LUCINIA; PERIA. By Dr. A. Sxrrz. 475 
only red at the base, otherwise white. Typical edocla come from Colombia. — In aenaria Fruhst. (95 e) from aenaria. 
Central America, the apical spot is larger, the subapical spot smaller than in the typical form, so that both 
the spots do not differ so much in size. — athene Fruhst., without exact habitat, perhaps.only a temporal form athene. 
of edocla, is smaller, with narrow, very pale bands which, on the forewing, are distally deeply notched by the 
ground-colour. — lysanias Fld. from the Upper Amazon is immediately to be recognized by the more obtuse lysanias. 
forewings and the pale-green double as broad band of the wings. — maculata Stgr. (95 e) showing all the transi- maculata. 
tions from /ysanias is exactly like this, but has rows of white-green spots before the distal margin of both the 
wings; Peru, especially known from the Chanchamayo. — anthele Fruhst., discovered by R. Hamnscu in Ecua- anthele. 
dor, is darker and smaller, without the dotting in the distal area, or only with remains of it, the light margin 
of the wings on the under surface being narrower. Seems not to be so frequently occurring as neaerea is in its 
district. 
P. otolais Bat. (95c). Mostly much smaller than the preceding, almost the whole upper surface of ofolais. 
the wings taken up by the very much broadened, pale Nile-green band, differing thereby from the long-palped 
nasica which has a narrower darker band not reaching as far as the inner margin of the hindwings; on the upper 
surface very similar to the cramerz, but below immediately discernible by the median of the forewings being 
white-green, not hemochrome. From Central America. — neis Fldr. from Mexico is a little larger and has broa- neis. 
der bands. 
P. crameri Awriv. (neaerea Cr. nec L.) (95 ¢). This is the only Pyrrhogyra in which the lower cell-margin crameri. 
on the undersurface of the forewing does not separate the cellule by a little hemochrome band bordered in 
dark. Above almost like ofolais. Guiana. — hagnodorus Fruhst. from Peru has a narrower black margin and haygnodorus. 
on the upper surface a brighter apical spot of the forewing, and nautaca Fruhst. from Colombia and the Upper nautaca. 
Amazon is larger, the bands narrower and deeper green, and the distal margin of the wings clouded in a brighter 
violet. — The larva seems extraordinarily similar to that of neaerea L., with only a little more black markings, 
and the pupa is quite equal to the pupa of that species; there may, however, also have occurred a mistake 
in so far as, owing to the homonymy, indeed a larva of that species was taken for this species. 
P. nasica Stgr. Similar to the preceding, but at once recognizable by the very much elongated palps nasica. 
and by the green very broad median band not reaching as far as the inner margin of the hindwings; this is, on 
the contrary—of a brownish black. Colombia. — In olivenca Fi uhst. (95 d) the green area is as broad as in the olivenca. 
typical form, but the red band of the hindwings is distally bordered in brownish black, to such an extent that 
the bone-yellow in the distal area is diminished to a little narrow band. — seitzi Fruhst. (95 d) from Bolivia seitzi. 
has narrower and darker green bands; the band on the hindwing is tapering behind and shows with this point 
in the direction of the red anal dot. 
30. Genus: LLucinia Abn. 
Little yellow butterflies with insignificant black markings on the upper surface, but below richly decorated 
hindwings with big metallic eye-spots. Head broad with broad front, palps a little elongated, but pretty slender 
and bent upwards; antenna curled with well deposited clavola. The body slender, the forewings triangular, 
with smooth or scarcely undulated margin and a little below the apex quite slightly drawn in. The hindwings 
in the anal part dented, the costa of the forewings weak at the base, the median strongly inflated, the cellule 
broad. On the Antilles. Only four forms probably belonging to one species, interosculating a great deal and 
hardly to be maintained as subspecies. 
L. sida Hbn. (97 b) from Cuba and Haiti. is sufficiently recognizable from the figure. The animals sida. 
vary considerably in the size of the eye-spots on the under surface of the hindwings, and big-eyed specimens with 
broad dark wing-margin were separated as subspecies and named cubana Fruhst. — cadma Drury from Jamaica cvbana. 
is larger, the upper surface of the hindwings has a greyish brown ground instead of white, and the metallic ““”"* 
violet-white line before the margin of the hindwings on the lower surface, being distinct in sida, is absent. — 
torrebia Wén., a form hardly differing from cadma, occurs in Haiti. torrebia. 
31. Genus: Peria Ky. 
The little species forming this genus I have never seen alive nor do I find anywhere an indication as 
to its habits. The species known as Peria lamis occurs in many places of northern South America and it differs 
only with respect to its size. The head is moderately large, the palps short, the eyes naked. Antenna gradually 
thickened to a thin clavola. Wings entirely bordered, the cells of all the wings closed. Cell of forewing very 
broad, rather short, the subcostal with 4 veins. The first vein branches off close in front of the end of the 
cell, the second one considerably further back, the third one terminates into the costa, pretty far before the 
apex. Precostal of the hindwings bifid, branching off towards the deflection of the subcostal. 
