712 NYMPHIDIUM By Dr. A. Seitz. 



pelops. N. pelops F. (= pittheus Hffgg.) (139 g). Spelled ,,pelope" by Hubner; it has a much bioader 



median band covering the whole hindwing except the brown border; recognizable by a trapeziform projection 



of the brown costal band of the forewing. In specimens from Venezuela (Suapure) this projection is broad 



and has bevelled sides (= cavifascia Bilr.), in specimens from Fonte Boa (Amazon) the corners of it are blunted 



off (^-figure); Para-specimens exhibit it shortened and almost unspotted, copper-red margins of the wings; 



in those from Medina (Colombia) the margin of the wings is blackish-brown, nearly without any red etc. — 



Not rare. 



a(jle. N. agle Hew. (139 g). Very closely allied to the preceding, but the dark border of the forewing with 



a red filling, not with red rings. Instead of the trapezoid projection of jyelops we notice a small comma-spot 



at the cell-end, projecting into the white of the disc. Range as in pelops, Guiana and North Brazil. The distal 



band may be broader or narrower (= fwva Stick.) and with more intense (= quinoni Weeks) or less intense 



menalcidas. (= dirca Stick.) markings. — Common. — menaicidas form. nov. (139 f, as menalcus) is larger, darker yellow, 



the margin above black, the marking above extinct, the dark marginal spots beneath smaller, more distinct; 



from the Kouron River, opposite the Devil's Island. 



chaonia. N. cHaonia Hew. (140 a, misprinted into ckionea) is larger, yellowish-white and has a white crescent 



in the dark apex of the forewing, a white line embedded in the marginal band of the hindwing. Amazon to 



Bolivia; on the Rio Songo the subapical white spot is greatly reduced. 



ochra. N. ochra Bat. (139 f) from Bolivia and the Upper Amazon entirely resembles agle, but the margin 



of the wing is black, not redbrown and is traversed on the forewing by a single, on the hindwing by a double, 



sict/on. pale-yellow line connected by rungs. — In sicyon G. <& S. from Central America the yellow line is absent in the 

 margin of the forewing, but in the hindwing it appears treble, not double, and without the connecting rungs. — 

 Rarer. 



reyuhis. N. regulus F. (= ebusa Dbl.) (140 e). The yellow median band is bevelled at its anterior end and 



does not appreciably expand towards the inner margin of the hindwing. Behind it the forewing exhibits 2 oval 

 spots, the hindwing a stripe parallel to it. Brazil. — Specimens from the Upper Amazon and Bolivia usually 

 have a broader median band (? = sylvarum Hat.), but the form varies according to the habitats. Thus both 

 regulus and sylvarum are reported from Para, but they are still said to be ,, subspecies" of one species. 

 laiiii.'i. N, lamis Stoll (139 c, d). Very similar to calyce, but larger, the $ with broader bands, the band of 



the forewing is mostly also more irregularly defined. Easily discernible by the longer and slender palpi of the 

 cJ (whereas in calyce only the 2 has long palpi) and by the abdomen which in caZcye appears only white-pruinous 

 azun. at the sides and beneath, being also above white in lamis. Mexico to the Amazon, varying greatly. — azan 

 He^v. (= australis Fldr.) (139 d) is the southern form from South Brazil to the north as far as Bahia, common 

 in Santos where I collected the ?$ on blossoming bushes. From those of typical lamis they differ by the white 

 band being nearly twice as broad. Among these $$ there flew uncommonly large ^^ of calyce one of which 

 is by mistake figured as azan-^ (t. 139 d, 2 nd fig.), as I had taken it together with a2aw-$$ and, therefore, 

 regarded as the ^ belonging thereto. The $$ do not only vary regarding the boundary-line of the white band; 

 some have the brown margin of the hindwings filled with red, some not; these, however, are no geographical 

 coiiiph'ia. differences of subspecies. — completa Lathy (139 d) are $$ from Peru with a single, medium-broad, regularly 

 molpc. bent band. — itiolpe Hhn. (139 b, c) is presumably nothing but a small form of lamis occm'ring from Mexico 

 as far as the Amazon, being mostly very common and living more in the open country than in densely wooded 

 caucana. forests. — caucana Stick, has only the size of molpe, but an especially broad white band. Described from Colom- 

 ipsea. bia. — ipsea G. d- S. are molpe from Nicaragua in which the median area is yellowish instead of white and rounded 

 at its upper end. There exist, however, all the transitions to it, so that ipsea is hardly maintainable as a distinct 

 subspecies. 

 azanoides. N. azanoides Btlr. (139 c). The (^ entu-ely resembles that of lamis, but it is biackish-brown, the white 



band above pointed, smoothly defined, in the anal part of the hindwing a yellowish-red band being sometimes 

 stunted to mere traces. The o^ however, is quite different from that of lamis or azan, the white median band 

 not broadei than in the (J, the red band in front of the border of the hindwing mostly broad and bright, the 

 under surface variegated. Central America (Costa Rica), Colombia to Bolivia and Peru. In specimens from 

 the two latter countries the bossy spots at the border are larger, higher, and the yellowish-red of the hindwing 

 is reduced in the $, in the (J it has entirety disappeared above. Not rare. 

 llsimon. N. lisimon Stoll (139 b). Sometimes spelled lysimon, or lisimaena or lisimond, resembles azanoides, 



but it is scarcely of half its size, but the marking and colouring above is almost exactly the same as there, which 

 plaiea. is the case in both sexes. Guiana. — platea Ww. (139 b) is a larger form with a broad, not so taperingly termina- 

 ting white band and a lighter red, occurring on the Upper Amazon and in Peru, where, however, it seems to be 

 chimborazi- rare, while lisimon is common in Guiana. — chimborazium Bat., discovered by Spruce at 3000 ft. on the Chim- 

 '""• borasso, is an alpine form in which the hindwings exhibit red-yellow traces only yet in the anal angle; — in 

 hcspericinn. hesperium Stick., on the contrary', the red stripe is prolonged towards the apex; from Peiu. — erythroicum 

 '^''^^^''""'"'"■Stick. are specimens with more intensely red markings, particularly such that have several small red spots 



