862 CHRYSOPLECTRUM; ACOLASTUS; TELEGONUS. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 



South America and in some districts rather common. Tiie butterfly has a very swift flight. — The larva is 



honey-coloured, strewn dark brown, with brown transverse bands and a red lateral stripe and head. It lives 



on tree-like Papilionaceae, also Cas.sia, and changes in to a bluish pupa in a leaf drawn together like a trough 



sananlonio. by means of 2 threads. — In Cuba flies sanantonio Luc. (167 a) with an extinct discal macular band of the 



gundlachii. forewing, only at the costal margin there is a small spot. — In Porto Rico there occurs another form: gund- 



lachii Plotz (166 d), in which the hindwing beneath is unicolorously red-brown and without any whitish-grey 



angasi. dusting. — In ab. angasi Godm., likewise from Porto Rico, the transparent spots on the forewings are absent 



altogether, nor is there any white at all on the hindwings beneath. 



11. Genus: Chrysoplectruiu Wts. 



Some smaller species with a moderately thick antennal club bent like a hook, with a very slender, 

 long terminal half. Forewing very broad owing to the short proximal margin and long distal margin; ,^ with 

 a costal fold; cell of hardly 73 of the length of the costal margin. Hindwing at the base of the costal margin 

 very concave, rather long, distal margin in the ^ straight, in the $ convex. At the anal angle a dentiform 

 lobe. The posterior tibiae show a cover of long fringes and 2 pair of spurs ; the posterior tarsi are beneath provided 

 with 2 dense rows of lustrous golden pricks. 



otriades. C. otriades Hew. (= euphronius Mob.) (167 a) is above unicolorously blackish-brown with white 



fringes, beneath with a lighter inner-marginal area of the forewing and a greenish basal part, and on the hindwing 

 with an antemarginal band consisting of small, light lunae and showing near the proximal angle 2 more purely 



hahkuKi. white, small spots. From Brazil, Amazon District. — From Bahia the form bahiana Plotz (167 a) is described 

 with also above greenish bases of the wings and body, the fringes not being purely white, but yellowish; the 

 under surface is lighter brownish, the inner-marginal area of the forewing still lighter, the antemarginal line 

 almost without any white. 



pvnikio- C. perniciosum H.-Schdff. (= epicincia Btlr.) (167 a) differs from otriades by 3 large white discal 



«"'"■ hyaline spots of the forewings. Beneath on the hindwing the antemarginal band is only indicated, the green 

 eudicus. very much confined. Colombia, Brazil. — eudicus Mob. shows light yellow instead of whitish spots of the fore- 

 wings, the spot below vein 2 being absent, metallic green hair cover the whole prothorax and the bases of the 

 wings; from Santa Catharina, the type in the Coll. Staudinger in the Berlin Mu.seum. 

 Justus. C. Justus Plotz (168 e), according to the figure, is very much like the preceding, the hyaline band 



is only somewhat steeper and has near the proximal angle another small square spot. Godman places the species 

 to Thymele beside pervivax. Patria unknown. 



12. Genus: Acolastus Scudd. 



Anatomically very closely allied to the preceding genus, but the c? is without the costal fold. The cell 

 is somewhat longer than % of the costal margin. Posterior tibiae fringy, with 2 pair of spurs, the tarsi without 

 any pricks. Huebxer calls the genus Polygonus. Only 1 species: 

 aiiiyufas. A. amytltas F. (= lividus Hbn., savignyi Latr.) (146 g) is a well-known species, above blackish- 



brown with a light violet lustre, 3 large discal spots and 3 very small apical spots. Beneath the hindwings are 

 lilac-grey with 2 blackish macular bands. Common and very widely distributed from Mexico across South 

 America. 



13. Genus: Telegoiiiis Hbn. 



Large, strong animals. Antennal club but little and quite gradually thickened, bent almost rectangularly ; 

 the 3rd palpal joint is very short. The forewings are broad, the apex of the wing extended, whereby the distal 

 margin is much longer than the proximal margin. The cell is longer than 73 of the costal margin, the ^ without 

 a costal fold, whereby the species are separated from the following genus. The lower median vein rises 3 times 

 as far from the cell-end as from the base, the upper one more than twice as far from the base as from the 

 cell-end. The hindwings are lobate at the anal angle, the distal margin is roundish, the middle radial is absent. 

 The posterior tibiae are fringy, with 2 pair of spurs. Numerous, often very similar species from Central to 

 South America. 

 anaptius. T. anaphus CV. (167 a) is above brown, on the body and bases of wings with a faint green reflection, 



the anal part of the hindwing yellow, beneath more extensively so and with 2 darker macular bands. From 

 inKi}iliides. Mexico far across South America. — In anaphides Mab. d- Boull. the hindwing shows the yellow marginal band 

 reduced to a bright yellow, more prolonged than broad spot between vcii\ 1 b and 2, and the brown of the 

 ground of the wings does not extend pointedly to the anal angle. Beneath the bands are very distinct, 

 and the marginal band is pale yellow, strewn with small dark scales. Brazil. 



