PHAENOCHITONIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 677 



M. capissene Hew. (135 b). Easily recognizable by the rows of discal dots traversing the narrowly capissenc. 

 blackish-margined red forewing before and behind the middle. South Brazil, rare. According to Stichel, 

 M. strigulata Schs. (being unknown to me) is said to be identical with it. 



M. martha Schs. from Peru and Ecuador is about as large as silaris, but in typical specimens with nmrthu. 

 a narrower margin and fine black cell-end streaks and tiny spots on the under smface. • — In verecunda verecunda. 

 Stick. (142 b) from Korth-East Peru the black costal stripe in the basal part of the forewing is thickened, 

 so that the red discal area appears narrowed and turned round into a tooth projecting costalwards behind 

 the cell. 



52. Genus: ^Iiaeiiocliftonia Stick. 



This genus is composed of 4 groups of butterflies {ciiigulus-, sdgaris-,hocckoris-, and phoetiicura-growp) 

 which Stichel detaches from the red Mesene. These groups, however, greatly differ again among each 

 other, and the great sexual difference of Pkaenockitonia mentioned by Stichel in separating them does not 

 prove correct in all their species. The differences in the veins (mentioned in Mesene), however, may very 

 well justify the detachment, if they are to be applied to all the species. — I was able to ascertain a dif- 

 ference in the habits, since some Pkaenockitonia are animatedly swarming about in the sunshine in day-time 

 (sagaris, bocckoris, dukinfildia), whereas I frequently chased up the if esewes. s., though I never saw them swar- 

 ming spontaneously, even at the places where they were common. This may be also the reason why the Mesene 

 are mostlj' c^uite red, the Pkaenockitonia, however, of an inconspicuous black ground-colour. 



ph. cingulus Stoll (= aerope Wtv.) (134 h). c? black with a vermilion basal half of the hindwing, cingulus. 

 $ with a red median band, resembling Crocozona (134 e). From Surinam to Bolivia. — trucidata Btlr. is trucidata. 

 presumably only a slight deviation of the $ with a broader margin of the forewing. Amazon. — Not commen. 



ph. pyrsodes Bat. In the- shape and size it approximates the preceding species, but the red of the pyrsodes. 

 hiiidwing, in the ^ is also continued on the forewing, the disc of which is occupied by it almost as far as 

 the subcostal. Teffe. The $ is unknown to me. — eanes Godm. (134 h) is probably only a somewhat smaller canes. 

 form v/ith a lighter, more brightly marked under surface; Amazon. 



Ph. debiiis Bat. already reminds us somewhat of sagaris (134 h, i), but it is considerably smaller debiU'i. 

 and more delicate. Both the sexes are above deep dark-brown. With an orange band running from the 

 centre of the forewing or already from below the costa to the inner margin, where it continues on the hind- 

 wing at the base of which it is curved. The under surface is brown, finely speckled in grey; near theimaer 

 margin of the lorewings a yellow spot. Prom the Tapajoz. 



ph. igntcauda G. and S. differs but little from cingulus-^ ; vecognizakAe by the scarlet abdomen and Ujuicaudu. 

 by the red of the base of the hindwing extending far beyond the cell. — In 



ph. ignipicta Schs. (134 h) the basal red of the hindwing extends only to the basal part of the cell, kjnipida. 

 but it accompanies the inner margin almost to the anal angle; Gosta Rica; the figured specimen was taken 

 near Guapiles. • • J ■ 



ph. fuiiginea Bat. Above entii-ely like the ^ of cingulus, also the fringes white-speckled, but the juUybica. 

 red in the hindwing is absent; the latter is also quite velvety black. Prom Villa Nova (Amazon). 



ph. sophistes Bat. (= pactolus Mscklr.) (134 h). Resembles cmg"MZ?(,s-$, but the red median band sophistcs. 

 is narrower, especially on the hindwing, and the ground-colour lighter brown, traversed by parallel darker 

 spots and stripes. Under surface lighter and more variegated, almost like in eanes, but the median band 

 of the forewing broad. Amazon. 



Ph. phoetlicura G. and S. (= noctis Stgr.) (134 i). Ground-colour as in sophistes, lighter broAvn. pJwcnicura. 

 traversed by numerous, darker, small transverse stripes; the red median band of sophistes is absent, but 

 the end of the abdomen is broad red. Central America to Colombia. 



ph. mandosa Drc. Marking and colouring almost exactly as in the preceding, but larger, the ab- mandosa. 

 dominal end not red and the under surface with a green lustre. Rio de Janeiro. Apparently rare. 



ph. arbuscula Mschh\ Similar to the preceding, above resembling a Caria, the marking above moie arhuf^cula. 

 faded, consisting of 6 transverse bands separated by spots, the 4th and 5th of which flow together in cellule 2. 

 Beneath the greenish lustre is replaced by a dull, somewhat brilliant bluish black, the wings somewhat 

 narrower. Dascribed according to a (J from Paramaribo. 



ph. dukinfildia Scks. (134 i). This elegant animal from South Brazil, looks differezitly at every habitat. dul-infUdia. 

 Nearly always recognizable by an orange belt cutting off the apical part and hy a cell-end spot of the fore- 



