982 COELIADES; DION. By Dr. M. Deaudt. 



discal band and an inner-marginal fold haired bluish-white. Hindwing beneath white with a chestnut-brown 



costal margin, a broadly brownish distal margin and some minute spots in the discal area. Panama to Brazil. 



peninsula- V. pcninsularls Ploiz (189 c) is above similar, but it has no cellular spot and the hindwing is not spotted. 



"-S- Beneath the hindwing is white with a large, blackish-brown triangular spot in the cell and a brown distal margin 



being broadest opposite the cell and growing very narrow at the anal angle. From Para. 



triangularis. V. triangularis Hbn. (= pica H.-Schaff.) {189 c) is above similar, but it has a broad, white discal 



band of the hindwing reaching the proximal margin. Hindwing beneath white, at the costal margin broadly 



black with a small triangular spot below the cell and a broad blackish-brown margin. The white disc is hued 



yellowish towards the margin. Brazil. 



monacha. V. iTionacha Plotz (189 c) has above rather small white spots; the band of the hindwing is also shor- 



tened and does not reach the proximal margin. Tlie under surface is lighter, browner, the white area of the 

 hindwing very extensive and bluish -grey, in some places strewn with brownish. Costal margin red-brown like 

 the broad distal margin except the apex ; the small triangular spot is minute. From Para. 



hypargus. V. hypargus Mab. is a small, black species with 3 white, subapical hyaline dots and 5 spots in a 



bent row behind and below the cell-end, but there is no spot between the lower radial veins; in the middle of 

 the proximal margin there is a white-dusted spot and another one in the cell-end. The hindwing exhibits in 

 the middle a large, white triangular spot, behind the lower cell-angle a whitish longitudmal patch. Forewing 

 beneath red-brown, spotted as above. Hindwing in the proximal half yellowish-white, in it with the white 

 spot of the upper surface; the marginal area is red-brown. Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Manaos. 



marpesia. V. marpesia Hew. (189 d) is a larger, very much white-spotted species with a brown body and 



brown bases of the wings. Beneath the hindwing is light violet, with brown veins and a white spot before the 

 middle of the distal margin and two blackish spots at the anal angle and above it at the distal margin. The 

 costal margin of the forewing is white, the fringes of the hindwings are also white towards the anal angle. Ama- 

 zon District. 



periphas. V. periphas Mab. is above black, the base of the forewing strewn with j^ellow; the forewing exhibits 



3 apical hyaline dots, 2 small ones in the cell and 3 somewhat larger postdiscal ones. The margin of the hindwing 

 is yellowish with a narrow, oval, white longitudmal spot: frmges of hindwing white as far as the lower radial. 

 Beneath the forewing is blackish with a large, yellow, black-veined apical spot. Hindwing at the proximal 

 margin light yellow, in the costal-marginal part yellowish-green, in the discal area brownish. Expanse of wings: 

 36 mm. Amazon (Massauary). 



166. Genus: Coeliades Hbn. 



Antennae long, with a slender club. Forewing long, -with a concave distal margin and a basally convex 

 costal margin. Hindwmg at the anal angle feebly lobate ; body slender with long legs and bare middle tibiae. 

 The (J exhiMts a tripartite stigma: a short scent-stripe in the middle of the median between the branches, a 

 longer one on the lower median branch, and the longest on the submedian. 



dubius. C. dubius Cr. (= virga Btlr.) (189 d) is above blackish-brown, towards the margin suffused with 



a leaden or steel-grey lustre, with 2 small postdiscal and subapical spots. Beneath at the apex of the forewing 

 and on the hindwings deep red-brown or cerise, on the hindwmg with a narrow yellow transverse band from 

 the apex to the middle of the proximal margin. Surinam. 



elenora. C. elenora Ehrm. is unknown to me; we place this species having been described as Pamphila to this 



genus, because the description coincides with that of dubius with which it may agree; the scent-organ, however, 

 is not mentioned. Described from Venezuela. 



fiscella. C. fiscella Hew. (= balteatus Mab.) (189 e). Blackish-brown with a large, bipartite cellular spot, a 



trapezoid spot below it, and farther towards the margin with a submedian, longish small spot and 3 subapical 

 ones in a straight line. Hindwing with a brownish-smoked band across the cell-end. Beneath with the same 

 spots, at the costal margin and apex of the forewing and on the hindwing chestnut-red except the proximal 

 margin of the hindwing, Avith a yellowish transverse band from the apex of the hmdwing to the middle of the 

 proximal margin. Nicaragua to the Amazon. 



167. Genus : Dion G. & S. 



Distinguished from the preceding genus by a stronger, stouter body and the scent-stripe extending 

 from the base of the upper median vem obliquely and somewhat bent to the middle of the submedian. 



gemmatua. D. gemmatus Btlr. (189 e). Above blackish-brown with a grey stigma. Beneath the forewing is lighter 



at the apex with darker veins; the hindwings are blacker, in the anal two thirds chestnut-brown, with black 

 veins, in the disc with a black spot with 3 or 4 light-blue eye-dots in it. The $ is in the apical half of the 

 forewing above pale reddish-brown with dark brown veins, the apex itself is dark. Costa Rica, Panama. 



