Publ. 14. IIT, 1916. BATESIA. By Dr. A. Surrz; AGERONIA. By H. Frunsrorrer. 
Sr 
w 
-I 
old place on the road (A. H. Fassu). The 9 of procilla is quite similar to the 3, but larger and beneath of a 
lighter colouring, the subapical white spots stronger, more diffuse, often flowing together. — There are also 
larger specimens being above darker than typical procilla. This is the form ocana Fruhst. denominated by 
the domicile of Ocana on the Lower Magdalen River, where it was found. — In Colombia there occur, on the 
contrary, also smaller specimens: salacia Fruhst. with a decorative band of the forewings being not broader, 
but more golden-green. The preapical spots as in typical procilla, but the white stripes on the under surface 
of the forewings shorter than there, more like in ocana. — lysimache S. and G. was founded upon a single 
>} from the volcano Chiriqui, being probably not of a different species, because it deviates only by the steel- 
green, postmedian band of the forewings nearly as broad again and by the submarginal ocelli of the hindwings, 
which form a beautiful regular chain in procilla, being almost extinct. — divalis Bates is also nearly allied to 
procilla, but the under surface of divalis has a stronger red hue; the eye-spots are absent altogether, or there 
are only 2 to 4 smaller ones. From the Upper Amazon. 
P. chalcothea Hew. (103d). From Colombia; the upper surface is similar to procilla, or still more so 
to lysimache, though there are no small spots before the apex, but only an entirely subdued diffuse stripe. 
The hindwings are of a magnificent light red beneath, clouded towards the apex. — The species thus forms a 
transition to prola. 
P. prola Db/. and Hew. (103 e). Above recognizable by the broad postmedian band of the forewings 
and by the row of eye-spots in procilla on the hindwings, being also replaced by an indistinctly bordered, dark 
green metal-band. Beneath the hindwings and the apex of the forewings are of a magnificent red, mostly without 
any markings at all, the transverse vein and a very narrow margin of the hindwings being sometimes black 
at most. In Colombia not rare. — zaraja FruAst. from Merida in Venezuela is larger and has broader bands 
than Colombian specimens; the subapical band of the undersurface of the forewings is darker, more diffusely 
powdered with light green than with blue, the under surface of the hindwings more subdued red. — amazonica 
Fruhst. from the Upper Amazon is larger, with a broader band of the forewings and more distinct black longi- 
tudinal bands. Under surface of hindwings brighter red and without any traces of a dark submarginal band. 
— dubia Kretschm. is the denomination of specimens with especially glaring-red apex of the forewing beneath. 
We must, however, remark that the red colour of the under surface varies very much; in some g¢ it is entirely 
pure and without markings on the hindwings, or sometimes tarnished by layers, or provided with margi- 
nal markings, a cell-end streak or some discal spots, as are almost always noticed in the 9. — prolifica Fruhst. 
has on the upper surface of the forewing a broader band, on the under surface the band cutting off the apex 
is of a purer white and distally bordered in darker green. Ecuador. 
P. regina Bates (103 e). Greatly resembles prola, but the hindwings being red beneath, have dark 
markings; in the cell the red basal spots are absent on the under surface. From the Upper Amazon. — victrix 
Fruhst. from Ecuador has a darker total colouring, the black stripes of the upper surface being more prominent. 
The band of the hindwing is anally remarkably narrowed. Under surface considerably darker with more pro- 
minent submarginal rings. 
53. Genus: Batesia Fldr. 
The differences in the veins between this genus and the preceding, which were formerly combined by 
the (preoccupied) name of Pandora Ww., are stated under Panacea. This genus consists only of a single species, 
a large butterfly with a most conspicuous colouring, living on the Upper Amazon and on the Rio Negro in Ecua- 
dor and not being very rare. There is nothing known about its habits. 
B. hypochlora Fidr. (103f). Above black with dull blue reflection, leaving free a black submarginal 
band. The distal part of the forewings exhibit a very large oval, scarlet spot. The under surface of the hind- 
ocana. 
salacia. 
lysimache. 
divalis. 
chaleothea. 
prola. 
zaraja. 
amazonica. 
dubia. 
prolifica. 
regina. 
vielrix. 
hypochlora. 
wings is metallic greyish-green. — hypoxantha S. and G. likewise from the Upper Amazon, has beneath loam-hypoxantha. 
yellow hindwings with a slight greenish hue, while in hemichrysa S. and G. (103 e) the under surface of the hemichrysa. 
hindwings is of a bright yolk colour, in the @ duller; from Kcuador. 
Group of Ageronies. 
Median of the forewings without a spur, often sacciformly inflated at the base. The 99-forelegs have spines at the 
first to fourth joints. Larva set with spines. Pupa at the head with 2 long bands. 
54, Genus: Ageronia Hobn. 
The species belonging to this group have so many peculiarities that they are to be reckoned among 
the biologically and morphologically most interesting neotropical Rhopalocera, Besides they are structurally 
and anatomically so very sharply confined, that no closer affinities with the groups of day-butterflies surroun- 
ding them are traceable. 
The Ageronia are structurally distinguished by the uncommonly thickened costal and the posterior 
discocellular of the forewings being curved sharply convex. 
The veins themselves are variable from one species to another, and even, as in some Argynnides, within 
Vi 68 
