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SCOLITANTIDES. By Dr. M. Deaudt. 



brown than the surface of the wings; before the distal margin of the hindwing there are 3 to 5 blackish, small 

 eye-spots M'ith a light enclosure. The under surface is very similar to that of the following species, but below 

 the discocellular of the hindwing a sUvery white patch is more prominent. Bolivian Andes near Cocapata and 

 Huallatani (3 to 5000 m). 



onspi- I. inconspicua sp. nov. (144 m) is smaller than the preceding, dull smoky brown with broadly white- 



cua. speckled fringes, without any lustre; the hindwings above without any small m.arginal spots. Beneath dull 

 yellowish-brown, the postdiscal row composed of minute, round, separate spots surrounded by white; a double 

 submarginal row of spots in a whitish ground is very distinct. The hindwings are very much strewn with white, in 

 the basal and inner-marginal areas v^dth a silvery blue-grey lustre, as weW as in the basal area of the forewing. 

 Before the middle 3, behind it 7 or 8 small round spots of the ground-colour, margined by a somewhat darker 

 colour and encircled by white, form an irregularly curved row ; before the dull grey-brownish marginal triangles 

 there is a regular scries of high, pointed arches bordered by white on both sides. Cuzco (Peru) at an altitude 

 of 3600 m. 

 titicaca. 1. titicaca Wey7n. (144 m), presumably the smallest species, and the following belong mto a somewhat 



deviating group. The shape of the wings is much longer and more pomted. Above lustrous violet-blue, lUie 

 Lycaena icarus, with a narrow brown distal margin and long duty white fringes. Beneath lustrous light 

 yellowish-brown, the hindwings white-grey, towards the costal margin with a dark brown longitudinal line, 

 below it 2 brown transverse lines from the costal margin to the proximal margin, being inwardly curved in 

 the middle; near the distal margin several brown sagittate spots. Based upon 3 specimens from Lake Titicaca 

 and Sajama (Bolivia), from an altitude of 3600 to 4600 m. Length of forew'ngs: 7 mm. 



speciosa. I. speciosa Stgr. (144 n). In the cJ the upper surface is blue-violet, the margins brown, all with an 



extremely intense bronze lustre, suffused as if jjolished; the $ is more extensively brown, only at the bases 

 of the wings with a slight silvery grey-blue tinge. The fringes are speckled white. The forewings are beneath 

 dull brownish, with a white-grey tinge towards the margin, the hindwings all white-grey w'th 2 sinuate dark 

 brown transverse lines the proximal one of which turns round towards the base below the costal margin and 

 sends a pointed continuation towards the base on the median. Moreover these lines seem to vary very much. 

 Peru and Bolivia at an altitude of 4 to 5000 m. (Cuzco, Huallatani). 



16. Genus: {Scolitaiitides Hbn. 



This name of the genus having been established by Hubner for Lycaena hylas Schiff (nee Esp.) = 

 bato?i Bergstr. has been improperly used since, for a small group of Lycaena from the southernm^ost corner of 

 America, where we may leave it for the present, as the group in itself is very homogeneous, although a 

 separation from Lycaena is scarcely a point at issue. In its exterior it partly differs by an orange-red colouring 

 above, which is repeated in all the species in the disc of the forewing beneath. In the colour and scheme of 

 markings the small animals also show some resemblance to the Chrysojihanini, but on account of the shape of 

 the hindwings, which are the longest between the radial vems, they must better be placed here. About half 

 a dozen species, mostly from Chile, have become known hitherto. 

 chilensis. S. chilensis Blch. (= atahualpa WaUengr.) (144 n) is above black-brown with an orange-red disc 



of the forewing and pale, on the forewings almost white, small submarginal lunae; the one between the median 

 veins of the hindwings is larger, orange, distally black-pup illed. Under surface pale yellowish-grey, in the disc 

 of the forewing orange with a strongly curved postdiscal row of small black spots, behind it a row of more grey 

 spots. Hindwing densely dusted grey with a cordiform white discal spot and behind it a strongly curved row 

 of ocelli, also in the basal area yet 3 eye-spots. Chile. 

 plunthea. S. plumbea Btlr. differs above from the followmg species by its lustrous blue-grey colour with a broad 



dark distal margin and veins. Fringes broadly white, spotted black. Beneath likewise similar to collina, but 

 deviating by its lighter colourmg, the fringes bemg speckled black and white, the basal half of the hindwing 

 being very much intermixed with white and the distal half almost entirely white. ChUe. 

 collina. S. collina Phil. (= lyrnessa Hew.) is above lustrous blue with a black margin and white-speckled 



frmges. Beneath the disc of the forewing is orange with a curved postdiscal row of black spots, the border grey 

 with dark marginal spots bordered by white. The hindwings are grey marbled with a transverse band and one 

 black longitudinal spot each at the costal margin and proximal margin. Santiago de Chile. 

 mdymion. S. endymion Blch. (= sybUla Ky.) deviates from collina by small antemarginal black spots above. 



Beneath the disc of the forewing is yellow-grey, towards the margin lighter, with a black cell-end streak, behind 

 it 6 large black spots and an antemarginal double row of small diffuse spots, all of which have white rings. The 

 hindwings are grey, marked as in chilensis, the antemarginal line composed of angular streaks. Chile (Coquimbo), 

 faga. S. faga Dogn. (144 n). This small species was described as Thecla, later on placed to Scolitantides 



by Dkuce, with which, however, it does not harmonise either. The shape of the wings is greatly distinguished 



