoims. L. theonus Luc. (= cassius Morr. nee Cr.) (144 1) is probably only a smaller northern and insular 



form of cassius. The (J is lavender-blue with somewhat broader dark margins, the $ white, on the forewings 

 somewhat mere extensively suffused with blue, ^^■ithout the intense black spotting of cassius. Beneath the 

 white is more reduced, the macular bands much darker; the anal spots of the hindwings are above and beneath 

 very thickly black. 



marina. L. marina Reak. (= cassioides Bsd., puithous Godt., floridensis Morr.) (144 1) is above of a duller 



and darker lilac-blue colour than the preceding, with a black border narrowing to a line and very diaphanous 

 marking beneath; the $ is intensely smoky brown-grey on the white ground, towards the base with a blue lu.stre, 

 somewhat more strongly spotted than the ^. The under surface is much darker by the white being very much 

 confined as far as the proximal margin; the anal spots are distinctly encircled by a rusty yellow. Distributed 

 cassidula. from Texas, Ar-izona, California through Mexico as far as Guatemala. ■ — The slightly differing f. cassidula Bsd. 

 has purely white fringes, and in the anal area of the hindwing beneath the eye-spots are not alike, the proximal 

 one very sm.all or entirely absent. Described from Honduras. 



striata. L. striata Edw. was described from San Antonio in an American forestry magazine of 1877 not a- 



vailable to me. 



andimla. L. atldicola G. d- S. is almost twice as large as marina, with a sharp apex of the wings, above 



violet-blue with dirty silky-white fringes, beneath grey-brown with small, darker spots edged with Avhite; before 

 the margin of the hindwing with a white band and 3 reddish-yellow, small anal spots with black pupils and 

 strewn silvery. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Discovered by Edw. Whsmper in the Andes between 7500 and 



• . 12 000 feet. 



caUanga. L. callanga Di/ar (144 1) is somewhat larger than marina, above reddish violet-blue with a silky 



gloss and a very fine brownish border. The fringes of the forewing are grey-white, at the ends of the veins 

 speckled somewhat darker, those of the hindwings pm-ely white. On the under surface the fore-wings are 

 light red-brownish with somewhat darker .spots encircled by a whitish colour; before the discal spot there is 

 another spot in the middle of the cell; the spot of the postdiscal row situate between the lower radial veins 

 has a very oblicjue position and projects far towards the margin, which in its whitish ground contains marginal 

 and subterminal rows of purely grey spots. Hindwings more grey-brownish, likewise only dull-spotted, with 

 a purely white band between the postdiiBcal and subterminal rows of spots, at the anal angle 2 very small black 

 dots encircled by silvery green. Peru (Cuzco). In my opinion the species may be identical with the following. 



