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Tt has a characteristic marking of the under surface of the forewings. — appiades subsp. nov. (120 Ba, b) 
of which there are lying before us from the collection of Mr. A. H. Fassu: 2 gg from West Colombia (Aguaca- 
Valley, 2000 m), 1 2 from Colombia (Muzo, 400 to 800 m), 3 9° from East Colombia (Upper Rio Negro, 
S00 m) and 2 2° from Bolivia (Rio Songo, 750 m). The $¢ are intensely blue or green on the basal half of 
all the wings, and the light spots are all of a pure blue (not partly white). The 992 have likewise a much 
more distinctly blue basal part of the wings and are on the distal half darker than in appias. 
A. artacaena Hew. (120 B a) is distributed all over Central America as far as Colombia, but everywhere 
very rare. Both sexes possess a white band of the forewing being pierced behind the cellule, whereby the 
species is at once recognizable. It is also beneath distinguished by a light tinge which strongly contrasts 
with the dark proximal part of the forewing. 
A. eribotes F. occurs on the Lower Amazon and in Guiana. In the g, a bright rust-brown distal 
part of all the wings sharply contrasts with the black basal third exhibiting a blue gloss; the apex of the 
forewing is black. The Q is of a dull slate-grey, the base of the forewings broad light blue, near the apex 
of the wing a short, undulate, dirty-white shine. Distal margin of the forewings slightly sinuate, the under 
surface with distinct black spots. — The larva has the usual shape of the Anaea-larvae, it is black and has 
single white, small bristles standing on small white warts, two rows of which are on each side of the dorsum 
and one row below the stigmata; the small, short, black horns on the head have in the middle a white streak, 
another similar one at each side of the face and 2 more intersecting ones in the middle of the face. The 
pupa is relatively slender with black and red markings. 
A. porphyrio Bates (119 a) from the Amazon is characterized by its peculiar colouring of the upper 
surface. It is very common in the forests of Peru. 
A. testacea spec. nov. (119 a) from Peru (Coll. A. H. Fasst) has on the basal part of all the wings 
the same violet reflection as porphyrio, from which, however, it differs greatly beneath; the under sur- 
face is buff with small brownish and blackish spots; the centre of the hindwings is traversed by a very hazy 
brownish band; the distal margin is brownish, hazy, from the inner angle to the tail there stand black small 
spots bordered by a broad whitish one. 
A. leonida Cr. from Surinam is a dubious species; Druce takes it to be the @2 of erzbotes which 
supposition however, is erroneous according to O. StaupINcER. It has brown distal margins of all the wings. 
CRAMER figures specimens as g and 2 which are presumably both gg and belong to different species; they 
are said to originate from Surinam. We do not possess any material of it. 
A. xenocles Westw. (= xenoclea Stgr.) (119 a) is distributed from Guatemala to Bolivia and Rio de 
Janeiro and seems to be very common. Here the basal parts of the wings are of an intense metal-blue gloss; 
the submarginal row of spots on the forewings, however, is irregular, approaches the distal margin at the inner 
angle and is continued on the hindwings in the shape of obsolete internerval, diffuse spots before the border. 
Under surface finely, though brightly silvery irrorated. The 9 has a lighter blue base of the wings and only 
two white subapical spots of the forewings. — subbrunnescens Stgr. i. 1. from Bolivia seems to be only 
an aberrative form being beneath, especially on the hindwings, scaled more in brown. 
A. octavius F. the patria of which has been reported by the author to be India by mistake, has 
not been seen in nature by any of the modern authors. The description, being entirely insufficient, runs as 
follows: wings tailed, black, a shortened green band; beneath grey, a red-brown stripe. 
A. morvus F. (= laertes Ff.) (119 a) is a widely spread and greatly variable species. The figured 
specimens originate from the Amazon. Here the submarginal spots are entirely absent, the basal half of the 
forewings, however, is of a very bright metallic gloss. — mortua Stgr. (not Druce) is the Central American and 
Colombian form with obsolete spots. — By far larger Colombian specimens, distinguished also by a far more 
greenish gloss at the distal margin of the forewings, were denominated pseudiphis by O. StaupincER. — It 
is still undecided which form has to be considered as iphis Latr. (119 a, b). We have figured a Colombian speci- 
men of that form, which is generally thought to be iphis. It is a large butterfly with long tails and a very 
much falciformly protracted inner angle of the forewings, the apical part of which exhibits bright blue spots 
being, however, not continued along the distal margin. Beneath the light small scales are arranged to a narrow 
marginal band and an oblique line cutting off the part of the inner angle. — morpheus Stgr. (119 b) from the 
Upper Amazon, Bolivia and Peru, is generally larger than morvus and has blue spots at the distal margin 
of the forewings. The under surface is darker (browner). 
A. arachne Cr. from Surinam, which was united with morvus as being synonymous by several authors, 
is certainly another species. Shape about like that of morvus, though we cannot ascertain from CRAMER’s figure 
whether the inner margin of the forewings is sinuate; nothing is said about this in the description. The hind- 
wings, except the narrow black border, are entirely green, the forewings green on the basal half, all the wings, 
however, are traversed by a moderately broad black subbasal band; a large green spot is in the apex of the 
forewing. The under surface is brown with whitish markings near the base of the hindwings, and all the wings 
are traversed by a rather broad bluish submarginal band; the under surface is, therefore, rather variegated. 
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appiades. 
artacaena. 
cribotes. 
porphyrio. 
testacea. 
leonida. 
wenocles. 
subbrunnes- 
cens. 
octavius. 
MOrVvUS. 
mortua. 
pseudiphis. 
iphis. 
morpheus. 
arachne. 
