deborah. 
zunilaces. 
530 ADELPHA. By H. FRUHSTORFER. 
A. deborah JVeeks has a dark ochre-yellow zone of the forewings running more regularly than A. melona. 
The hindwings have no white median stripe, but only two dun antemarginal bands, under surface similar to 
A. attica, only with darker brown bands. Colombia, very rare. A co-type of the author is in my collection. 
A. zunilaces spec. nov. approaches A. attica by two small yellowish preapical spots, and somewhat 
A. erotia and A. jordani in the course of the very broad ochreous median zone. The under surface is closely 
allied to A. deborah, but all the longitudinal stripes are still darker than in A. deborah. Iquitos, type in the 
Coll. StauDINGER. 
biedermanni. A. biedermanni spec. nov. Upper surface black with two reddish-brown spots in the cellule and small 
makkeda. 
caphira. 
orinoco. 
diademata. 
godmani. 
celerio. 
syrna. 
phintias. 
reddish-brown adnerval stripes ending radiatiformly and not reaching the distal margin. The latter stripes are 
also seen on the under surface in brick-red colour. Base of the under surface of both the wings as white as 
chalk. The white basal area distally bordered by a broad light brick-red longitudinal band. In the white area, 
on the forewing, there is also a small red transverse band, on the hindwings two furciform, small longitudinal 
bands. The whole outer zone of both the wings black. 
The following three species inserted here are the only ones that haye remained unknown to me in nature and 
of which there exists not even a figure. 
A. makkeda Hew. from Para. Upper surface dark brown. Both the wings traversed by a broad band. 
On the forewings this median band is orange-coloured and divided into eight parts by the veins. The fourth 
component is distally somewhat advanced towards the apex, projecting thereby beyond the others. The white 
median area of the hindwings distally with an orange hue. Forewings with some black lines and a short orange 
band in the cellule and below it, besides with a subapical bipartite spot. Forewings with two, hindwings with 
three submarginal reddish stripes. In the anal angle of the hindwings an orange-coloured spot. The under 
surface hardly differs from A. erotia. makkeda is, however, on the upper surface easily distinguishable from 
all the known species by the median zone of the hindwings being divided into a white and a reddish half. 
A. caphira Hew. is denominated according to a 2° from Venezuela and probably belongs to the group 
of A. ixia and A. naxia; forewings dark brown. Both the wings with a white band beginning at the second 
median vein of the forewings, where it is crossed by black veins. Forewing with a large spot near the costal 
margin and somewhat outside the wing-centre. Two smaller spots above the middle macula and also beneath 
it, all of them orange-coloured. Forewing with two, hindwing with three submarginal bands. 
A. orinoco |Veeks is described in the 38th volume of the ,,Canadian Entomologist‘‘. It originates from 
Venezuela. 
II. Section. Species without dorsalappendage (clunicula) of the valve. 
The species belonging here all show the same character of markings on the under surface of the forewings: black 
cancellated markings before the cell-apex. 
A. celerio may be looked upon as one of the most variable and, therefore, most interesting species 
of the genus. Hardly anything had been hitherto known about the multifariousness of its forms. Kirpy believed 
to be right in uniting celerio with A. serpa, but this species itself sends forth a ramification as far as Central 
America, and besides, there are anatomical characteristics by means of which we may easily separate the two 
collective species: the uncommonly slender, boldly bent uncus of celerio being pointed like a needle and remar- 
kably contrasting with the clumsy uncus of the races of the A. serpa- and A. hyas-group. The valve is like- 
wise narrower, less robust, and the ends of the scaphium shorter, more pointed. Another characteristic, though 
quite exterior, is the scheme of markings on the under surface of the hindwings. There we find in A. serpa a 
submarginal double-row of long-stretched crescent-shaped maculae united to bands, whereas in celerio short 
small square spots separated by black lines. On the upper surface all the races belonging to the series of forms 
of A. celerio are conspicuous by a greenish hue of the diaphanous median zone. Like in the other Adelphes, 
the extent of the reddish-yellow area of the forewings, the width of the white median zone, and especially also 
the dimension of the yellowish anal spot of the hindwings vary according to the season and locality. Range 
from Mexico to Peru, presumably also Bolivia, to the east and in Venezuela. — diademata subsp. nov. (107d 9) 
is based upon the form of the dry period lying before me from Western Mexico and Orizaba. The reddish- 
yellow embedding of the forewings in both the sexes more extensive, and the transparent greenish white median 
band broader than in the name-type. — As godmani form. nov. (107d) I should like to mention a darkened 
deviation being conspicuous for its narrowed greenish median bands, a larger reddish-yellow anal spot of the 
hindwings on the upper surface, and gloomy, expanded brown longitudinal stripes on the under surface. Type 
from Orizaba in the Tring-Museum. — celerio Bélr. (107 d), originally described from Guatemala, but distributed 
all over Central America and as far as the Cauca-Valley (Colombia), is at once distinguishable from the more 
northern diademata by the smaller reddish-yellow preapical spot. — syrna form. nov. is the name of a mela- 
notic form analogous to godmani, which was wrongly denominated massilia Fldr. by GopMAN and SatyIn and 
also figured on table 28 fig. 7, 8 of the Biologia Centrali-Americana. — phintias subsp. nov. (107 ¢), of which 
we figure a 9, approaches diademata from which it differs by the darker, somewhat narrower and more irre- 
