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white, small punctiform spots behind the cell and yellowish fringes. Beneath lighter brownLsh-grey, apex of 

 forewing with a whitish-spot, and with a submedian lighter part at the proximal angle; the hindwing besides 

 shows a whitish cell-dot. From Venezuela (Caracas). 



T. xanthosticta Plotz (185 d) is very similar; above without the green reflection, instead of which xanihosiic- 

 the costal margin is red-brown. Forewing only with a subapical dot, hindwing only with a whitish postcellular ^■ 



spot. Beneath without the white apical spot and anal-angular spot. Para. 



121. Genus: J^ficoniades Hbn. 



Antennae with clubs long, slender ; palpi erect with a short terminal joint. Distinguished by the prolonged 

 hindwings. (^ stigma tripartite : a triangular piece in the angle where the lower median vein starts from, a long 

 stripe below it and a shorter one on the submedian. 



N. xanthaphes Hbn. (185 d). Above blackish-brown, bases of wings and body with metallic green xanfhaphes. 

 hair, stigma grey; spots white hyaline: a bipartite cell-spot, 3 postdiscal dots and 2 or 3 subapical dots. Hindwing 

 with a postcellular double spot. Beneath lighter, in the basal half of the costal margin ochreous-yellow with 

 a narrow, irregular band from the costal margin to the anal angle. Mexico to Brazil. 



N. caeso J/a6. (185 d) is very similar, but immediately discernible by 3 spots of the hindwing, Mexico caeso. 

 to Brazil and Trinidad. 



N. merenda Mab. (185 d, e) is above likewise similar, but smaller, the subapical dots almost extinct, merenda. 

 Hindwing beneath without a band, only with a small cellular dot. From Panama, Venezuela to Brazil. 



N. tnerendula Schs. resembles the preceding. Head and thorax greenish; wings brown with darker merendula. 

 fringes; forewing with 3 small, subapical spots, a large cell-spot being strangulated in the middle, a large, qua- 

 drangular spot below it and a smaller one behind the lower cell-angle, all white hyaline, and a yellow submedian 

 patch. Hindwing with a small, round, yellow cell-spot and 4 small, whitish antemarginal spots. Beneath lighter 

 brown, forewing basally darkened, the submedian spot larger and white. Hindwing as above. Expanse of 

 \vings: 31 mm. Castro, Parana. 



N. viridiceps Mab. (185 e) resembles merendula, but it is larger, the subapical dots are larger. Hind- viridiceps. 

 wing above with a short, white band, beneath except the cell-dot with 2 small spots near the costal margin 

 and 3 near the anal angle. Panama. 



N. cydia Hew. is very much like Oxynthes corusca (185 e); it is larger, hindwing at the anal angle more cydia. 

 prolonged; besides the (^ has the stigma described above, on the submedian a longitudinal, not transverse scent- 

 stripe. From Brazil. — f. besckei Plotz (185 e) has on the hindwing beneath a broader white band. Novo Fri- hesckei. 

 burgo. 



N. antus Mab. is above black; the forewing exhibits a white hyaline quadrangular cell-spot; a longer anius. 

 one below it is connected with it, a smaller one is situate distally above it ; below the apex 3 hyaline dots. Hind- 

 wing with 2 small postcellular hyaline spots. Beneath red-brown, distally more brightly coloured with the 

 spots of above and a whitish patch at the anal angle of the forewing. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Brazil (Sa. 

 Catharina). 



N. andricus Mab. We had no access to a description of this species. andricKs. 



N. sabaea Plotz (185 f). Blackish-brown, thorax and bases of wings with a green reflection, on the sabaea. 

 forewing with a large, strangulated cell-spot, 2 behind it and a small, yellowish submedian patch and 2 sub- 

 apical dots. Hindwing with 2 or 3 postcellular dots and lighter fringes. Beneath lighter brownish-grey, in the 

 lower half of the forewing black, the discal spots confluent and united with a large, white submedian spot. 

 Brazil, Colombia, from the latter country with smaller hyaline spots. 



122. Genus: Oxynthes G. <& S. 



On the forewing the middle radial vein is still nearer at the lower cell-angle than in Niconiades, the 

 hindwing is scarcely prolonged at the anal angle and does not project beyond the abdomen. Instead of the 

 lowest longitudinal scent-stripe on the submedian the ^ exhibits a transverse stripe. 



0. corusca H. Sch/iff. (= martius Mab., cisa Plotz) (185 e) very much resembles Kicon. xanthaphes corusca. 

 (185 d), but it is distinguished by the shorter hindwing, the different stigma and imspotted hindwing. Head, 

 body and bases of wings are green; hindwing beneath lighter, with a broad white band as in Tir. conflua (185 c). 

 Mexico, Panama to Brazil. 



