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Aiiihiihjr //fiininsnts^ Burmeister, Sil^hfi: Xaliiif. Gfi. Halle iii. (Separ.) p. 15. n. 2 (1856) (N. 



Friburgo ; descr. of genus, larva and pupa) ; Grote & Rob., Pri)i\ Enl. Snr. Pliilml. v. p. 159. 



n. CiS (ISIJa) (trop. insul. distr.) ; Grote, ibkl. v. p. 329 (181)7) (Cuba) ; id., Tnnm. Aiiier. Eiit. 



Sw: iii. p. 185 (1870) (Cuba) ; Boisd.. Spec. Gi'ii. Lep. llel. i. p. 18.S. n. 3 (1875); Butl., Tram. 



Zuol. Sm: LoihI. ix. p. 581. n. 15 (1877) (Jamaica): Druce, in liiol. Cenlr. Amer., Lep. Het. i. 



p. Ifi. n. 2 (1881) (Guatemala : Nicaragua ; Chiriqui ; Jamaica) ; id., I.e., Suppl. p. 30',l (1896) 



(Mexico: Guatemala: Costa Rica) ; Burm,, Devr. Rip. Arije.nt. v., Allai:. p. 34. t. 13. f. 5 



(/.). 8 Q'.]. (1879): Kirby, Cal. Lep. Iht. i. p. 670. r. 33 (1892); Pitt. & BioW., Lep. Hel 



Cuxia Mir,, p. 12 (1897). 

 Ainhilic (!) ganiiasciis, Mcnt'trii's, E/iiim. Cirj). Aiiiiii. Pelr., Lep. p. 93. n. 1552 (1857) (Brazil). 

 *Ambiilij.c i-ox/i-alh Boisduval, Cons. Lep. Gui,teiii,ilii p. 68 (1870) (Nicaragua ; N. Granada) ; FeU., 



Heine Xinmir,, Lep. t. 77. f. 6 (1874) (Mus. Tring) ; Boisd., Sjie,-. Gen. Lep. 11,'t. i. p. 184. 



n. 4 (1875) : Butl., Tn,nx. Znol. Sor. Lu,i,l. ix. p. 581. n. 16 (1877) ; Druce, I.e. n. 3 (1881) 



(Nicaragua ; Colombia : Ecuador : Amazon : Brazil) ; Kirby, /.<•. n. 36 (1892) ; Pitt. & Bioll., 



Lep. Het. Cosia Rir„ p. 10 (1897). 

 Aii,biili/.v Ji,iii(s Boisduval, Cons. Lep. Giialemalu p. 68 (1870) (sub syn.). 

 ' Aiiihi(li/.r ,liijiliiie Boisduval, S/ifc. f^;™. Li'/i. Hel. i. p. 184. n. 5 (1875) (Brazil: — coll. Charles 



Olierthlir) ; Kirby, /..•. n. 34 (18;)2). 

 Aiiilinli/.r nrrueuluhi, Butler {iwn Grote, 1867), Trans. Zool. Sue. Lnntl. ix. p. 582. n. 22 (1877) 



(Guatemala) : Druce,/.r. p. 17. n. 4 (1881) (Guatemala) ; Rothsch., Nov. Zooi.. i. p. 542 (1894) 



(Costa Rica). 



c? ? . The species is very variable in the general tint of the fovewiug as well 

 as in the extent of the black bands of the hindwing ; the extreme individnals are 

 connected by all intergradations. The black bands of the hindwing are not rarely 

 widened and joined along the nervures to each other and to the marginal band, 

 the onter half of the wing- in this case appearing black with three rows of red 

 spots. The snlimargiual black baud is someLimes so broad that there is little left 

 of the external row of red spots ; on the other hand, the band is often reduced 

 to small vein-spots. The second black band is occasionally very narrow. End of 

 antenna see PI. LX. f. 6. 



<?. Tenth tergite (PI. XXIII. f. 2. 3) widened at the end and rounded 

 horizontally, appearing pointed in side-view ; sternite sinuate, the angles roundel 

 Harpe (PI. XXXI. f. 5) not much raised above the plane of the clasper, varying 

 somewhat individually, especially the submedian ridge, which is occasionally very 

 indistinct ; distal process flat upon the clasper, not projecting beyond the ventral 

 edge of tlie latter. Penis-sheath (PI. XXX. f. 15) destitute of hooks and teeth; 

 a ronnded, rod-like carina running up to the tip, where it turns internad, being 

 continued on the inner side of the sheath. Friction-patch see PI. LVIII. f. 29. 



? . Eighth tergite rather broadly sinuate. Vaginal plate longitudinally concave 

 behind orifice, very slightly cliitinised, latcro-distal edges more strongly chitinised ; 

 a fold hi front of the orifice. 



Larva yellowish jiale green, a yellow dorso-latcral lii.e, white X-shaped dorsal 

 markings, except on segments 1 to 3 ; seven white oblique side-bands with a red 

 frontal border, segments 4 to 1 1 with a longitudinal yellow ventro-lateral stripe.— 

 Food-plant : not known ; probably Oreodapkne. 



Hab. Southern Brazil to Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica. Apparently rare in the 

 Andes of Ecuador, Pern, and Bolivia. 



In the Tring Museum 120-odd specimens from: Mexico to Peru ; Venezuela 

 to Rio de Janeiro. 



144. Amplypterus ypsilon spec. nov. 



cJ ? . Body beneath rather redder and at sides of sterna more green than in 

 gannascm. 



