ANAEA. By J. Roper. 
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A. beatrix Druce (120 Cb) from Chiriqui is an imposing species. The 9 is beneath much greyer 
than the ¢. Seems not to be rare. 
A. cleomestra Hew. (120 Ca) from Nicaragua and Veragua is a very rare species. The hindwings 
are tailed and the inner margin of the forewings deeply sinuate. On the blackish-brown ground there is across 
the forewing and hindwing a broad blue band before which there are also two blue subapical spots. The under 
surface is very plain, yellowish-grey with yellowish and blackish, small strokes. 
A. ates Druce (119d, e) from Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, reported also from Rio. g¢ are often 
captured, whereas the 99 seem to be very rare. Above greatly resembling felderi, whereas the under surface 
is marked like in zphis (119 b); it differs from iphis, however, by the purer tinge of the under surface and the 
much smaller size. The Bolivian specimens have also greenish-blue submarginal spots near the inner angle 
of the forewings. 
A. drucei Sigr. (119 e) from the Upper Amazon has only short teeth instead of the tails of the 
hindwings and a considerably different under surface, but above all the margin of the forewing of the ¢ is con- 
spicuous for its broad blue gloss. 
A. cerealia Druce (119 e) from Peru (Chanchamayo) seems to be a rare species. Instead of green, 
the marking of the upper surface seems to be just as often dark blue. Resembles extremely ates Druce. 
A. phila Druce (120 Aa) from Colombia and Honduras seems to vary greatly, for a specimen from 
Honduras before us exhibits a very obsolete subapical and submarginal marking. The distal part of the upper 
surface of the wings is of a deep velvety black and delimitates straightly, not marginally convex towards the 
metal-glossy basal part of the forewings. 
A. boliviana Druce (120 B b, c) from Bolivia is of very dim colours. The ¢ is above deep bluish black, 
the lightest is the basal area of the forewings, near the apex of the forewing starts a band consisting of 3 spots 
and running towards the inner margin. The Q is beneath lighter brown than the ¢ and has 3 grey spots bet- 
ween the tail and the anal angle. The metal gloss of the upper surface has not the bright shine of the 
preceding species, but it remains considerably duller, particularly in the 2. 
A. psammis Fld. from Colombia agrees with moryus (119 a) in the habitus. ¢ above blackish-brown, 
steel-blue, basal third of the forewings greenish leaden grey, 4 to 6 light steel-blue submarginal spots, distal 
margin light steel-blue, discal area of the hindwings dusted in greenish leaden grey, anal margin light steel- 
blue, leaden grey submarginal spots gradually decreasing in size. 
A. stheno Prittw. (119 e) from South Brazil (Santa Catharina where it flies at the end of April, Rio 
Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo) and Paraguay. O. StauprincER takes it to be the Brazilian representative of mor- 
vus, whereas DRucE considers stheno to be a proper species. In the ¢ of stheno the whole upper surface is almost 
unitormly tinged with a dull violet-blue, without any real metallic spotting, the violet hue in the basal third 
of the hindwing hardly growing somewhat more intense. — According to W. MuELLER, the larvae live on different 
Laurineae: Nectandra vaga Meissn., Goeppertia hirsuta Nees and Camphoromoea litsaeifolia Meissn.; it has 
the same shape as that of phidile; ground-colouring dirty orange, in the last stage the dark lateral stripe grows 
so faded that it is hardly discernible. The habits of the larvae are the same as of phidile, except that the animal 
always severs the piece of the leaf out of which it forms its funnel, altogether from the living leaf and fastens 
it again by web-threads so that the piece of the leaf dries up. By this demeanour the animal deviates 
from the 3 other Anaea-larvae observed by W. Mur Liter and from the larva of Protogonius drurvi. Pupa in 
the shape similar to phidile, being purely green diaphanous with white and dark green spots. 
A. otrere Hbn. (120 Aa) from South Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul) is beneath 
like the preceding species, but somewhat more marked. Except in front of the apex there are blue reflecting 
spots also before the middle of the border of the forewing; but they are much further away from the border 
than in similar species. 
A. uzita Druce (120 B b) from Cayenne is a neat species. It is known to us only from the description 
and figure, according to which the blue subapical spots on the upper surface of the forewings are extant, 
though reduced, and on the under surface of the hindwings the centre is traversed by a series of punctiform 
spots of the shape of ocelli. 
A. pleione Godt. from the Antilles (?) has not been in the hands of any modern author. The translated 
description runs as follows: expansion of wings between 5.4to 8.6cm. Upper surface of the wings deep yellow- 
ish brown, border of the forewings blackish brown marked, with two yellowish brown spots, which are more 
or less distinct. Inner margin of the hindwings bordered by a blackish line, being curved and double opposite 
the distal angle. Under surface of the 4 wings yellowish, with reddish brown meshy markings and in the 
middle traversed by a brown stripe along the inside of which a faint mother of pearl colouring is noticeable, 
which colouring is also seen at the beginning of the costal margin of the forewings. Body above yellowish 
brown, beneath yellowish, with 4 white dots on the head. Antennae rust-coloured. — The statement that 
the butterfly has white dots on its head, is very strange. Such a marking does not occur in any of the 
Anuea known to us, probably in none whatever, and we may, therefore, assume that plezone does not be- 
long into this genus. 
A. philumena Db/. and Hew. (= hauxwelli Dre.) (120 Aa) from the Upper Amazon and from Co- 
bealria. 
cleomestra. 
ales. 
drucei. 
cerealia. 
phila. 
boliviana. 
psammis. 
stheno. 
otrere. 
uzita. 
pleione. 
philumena, 
