PYRRHOPYGE. By Dr. M. Draudt. 837 



as if its body were bleeding in front and behind. As the flight is impetuously swift, the animal escaping its 

 enemies scarcely needs any protection, whereas on the topmost branches of bushes of 1 or 2 m height, which 

 are chosen by the ^(^ as their point of observation, one of the most dangerous enemies of the tropical butterflies 

 is lying in ambush, the praying-cricket which even catches butterflies of the size of strong Papilio with a sure 

 dart and is able to devour several large specimens a day. In the waiting attitude taken up by the Pyrrhopyge 

 on the tip of the twig, the f orewings are half erected, the hind wings somewhat more lowered ; a position sometimes 

 met with in European Adopaea or Pamphila, whereas other Pyrrhopyginae, such as the blue-striped Jemadia, 

 the Mimoniades, Myscelus etc. keep their wings spread out when at rest, about like Thanaos tages. The larvae 

 of Pyrrhopyge, as far as we know, are thinly haired on the body, shaggily on the head, brown or reddish with 

 yellow, zebra-like stripes. They live on different trees, so on Gujava pear-trees (Psidium pyriferum and pomi- 

 ferum), in leaf-cases. The pupae are haired, too. The imagines fly along the roads and skirts of woods in a 

 raving, somewhat skipping flight and are fond of drinking from wet places on the roads. The Jemadia and 

 Mimoniades love the umbels of blossoming bushes, where they are met with in the company of similarly coloured 

 Hesperids from other groups, such as Phocides and Pyrrhopygopsis. 



P. hyperici Hbn. (162 a) is easily recognized by the rounded white spot on the upper STirface of the hyperici. 

 hindwing and the oval white spot on the hindwing beneath at the base. Brazil. 



P. sergius Hpffr. (= leucoloma Ersch.) (162 a) is above quite black with white fringes, red head, sergius. 

 collar and anus; beneath the hindwing exhibits a blue-white, broad marginal band extending from near the 

 proximal angle almost to the costal angle and being somewhat traversed by the dark veins. From Colombia, 

 Pera and Brazil. 



P. araethyrea Heiu. (= araethyraea Mab.) (162 a) is somewhat larger, otherwise the same, but the araethyrea. 

 blue-white marginal band of the hindwing is present also on the upper surface and is traversed above by 6, 

 below by 7 black veins. Ecuador. 



P. aziza Hew. differs from araethyrea by the marginal band being narrower above and crossed only a:im. 

 by the rays of five black veins. New Granada. 



P. garata Hew. (162 a). Here the blue-white marginal spot only extends to the upper median vein, garata. 

 but instead it extends proximally to the discocellular and is traversed only by 3 black rays. The red head is 

 posteriorly bordered with black. Surinam. 



P. scylla Men. (162 a) has above and below black wings with white fringes which are smoky on scylla. 

 the forewing from the middle radial vein towards the apex. Head and palpi are black, shoulders, shoulder- 

 covers and anus red, and the anterior femora are spotted red, too. Peru and Bolivia. 



P. decipiens Mab. is the same, only of a deeper black, and on the costal margin of the hmdwing declpiens. 

 beneath it exhibits a red spot between the costal and subcostal. Ecuador. 



P. melanomerus Mab. <Ss Boull. differs from scylla (162 c) by the anterior femora being quite black melanotne- 

 and by the fringes of the forewing being smoky only at the extreme apex. Described from Bolivia. "'*■ 



P. papius Hpffr. is recognizableby the red palpi being bordered with black. The fringes of the forewings papius. 

 are brownish from the lower radial vein to the apex. South America. 



P. creona Drc. (= aurora Mab.) (162 a). Like scylla, but of a browner ground-colour, beneath creona. 

 dusted red, the shoulder-covers prolonged to long hair-pencils. Bolivia. 



P. charybdis Dbl. (162 b) is bluish-black with carmine head and anus, on the vertex there is a thick cMrybdis. 

 black dot, behind it a black transverse streak. The fringes are of a pure white as far as the apex. South 

 America. 



P. zenodorus G. c&: S. {= thasus Btlr.) is alike, but the head and anus of a lighter red, without -enodorus. 

 the black dot on the vertex, the fringes of the forewing are smoky from the upper radial vein to the apex. Mexico. 



P. polemon Hpffr. (162 b) has, like in zenodorus, towards the apex brownish fringes of the forewmgs, poJemon. 

 and the dot on the vertex is absent, but it has the deep carmine of charybdis. Brazil. 



P. menecrates Mab. (162 b) differs from the preceding immediately by the red base of the shoulder- menecmtes. 

 covers. Distributed from Brazil to Bolivia. 



P. zeleucus F. (162 b) is much larger than charybdis and has red-spotted anterior femora. Brazil, zelcucus. 



P. lampros Hpffr. (162 b) is separated from zeleucus by black anterior femora and the fringes bemg lampros. 

 somewhat brownish at the ends of the veins, particularly at the apex of the forewing and proximal angle of 

 the hindwing, so that the latter look somewhat undulate. Brazil. 



