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OENIDES; CHLOERIA; THRACIDES. By Dr. M. Deaudt. 



193. Genus: Oeiiicles 3Iab. 



Antennae long and slender, with a long, pointed club; palpi appressed to the face, ascending, with 

 a short terminal joint. Forewing triangular with a straight distal margin; cell shorter than two thirds of the 

 costal margin. Hindwing rounded off with an oblique distal margin, at the anal angle not lobate. Posterior 

 tibiae with long, slender spurs. 

 vulpina. 0. vulpina Fldr. (190 g). Upper surface black, basally more brown, in the upper half of the distal 



margin lighter blackish-grey, with small white cellular and 3 discal spots, as well as 3 subapical dots; the larger 

 proximal half of the hindwing is of a bright brownish red. Beneath duller blackish, on the hindwing with a 

 white band from the middle of the costal margin to the anal angle; costal margin basally yellowish-white. 

 Colombia. 



194. Genus: Chloeria Mob. 



Antennae and palpi as in Oenides. Apex of forewing prolonged, cell longer than in the preceding; distal 

 margin above the anal angle concave; the middle radial vein rises almost from the same place as the lower; 

 Distal margin of hindwing likewise somewhat concave and the anal angle lobate. Posterior tibiae only with 

 terminal spurs. 

 psittacina. Ch. pslttacina -fWr. (190 g,h). Above blackish-brown, on the forewing subapically lighter, above 



it with 4 small, very oblong hyaline spots, at the cell-end and below it with a very large, double hyaline spot 

 and a greenish -yellow, semi-transparent, postdiscal spot on the hindwing; the submedian area of the forewing 

 and the ceU of the hindwing are greenish-yellow; fringes analwards white. Beneath the hindwing and a very 

 large subapical spot of the forewing are yellowish-green, the hmdwing with black veins, the cell in the lower 

 half and the anal fold broad black. Colombia to South Peru. 



195. Genus: Tliracides Hb7i. 



The reverted antennal apex is verj^ long. Hindwing at the anal angle very much prolonged, body very 

 robust; middle tibiae in phidon spined, in the other species bare. Tlie ^ shows a long stigma extending from 

 the rise of the upper median vein to the middle of the inner-marginal vein. Several species are without it. 

 phidon. Th. phidon Cr. (191 b). Above black, basally and on the body metallic bluish-green with 3 large, 



white, discal hyaline spots and sometimes a small submedian spot. Beneath red-broAvn, base of costal margin 

 on the forewing and base of hindwing white; the discal spots of the forewing are broadly connected with the 

 white anal area. Panama to Colombia, Guiana, Brazil. 

 peratha. Th. peratha Plotz (191 b) is above almost quite metallic greenish-blue, on the forewing with a very 



large, bipartite discal spot, the lower distal apex of which almost touches the margin. Beneath somewhat lighter- 

 more brownish, the anal part of the forewing broad white, the cell bluish-green, palpi beneath dark ferruginous- 

 brown. Bahia. 

 luda. Th. luda Hew. {= hundurensis Mah., nealus Plotz) (191 c) has no stigma; the blue is less bright, 



the cellular spot large and double. Body beneath and legs beneath darker. Honduras to Guiana. 

 moUon. Th. molion G. <£• 8. (191 b, c) has only 2 spots, one in the cell and one between the median veins, 



the submedian one being absent ; below the apex there are 2 small subapical dots. The under surface is lighter, 

 the anal angle of the forewing light, the hindwing is whitish at the base of the costal margin. Mexico. 

 bajula. Th. bajula Schs. Coloared as molion (191 b, c), with 2 semi-transparent white spots, that in the cell 



being distallj^ gnawed out, parted by a fine line, the second extending below the cell-end to below the lower 

 median vein, being prolonged below the latter to the distal margin. Base of hind^s'ing with metallic blue hair. 

 Beneath brown, the basal thu'd of the costal margin of the forewing white, at the base with some metallic blue 

 scales, at the apex strcA^n with j^ellow; at the anal angle there is a large white spot. Hindwing in the basal 

 third of the costal margin white. Expanse of -nings: 41 mm. Novo Friburgo. 

 phidonides. Th. phidonides Mab. is perhaps only a form of molion (191 b, c) and resembles bajula from which 



it differs by the presence of 3 subapical dots. Beneath there is a bluish-white dot below the white costal margin 

 of the hindwing. Ecaador. 

 joannisii, Th. joantiisii Mab. (191 c). Tlie jet-black wings show a metallic greenisch-blue reflection, distaUy 



to the scent-stripe with 3 hyaline white postdiscal spots in a straight line, the stigma itself being whitish, bor- 

 dered with black and tripartite. Beneath the wings are suffused wdth pm'ple at the apex, costal margin and 

 disc of the forewing as well as in the disc of the hindwing, whereas here the costal and proximal margins remain 

 black. Fringes white. Described according to a ^ from Panama (Chiriqui). 

 panimeron. Th. patiimeron Drc. is above uni-coloured deep indigo-blue, in an oblique light in the inner-marginal 



part of the forewing and the basal half of the hindwing metallic ultramarine-blue and opalescent green. Fringes 

 white, towards the apex brownish. Beneath dark greenish-indigo, apex of forewing, and the hindwing with 

 copper-reddish scales. Proximal margin of forewing brown, in the cell a metallic blue stripe; at the base of 



