MARELA; PHANUS; ENTHEUS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 883 



50. Genus: Marela Mob. 



The species on the whole remind us of Spathilepia clonius (171 a), by the shape of the wings with the 

 stunted apex of the forewing as well as by the marking and colouring, but they are without the costal fold. The 

 submedian vein is beneath in its whole length set with stiff bristles. The lower median vein rises nearer at the 

 base than at the cell-angle. 



M. tamyroides Fldr. (172 d) is above black, at the bases of the wings with some slate-blue lustre, tamyroides. 

 with a large tripartite discal spot, a small one below it, 4 small subapical spots and a number of very small 

 ones below them; fringes speckled light. Beneath the apex of the forewing is brightened up by brownish, the 

 inner-marginal area bluish-white, like the base of the hindwing, the hindwing itself being brown with 2 dentate 

 black transverse bands. Colombia, Brazil. 



M. tamyris Mob. (172 d) is smaller, the hyaline spots rather larger, in the submedian space there tamyris. 

 are two distantly separated spots. The brown hindwing is extensively mixed with white, also at the proximal 

 margin, at the base, however, not white. Amazon. 



51. Genus: Phanus Hhn. 



Antennal club very slender, almost semicircularly bent. Palpi short, appressed. Costal fold present. 

 On the forewing in the submedian area, in the basal half and at the proximal margin with long hair, the inner- 

 marginal part of the hindwing being also densely clad with hair; the anal part of the hindwing is extended 

 into a lobe forming a tooth on the inner-marginal vein. Only one species. 



Ph. vitreus Cr. (= momus F., marshalli Ky.) (172 e). Above black with an olive-brown tint, with vitreus. 

 particularly in the $ longish hyaline spots in all the cell-spaces, also on the hindwing, though they vary greatly 

 in their development. Widely distributed from Mexico to South America, in open places even in gardens on 

 flowers common. 



52. Genus: Entlieus Hhn. 



Antennae as in the preceding genus, but the palpi more porrect and diverging. On the forewing the 

 costal fold is absent. Characteristic are the short posterior tibiae with a hair-pencil and only one pair of spurs, 

 whilst the first tarsal joint is almost twice as long as the tibia, flattened and bulged. The species are distinguished 

 by a very pronounced sexual dimorphism: the ^^ are mostly black and orange-red or yellow, the $$ dark 

 brown with large white spots, also on the hindwing, and often with an orange wedge-shaped spot near the base 

 of the forewing. The species being very much alike and the sexes rather indefinite, there is a want of clearness 

 in this genus. 



E. priassus L. (= talaus L., peleus Cr., telemus Plotz) (172 e). c? above velvety blackish-brown priassus. 

 with a broad, orange transverse band, an orange wedge-shaped preapical spot, and with a more transparent, 

 oblong spot projecting from the middle of the transverse band towards the margin. The $ is somewhat browner, 

 in the cell there is an orange wedge-shaped spot, a discal transverse-band, 6 subapical spots forming a chain, 

 and a longish spot between these two, as well as a large, round spot in the disc of the hindwing are white, 

 the spots of the forewings half showing through. Fringes black. Widely distributed in South America. 



E. cramerianus Mab. (= talaus Cr. nee L., peleus CI. nee Cr.) (172 e) is very similar, somewhat crameria- 

 smaller, stouter, the orange bands much broader, all the 3 spots broadly confluent, so that they enclose "'**■ 



a small, black triangular spot. The $ still more resembles that of priassus, the row of subapical spots on the 

 forewing is interrupted, the discal spot on the hindwing extends farther to the proximal margin and is distally 

 extended to a point, downward somewhat dentate. On the forewing there is another small white spot in the 

 submedian area, the discal spot is interrupted in the cell. Fringes of the forewing near the anal angle white. 

 Guiana. 



E. dius Mab. (172 e, f) is larger than priassus, in the (J the transverse band is very broad, of a richer dius. 

 yellow, the spot behind it small, separated from the transverse band and subapical spot, in the basal part of 

 the cell an indistinct orange stripe. At the proximal margin of the hindwing a fold set with white scales. The 

 $ likewise similar to priassus, but the subapical and discal spots are divided each into 2 groups, the white discal 

 area of the hindwing is very large, the proximal margin white, too. Costa Rica to Colombia. 



E. sirius Mab. is a fourth extremely similar species, hitherto ascertained only in the female sex. siriu^. 

 Spots similar to those in cramerianus (172 e). The discal spot in the cell is still farther separated from the lower * 



ones. The white spot of the hindwing is almost quadrangular, its lower edge straight, extending to the grej' 

 proximal margin. Mabille presumes this rather uncertain species to belong to gentium, but this is probably 

 wrong. Described from Cayenne. 



