ACTINOTE. By Dr. K. Jorpan. 373 
on the spot by breeding. Hitherto, however, none of the entomologists residing in Rio and the neighbourhood 
have undertaken the task. PrTERs has bred from the larva two of the butterflies in question and there are 
water-colour drawings of larva, pupa, butterfly and food-plant in his unpublished contributions to the Bra- 
zilian butterfly fauna in the Tring Museum. In one of the larvae, however, a mistake has evidently occurred 
and the figures of the pupae, as is usually the case with such, are not sufficiently exact for reliable specific 
differences to be gathered from them. 
A.-pyrrha ?’. (= ? euterpe Fidr.) (83 b). The example described by Fasrictus from the Banks collec- 
tion is still in the British Museum, but in very indifferent condition. Very variable in size, length of the fore- 
wing 28 to 40 mm. The light markings of the forewing yellow-grey to dirty orange, much lighter than the 
hindwing; the basal area very much reduced, diffuse, mostly only the cell-spot well defined; the two poste- 
rior spots in the discal band are absent or small; the hindwing rarely yellow-grey, yet rather variable in co- 
lour, base and abdominal margin commonly grey. The scales of the forewing easily get detached and the basal 
half of the wing is usually transparent. The light scales in the distal part of the under surface of both wings 
are dentate. The anal tergite of the 3 is either sharply pointed or obtuse. — South-East Brazil and Para- 
guay, common. — The description of euterpe Fidr. is so indefinite that the name must be allowed to sink, 
as neither in the Vienna Museum nor in coll. FELDER is there a specimen labelled by FELDER as euterpe. 
A.-earyeina spec. nov. (83 b). A smaller form, length of the forewing 18 to 30 mm. Markings of the 
forewing grey-yellow, hindwing orange with grey abdominal margin, rarely the bindwing with the exception 
of the black distal margin and the markings of the forewing grey. The basal area of the forewing broken up 
into narrower stripes than in the next species by the very broad black veins. Under surface of both wings 
yellowish grey, without orange tone, the brown-black median band of the hindwing usually well developed as 
far as the lower median vein, rarely abbreviated. The light scales on the underside of both wings not den- 
tate. — The larva which Prerers (Ms.) figures as belonging here shows a pair of long horns cn the neck 
(or head) and is probably a Dirphia larva. The pupa, from which he obtained the butterfly, is more slender 
than usual and bears 6 rows of spines (?!), which are not quite as long as the distance of one pair from 
another; the tip of the head is black, the cremaster on the contrary light; an uninterrupted subdorsal 
stripe black; on the ventral side a pair of black stripes on each abdominal segment. The sketch is probably 
incorrect. — South-East Brazil and Paraguay, common; name-type from Sao Paulo. 
A. parapheles Jord. (83a). A broad-winged and brightly coloured species. Discal band of the 
forewing always yellow, sometimes slightly tinged with orange, especially at the veins, the basal area 
either orange like the hindwing or as light as the discal band. On the under surface the basal area of the 
forewing and the hindwing either orange (f. parapheles) or as pale as the discal band of the forewing 
(at most slightly tinged with orange); the postmedian costal spot of the hindwing always pale (. palles- 
eens form. nov., name-type from Rio). The light scales in the distal part of the under surface of both 
wings dentate; valve of the g pointed. — Larva according to Peters (Ms.) with black head and blackish 
double lateral line, dorsal surface pale reddish, from the 7th to the 9th or 10th segment white; the spines 
correspondingly coloured, but the anterior and posterior ones brown. On Boehmeria caudata. The larvae 
when young gregarious and free on the leaves; before pupation they scatter. Pupa more weakly marked than in 
carycina, tip of the head and cremaster in PutErs’ figure light, spines shorter than in carycina. According 
to Pzrers the butterfly has a swift and powerful flight and is found at Novo Friburgo only in open, unwooded 
places. The butterfly figured by Peters seems to belong to this species and to f. pallescens, but is possibly 
a form of A. pellenea. — South-East Brazil (very common near Rio), Paraguay, Matto Grosso. Examples 
with orange on the under surface I only know from Rio, where, however, the pale form also commonly occurs. 
The following forms are sharply defined and certainly specifically different. from the preceding. 
A. quadra Schaus (821). A large species, which may be recognized by the large spot at the hinder 
angle of the forewing and the uniformly grey under surface of the hindwing. The submedian stripe of the fore- 
wing is divided by a fine longitudinal line, which is not the case in the preceding Brazilian species; the last 
spot of the always complete discal band is about as large as the cell-spot or even larger and the submedian 
stripe correspondingly abbreviated. — South-East Brazil, rare, known from the provinces of Rio, Sao Paulo 
and Parana. Pstrers (Ms.) found a larva suspended for pupation on a Composite (Conyza); it was entirely 
yellow-grey, including the head (discoloured ?). Pupa thicker than usual, spines moderately long, the lateral 
stripe consisting of two lines. 
A. perisa Jord. (82). The whole upper surface in g and 92 yellow, the veins and narrow streaks 
between them in the distal area black; the black transverse markings, as may be seen from the figure, sharply 
developed, beneath as well as above. Margins of both wings beneath washed over with grey, apex of the fore- 
wing even less black than above. — A pair found by J. Srminpacu in Tucuman. The same collector also sent 
from there two Actinote larvae and two pupae, which perhaps belong here. The larva is similar to that of 
A. anteas (p. 365), but the spines are only half as long. Upper surface including the spines black, the latter light 
at the base, bristles white, the apical ones brownish, body from the stigmata downwards light (yellow-green 
pyrrha. 
carycina. 
parapheles. 
pallescens. 
quadra. 
perisa. 
