NYMPHIDIUM. By Dr. A. Se-tz. 711 



N. grande G. <h S. (139 i). The largest species of the genus. A broad oval white or yellow baud yrawJe. 

 begins behind the cell of the forewing and ends round before the inner margin of the hindwing. In front of 

 the border a double row of small white spots, before it a red stripe. Beneath like above, somewhat duller, 

 the small ma,rgina] spots larger. There occur 2$ with yellow as well as A'hite bands. Colombia. Rare. 



N. victfix Eebel (139 h). Conspicuous for the hindwings of the cj being pointed in the anal part and victrix. 

 provided with a straightly cut off border. Dark-brown with a white, rather narrow, joint median band of the 

 wings; behind it a small, curved, red-yellow band, behind this, before the border, an irregular white stripe. 

 Rio de Janeiro, but presumably scarcely near the town, but farther in the mountains and rare. Is said to occur 

 also in the Amazon district ( ?). The species seems to be transformed by mimicrj . 



N. phliasus Or. (= hewitsoni Rebel) (139 h). Likewise subject to mimicrj', reproducing an Adclpha yhliasug. 

 from its sm'roundings [A. pJiUnssa). The orange spot behind the cell of the forewing projecting in a tooth towards 

 the border passes over into the white median band without amy separation. The width and shape of the band 

 varies somewhat according to the habitat. Guia.na. Rare. 



N. maravalica sp. nov. (139 h,i). Only in the 9 the Adelpha-resemhlaiice is distinctly visible by a nmravalica. 

 separated orange spot standing before the wl.ite, though orange-ending median band at the ccsta of the fere- 

 wing; it imitates the Adelpha-f ovm. daceleia FruJist. The (^ has the shape of the bands of pihillone, but the upper 

 tip of the band is faintly tinged orange. Isle of Trinidad, presumably also opposite in Venezuela. 



N. enimanga sp. nov. (139 g as paidistiyia) . Without the orange spot before the apex of the forewing; eninmnga. 

 the white median band is here so much broader that it covers the whole disc of the forewing and the whole 

 hindwing except the border and base. The under surface is all white except a spotted costal stripe of the fore- 

 wings and the moderately broad brown distal margin of both wings. Paraguay; the species is apparentlj" not 

 common *). 



N. phillone Godt. (= phliasus Rebel) (139 g,h, as paulistina). At once discernible from the prece- phillone. 

 ding group by the round border of the hindwing and a rusty-red tinge of the collar and sheaths (what is unfor- 

 tunately not marked in the figure of the $. The white band of medium width varies at every habitat. In speci- 

 mens before me from Neu-Freyburg the band ends obtusely in front (our ^-figure), in the neighbouring 

 Rio de Janeiro pointed (cJ-figure). In specimens from Theresopolis (or San Pedro?) it is said to be narrower 

 (= pedrojiia Stick.) and in specimens from Sao Paulo (= paulistina Stick. 142 g, not 139 g, h, as pkilone) still pauUsUna. 

 narrower, as narrow as in victrix. (The animal denoted as pmdistina on t. 139 g is another species — enimanga — 

 and does not belong to pkillone Godt., but it is allied to victrix, pkliastis and maravalica). — Not rare. 



N. velabrum G. <& S. (139 i). Above the upper end of the white band, being common to both wings, velahrum. 

 we notice an orange-yellow preapical spot. This creates the impression of an Adeljjha ipkicleola from Central 

 America. Panama. 



N. calyce Fldr. (139 d, e, as calice). Both sexes brown with black, light-bordered spots before the caJyce. 

 margin. The moderately broad median band ends in the (J above taperingly, in the $ broad; the latter exhibits 

 in typical specimens before the border a red-brown band being on both sides shaded with dark-brown. — In 

 the form mesoleucum Bates described from Baranquilla in Colombia this red-brown band is absent, but the 

 forewings exhibit a white submarginal stripe instead. — From the northern coast of South America, inclusive 

 of Trinidad, to the south as far as South Brazil nearly everywhere common. The butterfly, being an Erycinid, 

 is an uncommonly good flyer which, however, must nevertheless in day-time be invariably beaten out of the 

 bushes skirting the forest-roads. It varies but little in its immense range; in the figured couple (from Rio) 

 the bordering of the white band is almost smooth, in specimens from Cayaba the inner (proximal) border of 

 the band is somewhat more dentate etc. From Peru there are specimens of both sexes before me, with a pale 

 yellow median band; in a specimen taken in Peru at 2000 m, however, the band is purely white. — brennus hn'tums. 

 Stick. I cannot distinguish from typical calyce neither regarding the description nor according to theo before 

 me having been denoted with this i. 1. -name by St^udinger; of tnanius Stick, the $ is said to resemble more manius. 

 that of my cone. 



N. mycone Heiv. (139 e) is, according to Stichel, only a deviating form of the preceding species, myconc. 

 The border of the forewing is more rounded, the hindwing of the ^ somewhat more educed in the anal part. 

 cj above quite red-brown, without the white median band; the $ exhibits the latter and, therefore, greatly 

 resembles that of calyce, but the band of the forewing is not so round above, but more obliquely cut off. Mexico 

 and Central America as far as Colombia, where also calyce occurs. 



N. gela Hew. (139 f). Very closely allied to calyce in the shape and marking, but the band pale yellow., ijvla. 

 Typical specimens originate from the hower Amazon (Santarem); they are represented by our o.figuj-e, exhi- 

 biting a red-brown base of the wings and a red-brown transverse stripe between the white band and the border 

 of the wings. Specimens from French Guiana have a more blackish-brown base of the wings and, according 

 to the habitat, they are large with a broad median band (opposite the Devil's Island) or small and with narrow 

 bands (Cayenne). Common. 



*) According to Stk'HKL, the figure of our pliiUoiw loO j;', li icprcsent.s his panlisiinu. Befoiv luc, liowcvcr. ;u-c Uio 

 types of Stichjel's pauiistina, (from the Coll. Robkk) which I figure (1;12 g). By Stichels (luotatioii ,,He\v. 4, fig. 29" in the 

 typical ])h'Ulori,e Godt. we recognize in paulistina Sticli. a very slightly narrower white-banded deviation which cannot be com- 

 bined with tlie cj[uite differently shaped viclri.v lichcl. 



