VICTORINA. By Dr. A. Serrz. 463 
A, lytrea Godt. (= chrysopelleia Hbn.) (94e). Only known from Cuba and in a similar form also on 
others of the Antilles. The Cuban lytrea has a broad, straight white band on the forewing and an oval white 
lytrea. 
discal spot on the hindwing, so that it is unmistakeable. — eurytis Pruhst., from Antigua and perhaps also eurytis. 
some of the Greater Antilles, inasmuch as it possibly approximates to dominica Skinn. from Haiti, has the 
oval discal spot of the hindwing produced into more of a band and the band of the forewing is narrower 
on the under surface. The species is not rare where it occurs. 
A. amathea ZL. (= amalthea auct.) (94e). The typical form of this species, which is easily recognized 
by the blood-red disc of the hindwing, comes from Guiana and is distributed over the whole north of South 
America and the greater part of Central America. The forewing has the disc black-brown with scattered red 
spots varying in number and across the middle as well as before the distal area run chains of disconnected 
white spots, which are sometimes continued on the hindwing also. The under surface similar to the upper, 
only paler. — sticheli Fruhst., from Bolivia, seems to be a very local form with the white and red markings 
much reduced; but transitions also occur, particularly to the preceding form. — roeselia Hschh. (94) is the 
South Brazilian form, and is extraordinarily abundant at Santos in Sao Paulo; it may be recognized by the 
much broader white spots of the forewing, which are united into an oblique band. — thyamis Fruhst. is said 
to occur in Santa Catharina and Sao Paulo (where I, however, only found the preceding form); the Q is said 
to have darker red margins, the submarginal spots of the hindwing narrower, more curved and the upper 
ones darkened. All the apical and median spots and dots of the forewing reduced. The median dots in the 
2 searcely recognizable. — The adult larva is black with moderately strong black spines and has been found 
on various species of Acanthaceae. The pupa resembles that of Victorina in shape and colouring, but has no 
points on the head nor on the 2nd, 6th and 7th segments. In place of these points there are sometimes dots. 
dominica. 
amathea. 
sticheli. 
roeselia. 
thyamis. 
A. fatima F. (94f), allied to the preceding; distinguishable by the more strongly produced apex of fatima. 
the forewing, the broader oblique band of the forewing, which is continued as a broad, straight stripe on the 
hindwing, and the reduction of the red, which on the forewing is entirely suppressed, on the hindwing only 
represented by a small, narrow, dull band behind and below the cell. Only known from Central America, where 
it occurs from Honduras to Costa Rica. — Whilst in typical fatima the oblique band of the forewing above is 
distinctly tinged with bone-yellow, in the form venusta Fruhst. it is white and the light band of the hindwing 
only extends to the lower radial. The red discal patches of the hindwing are somewhat broader and darker in 
venusta. Mexico, Guatemala. 
16. Genus: Vietorima Blch. 
Rather large butterflies of extremely striking colouring with rather long, broad wings, sometimes angled 
or tailed, rather large head with strong palpus, somewhat curved inwards at the tip. The antenna more than 
half the length of the costa, strong, with flat club. The legs long and strong, the thorax powerful, the wings 
broad with dentate distal margin. The cell broad, open on both wings. On the forewing the first subcostal vein 
arises close before the end of the cell, the 2nd at the end, the 3rd behind it and the 4th shortly before the apex. 
On the hindwing the Ist and 2nd subcostal veins arise before the end of the cell, the 3rd, 4th and 5th are 
stalked. The hindwing is strongly dentate, the tooth on the upper median often prolonged into a tail. The 
larva is only known of one species. 
V. steneles ZL. is dark black-brown above with green oblique band and spots of the same 
colour; beneath the green is more extended, traversed by silver-white bands margined with orange. steneles L. 
is the form from Guiana and the Amazons, and is distributed westwards to Ecuador and southwards over the 
whole of Brazil. In it the green oblique stripe is broad, there is only one spot in the cell and the under surface 
is very lightly marked. — pallida Fruhst., from Texas, Florida and Mexico to Honduras, has in the cell of the 
forewing two large light green spots, of which the anterior is almost triangular. — bipunctata Pruhst. (= meri- 
dionalis Fruhst.) (95 a), from Espirito Santo and Rio Grande do Sul, has two small dots in the cell of the fore- 
wing and on the under surface of the hindwing a narrower silver-grey distal border. — sophene Fruhst., from 
Ecuador, has in the cell of the forewing only one small yellow-grey dot, the light markings are much narrowed 
and the median band is reduced. — lavinia F'., from the Antilles, has only one spot in the cell of the forewing, 
but a distinct orange-yellow anal spot on the upperside of the hindwing. — biplagiata Fruhst. (95 a) has two 
quadrate cell-spots on the forewing and the bands of the under surface, which separate the green spots, are 
very broadly margined with deep orange. — An interesting aberration is stygiana Schaus (95 a), in which on 
the forewing the green band only reaches from the inner margin to the lower median vein, all the rest of the 
wing being black-brown without markings. — The butterfly is very common, but its early stages are not yet 
known. It shows a remarkable similarity to forms of Metamorpha dido (84 a), which extends not only to the 
colouring and markings, but also to the flight and habits, so that it is sometimes difficult to separate the two 
species, which I have seen flying together round the same bush. When resting, however, V. steneles mostly 
closes its wings over its back, while WM. dido, like its red relatives, conmmonly keeps them spread out. 
venusta. 
steneles. 
pallida. 
bipunctata. 
sophene. 
lavinia. 
biplagiata. 
stygiana. 
