( (liUi ) 



dots oi forewing above generally luiich less distinct. Pale band of hindwing duller 

 in colour, less sharply defined, not incised or interrupted at veins R^ M', or M-, 

 mostly with a slight reddish tint. Black basi-discal area of forewing below more 

 restricted. 



X. ci/rene is based on a reddish ? , »t(tudi»gen on a green ? . 



S. Tenth abdominal tergite truncate-sinuate ; sternite more acute than in 

 amadis amadis. 



Hah. tientral America : Mexico to Colombia. 



In the Tring Museum 8 (?(?, 4 ? ? from: C.'hiriqui ; .lalapa, Orizaba and 

 Teocelo, Vera Cruz, Mexico, ii. iv. vii. ix. 



A S nearly as red as the type of cijvcnr in coll. Cliarlos Obprtliiir from 

 Cundinaraarca, (Janauche, Colombia (M. de Mathan). 



c. X, (unadix atnarti. 



*'nnrlr(i hIhiiiI} Rothschild, Nov. Znoi.. i, p. Gfl:"i (1X04) (Peru ;— Miis. Tring) ; id., hr. ii. t. fl. 

 f. 1(I(?)(1S05). 



?. The pale line of forewing from base to apex white, bioad : ])ale band of 

 hindwing as in cyrene, rather nearer the margin ; under surface less reddish than iu 

 the green specimens of ci/rene. (Mid- and hindlegs wanting.) 



Hab. Rio Cachyaco, affi. of Rio Huallaga, Peru. 



One ? in the Tring Museum, collected by C. Maxwell iStuarL 



(/. X. iiimrdis i/oelili subsji. nov. 



?. Similar to .v<(^((/'// ; lateral stripe of mesothoracic tegula white : discal Hue 

 of forewing broader, almost pure wliite, widening apically, strongly contrasting with 

 the olivaceous green ground-colonr ; pale band of hindwing dull green, becoming 

 gradually faint and narrower costad, interrupted at the veins, consisting of triangular 

 spots, of which the last is by far the largest, portion M' — C of the band vestigial ; 

 brown irroratiou of underside denser than in nt/iarti. Miditibial spurs e(|nal in 

 length. 



Flab. Para, at the electric light, May (Dr. Goeldi). 



1 ? iu the Bern Museum. 



ii4s. Xylophanes epaphus (I'l. VI. f. 1, ?). 



*('liricrni-(nii/«i I'/iii/ihtis Boisduval, >S'/"''- '•'">■ l-'l'- '/''■ '■ P- ~^''' ■ "■ '•'^ (ISTa) (Cayenne ;— coll. 



(Jbai'les Oberthiir). 

 Cluieromnijia e/m/iliiis, Butler, Traits. Ziuil.Sor. Loud. i.-c. p. 1331 (1877). 

 Theretra ejiaphiix, Kirby, Cat. Lep. lid. i. p. G52. n. 26 (1892) : Schaus, Efil. Xnns i.\-. p. 134 (1898) 



(= nji-i'iie ex err.). 

 ''Thrrelm hijltr/eri Rothschild, Iris vii. p. 29«. n. 5 (18n4) (Clmchur.is, Peru ; Sao Paulo ;— coll. 



Staudinger). 



(??. A reddish species, resembling iu colour the lype of A', amadis cyrene. 

 The two antemcdian lines of the forewing much wider apart than in ryrci/c, the 

 ])roxim!il one midway belween base and distal one at M= ; discal line obviously 

 more proximal than in the forms of amadis, being at R' midway between cell and 

 outer margin and at SC'' midway between base of this vein (fork) and outer margin; 

 jiostcostal i)atch beyond apex of cell transverse, smaller than in anwdi.t. Thorax 

 with broad ])ale median stripe which is rubbed away in the specimen figured. 



d". Harpe similar to that of mexkana. Penis-sheath nearly as iu anuOu.i, Imt 

 right process broader, patch of teeth .smaller and less densely denticulated. 



