LUCILLA; THISBE; ANATOLE. By Dr. A. Seitz. 715 



90. Genus: i:^ueilla Hew. 



This genus is placed by Kikby between Imelda and Thisbe, whereas Stichbl justly adds it to Lymnas. 

 The shape of the body and wings resembles the preceding genus. As to the neuration, the genus differs from 

 Imelda particularly in the system of the subcostal veins of the forewings, and the cell of the hindwing in Lucilla 

 does not reach the centre of the wing, as in Imelda. Only 4 forms, being closely allied to each other, are known. 

 All the Lucilla are rare. 



L. camissa Hew. (128 c). A true copy of a Catagramma of the h-ome- and denina-group with a large camltsa. 

 orange spot of the forewing and a blue lustrous spot of the hindwing. Ecuador. 



L. asterra Sm. From Colombia. Differs from the figured pomposa Stick. (128 c) by a narrower red asterra. 

 band of the forewing and by the rays of the hindwings which are more distinct and more sky-blue, particularly vom-posa. 

 towards the margin, pomposa, not lying before me, is described from Peru. 



L. suberra Hew. Black, in the disc of the forewing a large, miniate disc, similar to certain Heterocera suberra. 

 from the N'elo splendens- and veliterna-gvouTp, together with which the species flies in Ecuador. Very likelj' 

 this homochromy, however, is only secondary, and the model of both, the Lucilla as well as Nelo, are Actinote 

 from the caZKareiAe-grcup, with which the3" swarm on the fands of the river-banks. 



91. Genus : Tliisbe Hhn. 



The genus is so very much altered by mimicry that it is difficult to find out its real alliance. Stichel 

 places it between Rodinia and Lemonias; it has nothing in common with these two. Stichel, however, has 

 justly abolished the insertion of a TAisfee-species in the N ymphidium, which had proceeded from a mimetic 

 mystification. The body is uncommonly strong, the head Nymphalid-like, the palpi projecting, the antennae 

 very long, in the 3* to % of the length of the costa. The hindwings pointed at the anal angle, in lycorias 

 even produced in a broad tooth. The butterflies are less rare than is the case in most of the other mimetic 

 species. 



Th. lycorias Heiu. (140 f). Dark brown with a white oblique band, above and behind which there lycorias. 

 are white spots. Round the white median band are above red-j'ellow spots, beneath there are such only in the 

 anal areas of both wings. Mexico and Central America. The typical form originates from Honduras and has 

 in front of the margin of the hindwing another broad white stripe, as it is also found in all the Mexican speci- 

 mens. — ab. adelphina G. & 8. (140 f) shows this distal stripe obliterated. — germanus G. & S. (140 f) distri- adelphhm. 

 buted from Colombia to Ecuador has the red spots much smaller, they are mostlv also not so numerous in the germamis. 

 cell of the forewing. — incarum form. nov. (140 f ) from Peru, from a very dry habitat, deviates the most from incarum. 

 the typical form; it has a lighter ground-colour, a very narrow median band, the orange spots are pale and 

 dim, particularly the one above the anal apex of the hindwing. — lycorias is in some places common. 



Th. irenea Stoll (= belise Stall [{J], belides Stick., atlantis Stick.) (140 f, g). (^ black with a white irenea. 

 median band embedded in blue, above the upper end of which we see a small whitish oblique band. The $ is 

 quite different, without any blue above at all and with a broader median band and another, second oblique 

 spot behind the small subapical oblique band. From Guiana there generally come $$ with narrower bands 

 than from Colombia {belides Stick.), but these forms are not to be arranged according to patriae. We figure 

 a narrow-banded $ from above, a broad-banded one from beneath. Both are from Venezuela. We can just 

 as little assert that the Isle of Trinidad possesses a subspecies of its own {atlantis Stick.); the latter is said to 

 have more blue in the distal area of the o-hindwing. Such specimens, however, are before me also from Sua- 

 pure. Much rather Costa-Rica-specimens would have to be denominated, in which the median band of the 

 ^fj exhibits only quite a narrow blue bordering. In a (^ from ,, Bolivia" the white subapical stripe is as long 

 and broad as in 2$ from Surinam etc. Central America and Guiana to the Amazon and Bolivia, local but mostly 

 common. Like the Dynaminc (being imitated by the $), the butterfly mostty flies about at a hardly accessible 

 altitude on the tops of j-oung trees. 



Th. moiela Heiv. (140 g). In the (^ the blue median band of the forewing is not white-pupilled, but moMa. 

 it has only at its upper end a tiny white spot. In the hindwing the white band of irenea is replaced by a dull, 

 strigiform brightening which is often scarcely perceptible and grows distinct in some specimens (as the figm-ed 

 ^ from the Amazon) only at the inner margin (ab. palilis Stick.). The $ resembles above that of irenea, but 

 the under surface is marked quite differentl}', as the figures show. Not rare in Venezuela (Suapure). Guiana, 

 Para and so on. 



92. Genus: Aiiatole Hbn. 



The genus consisted only of I species to which 3 more were recently added as being congenerous. They 

 are robust animals, of the structure of the Nympkidimn, with a considerable sexual dimorphism. The veins 

 do not exhibit any peculiarities; the 3rd subcostal vein rises with the 1st radial from the upper, the 3rd radial 

 with the 1st median from the lower angle of the cell of the forewing. The species are common at their habitats. 



