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872 HERONIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 



long hairs, only in midias they are shorter. Tibiae as in Rhabdoides. The genus contains about a dozen of beautiful, 

 large, very sexually dimorphous species. 



midas. B. midas Cr. (= rhetus F., astylos Cr., corentinus Plotz) (169 c) is above rusty-yellow with fe 



small black spots. Very characteristic are the hindwings, being black at the costal margin, with a deep ultra- 

 marine reflection. The $ having been described as astylos is quite different, much larger, blackisli-brown with 

 a discal hyaline band and yellow fringes. Known from Guiana, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, and the Amazon. 



raiinisi.i. B. ramusis Cr. (= astrapaeus Hew., damias Plotz) (169 b, c) is darker, more coppery brown, the 



small black spots partly with pupils, \\ithout any blue at the costal margin of the hindwing. Little is known 

 of the ?, the white spots partly with black rings being extremely variable, unless they be cpiite different species. 

 Guiana, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, everywhere rare. 



dc.ro. B. dexo Mab. resembles nicephorus (172 b), being above rusty-brown with a row of small yellowish 



punctiform spots near the border of the forewing. The hindwing shows a small yellow cell-spot and a curved 

 row of 5 similar small spots behind it. Beneath the same, though darker. The $ is much larger with broader 

 wings and the same small spots, but the cell-spot of the hindwing is absent. From the Chiriciui. 



n\cci)horufi. B. niccphorus Heu\ (172 b) greatly resembles dexo, but the fore^^ing is without any marking, and 



on the hindwing there are 2 small .spots in the cell. The ? is not known. Described from Colombia. 



::o}ira. B. zolira Mschlr. is smaller than dexo, but very similar. The wings are much darker towards the 



margin; the forewing shows only one small yellowish dot between the lower radial veins. The under surface 

 is monotonously blackish-brown without any markings. French Guiana. 



phra.ranor. B. phraxanor Hew. (= heras Mab.) (169 d) is above dark brown, towards the margin darker with 



a large, tripartite, yellow hyaline spot in the disc and 2 or 3 rather large apical spots. In the cell of the hindwing 

 there is a large, oblong spot and behind it a curved row of 5 or 6 black dots which are yellowish beneath. The 

 9 is larger, blackish-brown, \\ith 4 light yellow spots forming an oblique median band. Colombia. 



polygiiif!. B. polygius Latr. (172 b, c) is very similar, somewhat smaller and lighter with the same discal spots 



and a small double dot encircled by black below it. The hindwing also exhibits small, yellow hyaline spots 

 .surrounded by black in the cell and a curved row behind them. The $ is larger, darker, the spots are narrower, 

 more like a median band; on the hindwing there are only 2 small spots behind the cell-spot. Brazil. 



er'wpis. B. eriopis Heiv. (= etias Heiv.) is of a darker blacki.sh-brown, beside the discal spots of the preceding 



there is a fifth spot in the cell. The hindwings are marked as in phraxanor. Beneath somewhat lighter. The 

 9 is more yellowish-biown, otherwise very similarly marked. From Tapajoz. 



. erythus. B, erythus Cr. (169 d). This extremely rare species from Peru, known to us only from Cramer's 



bad figure, is not to be confounded with any other by the speckled, somewhat dentate fringes of the hindwings. 

 The $ is similar, but it has broader wings. Perhaps it is better placed to Nascus. 



salaiis. B. salatis Cr. (= muretus F., tychios Plotz) (169 e). The forewings are above unicolorously rusty- 



yellow with a black cell-.spot, a post median row of black streak-spots and a white apical dot; the hindwings 

 are marked the same. The $ presumably belonging here is of a lighter yellow with 2 apical dots and a large 

 apical hyaline spot composed of 4 small ones, the hindwings like in the (^. Colombia. Brazil. 



.lehrus. B. sebrus Fldr. (= pelignus Hew., gonatas Hew., ophiuchus Plotz) (169 d) has broad, rusty-brown 



wings darkened towards the margin. Before the apex a punctiform spot, below it in an oblic[ue line 2 somewhat 

 larger hyaline spots. On the hindwing there is a black cell-spot, behind it in a curved row 5 small black spots, 

 of which that between the median veins is pupilled white. The under surface is more blackish. The $ is larger, 

 somewhat lighter, with the same spots, besides with a spot in the cell and a double spot below the submarginal 

 spots. On the hindwing the cell-spot and 3 or 4 of the postmedian row are pupilled white. Colombia, Peru. 



24. Genus: Meroiiia Mab. & Boull. 



Distinguished by the anal angle of the hindwing being extended into a small, rounded tail, the border 

 of the hindwing being slightly undulate. Tlie second palpal joint is very broad, the 3rd short, ascending obliquely. 

 Only one species: 



lahriari.'i. H. labriaris Btlr. (= seneca Plotz) (172c) is above brown with small hyaline spots: a large square 



one, exhibiting 2 teeth towards the mai-gin, at the cell-end and a similar one below it, 3 in the apex and 4 below 

 it. Hindwing with 2 yellowish postmedian macular bands and a round hyaline spot in the cell near the base. 

 Patria unknown. 



