XENIADES; TELLES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 951 



P. anchora Hew. (184 c) is above coloured and marked entirely the same, but somewhat smaller, cmihoro. 

 Beneath the red-brown parts are lighter, the large silvery spot of the hindwing is not situate below the cell, 

 but behind it. and near the distal margin there is only a smaller silvery spot. Likewise from Para; Trinidad. 



P. brino Cr. (184d) resembles anchora above except the more ochreous-yellow hairing on the bodj' brino. 

 and the base of the wings. Beneath on the red-brown hindwing 2 transverse silvery spots, both composed of 

 3 spots each. From Surinam. 



P. argyrostactos Mob. belongs to the same group from which it differs by the absence of the white argyrosfac- 

 spot on the hindwing beneath. Above deep brown, at the base ochreous-yellow; forewing with 4 white hyaline '°*- 



spots, a double one in the cell and 3 oblicpiely behind it, the middle spot being large, the lowe.st small, oval. 

 Forewing beneath blackish, at the base, round the spots, at the apex and at the distal margin red-brown, dusted 

 vfith. yellow. Hindwing red-brown, strewn with yellow, with 3 silvery spots, 1 in the cell and 2 below it. Expanse 

 of wings: 48 mm. Brazil. 



116. Genus: Xeuiades G. & 8. 



Distmguished from the two preceding genera by the straight distal margin of the forewing. The stigma 

 is almost the same, but some species have one scent-stripe more on the median. 



X. orchamus Cr. (= licia Plotz) (184 d) resembles Aides epitus (184 a, b), but the silvery spot is orchonui.'i. 

 different and forms a band from the middle of the costal margin almost to the anal angle, which is broader 

 here; towards the apex there are 2 to 4 more smaller silvery spots; fringes white, at the forewing towards the 

 costal margin smoky. Panama to Brazil. — f. xanthothrix Plotz (184 c, d) is on the body and the base of the .roitilioihr'ix. 

 wings miich brighter ochreous-yellow, also the hyaline spots are more j^ellowish, on the hindwing there are 

 only 2; on the hindwing beneath there is only the proximal silvery spot, the distal arm broken up into very 

 small spots. Rio de Janeiro. 



X. difficilis sp. n-. (184 d) does not differ from orcharmis above. Beneath the submedian spot of the rfifficiih. 

 forewing is much smaller, more indistinct ; the principal mark is the differently shaped silvery band of the hind- 

 wing, which is broader, towards the base convex from the costal margin to in front of the proximal margiia, 

 penetrating much farther into the cell than in orchamus, where it is proximally almost rectUinearly defined: 

 below the costal margin it is interrupted so that there is here an isolated spot ; another difference is in the dark 

 fringes; in orchamus they are white and also bend yet for some distance up'wards at the proximal inargin. Accor- 

 ding to 1 ^ from Coroico (Bolivia) from the Coll. Fassl. 



X. laureatus sp. nov. (184 d) is above deep dark green on the body and base of the wmgs, the ground- laureaius. 

 colom" being black, not brown; the small subapical dots are minute, also the submedian spot is very small, 

 all the hyaline spots pm:ely white; on the hindwing there are 4 postdiscal spots, 2 of which are always situated 

 together. Beneath somewhat duller, more brownish; above the cellular spot the costal margin is spotted white, 

 the submedian spot is enlarged to half of the submedian area and opacj[ue white. On the hindwing there is near the 

 distal margin a white, smoked band in which the hyaline spots are situate at the proximal margin. Body, palpi 

 below and base of club white like the fringes. According to 1 (J from the Songo (Bolivia) from the Coll. Fassl. 



X. pteras G. <£• S. (184 e) is very much like the following chalestra, but the hindwing above is without pfems. 

 the proximal spot, and the body and base of the wings is more intensely metallic green. Beneath chestnut-red, 

 hind-ning with a straight, creamy-white band turning upwards at the anal angle. Panama, Colombia, ^'enezuela, 

 Trinidad. 



X. chalestra Heiv. (184 e). Brown,, on the forewing with a cellular spot and 3 large postdiscal ones, chale.^ira. 

 all of which are whitish-yellow hyaline, the two upper ones distally concave, and with 3 small subapical stripes. 

 Hindwing with a round cellular spot and 3 behind it. Beneath the hindwing is chestnut-brown with a broad, 

 creamy-white band being towards the anal part bent round in an acute angle, and the 3 postdiscal spots from 

 above behind it. Colombia, Brazil. — In f. concors H.-Schaff. the white dots behind the band of the hindwing concors. 

 beneath are absent. 



X. cecropterus nov. sp. (184 e) is somewhat smaller, the hindwing rounder, instead of the scent- ccopierus. 

 spots there are long hair. Above as the preceding, but the spots of the forewings are somewhat differently 

 shaped, the hindwing not spotted. Thoracal hairing greenish bluish-grey. Beneath the forewing is apically 

 tinted red-brown, the cellular spot is towards the costal margin continued in a j-olk-coloured spot, the lowest 

 fades away in the lighter anal angle. Hindwing deep blackish-brown with a somewhat reddish tint; the upper 

 half of the distal margin and the costal angle are broadly creamy, ending pointed downwards. 2 qjJ from the 

 Coll. Fassl from the Rio Songo (Bolivia). 



117. Genus: Telles G. & S. 



Very closely allied to the preceding genera. Antennae half as long as the costal margin ; forewiiig less 

 prolonged, but hindwing at the anal angle. The (J is without the scent-organ; middle tibiae with spurs. 



T. arcalaus Cr. (184 e). Blackish-brown, base of wings and body metallic green; forewing with 2 arcalaus. 

 cellular spots and 3 below and behind them, the second being very large, triangular, before the apex there are 

 3 very small spots and 2 smaller ones below them, all yellowish hyaline. The hindwing shows towards the apex 



