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Stgr. (128 i) is almost entirely white, onlj' before the border slightly yellowislily darkened and with a yel- 

 loAvish-brown under surface. — ■ &xih\& Bat. and the hardly differing eidothea Btlr. form the intermediary duUa. 

 between pellex and phasma, being darker than pellex, lighter than phasma. They are forms of the eastern '''"''^"^"^ 

 coast of Brazil, dubia occurring in the north (near Para), eidothea in South Brazil. The latter is white with 

 greyish-brown veins and a broad mai'ginal band of the fore wing, being the broadest at the costa and nar- 

 rowed in the second median interspace. Hindwing beneath of a dull white or pale oehreous tinge. 



,47. Genus: Uraweis Bat. 



A number of forms of this genus may be divided among quite few species v/hich have fort'onately 

 received but few denominations. They copy blaclv, hyaline-spotted Cyllopodinae or Pericopiinae, the latter of 

 which are protected by the secretion of oil out of the thorax. The consequence of this imitation is an ex- 

 tensive polymorphism, since the imitators have to copy now this model, then the other; but they all are 

 black with whitish or hyaline spots and a blue reflection. The palpi are well visible from above, projecting, 

 of medium length; the cell of the forewing of almost half the length of the wing, the cell of the hindwing 

 only quite short. There is a remarkable difference in the shape of the hindwings. The Uraneis are not 

 rare, but difficult to discover from among the great number of hyaline Ithomiinae and Heterocera; they 

 come to the bait early in the morning and are beaten out of the bushes in day-time. 



U. hyalina Btlr. (138 e, misprinted into iicalind). Recognizable by the long-stretched anal part of hy.iUna. 

 tbe hindwing of they,^. Black with hyaline bhrish discal brightenings and alike oblique band before the 

 apex of the forewing. Amazon to Bolivia. Bolivians from Buenavista have a broader black margin of the 

 wings: the preapical oblique band may be broad or narrow, short or long, straight or bent. It resembles certain 

 Tmetoglene (e. g. esthema) which, however, have orange-yellow palpi that are ile\er found in Uraneis. 



U. zamuro Thm. (138 e). Here the disc of the wings is black, the oblique band of the forewing very zamuro. 

 broad oval, bluish- white ; hindwings with white antemarginal cuneiform spots. Differing at every habitat. 

 Near Cundinamarca (Colombia) the band of the forewing is rather narrow, the wedges of the hindwings 

 do not reach the centre of the wing. On the Rio Negro (Colombia) the wedges of the hindwings feebly' 

 run as far as towards the base, in the figured specimen (from Ecuador) they are very much broader. Not rare. 



U. ucubis Heiv. (-— ica,<Ma,ia, Stgr.) (138 e). Blackish-blue, before the border of all the wings white ucuhis. 

 cuneiform rays which grow especially thick and broad in the form lamprolenis Rob. (138 e). Colombia, Ecu- lamprolems. 

 ador. Rarer. 



48. Genus: Estliemiopsfs Fldr. 



Very closely allied to the preceding genus; scarcely differing in the veins, nor considerably^ deviaiing 

 from the preceding in the habitus and partly confined to the same models with respect to the mimicry. 

 The red znan'o- being described s,?, Tiymnas, h\it according to Stickel to be inserted here, is entirely unlike 

 this group, but perhaps only because it copies a model from another group than the rest of the EstJie- 

 mcpsis which are confined to black, hyaline-spotted or fenestrated originals. We must yet be better in- 

 formed abouc this genus, as it has been hitherto looked at in a different light by every antlior. According 

 to ^tH:^GEL it contains 14, to Sttchel 13 (many other) species. The butterflies, the habits of which T was 

 not able to observe myself, presumably imitate the habits of their models. 



'E. c\Qni& Fldr . {li% c ,&& cloriius) e<ciiive^y xesernhlefi Urarieis zaniw varies lilce it particularly clonia. 



in the shape of the band of the forewihg and of ' the wedges of the hindwing. BlackisH-biue with a broad 

 white, subapical band of a bluish reflection, showing half through. Immediately distinguisliabie from Ura- 

 neis zamuro by the palpi being in the latter long-projecting, black, with white stripes, in E. clonia, however, 

 short, bright red-yellow. From Central Arherica to the Amazon,' not very rare. — alicia Bat. described from alicia. 

 Guateruala, is alsmost just the same, but without the -vvhite cuneiform spots in the hindwing. — saracena soracena. 

 8m. does not show the band of the forewing broken up towards below into spots, but coherent, ending before 

 the anal angle; without distinct cuneiform spots in the hindwing. Brazil. 



, E. macara Sin. (= acara Mengel) from Colombia; is smaller than the preceding, otherwise similar; macara. 

 the band of the forewing above narrow, band-shaped, the lower end slightly curved inwards: above without 

 cuneiform spots on the hindwing, but beneath are magnificently blue rays on it. 



E. pbliotactis Stick. (142 k), is based upon 1 (J from Peru. Black, on the forewings with grey-, on poliofacfis. - 

 the hindwing with obsolete cuneiform spots before the border. Beneath the wedges are more distinct, in 

 the hindwing almost white. Head and body black, ruff yellow. Lengch of forewings 19 mm. 



E. caeruleata G. and S. Above black with, a smaH narrow white oblique band, so that above the caemleafa. 

 a,-pTpea.va,nee,oi Chamaelimnas pansa (127 g) is produced; but at once recognizable by the under' surface ex- 

 hibiting the magnificently blue rays of the preceding species on the hindwing. Panama. Only $$ known 

 which may belong to a differently denominated (J. 



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