FALGA. By Dr. M. Draxtdt. 987 



A. aepitus Hhn. (190 a). Above black with 2 small postdiscal and 1 minute subapical white spot. acpUiif!. 

 Beneath the forewing at the apex and the hindwing are violettish-grey, in the disc lighter, more bluish-white, 

 with a thick black spot at the cell-end and behind it a curved band of faintly ochreous-yellowish spots, on 

 both sides bordered with black. Brazil. 



A. aquilina Plotz (= tertius Strd.) (190 a) is similar, somewhat smaller, above not different. Beneath nquUina. 

 the apex of the forewing is lilac with a row of black dots; the hindwing is lilac-grey with a postmedian dentate 

 band of bluish-violet, on both sides bordered ■with black; between it and the margin there is another black 

 dentate line; the space between both and behind the cell contains dispersed ochreous-yellow scales. Brazil 

 (Santos, Minas Geraes). 



A. anna Mab. is cpiestionable as to its position. Blackish-brown, forewing with 3 small sid^apical uuiki. 

 dots, below them 4 small yellowish clouds. Hindwing with a yellowish discal reflection, fringes yellowish- 

 brown. Forewing beneath light greyish-red, at the apex and costal margin blackish; spots more distinct than 

 above, in the submedian area 2 white diffuse patches. Hindwing light reddish-grey, in the cell with a roundish, 

 lilac brightening and a brown streak in it, and in a semicircle behind it 5 lilac spots on both sides bordered 

 with black. Bolivia. 



A. Ursula sp. not'. (190 a) somewhat resembles anna. Above plainly blackish-brown with traces ursuJa. 

 of lighter postdiscal and subapical diffuse spots. Beneath dull blackish-brown, apex of forewing and proximal 

 angle lighter grey', the former with a roimdish spot of the ground-colour in it, the 2 2>ostniedian spots more 

 distinct than above. Hindwing in the disc with large black spots, only separated by the light veins and the 

 transverse vein: behind these spots, parallel to the distal margin, 5 oblong, bluish-violet spots, also distally 

 bordered with black. From the Upper Madre de Dios (South Peru) from the Coll. Fassl. 



A. acroleuca Pldfz (189 k) is above black with a whitish apex of the forewing before the black fringes, armhuai. 

 Beneath lighter brown with whitish postdiscal and subapical macular bands; that on the hindwing is distally 

 pupilled with black; both wings exhibit fine black undulate lines before the distal margin; the hindwing besides 

 a small white, black-pupilled cellular clot. Brazil. 



A. farinosa sp. nov. (190 a) is larger, above with a minute subajjical dot, 2 white postdiscal spots /arinom. 

 and a yellowish submedian patch. Beneath similar as aepitus, hindwing densely strewn with white, with a 

 very large, jet-black cellular spot sin-rounded by bluish-white; behind the cell there are oblong bluish-white 

 wedge-shaped spots, parted by the brownish veins and proximally and distally narrowly bordered by brown, 

 distally touching the broad dark brown distal margin. According to several specimens from Colombia (Rio 

 Aguaca and Rio Negro), taken by Fassl. 



A. melitaea sp. nov. (190 a) is above inii-coloured brown, ends of fringes somewhat more whitish, uiclifdia.. 

 on the forewing with 3 small, lighter, subapical diffuse spots which may also be absent. On the but slightly 

 duller under surface they are distinctly prominent as 3 to 5 small, oblong, whitish spots, behind them close 

 before the apex a small white spot. Hindwing in the disc white, basally somewhat, towards the margin more 

 broadly and intensely smoked brownish, with 3 or 4 dark brown, somewhat dentate lines marked like Melitaea, 

 partly their interspace is strewn with brownish; before the margin parallel to it some more, small, whitish, 

 diffuse spots. Fringes on the veins somewhat speckled. Rio Aguaca Valley (Colombia); Fassl. 



A. pavo sp. nov. (190 a). Above blackish-brown, forewing with 2 white postdiscal spots, an indis- jwro. 

 tinctly lighter submedian diffuse spot and 2 minute, scarcely visible sid)apical dots. Beneath somewhat duller 

 brown, on the forewing marked the same, before the distal margin a somewhat cmved, rather indistinct band 

 of darker nebulous spots. Hindwing in the disc white, towards the proximal margin bluish, at the base inclusive 

 of the costal margin and at the distal margin brownish, the median and radial veins behind the cell ferruginous, 

 between them are 3 long, jet-black, wedge-shaped spots exhibiting round, bluish-white pupils near the distal 

 end. In the $ these spots are confined to 2 small, roundish, black, not pupilled spots, the discal area is more 

 yellowish. A couple taken by Fassl on the Songo (Bolivia). 



179. Genus: Falga Mah. 



Antennae and palpi as in the preceding. Wings particularly long and narrow, costal margin of forewing 

 at the base convex, hindwing at the anal angle somewhat lobate. Body long and slender. Tlie cj shows a tri- 

 partite scent-organ: a stripe in the middle of the median, another one below the lower median branch, and 

 a third before the middle of the submedian. 



F. jeconia Btlr. (190 a) is above blacki.sh-brown with a yellow longitudinal stripe below the cell jcmnia. 

 of the forewing and a yellow spot almost covering the whole hindwing. Beneath the apex of the forewing and 

 the whole hindwing are uni-eoloin-ed yellow. Venezuela. — f. abalus Mab. (190 b) has ahnost entirely black ahalua. 

 forewings, the hindwing beneath towards the proximal margin strewn with brown: found in Colombia. 



F. sciras G. d- S. (190 b) is above almost quite redcbsh-yellow . only at the apex and distal margin .srim.s. 

 of the forewing broadly blackish-brown, lilce the basal and costal veins ; hindw ing broadly bordered with blackish- 



