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Th. crossaea Hew. (159 1) likewise approximates faunalia. Above brown, hindwing towards the crossaea. 

 base strewn with bhie, before the anal margin with small black spots. Beneath marked similarly to the said 

 species: forewings reddish-brown, at the apex white, clouded brown with 6 dark, distally white spots in front 

 of it. Hindwings whitish, clouded brown, with 4 large dark brown basal spots, cell-streak and interrupted 

 postdiscal macular band like there. Patria not stated. 



Th. legota Hew. (159 1) is above brown, at the proximal margin of the forewing and in the larger Urjota. 

 proximal part of the hindwing dull violet-blue. Beneath marked almost like crossaea, the forewing with a red- 

 brown cell-end streak and a postdiscal band composed of black double streaks, inside filled up with reddish- 

 brown and outside bordered with white; at the base of the hindwing only 2 spots. Bolivia. 



Th. veterator Drc. (1591) is above dull black-brown, in the basal inner-marginal half of the forewing, veieraior. 

 and on the hindwing light lilac-blue ; scent-spot large, dull, in the distal half of the cell. Beneath marked similarly 

 to yojoa, but the ground-colour is much duller brownish without the white abmixture, the white cell-streaks 

 and the white shade in the basal area are absent. Paraguay. 



122. Bubastus-GroTip. 



Th. bubastus Cr. (= salona Hew.) (145 h) is above brown with an indistinct dark brown discal spot bubastus. 

 and dark spot at the anal angle of the tailless hindwing. Beneatlj, li^ht reddish-brown, on the hjjidwing towards 

 the base grey; on both wings with large conical, distally white spots at the border; the po.st,4iscal bands are 

 composed of black-brown small spots being distally bordered with white, and are on the forewing placed very 

 near to the distal margin; in the basal area of the hindwing two spots, the spot of the tail above bordered with 

 red. This tailless form flies in Guiana, Venezuela, Amazon, Brazil, Paraguay, St. Vincent, Dominica, Grenada. 

 — ■ For the tailed form: eurytulus Hbn. (= cybira Hew., modesta Mayn., ocellifera Gh't., istapa Beak., columella euryiulus. 

 F.) (145 h), occurriirg in the southern states of North America, in Mexico, Guatem.ala, Costa Rica, Panama, 

 and in Hayti, Cuba, Jamaica and the Bahamas, a special genus was established: Callicista G-rote. 



Th. sapota Hew. (145 h) entirely resembles above the tailless bubastus, beneath it is likewise similar, sapota. 

 the ground-colour somewhat darker, the spots being all smallej;, mare in the shape of streaks, and on the hindwings 

 the basal spots are absent. Peru. 



Th. arcula Drc. (145 h) somewhat resembles sapota and is tailless; toe, but it has quite a different, amda. 

 large, dark scent-spot almost filling up the cell ; the hindwing is in the anal half dark violet-blue, which colour 

 extends along the distal margin up to the costal angle. The underside is similar to that of sapota, but it is darker 

 purple-brown with white cell-end streaks and a straighter, more coherent postdiscal line and two larger orange 

 anal spots. Paraguay and Argentina. 



Th. argona Heio. (= rana Schs.) (145 h). Above like eurytulus with a smaller scent-spot in the cell; argona. 

 at the anal angle of the hindwing there are three larger black-brown spots which are surrounded with grey- 

 blue in the (J only traceably in the $ much more extensively. Beneath somewhat lighter and browner, the spots 

 rounder, distally bordered with white, on the hindwings proximally with orange; the broad, white submarginal 

 dusting is absent, the anal spots are more orange-red. Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay. 



Th. ligia Hew. (145 h) resembles the preceding above in the ^, but it has some light violettish blue Ugia. 

 at the proximal margin of the hindwing; the $ has more extensively light blue hindwings, and also in the basal 

 half of the proximal margin on the forewing blue dusting. Beneath brownish-grey with cell-end streaks, beneath 

 similar to eurytulus, the wings in the distal parts very much clouded brown and dusted white with an orange 

 spot on the tail and a black anal spot. Colombia.' 



Th. limetiia Hew. (145 i). Above similar, to the preceding, beneath easily discernible by the postdiscal Umenia. 

 band of the hindwing losing itself into a line in the anal half and forming a V; the red anal spots, particularly 

 the spot on the tail very large, orange-red and connected by a red bridge above the blue-dusted interspace. 

 Cuba, Jamaica, San Domingo. 



Th. angelia Hew. (145 i) is very closely allied to Umenia and differs above by the red-browre disc m angelia. 

 the .(J, beneath by the absence of the basal spots on the hindwing. Cuba, Jamaica. 



Th. dominicana Lathy is probably only a modified insular form of the preceding; above the coppery dominicana. 

 spot is confined to the basal half of the proximal margin of the forewing, and to traces on the disc of the hmd- 

 wing; beneath there is a complete postdiscal transverse line which is bordered on the hindwing proximally with 

 red from the upper median vein to the costal margin. Expanse of wings: 23 — 31 mm. Dominica. 



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