PLACILLA; CYMAENES. By Dr. M. Dbaudt. 983 



D. rubrinota Drc. (180 f). Above blackisli-brown, between the veins lighter. Beneath greyish-brown, miiruwla. 

 on the forcwing witli a yellowish, black-veined postdiscal area. Hindwing greyish-brown, with black veins 

 and internerval streaks with a brick-red costal margin and inner-marginal stripe and a brick-red longitudinal 

 diffuse patch along the lower margin of the cell. Eyes red. The $ is also above postdiscally lighter yellowish- 

 white. Peru, Bolivia. — In Colombian specimens: f. acraea Plotz (189 e) there is only the red stripe below the acraea. 

 cell, those at the co.stal and proximal margins being absent. 



D. pruinosa Plofz (189 e). Above monotonously blackish-brown with a grey stigma. Beneath the iiruinosn. 

 forewing, towards the apex at the distal margin, is dusted with violettish-bluish lilie the whole hindwing except 

 the costal part; some small, postdiscal, brownish diffuse spots. Brazil (Chapada). 



168. Genus: Flaeilla G. & S. 



Antennae of two thirds of the length of the costal margin with a slender club and an almost semicircularly 

 bent apex; terminal joint of the palp long and pointed. Forewing long with a concave costal margin. The (J 

 exhibits a scent-spot from the base of the median to the rise of the lower branch, a stripe below it and a third 

 longer one on the submedian; the hindwing shows long hair in the anal fold. 



F. aecas Cr. (189 d) is easily recognizable by the steel-blue, white-veined hindwing beneath with an-nx. 

 a submarginal row of whitish dots; also the costal margin and apex of the forewing is steel-blue; the proximal 

 margin of the hindwing is broad brownish -grey. Panama to Brazil; Trinidad. 



F. coatepeca Schs. Head reddish-brown, collar and thorax violettish-brown. Wmgs dark brown, idiiti'pt'm. 

 forewing with a small, white-hyaline longitudinal spot in the cell, a large spot below it, 2 smaller ones farther 

 distally and 2 subapical, small, quadi'angular spots. Beneath dark brownish-red, on the forewing the cell and 

 proximal margin blackish, with the spots as above. Hindwing with a blackish-brown inner-mai-ginal part. 

 Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Mexico (Coatepec). 



F. ergola Schs. Above brown, the basal third of the costal margin of the forewing as well as the anterior mjula. 

 body more red-brown; a large spot between the median veins, and a smaller one above it and farther distally 

 are yellowish-hyaline. Beneath the forewing is black, the costal margin, apex and distal margin are red-brown. 

 Hindwing reddish-brown, at the costal margin darker, with a broad, dark postdiscal shade and a light violet 

 cell. Expanse of wings: 37 mm. Novo Friburgo. 



169. Genus: t'^maenes ScMr. 



Antennae long and slender; terminal joint of the palp long and erect. Body slender, middle tibiae 

 bare, in the (J a scent-organ. 



C. malitiosa H.-Schdff. (= lycaenoides Plotz) (189 e) is above of a plain blackish-brown, beneath maJiliosa. 

 lighter, the forewing at the costal margin and apex watered red-brown like the whole hindwing which exhibits 

 a broad, irregular dark transverse band being interrupted in the middle and broadest at the costal margin. 

 Mexico to Costa Rica and Cuba and Trinidad. Very closely allied to silius (189f) from which, however, it is 

 easily separated by the hindwing beneath. 



C. lutulenta H.-Schdff. (189 e) is above like the preceding. Beneath lighter, the hindwing whitish hdutenta. 

 and watered with brownish-red, at the costal margin broadly red-brown, in the middle of the lower mai-gin 

 interrupted by a light streak of the ground-colour. Panama to Colombia and Venezuela. 



C. silius Latr. (antistia Plotz) (189 f). Blackish-brown with a reddish-yellow oblique band from the .siV/k.s. 

 proximal margin before the base to the apex of the forewing, where it ends narrowed. Costal margin strewn 

 with ochreous. Beneath the costal margin is broader reddish-yellow, otherwise the same; the hindwing is 

 dark ochreous-yellow, strewn with blackish-brown. Mexico to Brazil. Allied to lunata, but the reddish-yellow 

 band is narrower, the hindwing beneath lighter. 



C. lunata Plotz (= berus Mob., insidiosa Mab.) (189 f) is very similar, but the reddish-yellow is much hnnttd. 

 more extensive than in silius, so that only a cellular longitudinal stripe and the dentate margin remain dark. 

 Beneath red-brown, towards the proximal margin light ochreous or grey. Hindwing ferruginous-brown, in 

 the disc and at the distal margin dusted with lilac-grey. The species is very variable; specimens from Costa 

 Rica are on the forewing beneath analwards ochreous-yellow, on the hindwing beneath with a more or less 

 distinct, narrow, dark band proceeding from the costal margin near the apex. Costa Rica to Brazil. — f. silene silmc. 

 Plotz is above darker, the reddish-yellow i-educed and more red-brown, beneath also darker, on the forewing 

 without the submedian lighter part. 



C. syraces G. <& S. (189f). Forewing above reddish-yellow with a large, triangular basal spot and .lyrares. 

 quadrangular subapical spot of a blackish-brown coloiu- and a broad, similarly coloured margin. Hindwing 

 below the broad black costal margin in the disc .strewn with ferruginous yellow. Beneath the forewing is the 

 same, the hindwing grey or ochreous-yellow, strewn darker, with a dark brown triangular costal-marginal 

 spot and a smaller one below the cell-end; distal margin broadly darkened. Mexico to Guatemala. 



C. pericles Mschlr. (189 g) is above similar, but more extensively yellowish-brown, especially on the pencles. 

 hindwing. Beneath quite different, the hindwing being monotonously j'ellowish-brown with a narrow black 

 margiiial line. Forewing coloured and marked as above. Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad. 



