314 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



Food plant : banana. 



Described and figured from a sketch by E. Hartgen and the description in 

 Seitz. 



Caligo idomineus Linn. 



Fruhstorfer in Seitz and Herr Stichel place superba Staud. as a subspecies of 

 idomineus, but as praecana Stich, occurs together with it, I am convinced it is jnst 

 as good and distinct a species as menoetius Staud. 



Caligo menoetius Staud. 



The Tring Museum, besides a <? and ? from Surinam received from Herr 

 Fruhstorfer in exchange, has obtained recently through M. Le Moult 3 <S <? from 

 St. Jean de Maroni, French Guiana, of this rare insect. 



Caligo arisbe fulgens subsp. nov. 



c? ? . Differ from a. arisbe in being above much brighter yellow, and the 

 greyish yellow band in the centre of the outer black-brown fourth of forewing is 

 much broader and very distinct. 



Hab. Rio Janeiro and Säo Paulo, 3 c?c?, 6 ? ?. 



Caligo oberthuri oberthuri Deyr. 

 (PI. V. f. 3) 



Larva almost entirely brown-black, with several dorsal irregular light brown 

 patches ; tail-forks short, thick, and covered with stiff rufous hairs, the four fleshy 

 thornlike dorsal appendages bent forward ; head rufous brown, with black lines 

 and with eight thorns. 



Food-plant a low evergreen palm. 



Described and figured from two larvae sent by A. H. Fassl from San Antonio, 

 West Cordillera, Colombia, 2000-3000 m. = 6500-9000 ft. 



BRASSOLIDAE 



Brassolis sophorae sopborae Linn. 

 (PI. VI. f. 7 larva, f. 9 pupa) 



Larva cylindrical, tapering towards head, mouse-grey with darker longitudinal 

 lines and bands, the two subdorsal ones being very wide, while the dorsal and 

 lateral ones are very narrow ; but the one on the line of spiracles is again broader, 

 but less sharply defined ; head with two broad black bands. 



Pupa reddish wood-brown, banded and spotted with dark brown and with a 

 whitish irregular patch on the wing-cases. 



Described and figured from a sketch by E. Hartgen. 



Food-plant : palms, feeding gregariously. 



Brassolis sophorae vulpeculus Stich. 



This form is not confined to Argentina and Paraguay, as Stichel and Fruh- 

 storfer believed, but is found in all the arid and desert portions of Brazil as well, 

 and it also occurs in British Guiana as a rare aberration. 



