Jurinulenta. 
insularis. 
novilita. 
feronia. 
catablymata. 
mandragora. 
obumbrata. 
eupolema. 
MANRAriCe. 
guatematle- 
na. 
elata. 
542 AGERONIA. By H. Fruusrorren. 
at all, under surface similar to A. chloé obidona Fruhst. 9 chalky white with sharp-serrated reddish-brown 
median band. Antenna white, in black ringlets, the tip black. 
B. Species of the Group Peridromia Bsd. 
A. feronia is the species being known the longest and to be found the most frequently in the col- 
lections. Above recognizable by a milky-blue or bluish-grey zigzag-band and coiling round the ocelli, the colour 
varying in intensity according to the locality. A red worm-shaped spot in the forewing-cell always distinctly 
noticeable. The black cells of the hindwings with one blue ringlet with white pupil. Under surface greyish- 
white. Hindwing with delicate yellowish or greenish lustre. In Central American specimens the hindwings 
are ochreous, a characteristic mark which is found as a form of condition (mandragora Mén.) also in Brazilian 
specimens, though very rarely. — farinulenta subsp. nov. Ground-colour darker greyish-green than in feronia. 
The white spots at the apex and round the forewing-cell more extensive . Under surface of the hindwings simi- 
lar to that of feronia f. mandragora, covered with intensely dull ochre-yellow, but never as dark-yellow as in 
the larger A. guatemalena Bates. Still GopMANN and SaLvin were induced by this hue on the under surface 
to identify the feronia-race of Central America with the darker guatemalena being also ornamented with larger 
ocelli. Range from Texas, Mexico to Panama. Nomenclatural type from Honduras in my collection. — insu- 
laris subsp. nov. A small elegant race being above almost light-blue, beneath uncommonly light and with mother- 
of-pearl gloss, from the Isle of Trinidad. From Santa Lucia and Hayti there are likewise A. feronia recorded 
which certainly represent new races. — nobilita subsp. nov. As nobilita I denominate those Venezuelan and 
Colombian specimens that are conspicuous for their more extensive and prominent white spotting on the fore- 
wings and exhibiting in both the sexes an intensive and lighter blue spotting than feronia from Cayenne and 
the Amazon. — feronia L. (105 c), the nomenclatural type, originally described from Surinam, is lying before 
me in a large series of corresponding specimens from Cayenne, Obidos and the Upper Amazon. STAUDINGER 
has specimens from the Ucayali and Pernambuco, and on the Andine side feronia reaches as far as to the Chan- 
chamayo. CRAMER knew an especially dark 2 from Surinam which he depicted, while HUBNER presented an 
especially light g. — catablymata subsp. nov. is to denote the Central Brazilian specimens in which the light 
pure blue appears as if covered with a grey curtain. The under surface is sometimes just as abundantly hued 
in yellow as in the Central American areal from. This deviation in the colouring was depicted already in 1857 
as mandragora Mén. Further to the south, the specimens are steadily growing darker, until we come across 
obumbrata subsp. nov. in Paraguay. Habitus smaller, wing-contours more roundish, upper surface of all the 
wings darker, the white spotting powdered with sombre blackish-grey, all the black bands broader and the 
blue spotting almost disappearing. Under surface more extensively spotted in black than in typical feronia. 
Specimens being very closely allied to obumbrata are already found in Santa Catharina, while such from Sao 
Paulo form an also geographically natural transition from catablymata to obumbrata. 
ne 
A. guatemalena. A remarkable species hitherto known from the Peninsula of Yucatan to Panama, 
was first ascertained by myself for Brazil where it very rarely occurs in Espiritu Santo. gwatemalena excels 
A. feronia considerably in size. On the upper surface of the hindwings the black median zigzag-band appears more 
prominent; ocelli of the hindwings larger, with a blue periphery and white pupil being not nude as in A. feronia, 
but surrounded by a fine blue ring. Under surface of the hindwings reddish or covered with pale ochre-yellow. 
— eupolema subsp. nov. is a distinct race from Yucatan. The apical- and median-parts of the forewings 
throughout lighter-spotted than in the nomenclatural type from Central America. Type in the Coll. Srav- 
DINGER. — marmarice subsp. nov. is most strongly contrasting with the preceding form and must be considered 
as the darkest areal form. Upper surface in both the sexes dull greyish-blue instead of greenish-blue as in the 
Honduras specimens. The subapical spots of the forewings being whitish in the nomenclatural type, are over- 
powdered by blackish also in the 9. Orizaba and Guadalajara (Mexico) in the Coll. FRunstorrer. — guate- 
malena Bates (105 c) is found in the whole of Central America. The 9 has an elegant, peculiarly greenish-blue 
colouring of the upper surface. — elata Fruhst. (105d), an excellent geographical branch, is immediately 
distinguishable from the northern forms by the whitish, instead of livid-covered apical part of the forewings. 
Under surface: the black spotting appears reduced whereby the white maculae gain in space and the yellowish 
colouring of the hindwings grow paler. Espiritu Santo, 1 g¢ 2 29 in Coll. FRUHSTORFER. 
A. iphthime resembles above A. feronia so much that it is easily comprehensible that Kirpy took it 
to be a variety of A. feronia. Also to STAUDINGER it came hard to diagnose this species. He recognized that 
there occur two more species of Ageronia in South Brazil beside A. feronia L., and denominated a species 
not being A. epinome Fldr. with ,,fallax‘*. The description of .,fallax‘‘, however, is much more identical with 
the form denominated as epinome by FrtprrR. Let us, therefore, quite briefly remark that the A. iphthime- 
races are immediately distinguishable from the analogous A. feronia-subspecies, by a reddish-brown apical 
hue on the under surface of the forewings, which is absent in A. feronia, and by the broad brown distal margin 
of the under surface of the hindwings. The iphthime-branches, however, are lacking the worm-shaped 
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