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Additions: DISMORPHIA. By J. Robee. DANAIDAE. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



negrita. 



altis. 



manitelita. 



]urua. 



mechaniti- 

 na. 



xanthone. 



pellucida. 



proxima. 



D. mirandola (29 a) ab. negrita Fassl. This form has been established according to a (J having been 

 captured during a thunderstorm [on the 3rd of October 1908]; this specimen shows a monotonously black 

 upper surface of the forewing (St. Antonio, Colombia, at an altitude of 1800 m). 



D. altis Fassl is in both sexes similar to mirandola (29 a), but somewhat smaller. In the cj only the 

 light (white) spots on the anterior part of the forewing are distinct, the others are dusted with dark, in the 

 $ the black distal margin of the hindwing is uniformly broad. The under surface shows dull mother-of-pearl 

 spots. Colombia, Western Cordilleras, at an altitude of 2400 m. 



D. manuelita Fassl is allied to lygdamis (29 f), both in the size and marking beneath which resembles 

 that of the Catosiicto-species. Upper surface white with broad black distal margins, also the discal cell in 

 the cJ forewing almost entirely filled up with black, in the $ with such a stripe along the subcostal; in 

 the apex of the forewing 3 white spots. The under surface exhibits almost the same black marking, and 

 is very much like that oilygdamis (29 f). Colombia, Western Cordilleras, at an altitude of 1600 to 2000 m. 



D. dejone Hew. $ (192 f). The figured specimen is presumably a $ of this species. The under sur- 

 face is blackish-brown with the same marking as above, on the hindwing, however, the brown colouring 

 is much more diffuse. The antennae are coloured like in the ^. Chiriqui. 



D. jurua sp. nov. (192 g). It is not certain whether the .specimens figured represent the sexes of one 

 and the same species. The $ is very much like that of tricolor (30 b), of «hich neither the cj nor the patria 

 are known. The under surface is in both specimens marked and coloured corresponding to the upper surface, 

 though paler, in the cj forewing with the modification effected by the scent-organs; both sexes exhibit a series 

 of white spots on the distal margin of the hindwing. From the Rio Jurua. 



D. mechanitina sp. nov. (192 g). Before me is 1 2 from Matto Grosso (Rio Machados) which may 

 belong to another species of which only the male was described. The under surface is like the upper sur- 

 face, but paler, at the distal margin of the hindwing there is a xov,' of rather large white spots. Antennae 

 very light, in the distal part at the anterior side white, the club yellow. 



D. xanthone sp. nov. (192 h), the patria of which is unknown, is in the female similar to mecha- 

 nitina; in both sexes the under surface is entirely lil^e the upper surface, but the colours are duller and all 

 the wings exhibit at the distal margin a row of white spots. 



Of D. laia Godt. we subsequently figure the cj (192 g); it originates from Cayenne. 



D. pellucida sp. nov. (192 g) from Jurua may be a species not different from erythroe (30 f); the under 

 surface does not show any essential differences. Presumably also batesi (30 f ) of which a $ has been figured 

 belongs to this species ; the c? lying before me exhibits a complete yellow band of the forewing, a but very 

 narrow yellow band of the hindwing, and besides on the hindwing markings similar to erythroe, but before the 

 yellow band black, band-like scaling. 



D. pinthaeus (?) proxima form. nov. (192 h), captured by Mr. A. H. Fassl in January near Teffe 

 (Ega) on the Amazon River, exhibits a somewhat different shape of the bands on the forewings; the under 

 surface has not a yellow, but white ground-colour, the black median band of the forewing extends uninter- 

 ruptedly from the costal margin to the distal margin, and the submarginal band is not red as in pinthaeus, 

 but yellow like the ground-colour. According to a ^. 



Danaidae. 



1st Subfamily: Danaidae. 



Hereto we must only add that the American D. archippus F. {= plexippus L.) has uninterruptedly 

 penetrated in Eastern Asia since the family has been dealt with in this volume. On the Marshall Islands 

 it has now become the most common lepidopteron. 



Of D. erippus Cr. the larva is black, with broader or finer yellow belts, the thread-appendages black. 

 On Asclepiadeae. The total development from the egg to the imago, according to Fereeika d'Almeida, lasts 

 for about 1 month. 



D. gilippus Cr. Larva lUsewise of a black ground-colour, in the adult stage with bright yellow belts. 

 On Asclepias. Pupa different from that of archippus by the absence of the small golden tips in front at 

 the thorax. 



2nd Subfamily: Lycoreinae. 



Lycorea halia. Larva whitish-yellow, with numerous brownish-yellow transverse belts; the appendices 

 on the metathorax (3rd ring) are kept in constant commotion by the insect; it was also observed on Carica 

 popaya. 



