710 NYMPHIDIUM. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colom-s are brown and white either of which being now and then 

 preponderant. The wings have a normal shape without indentations, tail-appendages, lobing or coiUng. The 

 larva is known of but 1 species, shaped like a wood-louse, hunched, green with a yellow lateral streak, the neck- 

 organ out of a transverse row of green spikes or bristles. It has a guard of ants. Papa green, fastened by a 

 belt-like thread. The butterflies rest on the under surface of leaves and are chased up by beating the bushes, 

 whereupon they fly like Geometrids for some paces, in order to hide themselves again. The swarming-time 

 seems to be dawn, or the early morning, but I came across the 22 yet in the sunshine of the morning on blos- 

 soms. They are easily taken and fly low. 

 l)t>'i- N. titia CV. '(= tytia F., gnosis BscL, eroe Hen\, lytia Kaye) (140 b). (J dark pm-ple-brown with a 



small white spot below the costa of the forewing and a light-browni, blurred distal band of the hindwing. 9 dark 

 sepia-brown with 3 white spots of the forewing (in the disc, below the costa and before the anal angle), the 

 hindmng with a white distal band. Under surface of both sexes similarly marked, but in the o at the margin 

 arrfos. slightly brightened up, in the $ very much white-speckled. Guiana, near Cayenne not rare. — arctos i/e?r. 

 (140 a, b) is larger, the ^ with a very faint brightening before the border of the hindwing; the 2 also lighter 

 before the bolder of the hindwing, but without a real white band. Amazon. — 2 2 from Teffe form the inter- 

 mediary between tlie two forms; taey have a very narrow white band. — oS from Ecuador and Peru are quite 

 dark brown, without the brightening before the border of the hindwings, the small, white subcostal spot of 



nrkidne. the forewing being larger (= ariadne Stick.) 



oi-pxfes. N. Orestes Or. (140 c). The butterfly occurs in 2 forms which, however, are not definable according 



to patriae. The typical form has above quite. iinicoIorousJy dark red-brown fj(3* being faintly dark-speckled, 

 looking almost like the (JrJ of arctos in which the brighteninas below the costa and before the border of the hind- 

 arrlie. wing are a.bsent; the $ has an ochreous-ycllow band of the forewing. — The second form, arche Hew. (140 b) 

 has above an irregular transverse band being in the cJ only slightly indicated, in the $ composed of large white 

 spots. Guiana and the Amazon, common, also the 2$; according to Stichel, also in Ecuador. 



cmuUice. N. candace Drc. Unkno\vn to me m. nature, mentioned from Rio de Janeiro. Size of the preceding, 



but the hindwings larger, rounder, the border not bevelled as in the preceding species. Above of a red-brown 

 colouring without ma.rkings, beneath only faint traces of the numerous ring-marking of the proximal half. — 

 Unless the patria be confounded, it must be very rare. 



sorana. N. sorana Stoll approximates orestes and originates from Guiana; above dark red-brown, the oblique 



band of the forewing yolk-coloured, uniform. 

 abai-is. N. abaris Cr. (= tenes Dbl., sperthias Fldr.) (140 c). ^ above velvety brown, at the border, some- 



times also across the centre, copper-red. Below the costa a small light spot may stand as in our figure, but it 

 may also be absent altogether. The dark-brown 2, however, always has this spot, and besides the anal angle 

 of the forewing and the border of the hindwing is bone-yellow or marked thus. Guiana and Amazon, very 

 common; in Trinidad apparently rare. 

 phyUeus. N. phylleus Cr. (= phyleus Mschl., phylacis Godt.) (140a a-: phyleiis). $ with a red-brown forewing 



with fox-colom'ed bands and rings, and a fox-coloured hindwing exhibiting black antemarginal dots, a dark- 

 brown base and a similar median band. Belcw the casta a bone-coloured spot. The 2 is dark-brown, with 

 a. broad bone-white band of the forewing and disc of the hindwing and a similar stripe in front of the border. 

 The $ varies extremelj'; the M'hite bands are of a different shape at every habitat; we figui'e an aberration 



apaine. in which all the whitish bands are darkened by a brown scaling (artificial production ?). — apame Heu\ ( = magni- 



fica Stick.) scarcely differs in the male from typical pki/lleus except the red bands being narrower; in the $, 



liracclam. however, the white is greatly narrowed on both wings; from the Amazon. — praeclara Bat. (140 a), on the 



contrary, has the bone-yellow colour increased at the cost of the dark-brown ground-colour; from Guiana. 



The species is not common. 



licimas. N. licinias Stgr. (142 f). Dark-brown, in the marginal area red, in the basal area with black markings; 



both the wings are traversed by a joint band bent proximally towards the costa of the forewing, being in the 

 (J of a bright golden yellow, in the $ lighter, more brownish-yellow. From the Rio San Juan in Colombia. 

 Statjdingers figm'e of a (J which we copy corresponds well with a specimen in Godmans collection. Apparently 

 verj' rare. 

 dorilw. N. dorilis Bat. resembles licinias to which it belongs according to Stichel; but the red-yellow median 



area has here the shape of the white band of crdyce (139 e). 

 iii/wphidio- N. nymphidioides Bilr. (= labdacus G. cfc S.) (141 c). Size of pJiylleus; (^ with light small median 



iiie.'!. 5;pQtg [j^ ^]ie fiij.p of the red-brown forewing. 2 white, the forewings with a brown border and a brown basal 

 part, in the latter white, dark-piipilled rings. Central America, rare. 

 clhelinda. N. ethelinda Hew. (139 i). ^J chestnut^bro-^vn, forewings almost without any markings; hindwing 



except the basal third and the apex yellowish-white. similar to that of the preceding species, but at the 

 costa of the forewing a broad, at the border of the hindwing an interrupted, brown stripe. Central and 

 South Brazil. Rare. 



nydeus. N. nycteus G. d- S. (141 c). ^ similar to that of the preceding, but the hindwing, except the brown 



apex, snow-white, and this colour also passes over to the forewing before its anal angle. 2 white, through the 

 whole forewing runs a broad, brown, black-marked longitudinal band from the base to the border above the 

 anai angle. Central America. 



