ops. 
morrisoni. 
aidea. 
appiciata. 
halice. 
chrysopha- 
na. 
moretla. 
hirla. 
ryphea. 
phidile. 
582 ANAEA. By J. Rosnr. 
tured in August), has above more dark marking and is also less fiery coloured than ops Druce (117 e) from Texas. 
— morrisoni Hdw. (117 e) is probably only a 9 form of andria being more prominently marked in dark and 
with more constrasting colours. — aidea Guér. (118 a) from Honduras and Nicaragua is remarkable, because 
the forewings are not like in the other forms produced into a point, which is, however, again the case in 
appiciata Stgr. i. 1. from Mexico being also somewhat more brightly coloured. — The larva lives on Croton capi- 
tatum, is light green, irrorated in dark green, especially above, and has on each segment 2 or 3 white dots, 
the stigmata being also bordered by white, the dorsum being set with small blackish bristles. The pupa is green, 
at the sides yellowish, at the borders of the abdominal rings, of the wing-case and on the ribs of the wings red- 
dish-brown, of the same colour are the stigmata and the cremaster. — In the southern parts of North 
America the butterfly hibernates in hollow trees. 
In A. halice Godt. (118 a) from South Brazil (for instance Santa Catharina) the forewings are more 
or less drawn out into a point; the 9 has tailed hindwings. Sometimes the dark spots in the middle of the 
forewings are only indicated. 
A. chrysophana Bates (= pyrrhothea Fidr.) (118 a) from Costa Rica, Veragua, Panama, Colombia 
and Peru, as well as South Brazil, has also in the male sex tailed hindwings. The dark parts of the forewings 
exhibit a fine blue reflection. The 9 has no reflection, but large white spots. According to SALVIN and GopMAN 
rare. 
A. moretta Druce (118b) from North Brazil resembles chrysophana, but it has no blue reflection. 
The under surface is grey, irregularly and densely strewn with brown scales and all the wings have a sub- 
marginal row of very small white spots. 
A. hirta Weym. The description runs as follows: ¢ length of body 15 mm, of a forewing 25 mm (thus 
somewhat smaller than the 3 of chrysophana). This species is in its colours the most closely allied to A. helie L., 
but not in the shape of the wings. The forewings are deeply cut out at the outer part of the inner margin, 
like in moeris Fldr. (119 c), so that the inner margin forms in the middle a sharp corner and at the distal margin 
a pointed tooth. The apex of the forewings forms a right angle. The distal margin is otherwise straight. The 
hindwings exhibit a caudal point of 6 mm length and 1 mm width, being somewhat broader only at its base 
and rounded at the tip. The ground-colour of the forewings is reddish-brown extending, however, only 
across the posterior part of the discocellular, the base of cellule 3, the greatest part of the cellules 2 and 1b, 
and half of the cellule 1 a, but towards the base and at the inner margin it is covered with a violet reflec- 
tion. The other part of the wing, thus a part of the base, the whole costal margin, the apex, the distal margin 
and the outer part of the inner margin are blackish-brown. In the dark space before the apex there lies a broad 
violet band of 10 mm length and 2 mm width extending almost horizontally through the cellules 6, 5 and 4, 
touching, however, neither the costal margin nor the distal margin. The reddish-brown ground-colour of the 
hindwings likewise has towards the base a violet reflection. The base itself and the distal margin are brown. 
The latter, however, does not quite reach the border; so that a narrow stripe of the reddish-brown ground- 
colour separates it from the border. It is anteriorly broad, posteriorly narrower and ends at the brown caudal 
point. In each of the cellules 3, 2 and 1c there is a black dot before the border. The cellules 1a, 1b and 
half of the cellule 1 ¢ are yellowish-grey. In the adjoining part of cellule 1 ¢ a brown stripe extends as far as 
to the base. The under surface is brownish-yellow, finely marbled in whitish in the basal half. On the 
forewings, from the middle of the inner margin, a straight white stripe extends towards the apex, being proxi- 
mally accompanied by a dark brown line, disappearing, however, at the vein 5. A triangle coloured somewhat 
lighter than the ground-colour adjoins distally this band and occupies the space as far as to the inner angle. 
The inner margin itself is dotted dark-brown at this place before the excision, as well as the costal margin at 
two places in the discocellular and before the apex. The hindwings exhibit a similar, somewhat curved white 
stripe running from the middle of the costal margin to the inner angle and bordered in its anterior half proxi- 
mally by dark brown. The tip of the minute tail is beneath dark brown. The three black dots in the cellules 
lc, 2 and 3 are like above, there is besides yet an irregular dark brown dotting at the costal margin in the 
cellules 6 to 8. Brazil. 
P. ryphea Cr. (118 b) is very widely distributed, for it has been found in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicara- 
gua, Costa Rica, Veragua, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela and Colombia. There occur specimens without tails 
as well as with tails, also transitionary forms. Under surface light yellowish brown, tinged reddish, forewing 
with a yellowish, dark-shaded oblique line from the apex to the middle of the inner margin, hindwing sooty 
black in the disk, the margins with a rosy hue. 
P. phidile Hbn. (118 b) distributed from Costa Rica to South Brazil, has mostly smoothly-edged, 
rarely angled hindwings; the paler yellowish-brown 9° have tails of the hindwings, no violet reflection and 
yellow subapical spots of the forewings. According to W. Mutter, the larva lives on Croton (staminosus ? 
and macrobotrys?); it has only at the head small short horns and protuberances, but is otherwise smooth, 
almost cylindrical and somewhat thickened only in the first third; at the head there are white stripes, below 
the horns there is a reddish transverse band but faintly indicated, the horns are black, the protuberances yellow, 
the ground-colour of the body is yellowish-red, below the line of the stigmata white, the lateral stripe and 
the transverse band on the 5th segment are carmine; the lateral stripe is most variable: shortly before 
