686 ANTEROS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



the blue spot is much smaller than iwamalfreda; Colombia. — physis exactly reproduces the appearance of 

 Lemonias rhesa Hew., but the latter has a broader black apical part of the forewing and, before the border, 

 phi/ion. a silvery line. — In phyton Stick, from the Amazon the blue spot is oblong, larger than in physis, smaller 

 than in nurtia, and the antemarginal lines of the hindwings are broken up to small streaks. 



occidentaUs. A. occidetitalis G. and S. (= juanita Stgr.) (135 c). As large as mnalfreda, but the inner part of the 



wings more miniate than vermilion, more dotted in black, and in the distal part no blue spot. According 

 placihilh. to Stichel, the $ resembles A. venilia Bates. Colombia. — placibilis Stick, from Peru has a l&ss intensely 

 darkened distal part of the wings, so that here the black markings are more distinctly prominent. 



venilia. A. venilia Bat., from the Lower Amazon, is somewhat lighter yellow, otherwise similar to crocea 



crocea. q r^^^ ^ (135 c) from Central America, but just as densely and coarsely spotted. Both the forms are larger 

 than occidentaUs, with broader wings, and the darkened margin is narrower. Not common. 



stilbe. A. stilbe Godt. (= perone Wiv.) (135 c). Here the distal part of the wings is no more darkened at 



all, the dull ochreous-yellow upper surface exhibiting dark panther-like markings. Brazil. 



holontida. A. holosticta G. and S. (135 c), from Central America to Peru, is almost exactly like stilbe, but light 



lemon-coloured. Mexican specimens have smaller and more sparse dots. 

 sulphurca. A. sulphurea Fld7\ from Mexico is just as bright light yellow, but the dark spots are larger, parti- 



■maeularia. cularly at the margins of the wings. — tnacularia Bsd. (= ochreas G. and S.) (135 c) from Central America 



and Colombia has the spots thicker also on the disc of the wings. Not rare. 



60. Genus : Auteros Hhn. 



The species of this genus are immediately recognizable by the under surface in which small, brown 

 or black-bordered spots with metallic centres stand on the light yellow ground. The iipper surface is mostly 

 black with a yellowish central spot. Morphologically, the species are distinguished by two characteristics : 

 by a beard consisting of long cilia at the anal angle of the hindwing and by dense, brightly coloured flocks 

 of hair at the legs. Most of the species are not common ; they mostly rest on the under surface of leaves with 

 their wings spread out, but sometimes they clap their wings together above the back. The flight is some- 

 what Lycaenid-lilte. Of renaldus forming already a transition to the Ourocnemis I saw the (^^ sometimes on 

 open spaces in the woods, playing with each other and dashing up and down in enormous oscillations so ra- 

 pidly that it was quite impossible to recognize them during their flight ; it is the same peculiar habit I also 

 noticed in some Indian butterflies of other families, in the Lycaenid Bindakara phocides and the Hesperid 

 Tagiades atticus. 

 chnjsopmji- A. chrysoprastus Hav. (133f). Under surface very pale yellow, the small spots dispersed and tiny, 



'""'• without a true brown halo. Upper surface blackish brown, the hindwings margined in bone-yellow. From 

 Guatemala to Bolivia. The ^^ of the southern habitats mostly have in the forewing a tiny light median 

 spot, specimens from Panama, the Chiriqui and Paramba are above without any small white spots at all, 



rorahui. = roratus G. and S. (133 f); specimens from Bolivia (Rio Songo) form the intermediary, i. e. there is a 

 faint trace of the median spot of the upper surface. Not rare. 

 allcctus. A. allectus Ww. (133 f) entirely resembles the preceding and may be of the same species; the median 



spot on the upper surface of the forewing more distinct ; beneath a dark beam above the cell-end of the fore- 

 wing, and in the $ intense, dark spots with metallic centres above the anal angle of the forewing which are 



cumuhitus. smaller or absent in ab. cumulatus Stick. (133 f). Chiefly at home in Colombia, where it is rather common; 

 rarer in Central America and Ecuador, 

 ""'o- A. otho Ww. (133 f). Forewing above with a very large yellow spot occupying in the $ the whole 



centre of the wing; beneath, both wings with a very large dark median cloud. Lower Amazon. Maybe 

 only a collateral-form of the preceding species. 



fornmsiis. A. formosus Cr. (= croesus F., valens F.) (133 f). Somewhat larger than the preceding, but the under 



niicon. sm'face densely covered with spots of a red-brown margin and a golden-centre. — The form tnicon Stick. (133 f, 



lectabilis. g) has beneath less, lectabilis Stick. (133 g) more brown spots; the former occurs more in the north, the 



latter in the south of the range. From the northern coast of South America to South Brazil and Peru, mostly 



not rare, but very local, stramentarius Stick, from la Paz in Bolivia, maculosus Stick, from Panama and 



cruentaius. theleia Stick, are transitions or insignificant deviations. — cruentatus Stick., according to a damaged and, as it 



seems, much flown specimen, is not before me and seems to me to be only a more sparsely spotted' example 



of this species; from Colombia. 



acheii.'s. A. acheus Stall (= ampyx Drc, troas Stick.) (133 g). Considerably larger than the preceding; under 



surface variable, but on the whole rather densely spotted, the spots arranged similarly as in formosus.. In 



