AGRIAS. By H. FrunsrorFer. Suutas 573 
under surface 114 b, but the red is paler and there is yet a conspicuous, prominent subapical yellow band. 
— As tryphon subsp. nov. two 3¢ are introduced which are in STAUDINGER’s collection; the one from Sao Paulo, 
the other from the discharge of the Ucayali. Both specimens lack the small yellowish streaks before the distal 
margin of the hindwings. The ¢ from the Ucayali shows at any rate no trace of blue, whereas the Olivenc¢a-3 
exhibits a rather large blue spot parted black by the veins, being about of the size as in the ¢ figured by 
Hewtrson. In both, moreover, the red of the forewings appears more extensive, extending down as far as 
to the submedian, while in amydonius it is cut out in the shape of a segment. — trajanus Fruhst. denotes a 
very much differentiated territorial form of the Lower Amazon. Habitus smaller than that of all the vicarious 
types lying before me, above conspicuous by a pale, nearly yellow-red basal area and a prominent subapical 
yellow macular series of the forewings. The hindwings are overpowdered by dark red as far as to the middle 
of the cell, the subanal streaks are short, broadly confluent and of a bluish-grey colour. The forewings are 
beneath almost orange-yellow, with a very broad light sulphur-yellow preapical band. The hindwings exhibit 
a very broad black submarginal band with white instead of blue ocelli. The proximal band reduced to a thin 
yellow line. 9 larger than the 3, the wing-contour more roundish; the purple spot of the forewings less deeply 
strangulated, and the paler yellow apical spots flown together to a rather broad band. Base of the hindwings 
more extensively blackish, dusted with orange. The 5 subanal maculae somewhat more obsolete than in the 
S$. The under surface of the hindwings is especially distinguished by a dark orange-red discal band which is 
hardly indicated in the g and absent altogether in amydonius. The type of amydonius Stgr.. of which only 
one 3 was known till 1897, originates from Pebas situate on the Upper Amazon at 72 degrees Longitude. 
1 G and 1 9 of frajanus were captured by Jutrus MicHAELts near Obidos on the Lower Amazon at 56 degrees, 
in August and September 1899. A second ¢ from Obidos was taken in July 1900. Type in the Coll. Frun- 
STORFER. — aurantiaca Fruhst. (114 b 2) resembles trajanus by a rather narrower bluish-grey dusting of the 
subanal zone of the hindwings. Upper surface of the forewings with a large, orange-yellow basal part, a broad 
black apex and a black distal margin being narrowed between the second median vein and the submedian, 
growing somewhat broader at the distal angle above the submedian and running along towards the inner margin. 
In the apical part 3 oblique large yellowish spots. Hindwing above deep velvety black with a straw-coloured 
costal margin, dark orange dusted base and 2 pair of bluish-green short streaks embedded divergently bet- 
ween the first and second median veins. The ciliae of all the wings are yellow. Under surface of the forewings 
like above, the orange, however, is somewhat lighter and the black apical space is traversed, beginning some- 
what below the costal margin, by a seymentary broad yellow band. The subcostal veins are likewise slightly 
covered with yellowish. The black at the anal angle is less broad than above and consists of thinly strewn 
scales. At the median vein near the base of the wing there is a black, short and thick stripe. The basal area 
of the hindwings is filled up with 3 black and 4 yellow bands the two outer ones of which are strongly 
bent, generally rather equalling those of zenodorus. Antennae black with a yellowish tip. Head black with 
yellow palps: the red-brown eyes stick in a whitish collar. Thorax black, above brown-orange, beneath whitish 
haired. Abdomen anteriorly and above brown with a black point, beneath on all the segments covered with 
white scales being divided into white areas by a black longitudinal line and the black ringlets round the seg- 
ments. Legs above black, beneath yellow. By the brown colouring of the thorax and abdomen, aurantiaca 
greatly contrasts with zznodorus Hew. and the local form boliviensis Fruhst., in which these parts of the body 
are provided with jet-black scales. The under surface of the hindwings is rather analogous to that of z2nodorus, 
but darker than in boliviensis. Length of forewings of my 9 42 mm. aurantiaca was surprised at a defiled puddle 
from which the magnificent being was eagerly drinking, which habit is also preferably indulged in by its allies, 
the Indian Charazxes which are by no means inferior to them. As an almost true copy of aurantiaca, Catagramma 
sinamara Hew. 2*) appears, which was captured beside the Agrias of the same colours. Surinam. — zeno- 
dorus Hew., having hitherto been known only in some specimens from Keuador, was founded upon a 2 form 
forming the transition from A. amydon from Colombia to A. amydon boliviensis. The forewings exhibit a light 
orange oblique band sending forth only a narrow spur along the costal towards the base. This area, however, 
is somewhat larger than in boliviensis. The morpho-blue disk of the hindwings fills up the whole distal part 
of the latter and is surpassed in extent only by A. sardanapalus. But Hmwirson already knew a 9 in which 
the disk already exhibits a reduced blue, and also in the Coll. HonratH there was a specimen in which the 
magnificent spot did not surpass the extent of the disk of the wings of A. amydon. The 3 of zenodorus seems 
to have been recently discovered in Ecuador, according to a photograph before me from Mr. Het in Frankfort 
on the Main. It resembles above entirely the 3 of amydonius (115 d), but the hindwings bear only two adnerval 
strigae and above them at the posterior median yet a darkened accumulation of scales about the colour of which 
nothing was communicated to me. The under surface of this g is the most closely allied to that of our amy- 
don-3 (115d). — In some parts of Ecuador another, remarkably modified areal or temporal form is found, 
deviating from A. znodorus and approximating rather the Colombian amydon-type. This is eleonora Fruhst. 
(115 c). The © type originates from Ecuador, a 3 of it from Bolivia. The upper surface of the 3 resembles 
that of amydon muzoénsis Fruhst. and boliviensis fa. amydonides Fruhst. The subanal blue spot of the hind- 
*) Cf. Figure codamannus, table 101 Be, f. 
tryphon. 
trajanus. 
aurantiaca. 
zencdorus. 
cleonora. 
