Piihl. IX. //. 10-n. THRACIDES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 9f>3 



the median a g^eyi^^h-hl•n\vn, lilarl.:-liaiiril scalc-stvijje. Pal);>i and cullai- ri'ddish-orange. From Bolivia 

 (La Paz). 



Th. cincia Heir. (]'.tlc) I'esciuhli's )ii(ili(»i (191 h.c), I»iit it is much chirkcr and dullrr lihic at the ('mchi. 

 base, and tlie costal margin of tlic liindwing hcncath is not wliilc at the hasc; the ^ exhil)its long hair l)cio\v 

 the siibmedian. 



Th. braescia Hew. is also vciy inmli like muliun. Imt tlic hascs of the wings aie quite biown. without hnnndd. 

 any blue nor subapical dots. Paia. 



Th. uridon Dynr is above black, on the body and bases of the wings bright metallic blue; forewing uriiloD. 

 with a white, tlistally pointed eellular spot. Beneath dark greyish-brown, the costal n^aigins of both wings 

 basally white, on the forewing an oblique white band, widened below, the gromid-eolour before and behind 

 it darker; a subajjical, bent, dark siiade. Ilindwing with bent dark median and jiost median bands, Ex]ian.se 

 of wings: 49 mm. Mexico (Guerrero). 



Th. hyas .Mab. is above brown, at the thorax and Ijases of the wings metallic blue; the foiewing /(.(/"*■• 

 shows 4 white hyaline spots beside the long scent-stripe: 2 dots in the cell end at the ojiposite edge each, two 

 inedium sized spots behind it, and a subapical dot. Fringes dirty yellow . Under siuface red-brown, at the 

 apex and distal margin of the forewing lilac ; below the apex there is a brow n band extending down to the lower 

 median vein. The hindwing is lilac with 2 red-brown bands, one at the costal margin, the second in tlu' middle; 

 proximal margin and fringes are yellow. Expanse of wings: 43 mm. Cauca \'alli'y, 



Th. cilissa Hen:. (191 c). Aljove black, bofly, basal half of forewing and a.lmost the whole hindwing (Hi.--^:a. 

 metallic bhiish-green ; the forewing exhibits in the 1- 3 white discal sjxits. in the j only 2. Ben.eath light red- 

 brown, the anal part of the forewing very liroad white, the cell green. On the hindwing several gieen spots 

 arranged band-like. Amazon. 



Th. nanea Heir. (191 d as n-nnien) is al»ove similar though much darker, the spots of the forewing mmva. 

 smaller, hindwing without any green. Beneath th.e inner-marginal jjait of the forewing and the whole hindwing 

 are dee]) blackish-brown with a violet reflection, almost without any marking; cell of forewing and the space 

 behind it deep metallic greenish-blue. Palpi below orange. Fiom Maranluvm. 



Th. henricus Stgr. (= mardonius M.schlr.) (191 d) is above without any discal spots, uni-coloured hmrini.s. 

 blackish-brown with a blue body and base of the wings. Beneath brown, the forewing at the anal angle yellow- 

 ish, the hindwing at the distal margin broad bright orange, the fringes ochreous. Panama. 



Th. aroma Heir. (191 d) is above like henricus, but the fringes are grey. Beneath the forewing is Kn.mn. 

 broad whitish at the anal angle. The costal area is greenish-blue in the basal two thirds. Hindwing in the disc 

 with a dark transverse band. C'osta Rica to the Amazon. 



Th. seron G. d- S. (= saron Mub.) (191 d) shows on the dark brown u])per surface 2 oblique post- simn. 

 discal spots, the cellular spot is absent. Beneath liesides with a snbmedian sjxit. Hindwing monotonously 

 brown, at the base green. Fringes ochreous-ycllow. Honduras. 



Th. aurifer G. d' S. (191 d). Al)ove blackish-brown with a, grey stigma. Forewing in the distal tniriin: 

 half steel-blue with a doable cellular spot and 3 large white postdiscal spots, above them 2 small ones and angu- 

 larly to them 3 subapical one-. Under surface red-brown, forewing spotted as above; hindwing with 7 golden 

 spots : one in the cell-end and in a row behind it ; the proximal margin is ferruginous-brow n. the eyes are bordered 

 with red-brown. Costa Rica. 



Th. theodora Ehrm. we only place here on account of a certain resemblance to nurifer; it is described ihrixlum. 

 as a ,,Pamphila". Che-tnut-brown with <> yellowi.sh subapical spots and 2 cellular hyaline spots, the upper 

 being triangular, the lower quadrangular; a submedian, brownish, longitudinal patch, above it a golden yellow- 

 spot. Hindwing with 7 golden, oblong spots from the apex to the proximal margin . Fringes light yellow. Beneath 

 as above, but instead of the subapical spots there is a broad white band tinted red-brown at both its ends; 

 anal angle dirty wdiite. Hindwing subcostally white, in the cell a black spot, instead of the golden spots a broad 

 white band; anal part reddish-white. Expanse of wings: 48 mm. Venezuela (8uapure). 



Th. polles G. d- S. (191 e). Brown; on the median of the forewing a narrow cellular spot. 3 larger ;«>//<>.«. 

 ones obliquely behind it; 3 subapical, small, yellow hyaline spots. Under surface lighter, anal angle yellowi.sh; 

 hindwing grey with 3 indistinct, whitish discal spots. Nicaragua to Brazil. 



Th. placens Btlr. (^ laurens Mnb.) (191 e). Above dark brown with a cellular spot and 4 behind iilacrn.i. 

 it, the iippermo-^t being very small; 2 subapical small sjiots. Base of wings and the hindwing almost entirely 

 ferruginous-brown. Beneath purple-brown. ba>es of the co.stal margin and of the hindwing broad yellowish 

 white, the anal angle ferruginous-bi'(n\ii. Panama to Colombia. 



Th. salius Cr. (= antoninus Lnlr.) (191 e.f) is distingiii-^hi'd by the light violet basal area of the suliu.-i. 

 hindwing, which is concavely defined towards the broad, brown marginal area, in the latter there are 2 or 3 

 small light spots. From Mexico through the whole of .South America to Argentina and Trinidad. — In f. 



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