ADELPHA. By H. FRuusrorrnr. 525 
a boss, strongly chitinized,. — aeolia Fldr. (107 b) according to the season changes the extent of the white 
median band. FELDER’s type exhibits narrower bands than the model of our figure, resembling thereby much 
more the Central American $ than it was described by GopmaN and Satyin. I have specimens from Colombia 
before me with light buff stripes and such with reddish-brown bands of the under surface. Range from Nicaragua 
throughout Colombia. — archidona subsp. nov. (107 b) is found in the Amazon-district of Ecuador and Peru 
and differs from the Bolivian lerna Hew. (107 a) by somewhat darker reddish-yellow spots and less broad. bands 
of the forewings. — leonina subsp. nov. (107 b) differs from all the lerna-races by the larger and lighter ochreous 
preapical spots of the forewings and the much narrower white median band of all the wings. The under sur- 
face appears more copiously set with black spots than in the other allies of lerna. British Guiana, Essequibo 
River. Type in the Tring-Museum. 
A. naxia belongs to a small group of species differing by the various though insignificant constel- 
lations of the subapical spots of the forewings. The under surface approaches that of A. delphicola and A. 
iphicla and deviates from A. lerna thereby. The clasping organs exhibit trifling, but still immediately recog- 
nizable differences. Valve of A. nazxia shorter, almost quadratic at the base, the dorsal tooth forming an 
isosceles triangle. Range from Mexico to Colombia, probably along the whole Upper Amazon and the chain 
of the Andes, since I recently received specimens from Mato Grosso. One charming form also on the Isle 
of Trinidad. naxia F/dr. (107 b) described according to a @ from Onaca, Santa Marta (Colombia), resembles 
beneath A. iphicla except the transcellular whitish-yellow maculae being much larger. — mucia subsp. nov. 
is before me from the volcano Chiriqui. The white bands are narrowed compared to nazxia and the Mexican 
race, the reddish-brown apical spot is darker and the under surface with more intensive decorations in reddish- 
brown. — epiphicla Godm. and Salv. was denominated thus by its authors on table 38f. 9, 10 in the Biologia, 
but identified with 4. basilea Cr. in the text p. 306. The name of epiphicla, however, holds good at all events, 
since basilea Cr. is replaced by the synonymous A. iphicla L. The reddish-brown preapical spot of the fore- 
wings broader than in A. mucia. Mexico, apparently rare. — hieronica subsp. nov. (107¢) has, considering its 
small size, remarkably broad white median bands, especially on the hindwings. The preapical spots of the 
forewings are, however, extremely reduced. The under surface shows all the characteristics of the insular 
races, it is conspicuously darkened, all the markings extremely pronounced. Trinidad, Tabaginte, Narieva- 
district, g-type in the Tring Museum. — dominula Moschl. from Surinam was based upon a 9-form of impo- 
sing size, with a small reddish-brown apical spot and a more crescent-shaped transcellular reddish-yellow 
area. Under surface remarkably similar to A. iphicla L. — Near Manaos on the Rio Negro, a territorial form 
is found, diatreta subsp. nov., without the blackish-brown longitudinal stripes seen in dominula, but pre- 
ponderant reddish-brown ground-colour. The preapical spots on the upper surface of the forewings are also 
more intensively reddish-yellow. Type in the Collection StauprncER in the Berlin Museum. — zynia subsp. 
nov. distinguished by very broad, light ochre-yellow subapical spots of the forewings. The white median band 
of both the wings about as in naxia. Under surface faded, paler than in the more northern forms. The shape 
only somewhat larger than in hieronica. Apparently very rare, Mato Grosso. Only 2 fg in FRUHSTORFER’S 
Collection. 
A. ixia differs from A. naxia by the appearance of a supplementary yellowish spot cf the forewings, 
so that the preapical area extends as far as to the middle median, while in A. via it terminates already at the 
anterior median. White median band of the forewings always shorter. Hindwings narrower than in nawia and, 
therefore, more protracted in the anal part. Under surface traversed by broader reddish-brown bands. Valve 
more slender, basally not thickened as in A. nawxia, the tooth shorter, blunter. The species, according to the 
material I was able to obtain, can be proved only from Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela. ixia Fldr., the 
nomenclatural type, originates from Venezuela. Median band of both the wings something like in A. naxia 
(107 b), but shorter. The stripe embedded between the posterior radial and the anterior median in the pale 
ochre-yellow area of the forewings much longer and narrower thanin A. naxia. — In Colombia iazia is represented 
by fundania subsp. nov. (109 b) with narrower white median area of both the wings and likewise stunted pre- 
apical spot of the forewings. On that account the faded whitish-yellow transcellular spots of the under surface 
also appear reduced in size. The influence of the season is evident on the under surface by a dark tinge of 
the longitudinal bands in the butterflies of the rainy months, and by pale reddish-yellow stripes in, those 
of the dry period. Colombia. — leucas subsp. nov. is the name of a considerably different territorial form from 
Mexico, having already the second preapical stripe elongated and distally bent up anteriorly, while the poste- 
rior stripe is somewhat broader still than in A. pseudomessana (107 b) with which the character of the spotting on 
the forewings otherwise nearly harmonizes. Under surface in spite of the greater size with a narrower white median 
area than in A. fundania and ixia, the brown parts more extensive, also all the greyish-violet stripes broader. 
A. messana Fldr., hitherto known only in one specimen in the author’s collection, has according to the 
type that lay before me from the Tring-Museum, only one small reddish-yellow submarginal preapical spot of 
the forewings, while aia and naxia exhibit two of them. Beside messana there exists already another form 
or species of the FeLpER collection with three subapical spots of the forewings. It is introduced here as 
A. aufidia spec. nov. uniting the marks of A. caia and nawia; it-has like A. ixia lobatedly protracted 
hindwings and like A. naaia reduced yellowish zone of the upper surface of the hindwings. Beneath it also 
acolia. 
archidona. 
lerna. 
leonina. 
NAV. 
NUCL. 
epiphicla. 
hieronica. 
dominula. 
diatrela. 
Zynid. 
Lil. 
fundania. 
leucas. 
MCSSANGA. 
aufidia. 
