994 THRACIDES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 



iiKililuohis. matthiolus H.-Srhaff. (193 a) showing a more intensely green reflection the marginal area of the hindwing 

 as well as the l)asal area are darkened blaekish-grey, both scarcely contrasting with each other. Colombia. 

 l„}„jin>.i/ris. Th. longirostris Sepp (= telegonus Hbn.) (191 f) resembles saints; the cellular spot is much larger, 



('-shaped, tlic spot of the hindwing just as variable as in salius and it may disappear altogether. Very common 

 from Mexico to Brazil and in Trinidad. 

 oriisra. Th. orusca Schs. is above dark brown with a small semi-hyaline cellular spot, a quadrangular sub- 



median spot, a large, oblicjue one between the median veins and 3 smaller .spots above it; 3 subcostal punctiform 

 spots; on the hindwing a subapical row of 3 yellowish-white spots. Beneath the forewing is brown, at the proxi- 

 mal margin grey, in the basal half of the costal margin Isabel-coloured; before the small subapical spots there 

 is a reddish-brown spot, the apex is parted by a lilac striijc. The hindwing is at the base and proximal margin 

 broad lilac, the basal part bordered by a light, inwardly curved line; costal margin apically olive-brown; 

 before the ]3ro.\inial margin as far as the anal angle is a light brown area. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Petropolis. 

 hcrmrsUi. Th. herinesia Hew. (191 e) is undoubtedly a distinct species, in which the anal angle of the hindwing 



is more extended in a flap-like fashion. On the hindwing beneath the light yellowish-brown basal part very 

 gradually, without a distinct delimitation, passes over into the violettish-brown marginal pait in which there 

 are 1 or 2 small light spots. Ecuador, Colombia. 



flsflicn. Th. fischeri Heu\ (191 f) is likewise a good .species. Above little different from the preceding : the hairing of 



the body and of the bases of the wings is olive-brown ; fringes of hindwing whitish. Beneath the costal margin and 

 apical half of the forewing, as well as the hindwing with the exception of the anal angle, are of a peculiarly dull 

 bluish-green with fine dark veins and thereby not to be mistaken for any other species. Colombia, Rio de Janeiro. 

 cltioni'ira. Th. chiomara Heir. (191 f) resembles .salius (191 e, f), but it differs by the apex and costal margin 



of the forewing and hindwing beneath being reddish-brown except the anal angle. Panama to the Amazon. 



luiiimia. Th. nanneta Plofz (191 e) is above brownish-black with 2 white cellular spots, 2 larger C|uadran- 



gular spots below and behind them, and 3 small subapical spots. Tiie hindwing also exhibits 2 white .spots behind 

 the lower cell-end. Beneath the same, but at the costal margin and apex of the forewing and in the marginal 

 area of the hindwing reddish-brown. Rio de Janeiro. 



le.'iuciii-}. Th. lesueuri Latr. (= caesena Plotz) (191 f) differs above by a submedian .spot of the forewing 



and only one postdiscal dot of the hindwing which, however, shows another one in the cell. Beneath on 

 the hindwing the apical half of the distal margin is lighter violettish-brown. Brazil. 

 hairoriliki- Th. hawoHhiana Swsn. (190 h). Above almost like 0. cynisca (190 f), but on the body and bases of 



""• the wings deep metallic green and of a different shape of the wings. Beneath lighter, more violettish-brown; 

 hindwing darker with 2 green transverse stripes converging somewhat towards the anal angle. From Brazil, 

 apparently very rare. 

 cih-irlii. Th. ethoda Hew. (190 h) is a very conspicuous insect; basal halves of the wings and fringes orange- 



brown, discal spots very large, yellow, also the hindwing with 3 postdiscal spots and one cellular spot. Beneath 

 on the apically orange-brown hindwing there is a very broad, silvery white longitudinal band. Rio de Janeiro. 

 hUcrtd. Th. biserta Schs. Aljove dark brown with a long, light grey scent-stripe on the submedian. In the cell 



of the forewing there is a double, long, hyaline white spot parted by a dark longitudinal line ; below it a large 

 one, a small, distally concave one above it, and 3 small subapical ones below the costal margin. Hindwing 

 light ochreous-brown, costal margin broad violettish-brown; at the cell-end a small light spot, 3 postdiscal 

 ones behind it. Beneath dark brown, forewing spotted as above; on the hindwing the spots are more distinct, 

 in the disc strewia with violet. Expanse of wings: 37 mm. Trinidad. 

 sliipcnrVi. Th. stupenda sp. nov. (190h). Above blackish-brown, hairing of the body and the base of the hind- 



wing in a certain exposure to light with a green reflection. Beneath the bases of both wings are dark brown, 

 on the forewing in the shape of a streak prolonged along the median and transverse vein ; apical part somewhat 

 lighter reddish-brown, between canary-coloured; on the hindwing 2 basal thirds are dark brown, the distal 

 third being yellow; between the two colours in the disc of the wing 4 silvery white spots on the yellow ground; 

 the middle of the distal margin is narrowly brownish. 1 J from the Rio Aguaca (Colombian Western Cordilleras), 

 taken at an altitude of 2000 m; in the Coll. Fassl. 

 /"'"""■ Th. lotana Btlr. (193 a) is above purple-brown, towards the ba.se blacker and haired greenish as 



on the body. Forewing with a white cellular spot, 3 postdiscal ones and 3 subapical ones, hindwing with 2 

 pale yellowish spots and yellow fringes. Beneath the distal margin of the forewing is lighter. The hindwing 

 is yellow, at the base, costal-margin and a subapical costal-marginal spot black like the proximal and distal 

 bordering of the hyaline spots; an antcmarginal, blackish band. Amazon (Tocantins). 



Th. xanthura G. db S. (190 h). resembles Rhinthon anthracina (185 h), but it has no scent-stripe, a 

 longer antennal club and yellow anal-angular border of the hindwing; the yellow as of a very variable extent, 

 changing from a narrow yellow marginal line to a large yellow anal spot. Under surface reddish-brown, the 

 discal area of the forewing as far as the proximal margin blackish-brown, behind the cell tinted purple, the 

 distal margin analwards narrowly yellow. The hindwing is in the middle of the cell broadly purple, at the distal 

 margin and anal angle broadly yellow, the submedian fold striped blackish-brown; fringes of hindwings yellow. 

 Honduras, Panama, Colombia. 



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