NAPAEA; ALESA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 651 



C. alector Hhn.-G. (126 i). Similar to meleagris, the wings not so broad, black with blue chain-stripes, aledor. 

 tough they are much more remote from each other and more coherent than in meleagris; in the apical part 

 none or only 2 or 3 (= pupillata Stick.) small white vitreous dots, in meleagris 6 to 8. Beneath grey with 

 a spotting like a guinea-hen. Guiana to South Brazil. Kare. — In Bahia there flies a form exhibiting in 

 the apex double dots instead of single ones (bipuncta Weym.). 



15. Genus: Xapaea Hhn. 



In contrast with the preceding genus, Napaea contains strong butterflies with a robust body. The 

 margin of the forewings is not projecting so far, the apex not so very falcate, the costal of the forewing not 

 connected with the subcostal. There are about 7 species which, however, vary a great deal and have therefore 

 many denominations. The butterflies rest in bushes near the skirts of the forests, out of which they are beaten. 

 They are not common. 



N. eucharila Bat. (= actoris Hbn. nee Cr.) (126 h). Brown, studded with numerous yellow, small eucharila. 

 comma- or punctiform spots being partly prominent by dark shading. Hindwing with an orange-yellow striated 

 band before the margin. Guiana and the Amazon as far as Bolivia and Brazil. • — ■ In the smaller frustatoria jrmtatoria. 

 Stich. from Guiana, the comma-spots are narrower and the orange band of the hindwing is absent. — r In picina jAcina. 

 Stick, the ground-colour is darker, the orange band stunted, the dots are almost entirely absent on the hind- 

 wing. ■ — Also in rufolimbata Stick. (126 h) the dark hindwing is without the light spots, though here the di.stal ruiolimha- 



margin is broad orange. — merula Thieme (126 i) has entirely black hindwings and also few minute dots in , '"" 



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the cell and apical part of the forewing. Staudingee has described, but not denominated most of these 



forms; rufolimbata is before me only from Costa Rica (Orosi), merula from Paramba. — melampia Bat. (126 i) melamiAa. 

 may be a distinct species, or only a large form; the ^ is without the orange stripe of the hindwing, the 2 

 has it thin and highly undulate. The irroration is insignificant, especially in the ^J, and also on the under 

 surface, where the other euckarila-iovvus, exhibit yellow grating, melampia shows only black-shaded comma- 

 spots. From Bahia, where it is rare, and Espnitu Santo. 



N. phryxe Fldr. (126 i, k). Large, more grey than dark brown, the small light spots confluent to phryxe. 

 i or 5 remote arcuate lines; beneath like above. Amazon and Bahia. 



N. sylva Mscklr. (126 h). Stripes similar as in Cr. thasus, but the light stripes diaphanous, as of light .^tyh-a. 

 bluish glass, and in the sunshine with a mother-of-pearl gloss. Beneath exactly like above. Guiana: before 

 me also from Peru (Galcazu), where it is, however, very rare. It approximates Cremna thasus. 



N. umbra Bsd. (= cebrenia Heiv.) (126 i). Brown like Eunogyra, but differing from E. satyrus by umbra. 

 a more curved margin of the forewing, ring- and hook-marking of the upper surface and 1 or 2 fine white 

 subapical dots in the forewing. Mexico and Central America. From specimens from Costa Rica and Guate- 

 mala those from Mexico differ by the postmedian line of the hindwing being coherent and straight there, while 

 here it is broken up into separate crescents. Not rare. 



N. beltiana Godm. (126k). Almost like the form frustatoria of eucharila, but the submarginal rows beltiana. 

 of clots do not run uniformly, but curved; the anal part of the hindwing is above and beneath powdered as 

 if with flour and exhibits a half-band, being entirelj;' white or interspersed with quite few shades; Guiana and 

 North Brazil; the figured specimen form Demerara. — In malis Godm. (126 k) from Muzo in Colombia the nmlis. 

 lacteous powdering of the hindwing is rather extensive, the white of the under surface greatly increased. 

 The white half-band, however, is absent. ■ — lucilia Mscklr. is an intermediate form with a narrower white band lucilia. 

 of the hindwing, whereas in aza Drc. the white of the small spots of the forewings, in the anal part of the a:a. 

 hindwings and on the whole under surface is increased; lucilia comes from Surinam, aza from Bolivia. .From 

 Guiana, however, I possess also specimens of a form having on the forewing exactly the markmg of beltiana; 

 the hindwing, however, is without the lacteous dusting of malis a,s well as the Avhite half-band of beltiana. 



N. nepos F. (126 k). Forewing dark brown, strewn with white, one spot beyond the centre of the ncpos. 

 wing especially large. In the hindwing the whole anal half snow-white. From Guiana to Ecuador and Peru. — 

 tanos Stick. (126 k) from Bolivia is larger, the forewing more sparsely spotted. — orpheus Wic. (126 k) from taiws. 

 South Brazil and Paraguay is smaller than thanos, the forewings spotted like there, but the ^^■hite area of the orplicus. 

 hindwing differently shaped. Less rare than the forms of beltiana. 



N. theages G. and S. (126 k). From Central America and the neighboming Colombia has the white thcagc^. 

 area of the hindwing in the anal part tinged in bluish, and also on the forewmg a band consisting of 2 white 

 spots and being sometimes interrupted by the ground-colour {asteria Stick.). The spots of the forewings maj- 

 be larger or smaller (cribraria Stick.). 



16. Genus: Alesa Dbl. 



This genus is distinguished by a vast sexual dimorphism receding some\^iiat only m one species. The 



body is slender, the head broad, slanting, with a flat forehead and closely appressed short palpi; antemiae verj- 



long, only slightly thickened at their ends. Abdomen long, in the (J thin, in the $ stout, but liliewise stretched; 



forewings long with a very oblique distal margin, hindwings round, especially in the $. Cells of all the wings 



