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the band of the forewing extendmg beyond the middle median vein and the disc of the hindwing being be- 

 neath brightened up in the middle by bone-white. Probably they are from the same district, though from 

 another finding-place, as leucophlegma, the type of which is said to be in the Paris Museum. T denominate 

 them leucophlegmoides (131 e). leumpMeg- 



L. cratippa sp. nov. (131 e). Deeper black than the preceding^ the veins somewhat lighter, the wings . P'"^"^^- 

 more pointed, the white band of the forewing straight, of a pure white, extending as far as to the middle 

 median vein,, the apex of the forewing only beneath distinctly whitish. Maranhao (North Brazil) ; Matto Grosso. 

 It is to aegates Hew. exactly as opites Hew. is to melander Cr. 



L. hillapana Rob. (= cj^uadriplaga Thm.) (131 e) is larger than the preceding, the apex of the forewing fdllapana. 

 very much fringed in white, the oblique band broad and straight almost to the anal angle; Peru, Bolivia. — 

 Tn pronostriga Stick. (131 e) from Colombia and North Brazil, in addition to the band of the forewing, the pronrj-siriga. 

 fringes at the apex are also orange-yellow. — albugo Stick. (131 e) has the band reduced to an oblong oval, albugo. 

 white; its aberration being sold in the trade b3' the name of patdina, denominated by Stichel as impura. impura. 

 has the reduced band ochre-yellow. The two latter forms have come in great numbers from Paraguay 

 during the last decades, where they .are near jSapucay evidently not so rare as most of the other species 

 of Lymnas. 



L. semiota fyjt. is near to killapana, but differs by the oblique band in the forewing being yellow scmiola. 

 instead of white. Tapajoz. It forms a transition to the mefawdler-group. 



L. melander Cr. (o , nee S) (= melliplaga Stick.) (131 f ) lias the honey-yellow band of the forewing more melander. 

 oblong quadrangular; the fringes of the hindwing likeivise honey-yellow. Guiana. — opites Hew. resembles opites. 

 melander, but it is smaller, the ground-colour deeper black, the fringes of the hindwing and the apex of the 

 forewing not yellow. Is to melander as cratippa Sz. is to aegates Hew. Brazil. 



L. electron Godt. (? melander Stick.) (131 f) is smaller, the spot more whitish yellow and narrower, electron. 

 so that a resemblance is created with iarhas F. from which it differs beside its smaller size by the fringes of 

 the hindwings only being yellow, not also the margin of the., wings. The yellow band of the forewing is 

 befeides'slightlj curved, not so straight, and more pale than dark golden-yellow. Northern parts of South America. 



L. ubia Fldr. (131 f). Differs from the preceding by the much broader, nearly oval oblique band of uhia. 

 the forewing and bj' the presence of small orange marginal spots separated from each other by small indenta- 

 tions of the black ground-colour, before the orange-yellow fringes of the hindwing at the anal marginal part of 

 the hindwing. Venezuela and adjoining parts of Guiana and the Amazon. 



• L. epijarbas Stgr. (131 f). This robust form is probably little connected with the smaller, delicate cpijarba-'s. 

 ubia. A band-like spot, the extremest apex of the forewing and the margin of the hindwing are orange 

 yellow. The butterflies are very constant; among a great number of specimens before me from Itaituba there 

 is not one that varies. — echiana form. nov. (131 f) superficially resembles iibia the small marginal spots of echidna. 

 which, however, are here united to an orange-yellow marginal band of the hindwing; whereas the oblique spot 

 of the forewing is much narrower. It is also larger, more slender and with more pointed wings than ubia, more 

 densely scaled and with intenser colours. From San Estaban in Venezuela. 



L. iarbas F. {■— jarbus Stgr., electron F.) (131 g). Presumably the most common species of Lymnas, iarbaa. - 

 from Venezuela to Ecuador and in the islands of Curasao and Trinidad. On a deep black ground, all the wings 

 exhibit a large spot similar to a small drop of blood, near the base, while the fore wings show a sharply 

 marked orange band and the hindwings a similar margin. Although the species varies little on the whole, still 

 the inhabitants of certain flying-places are easily discernible, as for instance in Trinidad, from which is- 

 land there are about 60 specimens before me, the examples from the interior are distinctly different from those 

 from Port of Spain. Those from the island of Curasao have even been denominated: herelltis Snell. Above Iwellus. 

 all the spots resembling drops of blood vary, especially on the hindwing; the oblique band may be some- 

 what broader, narrower, more obtuse, irregularly defined and so on; the golden-yellow marginal band of the 

 hindwing may be of different width and extend from the anal angle to the apex, half the length of the margin 

 to % of the margin, it may even be absent altogether so that only the fringes are yet yellow; this is rabuscula rahascula. 

 Stick. In the same way we may leave a name also to the other extreme, melantho Men. (131 g), a special mclanflio. 

 form from Central America (contrary to S^lvin and Godm^in who simply denominate them iarbas). These 

 specimens have a golden-yellow apex of the forewing, and the very broad margin of the hindwing is deep orange- 

 red. On the other hand, the delimitation of the more southern specimens (aurifcax Stick.) with somewhat 

 broader A'ings, a wider oblique band and an unreduced marginal band of the hind^^ings neces?itated the deno- 

 mination of quite a number of side-forms. These specimens are not characteristic of am^ district, exhibiting 

 all the transitions to the type. — In southern specimens the band of the forewing may be orange-j^ellow, but 

 also white; v. Boenninghatjsen reports even of examples from Rio Grande do Sul the oblique band of 

 which is half white, half yellow. Certainly the shape or colour of it varies at every habitat in South Brazil, 

 and ckaron Btlr. described from Rio is probably nothing else but the Corcovado-form of this widelj' distri- 

 buted .species. 



