950 CYDRUS: AIDES; PARAIDES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 



hemizona. P. hcmizona Dyar. Black with a blue reflection, wings very long, forewing produced at the anal angle, 



here with white fringes; in the cell a quadrangular white spot, a wedge-shaped one below it; behind the cell 



in a curved row. The hmdwing exhibits a white band with rounded, yellowish ends behind the cell. Beneath 

 the same. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Mexico. 



113. Genus : Cydrus G. d.- S. 



Antennal club shorter than in Prenes with a longer hook-shaped apex. Apex of forewing prolonged, 

 costal margin convex, distal margin concave. The ^ shows a broad scent-scale stripe from the rise of the upper 

 median vein to the submedian. 

 noei-oli(s. C. naevolus G. cfc S. (184 a). Blackish-brown, the stigma dark with large, white hyaline spots arranged 



as in P. Cornelius but being much larger, especially the cellular spot which is parted by the fold. Hindwing 

 with a yellowish, indistinct cellular spot and 4 or 5 behind it in a curved row. Beneath as above, the forewing 

 tinted purple, the hindwing scantily strewn with yellowish, the spots more distinct: fringes white, on the ends 

 of the veins somewliat speckled. Mexico, Guatemala, Panama to Brazil. 



114. Genus: Aides Billb. 



Antennal club stout and long. Prolonged apex of wings and veins as in the preceding genus. The (J 

 exhibits an angular stigma in the angle between the rise of the lower median vein and the median, below it 

 a longitudinal stripe and near the proximal margin a third being divided by the submedian. 



epitus. A. epitus Cr. (= argyrina Stgr. i. 1.) (184 a, b). Blackish-brown, base of wings and body haired greenish, 



stigma grey. Spots yellow hyaline a cellular spot distally hollowed out, 3 spots in an oblique row behind it 

 and 3 subapical ones. Hindwing with a yellowish apical spot. Beneath more reddish, in the basal half darker, 

 costal margin above the cellular spot yellow. Hindwing in the disc with a large, triangular silvery spot and 



1 or 2 spots towards the distal margin. Panama to Brazil. 



dysoni. A. dysoni G. (£■ S. (184 b) is very much like the following aestria, but the silvery spots beneath are 



different : a small one is situate in the cell, 3 large ones behind it more towards the proximal margin, the middle 

 spot being tlie smallest, and before the distal margin there is another transverse, crescentiform spot. Honduras. 



aestria. A, aestria Hew. (184 b) is blackish-brown with a large, double cellular spot, 3 large postdiscal ones 



and a very small one above it, as well as 4 subapical ones. On the hindwing there is behind the cell a double, 

 white spot. Beneath the apex of the forewing and the costal half of the forewing are extensively cerise or red- 

 brown; on the hindwing there is a very large silvery spot in the disc and 6 irregular, smaller ones behind it. 

 Brazil . 



dam. A. elara G. ds S. (184b) is like epittis, but without subapical spots; the silvery spot of the hindwing 



terminates towards the costal margin into 2 teeth; body and base of the palp are haired yellow, the stigma 

 is smaller, the part below the submedian is absent. Mexico. 



incinifaior. A. incantator Drc. is only known in the ?. It is allied to aestria and dysoni, but beneath distinguished 



by the other silvery spots. Wings basally densely haired reddish -j^ellow. Beneath the forewing is coppery- 

 brown, in the proximal part blackish-brown, the proximal margin lighter; in the middle of the dark copper- 

 brown hindAving there is an irregular silvery spot composed of c^uadrangular confluent spots, with 2 smaller 

 spots, one at the cell-end and a somewhat larger one behind it above the median. Costa Rica. 



115. Genus: Paraides G. & S. 



Separated from the preceding genus only by a different shape of the scent-spot: one spot is situate 

 on the lower median vein near its base, another spot below it and a third on the submedian ; the stigma may 

 also be absent. 



oo-'duis. p. ocrinus Ploiz (= argjTina Stgr. i. 1., callidanas Mob.) (184 b,c) looks above almost like Aides 



elara, but the base of the hindwing is haired green; it is very closely allied to the following aegita, but it has 

 a stigma of 3 small parts, whereas aegita has none at all. On the hindwing beneath there is a large sUveryspot 

 below the cell and 2 smaller ones behind it. From Panama to Colombia, Guiana, Amazon, Brazil. 



acfjUa. P. aegita Hew. (184 c). Above blackish-brown, towards the base and on the body haired olive-yeUowish, 



witli a large white cellular spot and 3 postdiscal ones behind it and below it on the forewing; the hindwing 

 exhibits a round white postcellular spot. Beneath cherry-brown, in the disc of the forewuag blackish, at the 

 proximal margin lighter grey. Hindwing with a large trapezoid sUvery spot below the cell and two smaller 

 ones behind it. one near the margin. Brazil (Para). 



