LEMONIAS. By Dr. A. Sbitz. 703 



of -which exhibits a wonderful ultra-marine blue lustre and often also orange-red, small distal spots. — xan- xanthocras- 

 (hocraspedum Stick. (137 c) which we figure from Cachabe, are $$ with a faintly olive-brown tinge on the pedum. 

 upper surface and a broadly yellowish-brown distal band of the hindwing. — Not rare. 



M. regalis Btlr. ($ = auria Drc.) (137 b) has the upper surface similarly coloured as victrix; but the regalis. 

 (J is beneath similarly coloured as the $ on both surfaces, i. e. red-brown, with black spots, whereas the 

 o of victrix looks blackish-blue beneath. Venezuela (Suapure), Colombia fVillavicencio) to Bolivia and Peru. 

 Colombian specimens are beneath lighter red-brown than Peruvians. — indissimilis Weeks (137 d) is a form indissimi- 

 being above olive-brown, from Colombia, with a rusty-yellow (rabuiana Stick.) or ochreous-yellow diffuse '''' 



spot in front of the apex of the forewing. 



M. ptolomaeus F. (= agrius Dahn., sylvestra Men.) (137 b, misprinted in ptolemaeus). Here both ptolomaetM. 

 sexes are above red-brown, the under surface, however, in the (J black, with a blue reflection, the basal 

 part of the wings powdered with a whitish blue, ptolomaeus-,;^ is coloured contrarily to the preceding species, 

 since the upper surface of ptolomaeus resembles the under surface of regalis, and the under surface of ptolo- 

 maeus-^ the upper surface of regalis- $. From the Amazon to South Brazil. Common. 



M. lucius F. (= nicaste H.-Sckaff., batesi Btlr.) (137 b). Above colomed and marked almost like hwius. 

 nigrella, but much smaller, the forewings posteriorly broader and the border of the hindwing almost straight. 

 rj beneath grey-blue, with a lilac reflection, $ beneath rusty-yellow, similar to that of ptolomaeus, but the 

 base of the wings not powdered with white as there. Guiana to Brazil. Common. 



M. chia Hhn. Smaller than lucius, the pencil-streaks of the veins thicker and shorter, the upper chia. 

 surface deep dark-brown, but at the lower distal end of the disc of the forewing is a small orange spot. 

 The under surface is light yellowish-brown, the wings dotted in black and broadly margined in dark. I 

 only known Hxjebnees figure which was inserted here by reason of the pencil streaks, but which otherwise 

 resembles a Crocoxona. Guiana. 



M. exigua Bat. is said not to be the $ of the preceding species, but closely allied to it. Above exigua. 

 brown with small, cornered darker brown spots, and with less numerous, small orange spots between them: 

 in front of the border a series of darker orange-brown bordered spots. Beneath brownish-yellow, spotted 

 like above. Size of lucius; described according to 1 $ from the Tapajoz; unknown to me. 



M, erotylus Stick. (137 k). Blackish, hindwings in the basal part covered with red-brown; recognizable emiyhts. 

 by the orange spot of the forewing, the base of which occupies the whole inner margin, and which then extends 

 anteriorly, twists inwardly and grows narrower, in order to end taperingly at the middle of the costa. On 

 the under surface the forewing is similar as above, but the hindwings are dusted greyish-brown and covered 

 with dark commastreaks. The pencil-streaks on the ends of the veins are in the cJ distinct only on the 

 hindwings above; in the dark-brown, yellow-spotted $ they are on both wings. Peru, Bolivia. 



M. erythromelas Sepp (137 d). The $ already greatly resembles some $$ of the next genus (e. g. Le- eryihrome- 

 monias emylius). Dark, -with an ochreous-yellow, irregular oblique band of the forewing. Behind this oblique ^^'^- 



band there are 3 to 5 small white diffuse spots, which occur also in the (J, though only beneath. The ^ is 

 above black, only the basal half of the forewing (except the costa) and a slight flush at the base and mner 

 margin of the hindwing are miniate, at least I myself consider such butterflies from Guiana to be the tj^ical 

 (J(J of erytkromelas. — In the form erythraea Stick, from Espiritu Santo, unknown to me, the red is more erythraea. 

 extensive, and the description mentions a yellow ring-spot near the apex. 



M. poeciloptera G. and S. (137 d) has in the (J somewhat more red than the precedmg species, so poecilopte- 



that the proximal half of the wings may be called red, the distal one black. — melusina Star. (137 d) differs , . ''"■ 



. mehisina. 



scarcely from it. The (J has the greatest part of the hindwing black. — Larva white, fluffily haired in white, 



on Viscum verticellatum ; the pupa brown, fluffily haired in white (Sepp). 



84. Genus: I^emouias Wiv. 



This adopted name is to be preferred to the Polysticktis, as no other genus of animals is called so, 

 and it can by rights not pass as such. Neither the veins, nor the legs nor antennae call for a division mto 

 further genera; nor does the formation of the palpi give sufficient reason for a separation; according to 

 Stichel an examination of the copulation-organs resulted in ,, insufficient conclusions". There remain, there- 

 fore, merely exterior differences of the habitus to which we attach little importance. Thus the genus remains 

 on the whole in the limits assigned by Westwood and the older authors, such as Bates and Kirby. — Hereto 

 belong graceful, mostly brightly coloured, rather small butterflies with a long, slender body, mostly rather 

 glaring colours of the upper surface and a one-coloured, often white under surface decorated with tiny 

 dots and streaks. The 5$ mostly greatly deviate from the (^(J, frequently with an oblique band of the fore- 

 wing. The under surface and still more the shape and colouring of some $$ exhibit a close alliance to Eckenais: 

 sometimes to such an extent that one might be inclined to regard the separation of the two genera to be 

 not quite natural. 



