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spots. The $ is black with lustrous violettish-blue proximal halves of the wings, otherwise marked like the 

 cJ, but the proximal discal hyaline spot is very much larger and oblong, the distal one much smaller. Surinam. 



T. tritonae Weeks and T. finitimus Weeks. We have had no access to the descriptions of these iritonae. 



iiniUrmia. 

 two species. 



14. Genus: Physalea Mob. 



It has somewhat longer and ascending palpi. The inner-marginal vein is inflated in its first two thirds, 

 in its envu-ons the forewing beneath is bare. On the under surface the forewing shows at the rise of the costal- 

 marginal vein a pencil of stiff hair. Posterior tibiae with 2 pair of spurs. 



Ph. vulpecula Plotz (169 e). The ^ is above unicolorously rufous, towards the margin somewhat vulpecula. 

 darkened. Beneath darker, almost blackish. The $ is much larger, in the apical area of the forewing darkened, 

 with 2 large hyaline spots, similar as in probus (168 e), and on the hindwing with a row of black spots. Brazil, 

 Colombia. 



Ph. sofofcula 3Iab. & Boull. The $ greatly resembles that of vidpecula, the colour is duller, the sororcula. 

 hyaline spots farther remote from each other, rounder and smaller. Beneath yellowish grey, towards the apex 

 with a violet reflection. The row of spots on the hindwing is composed of smaller spots. Described according 

 to 1 $ from French Guiana. 



Ph. pausias Heiv. (170 b) is very similar, but much smaller, the cj above unicolorously rusty-yellow pansias. 

 with a darkened border. The hindwings beneath shows 2 small, indistinct, black dots below the middle of the 

 wing. Amazon. 



Ph. cervinus Plotz is also closely allied, but on the forewing it has 2 black apical dots and a small cervimts. 

 M'hite hyaline spot below the lower cell-angle. The under surface is darker, at the costal margin of the forewing 

 and proximal margin of the hindwing with a dull blue lustre. Brazil. 



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15. Genus: Protogeiies Mab.d; Boull. 



The forewing shows near the proximal angle a slight concave indentation. The cell is longer than two 

 thirds of the costal margin; there is no costal-marginal fold. The lower median vein rises near the base of the 

 wing, the upper one above the middle of the cell. The head is remarkably stout, the palpi ascending, with a 

 very short, obtuse terminal joint; the posterior tibiae covered with long stiff hair, in which 2 pair of spurs are 

 hidden. Antennal club rather feeble, the tip, being bent round, is just as long as the other part. Only 2 species: 



P. extrusus Fldr. (172 d) is black, thorax and base of wings metallic green, the abdomen narrowly exlrusus. 

 curled green. At the costal margin and at the cell-end there are yet 2 or 3 metallic green dots each. Hindwing 

 in the disc with a large triangular spot, and at the proximal margin with a broad, bluish-green ray. Beneath 

 the hindwing shows an antemarginal row of small, square, bluish-white spots. Colombia. 



P. affinis 3Iab. d- Boull. is smaller; on the forewing above the green dots are absent, on the hindwing afiinis. 

 there is no inner-marginal ray. Beneath the forewing shows at the apex 4 minute, greenish-white spots, the 

 hindwing in the middle a broad, yellowish-red transverse spot, divided by the black veins, and an antemarginal 

 row of small bluish spots. French Guiana. 



16. Genus: Thymele F. 



Chiefly differs from Telegonus only by the absence of the costal fold. A lot of species resembling each 

 other also in their exterior: 



Th. fulgerator Walch (= fulminator Sepp, mercatus F., azul Beak., trinitad Lef., misitra Plotz) fulgerator. 

 (167 f). Above black and of a radiant bluish-green, with a white hyaline oblique band and 3 to 5 minute apical 

 spots. Beneath more or less rusty-brown, with or without a large white inner-marginal spot of the forewing, 

 melting away in the oblique band, the costal margin of the hindwing more or less extensively white, in the disc , 



with 2 blackish-brown transverse bands occasionally flown together to a darkened basal, part. From Mexico 

 to Brazil and Colombia, wide-spread and nearly everywhere common. 



Th. naxos Heiv. (168 a) is above the same. Beneath at the distal margin of the forewing near the nams. 

 proximal angle a greyish-white spot. The distal band of the hindwing is distally bordered by 8 small, light 

 rusty-brown .'^pots, in the middle of the wing there is a white discal spot. South Brazil. 



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