980 CARYSTUS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 



diversus. C. diversus H.-Schaff. (= maeon Mob.) (188 h) is also very similar, but the hindwing lias beneath 



blac]dsh-bro-\vn veins. Nicaragua to BrazU. 



fantasos. C. fantasos Cr. (= abebahis C?-., eucherus Plofz) (188 h). Above blackish-brown with 3 postdiscal 



and 2 or 3 subapical creamy spots, hindwing with a similar discal band. Beneath the fore'ning has a reddish- 

 brown apes, the hiiidwmg is Isabel-coloured, with red-brown vems, a chestnut-brown spot at the cell-end 

 and a larger one behind and below the lighter discal band; anal angle blackish. Mexico to Brazil. The green 

 larva lives on grasses such as Panicum ramosum. 

 ploeizii. C. ploctziJ Capr. (188 h) is above black, at the proximal margin of the forewing with olive hair, ^ith 



2 yellowish -white, quach-angular postdiscal spots and 3 small subapical ones. Hindwing m the disc light olive. 

 Beneath on the forewing the costal margin and apex are chestnut-coloured, the spots as above. Hindwing 

 reddish-yellow, with chestnut-broMTti veins, at the base except the costal margui, in the apical half of the distal 

 margin and at the proximal margm chestnut-brown, from the base to the anal angle extends a black wedge- 

 shaped spot being here very broad. From Brazil. 



davicula. C. clavicula Plotz (= furcifer Mah.) (188 i). Brown, the forewing with S white subapical dots and 



2 postdiscal spots, below them a third disappearing in a whitish brightening which extends to the thorax. 

 Hindwing with a light reddish-yellow band of 4 oblong spots. Forewing beneath blackish, the apex tinted 

 light yellow, with black veins and black internerval stripes. Hindwing light yellow with black veins which, 

 except the lower median vem, are forked at the margin; at the cell-end a black arcuate stripe. From BrazU. 



hicreiius. C. lucretius Lat7\ Above brown with 3 postdiscal spots and an ochreous-yellow anteterminal band 



on the hmdwing; beneath the hindwing is blackish-brown with a white costal-marginal spot near the base and 

 an oblique, olive-j'ellow band from the apex to the proximal angle, which below the cell sends forth a white 

 continuation to the proximal margm. Brazil. 



aharis. C. abaris Mah. is above black, on the forewmg with 3 apical hyaline dots and 3 postdiscal spots behind 



and below the cell-end. The hindwing is in the disc dusted with ferruginous bro-miish. Beneath the forewing 

 is black, in the apical part lilac with 3 black, small sagittiform spots between the hyaline dots. The hindwing 

 is blackish, m the basal part and at the costal margin lUac-white with a black cellular spot and 2 smaller black 

 apical spots behind the cell. Fringes grey. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Porto Cabello. 



arva. C. arva Hew. must be allied to the preceding; the description, however, of this species has not been 



accessible to us. 



micon. C. micon Mah. is likewise similar to aharis, but much larger. Deep blackish-brown with 2 longish, 



yellow apical hyaline dots; in the cell-end are 2 streak-spots above each other, behmd them there are 3 more, 

 the lowest being diffuse, reddish-yellow, the uppermost very large, oblong quadrangular; the base of the costal 

 margm is yellow. Tlie hindwing sho^^■s 2 small postcellular spots. Beneath the forewing is blackish, at the costal 

 margin and apex reddish, the hindwing reddish-brown with the 2 dots of the upper surface, besides one in the 

 cell and one more towards the apex. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. Brazil. 



artona. C. artona Heii\ (188 i). Blackish-brown with 2 white cellular spots, 3 postdiscal and 3 small subapical 



spots; the hindwing shows i white spots in a bent row. Beneath the forewing is lighter, the apex grey; the 

 hmdwmg is purple-grey with whitish-grey veins, costal part and proximal margin as well as internerval stripes; 

 behind the cell are 5 whitish spots in a bent row. Nicaragua to BrazU. 

 heharus. C. bebarus Ploiz (188 i) is similar, smaller; the forewing is -without the cellular spots; the small spots 



of the hmdwing are minute and insignificant, of a yellowish tint. Beneath browner, with light yellowish veins 

 and small, yelloA^ish, postdiscal punctiform spots. Colombia. 

 coryna. C. coryna Heic. (= catargyra Fldr.) (188 i) is easily discernible by the hindwing being silvery beneath 



with 2 red-brown longitudinal stripes. Mexico to Bolivia. 

 superhiens. C. superbiens Mah. is black, the forewing with 2 M-hite hyaline spots: 3 subapical ones, 4 postdiscal 



ones m an oblicj^ue row and 2 oblong cellular spots, the base striped yellow. Hindwing with a white, bipartite 

 hj'aline stripe through the cell; inner-marginal fold strewn with white. Forewing beneath as above, at the 

 costal margm yellow, proximal margin white; at the margua are yellow spots between the veins. On the hind- 

 wmg the median area roiind the hyaline stripes is blackish, between the veins striped yellow. Head with 4 

 white dots. Ex]3anse of wings: 52 mm. Sao Paulo. 

 dion. C. dion Plotz {= diana Plotz i. 1.) (189 a) is not milike fantasos above, but the ground-colour is more 



olive-black, not bro-mi, at the costal margm of the forewmg and proximal margm of the hindw^mg dusted with 

 whitish. Fruages white, blackish on the ends of the veins. Beneath the forevTug is the same, but at the distal 

 margm gi'ej- ui the lower half. Hmdwing yellowish-white with a large, oblong cellidar spot, above it in the 

 cell clouded grej' with a bread, olive grey nebulous band in the middle of the distal margin. Sao Paulo. 

 seitzi. C. seitzi sp. nov. (189 a) is very similar, above browner, the subapical dots almost extinct, on the 



hiud-ning there is on the contrary a very much broader, coherent postdiscal band extendmg to the grej^, densely 

 white-haired inner-marginal part. Shape of wings longer, anal angle of the hindwing' very much extended. 

 Beneath the forewing is as in dio7i, the hindwing purely white with a brown, feiruginous-h aired costal-marginal 



