amoenda. 
rufa. 
naura. 
chea. 
trinacria. 
tenebrosa. 
segesta. 
flavibasis. 
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basewards far beyind the origin of the lower median vein, triangular, distally rounded, the black discocellular 
spot distinct. Many specimens have traces of red on the upperside of the hindwing before and in the cell. 
@ with distinct grey striping on the upperside of the hindwing about halfway between cell and distal mar- 
gin. East Cordillera of Colombia; rather rare, especially the 2. — amoena subsp. nov. (Q 81d, as callianthe). 
gj: the patch on the forewing deeper red than in callianthe, similarly shaped, but not extending beyond the apex 
of the cell, the discocellular spot consequently almost entirely confluent with the black distal area. Beneath 
the patch as in callianthe, but much redder. The hindwing of the 9 has no stripes on the upperside; the 
band of the forewing is posteriorly somewhat shorter than in callianthe and at the lower angle of the cell 
somewhat broader; on the under surface the band is distally somewhat more distinctly bordered with black 
and the hindwing is more conspicuously blackened distally to the cell. West Cordillera of Colomb’a, found by 
A. H. Fassiin the Rio Aguaca Valley at elevations of 2000 m. The species flies high and very swiftly and is 
difficult to catch. — rufa Jord. 3: the patch on the forewing is red-ochre, reaches much nearer to the distal 
marg'n of the wing than in the other forms, but distally to the discocellular spot there are only a few red 
scales and the stripe b-low the lower med’an is basally much more abbreviated than in amoena and callianthe. 
The basal area of the hindwing bencath paler yellow than in the preceding forms and the stripes between 
cell and abdominal margin indistinct. R°o Zamora, South-East Ecuador, 1800 m., 1 g found by Srmons in 
May. The specimen is not in good condition and this is perhaps the reason why the blue gloss is less strong 
than in the other forms. 
A.naura. A small species; breast and base of the hindwing beneath with ochre-red spot, a spot of the same 
colour also at the costal margin of the forewing. g Forewing with ochre-red triangular basal area, whch does 
not reach th» apex of th> cell and is sometimes reduced to a cell-spot. Hindwing with red patch in and below 
the cell and a row of red discal spots; these markings very variable and often entirely absent. Under surface 
of the forewing similar to the upper, the red area paler; the hindwing and apex of the forewing striped 
with yellowish grey, with nebulous dark discal band, the cell of the hindwing almost entirely filled in with 
yellowish grey. 2 much larger than the 3, paler. Venezuela and Colombia, rather rare in collections. — naura 
Druce (= ozinta Schaus). Upperside with rather strong blue gloss. Area of the forewing reduced to some 
subbasal spots, of which the cell-spot is the largest. Forewing more rounded than in the following form. 
© quite similar to the g. Mérida, Venezuela. — chea Druce (81 b). Upper surface with slight blue gloss; 
the red area of the forewing large, many examples with traces of a red subapical band; markings of the 
hindwing sometimes united into a rather large central patch, sometimes almost obsolete. In the 9 the area 
of the forewing is much paler, at the hinder angle a reddish grey area, from which a narrow macular 
band, either distinct or very indefinite, runs to the costal margin in a uniform curve; markings of the hind- 
wing reddish grey, more extended than the red markings of the g, the abdominal area in particular is also 
light-striped. Beneath the whole hindwing and an anteriorly broad distal border on the forewing are yellowish 
grey, finely striped with brown-black. Colombia, in the East Cordillera, found by A. H. Fassn at Pacho (2200 m.). 
A. trinacria Fidr. (81a). Smaller than A. naura, the veins intersecting the triangular red area on the 
forewing somewhat more broadly black, the hindwing without red markings. Beneath the forewing usually 
bears one or two red spots just distally to the end of the cell, while in A. naura a red spot further distad 
is usually traceable outside the blackish discal band. 2 unknown. — Colombia. This species is received in 
“Bogota collections” and probably occurs in the East Cordillera; more exact localities are not known to me. 
A. tenebrosa Hew. (82a). Only a few 2° known; possibly belongs to trinacria or segesta. Black- 
brown with slight blue gloss. Forewing with reddish — orange oblique band running from the costa across 
the apical part of the cell to the hinder angle, where it joins a narrow discal band of the same colour; 
these markings indistinct above; beneath better developed, the proximal band in particular much broader, 
hindwing and apex of the forewing yellow-grey, the discal band of the forewing gradually shaded off distally, 
hindwing with dark nebulous band about the apex of the cell. — Ecuador. 
A. segesta Weym. (= dognini Schaus) (82 b). Much larger than trinacria, resembling it above. Beneath 
the hindwing and the distal border of the forewing are striped with reddish; the scaling of these stripes 
is condensed into a very narrow band at the distal side of the black discal band of the forewing. @ similar 
to the 3, larger and somewhat paler. — In eastern Ecuador: Huamboya, Zamora, Loja. 
A. flavibasis Jord. (= diceus auct.) (Sle fig. 4, 2, erroneously called ozomene, 81g 3). The material 
which I have been able to compare since sending off the manuscript of the Acraeinae for WAGNER’s Lepi- 
doptorum Catalogus makes it probable that the forms enumerated there under diceus and callianira are geogra- 
phical races of one species, with the exception of flavibasis, which I must now treat as an independent 
species. This common Actinote in “Bogota collections” does not seem to be confined to the East Cordillera 
of Colombia, as WEYMER states in “Sripets Reise” that this species with yellow base (which he erroneously 
took for diceus) occurs in the Central Cordillera together with the form with red-striped under surface (the 
true diceus). The sexes are similar. ¢: the patch on the forewing orange; no discal band above, while 
