mapiri. 
phalcidon. 
paulus. 
anaxagoras. 
Narcissus. 
hewitsonius. 
olivencia. 
stuarli. 
beatifica. 
576 AGRIAS. By H. FRUHSTORFER. 
The fiery red of Pericles is replaced by a pale bronze yellowish brown and the magnificent blue of it simply indicated 
by faint marks.~ 
mapiri Fass/ originates from the Rio Mapiri, where the Yungas forest-valleys extend already into the lowlands 
of East Bolivia. The animal having an expanse of 65 mm is of the size and shape of an A. amydonius-3 and 
has also similarly coloured forewings with glaring-red (not blue-tinged), strongly indented red arcs reaching 
as far as to the base, and a very conspicuous yellowish-white subapical band being parted by 2 veins and much 
broader and more conspicuous than in all the red forms of Agrias lying before me. The blackish-grey hind- 
wings exhibit red dusting at the base of the discocellular; besides there extends from the anal angle a dark 
blue, oblong spot being sharply defined towards the distal margin of about 144 mm width and turning here 
into greenish, thus looking like the remains of the hindwing of Agrias. This blue spot is not identical with the 
anal spot of the amydon-forms, but owing to its more submarginal extension, it makes the impression as if the 
colour of an originally quite blue hindwing had been reduced to this small extent. The under surface exhi- 
bits in the otherwise entirely undimned red are a black stripe at the lower part of the median. The marking 
of the under surface of the hindwing is much more concentric than in amydon, and the light zone bordering 
first of all on the ocelli turns somewhat into red-brown in an upward direction. I do not dare to decide to 
which forms this new animal is to be assigned though I presume that it might be an extremely southern off- 
shoot of Agrias pericles. 
A. phaleidon Hew. (114d) occurs exclusively in the district of the Lower Amazon. Geographical 
races are not known for certain, but only two, presumably individual forms. A. phaleidon is, according to 
HAHNEL, somewhat larger than Callithea lepriewri (99 d) which it resembles on the whole, and like that blue 
with a pale, silvery grey margin, the under surface, however, with a strong banded marking and a row of blue 
and white pupilled eye-spots. According to Micuagn, the deep cyanean is of the most megnificent effect in 
the midst of the tropical vegetation. 
..When the sun has risen half the way to the zenith. 4. phalcidon begins its flight about at the same time with 
Morpho cisseis, a little earlier than Prepona. The height at which they use to stay being very considerable, varying bet- 
ween 5 and 10 metres, the scent of the bait we occasionally applied did not penetrate to them, and we got all of the few 
phaleidon we caught sight of, down from the tips of their leaves. whereas in the same road, the Prepona repeating their 
flight much oftener and occasionally coming further down to the ground, scent the bait much easier and are then easily cap- 
tured on it. 
The 2 has somewhat less blue colouring, in one specimen of the Coll. StaupDINGER it is absent. Both 
the 2 forms, however, exhibit on all wings more extensive, verdigris bands before the distal margin. — In Villa 
Bella (the Paritins of to-day) a 2 form was found (paulus Sgr.) with quite blue, not black-interrupted fore- 
wings. The verdigris bands of the hindwings are absent. — anaxagoras Sigr. is an aberration with yellow basal 
third of the forewings and almost entirely blackened hindwings, captured near Itaituba. 
A. narcissus Stgr. (115 c,d) is considered by its author to be the most beautiful Agrias, ,,a capital 
feast to the eyes‘, as I described it in 1897. StaupINGER knew only one 9 from Surinam which he came 
across in SomMER’s collection. Later on Mr. SanLKe who collected for HonravH in Cayenne discovered two 
couples at the beginning of November and at the end of December 1884 and at the end of April 1885. My 
traveller Jutius MIcHAELIs succeeded in finding a 3 near Obidos on the Lower Amazon, of which we represent 
the under surface. The ¢ is a sardanapalus with reverse colours, because there prevails a wonderful, intense 
cyanean blue across which a relatively narrow red band is laid on the forewings. Hindwings nearly quite 
blue with a relatively narrow, jet-black very sharply delimited distal margin. The scent-pencil is smaller, but 
just as beautiful and of a pure yellow as in A. sardanapalus. On the dark moss-green under surface of the hind- 
wings are two conspicuous orange spots at the basal margin. 
A. hewitsonius has brought us so far the greatest coloristic surprises of which the Agrias are capable. 
Nature has squandered the most magnificent shades of blue, green, yellow and red upon this collective species 
occupying the Upper Amazon from where it has advanced to Ecuador and South Peru. hewitsonius Bates 
(114), the nomenclatural type, was discovered by its author near Teffé (the former Ega). It has remained 
extremely rare and is at once recognizable by the chrome-yellow basal part of the upper and under surfaces 
of both wings. — It is geographically approximated by olivencia Sigr. from Sao Paulo de Oliveng¢a, situated 
somewhat higher than Teffé on the Amazon. There are hitherto known only three 3¢, without a yellow base 
and an entirely blue surface of the forewings. — stuarti Godm. from Pebas and Iquitos forms the transition 
to beatifica (114d). The green zone of the forewings, however, is very narrow. The basal half of the under 
surface of the hindwings is undeterminedly reddish or orange. On the under surface of the hindwings there 
are some black spots dispersed in the yellow part, which vary in size. Sometimes they are absent or there are 
2 or 3 being distally bordered by greenish and not standing entirely in red or yellow. The 2 of stuarti has 
above a black basal half of all the wings followed at first by a broad green band and, before the distal 
margin, by a narrower grey band. Beneath, the base of the wing is orange, the eye-spots are white-pupilled. 
There is a striking resemblance with Callithea buckleyi (99 e) and degandei (99 f). — beatifica Hew. (114 ¢, d) 
is a very rare form from Ecuador with a very broad verdigris terminal band of the upper surface of both 
