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CARYSTUS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 



divcmis. C. diversus H.-ScMff. (= maeon Mah.) (188b) is also very similar, but the hindwing lias beneath 



blackish-brown veins. Nicaragua to Brazil. 



fantosos. C. fantasos Cr. (= abebahis Cr., eucherus Plofz) (188 h). Above blackish-brown with 3 postdiscal 



and 2 or 3 snbapical creamy spots, hindwing with a similar discal band. Beneath the forewing has a reddish- 

 brown apex, the hindMing is Isabel-coloured, with red-brown veins, a chestnut-brown spot at the cell-end 

 and a larger one behind and below the lighter discal band; anal angle blackish. Mexico to Brazil. The green 

 larva lives on grasses such as Panicum ramosum. 

 plneizH. C. ploctzii CafT. (188 h) is above black, at the proximal margin of the forewing with olive hair, with 



2 yellowish-white, quadrangular postdiscal spots and 3 «mall snbapical ones. Hindwing in the disc light olive. 

 Beneath on the forewing the costal margin and apex are chestnut-coloured, the spots as above. Hmdwing 

 reddish-yellow, with chestnut-brown veins, at the base except the costal margin, in the apical half of the distal 

 margin and at the proximal margin chestnut-brown, from the base to the anal angle extends a black wedge- 

 shaped spot being here very broad. From Brazil. 



chn-inihi. C. clavicula Pldtz {= furcifer Mah.) (188 i). Brown, the forcAving with S white snbapical dots and 



2 postdiscal spots, below them a third disappearing in a whitish brightening which extends to the thorax. 

 Hindwing with a light reddish-yellow band of 4 oblong spots. Forewing beneath blackish, the apex tinted 

 light yellow, with black veins and black internerval stripes. Hindwing light yellow with black veins which, 

 except the lower median vein, are forked at the margin: at the cell-end a black arcuate stripe. From Brazil. 



hantiua. C. lucfctius Latr. Above brown with 3 postdiscal spots and an ochreous-yellow anteterminal band 



on the hindwing; beneath the hindwing is blackish-brown with a white costal-marginal spot near the base and 

 an oblique, olive-yellow band from the apex to the proximal angle, which below the cell sends forth a white 

 continuation to the proximal margin. Brazil. 

 abaris. C. abatis Mab. is above black, on the forewing with 3 apical hyaline dots and 3 postdiscal spots behind 



and below the cell-end. Tlie hindwing is in the disc dusted with ferruginous brownish. Beneath the forewing 

 is black, in the apical part lilac with 3 black, small sagittiform spots between the hyaline dots. The hindwing 

 is blackish, in the basal part and at the costal margin lilac-white with a black cellular spot and 2 smaller black 

 apical spots behind the cell. Fringes grey. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Porto Cabello. 

 arva. C. arva Hew. must be allied to the preceding; the description, however, of this species has not been 



accessible to us. 

 )iiiroii. C. micon 3Iab. is likewise similar to abaris, but much larger. Deep blackish-brown with 2 longish, 



yellow apical hj'aline dots; in the cell-end are 2 streak-spots above each other, behind them there are 3 more, 

 the lowest being diffuse, reddish-yellow, the uppermost very large, oblong quadrangular; the base of the costal 

 margin is yellow. Tlie hindwing shows 2 small postcellular sjDots. Beneath the forewing is blackish, at the costal 

 margin and apex reddish, the hindM'ing reddish-brown with the 2 dots of the upper surface, besides one in the 

 cell and one more towards the apex. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. Brazil. 



oHana. C. artona Hetr. (188 i). Blackish-broMn with 2 white cellular spots, 3 postdiscal and 3 small subapical 



spots; the hindwing shows 4 white spots in a bent row. Beneath the forewing is lighter, the apex grey; the 

 huidwing is purple-grey with whitish-grey vems, costal part and proximal margin as well as internerval stripes; 

 behind the cell are 5 whitish spots in a bent row. Nicaragua to Brazil. 

 hrhdi-Ks. C. bebarus Ploiz (188 i) is similar, smaller; the forewing is without the cellular spots; the small spots 



of the hindwing are minute and insignificant, of a yellowish tint. Beneath browner, with light yellowish veins 

 and small, yellowish, postdiscal punctiform spots. Colombia. 

 cnri/iKi. C. coryna Hew. (= catargyra Fldr.) (188 i) is easily discernible by the hindwing being silvery beneath 



with 2 red-brown longitudinal stripes. Mexico to Bolivia. 

 miprrhlnifi. C. superbicHs Mnb. is black, the forewing with 2 white hyaline spots: 3 subapical ones, 4 postdiscal 



ones in an obIic[ue row and 2 oblong cellular spots, the base striped yellow. Hindwing with a white, bipartite 

 hyaline stripe through the cell; inner-marginal fold strewn with white. Forewing beneath as above, at the 

 costal margin yellow, proximal margin white; at the margin are yellow spots between the veins. On the hind- 

 wing the median area round the hyaline stripes is blackish,' between the veins striped yellow. Head with 4 

 white dots. Expanse of wings: 52 mm. Sao Paulo. 

 ''"'"• C. dion Pldtz (= diana Pldtz i. 1.) (189 a) is not unlike fantasos above, but the ground-colour is more 



olive-black, not brown, at the costal margin of the forewing and proximal margin of the hindwmg dusted with 

 whitish. Fringes white, blackish on the ends of the veins. Beneath the forewing is the same, but at the distal 

 margin grey in the lower half. Hindwing yellowish-white with a large, oblong cellular spot, above it in the 

 cell clouded grey with a broad, olive grey nebulous band in the middle of the distal margin. Sao Paulo. 

 *■''''"'■ C. seitzi s]). nov. (189 a) is very similar, above browner, the subapical dots almost extmct, on the 



hindwing there is on the contrary a very much broader, coherent postdiscal band extending to the grey, densely 

 white-haired inner-marginal part. Shape of wings longer, anal angle of the hindwing Very nnich extended. 

 Beneath the forewing is as in dion, the hindwing purely white \\ith a brown, feiruginous-haired costal-marginal 



