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GORGOPHONE; ECHELATUS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 



marginal band which is broader on the hindwing; the discal band is angled on the hindwing. The under surface 

 is lighter, more brownish, with the same, though fainter marlungs. Expanse of wings: 37 mm. Manaos. 



oUiqua. A. obliqua Plotz (174 i) is very different: above purple blackish-bro-mi, with 3 broad, oblique trans- 



verse bands, the middle one of which extends on the fore\^ing from the middle of the costal margin to the proxi- 

 mal angle, the short distal one from the distal fourth of the costal margin to the upper thu'd of the distal margin, 

 which is darkened. Beneath uni-coloured light reddish-brown. Brazil, Colombia. 



19. Genus: Oorg'ophone G. u. S. 



Different by the absence of the costal fold and of the hair-pencil on the posterior tibiae. Only 1 species: 



nieliboea. G. meliboea G. di S. (175 a) resembles rather much Anastr. neaeris (174 c), but it is larger, deep 



pm'ple-black, with lighter lustrous violet antemargmal bands, beneath the same as neaeris. Described from 

 Panama. 



•patens. G. patens Plotz (175 a) may belong hereto. Above as Echel. varius, but only with one distinct discal 



band; hindwing at the proximal margin narrowly ochreous-yellow. Beneath reddish-brown, in the disc parti- 

 cularly of the hindwing lighter, tinged violet, the hindwing with a broad, reddish-brown, postdiscal transverse 

 band. Described from Rio. 



20. Genus: JQchelatus G. u. S. 



Likewise very closely allied to Anastrus; distinguished by the absence of the pencil at the posterior 

 tibiae, whereas the costal fold is mostly verj^ well developed. The f orewing is generally somewhat longer, narrower, 

 with a less truncate apex, the hindwing comparatively smaller. 



varius. E. varius Mab. (175 a, b) is a common species, distributed from Mexico through the whole of Central 



America to Colombia and Venezuela. Above dark brown, towards the margin darker with 2 broad, faded, darker 

 tansverse bands. Beneath lighter, redchsh-brown, on the hindwing in the anal part light bluish-grey, with 

 3 darker transverse bands. Costal fold well developed. 



eugramma. E. eugramma Mob. differs from varius by 3 small subapical dots and 2 more below them, all being 



encircled by black; the transverse bands are black and distinct. The hindwing is in the anal half of a bright 

 blue, otherwise ferrugmous with 3 dark transverse bands therein. From Panama (Chiriqui). 



robigus. E. robigus Plotz (= luctuosus G. <£• S.) (173 a) is above the same as varius, beneath on the hind- 



wing the anal half is not bluish-white, but of the same colom- with the rest of the wing. If the genitals were 

 not constantly different from varius, we might think it to be a local form, since the species is known 

 from Western Mexico, where varius is absent, besides from Southern Brazil and Colombia. 



sempiter- E. sempiternus Btlr. <l- Drc. (175 a) has above a somewhat lighter ground-colour with more distinct 



»i"«- transverse bands and a large, black, quadrangular cell-macula; the hindwings are also distinctly marked. Beneath 

 scarcely different from varius. Separated by the costal fold being almost absent in the (J. Common and widely 

 distributed from Mexico to the Amazon. 



polyaenus. E. polyaenus Mob. resembles platypterus in its shape, the forewing with a more pointed apex, brownish- 



red with 2 discal bands, one near the base, the other extending through the disc and bifurcating at the cell-end, 

 sending one branch to the costa; at the margin a more deeply coloured, badly demarcated band. In the hindwing 

 similar marking, the space between the two bands rather genuinely reddish-brown. Colombia. 



platypterus. E. platypterus Mab. This imago unknown to us is compared by ]\L\bille mth AcJilyodes lalandii 



Latr. (Encj'cl. Method. 9, p. 761, Nr. 95 Note) which, however, is not at all stated in the Hesperid catalogue 

 by ]\LiBiLLE himself. The patria is known neither of this nor of platyptera; it is described to be of a shape 

 similar to lalandii, blacldsh-brown, -with 2 badlj^ defined bands on the foremng; the first very broad, occupying 

 the whole cell and dissolved in the basal bro^ii; the second very broad; at the margin a broad band. 



diversus. E. diversus 2Iab. approaches luctuosus; smaller with distinct, black macular bands, the wings in 



a certain exposure to light with a violet reflection. Beneath brown with an ochreous-yellow apical spot, also 

 the proximal margin of the same coloiu-; hindwing ochreous-red with 3 distinct macular bands. Colombia, 

 Brazil. 

 simpUcior. E. simplicior Plotz (= 2 albm-nea Plotz) (175 b) resembles sempiternus above bj- the distinct band- 



markmg and the cell-spot, but beneath the hindwing is quite brown as m robigus, without the blue anal part ; 

 the transverse bands extend almost to the proximal margin. Brazil, Paraguay. 



