ysu CYDRUS: AIDES: PARAIDES. By Dr. M. Draldt. 



hr,i,;:c„ia. P. Iieniizona Dyar. Black with a blue reflection, wings very long, forewing produced at the anal angle, 



liere with white fringe^i; in the cell a quadrangular white «pot, a wedge-shaped one below it; behind the cell 

 5 in a curved row. The hindwing exhibits a white band with rounded, yellowish ends behind the cell. Beneath 

 the same. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Mexico. 



113. Genus: Cyclriis G. d; S. 



AnteniTal club shorter than in Prenes with a longer hook-shaped apex. Apex of forewing prolonged, 

 costal maro-in convex, distal margin concave. The ,^ shows a broad scent-scale stripe from the rise of the upper 

 median vein to the submedian. 

 nrtcvohix. C. naevolus G. db S. (18ia). Blackish-brown, the stigma dark with large, white hyaline spots arranged 



as in P. cornelms but being much larger, especially the cellular spot which is parted by the fold. Hindwing 

 with a yellowish, indistinct cellular spot and 4 or 5 behind it in a curved row. Beneath as above, the forewing 

 tinted jnirple, the hindwing scantily strewn with yellowish, the spots more distinct: fringes white, on the ends 

 of the veins somewhat speckled. Mexico, Guatemala, Panama to Brazil. 



114. Genus: Aides BiUb. 



Antennal club stout and long. Prolonged apex of wings and veins as in the preceding genus. The -j 

 exhibits an angular stigma in the angle between the rise of the lower median vein and the median, below it 

 a longitudinal stripe and near the proximal margin a third being divided by the submedian. 



epitiix. A. epitus Cr. ( -^ argyrina Stgr. i. 1.) (184 a, b). Blackish-brown, base of wings and body haired greenish, 



stigma grey. Spots yellow hyaline a cellular spot distally hollowed out, 3 spots in an oblic^ue rOAV behind it 

 and 3 subapical ones. Hindwing with a yellowish apical spot. Beneath more reddish, in the basal half darker. 

 costal margin above the cellular spot yellow. Hindwing in the disc with a large, triangular silvery spot and 

 I ()!■ 2 spots towards the distal margin. Panama to Brazil. 



ilijsoii'i. A. dysoni G. d- S. (184b) is very much like the following aestria, but the silvery spots beneath are 



different : a small one is situate in the cell, 3 large ones behind it more towards the proximal margin, the middle 

 spot being the smallest, and before the distal margin there is another transverse, crescentiform spot. Honduras. 



(u.fir'id. A. aestria Hew. (184 b) is blackish-brown with a large, double cellular spot. 3 large laostdiscal ones 



and a very small one above it, as well as 4 subapical ones. On the hindw ing there is behind the cell a double, 

 white spot. Beneath tlie apex of the forewing and the costal half of the forewing are extensively cerise or red- 

 brown : on the hindwing there is a very large silvery spot in the disc and (i irregular, smaller ones behind it. 

 Brazil . 

 elani. A. elara G. <£■ <S'. (184 b) is like epitus, but without subapical spots; the silvery spot of the hindwing 



terminates towards the costal margin into 2 teeth; body and base of the palp are haired yellow, the stigma 

 is smaller, the part below the submedian is absent. Mexico. 

 hiraiittiior. A. iticaiitator Die. is only known in the £. It is allied to aestria and dysoni, but beneath distinguished 



by the other silvery spots. Wings basally densely haired reddish-yellow. Beneath the forewing is coppery- 

 brown, in the proximal part blackish-brown, the proximal margin lighter; in the middle of the dark copper- 

 brown hindwing there is an irregular silvery spot composed of quadrangular confluent spots, with 2 smaller 

 spots, one at the cell-end and a somewhat larger one behind it above the median. Costa Rica. 



115. Genus: Parai^les G. & S. 



Separated from the preceding genus only by a different shape of the scent-.spot: one spot is situate 

 on the lower median vein near its base, another spot below it and a third 07i the submedian; the stigma may 

 also be absent. 



ocriitu.-i. P. ocrinus Plolz (= argja-ina kStgr. i. 1., callidanas Mah.) (184 b,c) looks above almost like Aides 



darU', but the base of the hindwing is haired green; it is very closely allied to the following aegita, but it has 

 a stigma of 3 small parts, whereas aegita has none at all. On the hindwing beneath there is a large silvery spot 

 below the cell and 2 smaller ones behind it. From Panama to Colombia, Guiana, Amazon, Brazil. 

 ari/iid. P. aegita Hew. (184 c). Above blackish-brown, towards the base and on the body haired olive-yellowish, 



with a large white cellular spot and 3 postdiscal ones behind it and below it on the forewing; the hindwing 

 exliibits a round white postcellular spot. Beneath cherry-brown, in the disc of the forewing blackish, at the 

 proximal margin lighter grey. Hindwing with a large trapezoid silvery spot below the cell and two smaller 

 ones behind it. one near the margin. Brazil (Para). 



