ARGYROGRAIMMA. By Dr. A. Seitz. ' 685 



B. melanis Hhn. (134 g). In tj'pical specimens the median band is still narrower than on om* figure; melunw. 

 instead of it, howeyer, also the hindwing exhibits yet a shortened and often darkened piece of the distal 

 stripe, as for instance in specimens from Rio de Janeiro. The figured specimen originates from Petropolis; 

 here only faint shades of the distal stripe are still noticeable. In specimens from Sao Paulo the distal stripe 

 has entirely disappeared above, and the basal stripe is in no case visible above; beneath, however, all the 

 stripes are to be seen, though they are often narrow. 



B. johannae E. Sh. (134 g). I cannot tell for sure whether this species is justified to be jDlaced into johannac. 

 this genus; the wing-contour and the structure of the body deviate from the other Baeotis. We see here 

 only yet a pale-yellow median band running broadly through the dull blackish wing. North Brazil. ■ — In 

 a 5 from Ceara the median band is extremely narrow, but there are traces of a submarginal stripe to be 

 seen; I denominate this form cearaica form. nov. (134 g). ■ — We must remark yet that the width of the cearaica. 

 median band, as well as its shape vary greatly according to the district. In the form truncata Stick, from truncata. 

 JNIinos Geraes it is even obsolete for some distances. ■ — Not common. 



B. barce Heiv., which is not before me, seems to me to be only an aberrative form of a Baeotis larce. 

 approximating johannae. Here the yellow median band is present only on the hindwings, whereas on the 

 forewings it is obsolete except a tiny median spot and a faint beginning at the inner margin. It was described 

 from Mexico, but I did not find anything similar in the copious collections from Mexico, which I examined. 



B. barissus Heiv. which has been placed here, but which probably is more correctly taken to the haris-ius. 

 following genus, is a small dark-brown butterfly with 6 parallel, yellow transverse stripes; it pretty exactly 

 resembles the 2 of Argyrogramma trochilia, as we figure it t 135 d, but the light dots in the dark distal margin 

 are absent. Ecuador is stated as its patria. The species is considerably smaller than A. trochilia. 



59. Genus : Argyrogramma Stich. 



This genus already approximates the Cha,ris-gTO\i]) to which its species had formerly been placed. 

 They all are small, extremely delicate butterflies, the structure of which is allied to that of the Caria, and 

 of the Phaenochitonia which are likewise mostly dealt with as Charis. At the palpi the first joint is conspicuous 

 for its great length being uncommon in Erycinidae. In the veins we have to mention the relatively long 

 cell of the hindwing, being only little shorter than that of the forewing. From the subsequent Anteros it 

 deviates by the shape of the hindwings. Stichel places 12 distinct species here, which are allied to the 

 genera dealt with last in the habitus and the colouring. 



A. trochilia Ww. (135 d). The (J is of a brilliant sky-blue with black transverse stripes and a dark irochilia. 

 distal margin being finely filled up by orange. The $ has 5 yellow stripes on a dark ground and a metallic 

 line often reduced to tiny spots before the border. Under surface of both sexes striped like a zebra. On 

 the Lower Amazon the species is not very rare. — ieptographia Stich. of which only the (J is before me, is leptorjni- 

 of a very bright sky-blue sapphire-lustre, with a broader orange filling in the border and a blackishly dotted phm. 



instead of striped under surface; taken by Fassl near Muzo in Colombia. 



A. saphirina Stgr. (135 d) is considerably larger; the (^ reminds us of Voltinia theata-^ (126 d), but it sapMrina. 

 has a hghter blue lustre, and an under surface resembling exactly the upper surface of its $; in the latter 

 both surfaces are almost alike, blackish brown with broad yellow stripes and a metallic line before the border 

 of the forewing. Before me only from Colombia, but it is also mentioned from Peru and Bolivia. ■ — In subota suboia. 

 Heiv. from Ecuador the distal bands being interrupted in saphirina are complete. 



A. glaucopis Bat. (142 g). From Teffe on the Amazon. Here the ^ has behind the middle of the fore- ylaumpis. 

 wing a broad smalt-like transverse stripe, similar spots in the cell, and one in the distal part of the forewing; 

 at the base of the forewing and at the inner margin of the hindwing dark red oblique spots. Before the border 

 a blue metallic line. The under surface with numerous black chequered spots and an interrupted metallic line 

 before the border. The $ which is not yet described and which we figure, resembles somewhat a small saphirina- Q; 

 the transverse stripes of the forewing are complete, those of the hindwing interrupted; the j^ellow is darker, 

 more ochreous, at the border of the hindwing even bright orange. Under surface with black spots which, how- 

 ever, are arranged to stripes. 



A. barine Stgr. (135 c, as harsine). The cj has behind the middle of the forewing a smalt-like spot harinc. 

 placed on the inner margin, and dark small spots in the disc of both wings ; the $ is lighter, j^elloAvish-grey, 

 with darker macular bands and a blackish distal marginal part of the forewing with a blue spot before the 

 middle of the border. From the Rio San Juan in West Colombia. 



A. amalfreda Stgr. (135 c). Here the whole hindwing, except the border, and the proximal half of amalircda. 

 the forewing are red with small fine black spots. In the black distal half of the forewing is a smalt-like 

 spot; before the border a metallic line. Pebas. The 9 is unknown to me. — nurtia Stich. (142 g) entirely nuriia. 

 resembles the preceding, but it is larger; above the blue spot of the forewing is yet another blue, small spot: 

 the border of the hindwing broader black; Bolivia, Peru. — In physis Stick. (137 f, as rhesa). on the contrary, physis. 



