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always paler than the hindwing, nearly always complete, as the last spot but one (between the two median 
veins) is seldom entirely absent; the basal area is mostly well developed, but in the Q often reduced; in the 
latter case cell-stripe and cell-spot always remain very distinct; the upperside of the hindwing is always 
brownish orange. Beneath the hindwing from the base to the apex of the cell and a postmedian cos- 
tal patch are coloured like the proximal area of the forewing, the disc is washed-out brown and the 
angled median band, which passes round the apex of the cell and in thalia and its allies is commonly strongly 
developed, is only indicated and sometimes entirely absent, the distal margin is slightly darkened. According 
to the colouring of the upper surface we differentiate: f. holochroa form. nov., discal band of the forewing 
scarcely paler orange than the hindwing; f. ochrotaenia form. nov., discal band pale yellow, proximal area 
orange; f. anteas Dd/., discal band and proximal area pale yellow, hindwing orange. These colour-forms are 
not local. A. anteas is distributed from Guatemala to Colombia and eastwards to East Venezuela; there are also 
2 examples before me from the island of Tobago. A. H. Fassn, who has bred anteas from the larva, has pre- 
sented to the Tring Museum a blown larva and some pupa-cases. The larva is black above except for the 
spines, the latter light at the base with the exception of those on the prothorax, each spine on a dark 
spot surrounded by a light circle, each segment with 2 or 3 light transverse lines, the thoracic segments 
in this example so pressed together that their markings cannot be seen; the bristles on the spines white, those 
at and near the tips dark; the length of the spines is more than twice the distance between two spines on 
the same segment. Pupa-cases chalk-white, anal end black, the black spines of the abdomen about as long 
as the distance between two spines (on the same segment), the pattern of the abdomen consists of longitudi- 
nal streaks, namely a subdorsal, a lateral, and a strong ventral double row; in addition to these 10 longi- 
tudinal lines (in 5 pairs) the abdomen bears only some very small and not numerous spots. Larva and pupa 
are quite different to those described on p. 371 (from limbata). — In the Cordillera of Mérida (Venezuela) 
flies a form which will possibly prove to be a local race of anteas and which I therefore add here provision- 
ally: f. straminosa form. nov., the light parts of the upper surface entirely pale yellow, the hindwing distally 
sometimes more or less extended brownish orange, the stripes of the proximal area of the forewing reduced 
in breadth, occasionally for the most part suppressed, the black stripes of the hindwing on the whole stronger 
than in anteas. Under surface paler yellowish grey than in anteas, the hindwing less brown and the angular 
median line on the whole more distinct. 
'~. A, thalia Z. (83). Underside of the hindwing usually without row of bristles in the cell. Wings 
duller-coloured than in anteas f. ochrotaenia, which resembles thalia, the veins dividing the basal area of the 
forewing always broadly black, the black stripes on the upperside of the hindwing more strongly 
developed, the discal ones all extending nearly to the cell, the cell-stripe strongly developed. The underside 
of the hindwing on the whole darker than in anteas, especially inthe 9. The discal band of the forewing always 
interrupted, the last spot but one being absent or quite small. A 3 from Paramaribo is distinguished by 
its colouring: ab. idiographa ab. nov., on the upper surface the basal area very much reduced, the postmedian 
spot of the cell scarcely indicated, hindwing brown-black, a cell-stripe divided by a black longitudinal 
streak, a discal band 4 to 5 mm. in breadth composed of stripes and a long, diffuse line in the abdominal 
area, extending to the base, dirty orange. Beneath as above, but the basal area of the forewing and the mark- 
ings of the hindwing paler, the band of the hindwing posteriorly still more strongly suffused with black than 
above. — Surinam and British Guiana. The larva is described and figured by Srox“n as cinnamon-brown, 
with black lateral stripes and cinnamon-brown head. Pupa white, marked much as in A. anteas. 
A. cedestes. 3 and 2 without or g with row of bristles in the cell on the underside of the hind- 
wing. On an average larger than anteas and thalia; markings of the forewing pale straw-yellow; hindwing with 
the exception of the base commonly tinged with orange, the lower angle of the cell long-produced, so that 
the base of the upper median vein is placed much more distally than the upper angle of the cell, above usually 
entirely without blackish median band, under surface as in anteas shaded with blackish in the distal half, 
especially near the lower angle of th2 cell, the median band indicated, but not sharply defined. Ecuador. 
— suspecta subsp. nov. 32: the basal area strongly suffused with black, washed out, the cell-spot, however, 
purer pale yellow. In western Ecuador: Paramba and Chimbo; in the type from Paramba (3) the hindwing 
without bristles in the cell on the underside and the disc above brownish orange. — cedestes Jord. (83 a). 
32: the basal area well developed, the postcellular stripe in particular sharply defined and broad. South-East 
Ecuador: Zamora. 
A. terpsinoé. The largest species of the thalia group, except for stunted specimens. Wings broad, 
especially the hindwing; on the underside of the hindwing the cell always without row of bristles and the 
light costal patch sharply defined and more distal than in the preceding forms. Peru and Bolivia. The races 
of terpsinoé, cedestes, thalia and anteas replace one another geographically and are possibly forms of a single 
species. — terpsinoé Fidr. 3: on the whole somewhat paler than crassinia (82g), especially the basal area 
of the forewing beneath, the discal band of the forewing nearly always pale yellow, rarely white, the last 
spot but one in it mostly indicated. North Peru: Rio Negro and Chachapoyas. — crassinia Hp/fr. (82g). 
Wings very broad, the discal band of the forewing mostly white, more rarely yellowish, its penultimate spot 
seldom indicated; the black stripes of the hindwing as a rule very short. Basal area of the forewing and the 
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holochroa. 
ochrotaenia. 
anteas. 
straminosa. 
thalia. 
idiographa. 
suspecta. 
cedestes. 
terpsinoé. 
crassinic. 
