amydon. 
MUZICNSIS. 
frontina. 
laurseni. 
boqolana. 
anvydonius. 
572 AGRIAS. By. H. Fruusvorrer. cee bc 
and inclined to give way to every geographical and climatic influence. In amydon, at least in the Colombian 
specimens, we have to register the interesting fact that the red area of the forewings may proceed from the 
base of the wing as in Agrias claudia and A. sardanapalus; but that it is also proximally displaced by the black 
ground-colour, so that instead of a convergent area, there remains only yet a band-like brightening reaching 
from the costa to the inner margin. The median area of the forewings intermits from yellow to red, but we 
hitherto know yellow-banded $3 only from Colombia and Bolivia. The under surface is of plainer markings 
than in A. claudia and A. sardanapalus; it is on the hindwings, also in the specimens being above red, yellow 
with black rosettes, without a variegated filling between the black bands. The ocelli are black with blue- 
white pupils, in one form (trajanus) almost white. Of a very constant extent is the black antemarginal band 
of the hindwings, the distal margin itself is yellowish, with the exception of ferdinandi where it appears pre- 
ponderantly whitish. Less constant is the preapical band of the under surface of the forewings. It appears 
very narrow in some Colombian forms, uncommonly broad in boliviensis, and remains yellow in all the Andine 
specimens, white in those from Central Brazil. The upper surface of the hindwings is subject to by far the 
greatest influences, numbers of specimens exhibiting a sparkling blue sardanapaloid disk and others showing 
an insignificant blue spot being distally and anally displaced; then there are specimens without any discal 
spotting, with a unicolorous cover of the hindwings and, finally, such with greenish or yellowish small adnerval 
stripes or the submarginal zone. 
Tacre are no exact statements about the habits. FAssni has seen them circling round the tops of high trees, and 
even when they approach the bait on the ground, they come down from above in’a wide spiral, flying for a minute 
round the bait, whereat only a red Jine is recognizable owing to their nimbleness. The 9°92 seem to prefer resting on the 
ground, at Jeasi my travel!es MicHAELIS has surpr’sed a 2 in Surinam drinking from a puddle. 
amydon Hew. is a form resembling our figure 115 d, but differing from it by the absence of the whitish spots 
of the forewings and a considerably larger and lighter blue disk of the hindwings; the chain of ocelli on the 
under surface of the hindwings appears also coherent, not dissolved into single components as depicted in 
our figure. There exist specimens with a red area, running through from the base as far as close to the inner 
margin of the forewings, exhibiting generally somewhat less blue on the hindwings than in the name-type 
presented by Hrwirson. Such gg were denominated muzoénsis Fruhst. Specimens with a narrow oblique 
band from the costal to the inner margin of the forewings, which may be pale reddish-yellow or almost orange- 
yellow were separated as frontina Fruhst. frontina stands between amydon Hew. and zenodorus Hew. Upper 
surface like in z2nodorus, but the apical spot somewhat more obsolete and the discal band orange, sometimes 
chrome-yellow, but never carmine as in amydon nor bright yellow as in zenodorus. This discal area is exactly 
as in z2nodorus, but narrower than in amydon. The discal spot of the hindwings somewhat smaller than in 
zenodorus, but considerably larger than in amydon. The under surface of the wings completely agrees with 
amydon, except the lighter colour of the disk of the forewing. Described according to.5 specimens in GODMAN’s 
collection and 1 3 of my collection. This subspecies of amydon was collected by SALMon near Frontino in Colom- 
bia. Hewrrson’s collection likewise contained | specimen which was arranged together with an Agrias ferdi- 
nandi and two amydon, labelled ,,amydon‘*. Of late some more $g were discovered nearly without a blue disk 
of the hindwings, inhabiting preferably the eastern slope of the East Cordilleras of Colombia, whereas on the 
Upper Rio Negro at an altitude of about 800 m above the sea-level likewise at the eastern slope of the Kast 
Cordilleras, jg have been observed without any marks of a blue spotting and denominated larseni Fassl. The 
2 of amydon remained extremely rare and was only recently discovered by Fassu. It is half as large again 
as a normal g, of a more compact shape and more rounded forewings as well as hindwings. The ground-colour 
is not so intensely black, but more a dark greyish brown. The red arc of the forewings is duller and without 
the sparkling lustre. The three small subapical spots being obsolete in the 3 are almost as large again and 
distinctly yellowish white, but separated by the veins, on the under surface, however, not. broader than in 
the g and likewise forming a band. Upper surface of hindwings entirely dark greyish-brown, without a trace 
of blue or red. Scent-tuft absent as in all the Agrias-29. Anal angle very obtuse, nearly rounded off. Under 
surface almost just as glaring as that of the ¢; the marking hardly different, only the black ocellated band 
broader and more coherent, the white-blue ocelli being of the same size and nct differently shaped as in the ¢. 
Fasst found the 2 of amydon in the company of Anaea panariste-2, pasibule-2, Coenophlebia archidona-°, 
Prepona neoterpe-9 and the dimorphous 9 of the red P. praeneste, and the unproportionately large 99 of Agrias 
aedon and A. amydon were considered the most precious booty from those wild primeval forest valleys into 
which the discoverer had several times retired as if forced by magic power, in spite of the violent fevers he had 
undergone there, and notwithstanding the numerous poisonous snakes and the worst victualling to’ be thought 
of. — As bogotana Fruhst. there is a specimen in the British Museum approximating A. ferdinandi (115 ¢). 
It is, above all, larger than ferdinandi, has less dentated hindwings, a lighter red discal band of the forewings 
and a lighter under surface. Furthermore, the bands on the hindwings are considerably broader than in ferdt- 
nandi, so that the yellow ground-colour is compressed to narrow bands, and the blue eyespot-pupils of the 
black submarginal band are somewhat larger than in Brazilian specimens. — amydonius Stgr. (115 d) was based 
upon a ¢ from Pebas on the Upper Amazon. The magnificent purple-red of the forewings, small carmine basal 
spots and three anteterminal yellow streaks of the hindwings distinguish this local race, We have figured the 
