nenia. 
laura. 
rosae. 
laticineta. 
Ganassda. 
aulica. 
clara. 
lineata. 
vicinalis. 
magdalena. 
590 ANAEHA. By J. ROopmEr. 
A. nenia Druce (120 Ca) from the Upper Amazon (Sao Paulo) has another shape of the wings (a less 
sinuous inner margin of the forewings), and the under surface differs considerably from that of odilia, being 
dull dusty-grey, irrorated in white, with a darker median band and marginal band the latter of which exhibits 
on the hindwing light clouded spots. 
Of A. laura Druce (120 Ad, 120 Bd) from Veragua and Colombia (Muzo, 400 to 800 m, A. H. Fasst), 
only gg seem to be known. They are above intensely black with an indistinct, dull greenish tinge growing 
somewhat more prominent at the base of the forewing. The under surface is also chestnut-brown with silvery 
white scaling; before the apex of the hindwing there is a large silvery white costal spot, in front of it a light 
undulate band composed of silvery interspersed, small scales. 
A. rosae Fass! (120 Cd) from West Colombia (Rio Aguaca Valley, 2000 m) is one of the best disco- 
veries made by the author during his investigating and compiling work of many years in tropical South America. 
The ¢ is extremely distinguished from its allies of this genus especially by the sight the under surface affords 
being not nearly attained by any other species of Anaea; nevertheless the 2 carries off the palm, since it is 
besides fitted out with a beautiful upper surface. Mr. A. H. Fasstu also captured a g in which the greyish- 
blue marking of the upper surface of the forewings is especially well developed, whereby an intermediate stage 
has been created between the appearances of the upper surface of both sexes. — 992 with an almost doubly 
broad band on the upper surface of the forewings are denominated ab. laticincta Fassl. — This species has 
hitherto been found (by Mr. A. H. Fassu) only in the western valley of the. Aguaca Valley at an altitude of 
1800 to 2200 m. The stay in this part of Colombia is especially injurious to health. — The discoverer gives 
the following statements about the early stages of this species: The egg of this prominent new species is about 
as large as an egg of Pergesa elpenor, light-green, diaphanous in yellowish, with fine longitudinal ribs. The 
larva, about the size of a grown-up larva of Phalera bucephala, is jet-black, naked, between the rings where 
the interior of the body shines through, dark carmine; head black, glossy; on each ring stands a girdle of about 
6 snow-white pretended pointed, but not thorny spines. The larva lives on a poorly-leaved tree with hard, 
lanceolated foliage which it rolls up from outside towards inside and fastens it together loosely; only in the 
evening it comes out from this case and visits the nearest leaves for its meal. The pupa rests on the upper 
surface of a leaf being shghtly drawn in in the shape of a boat and is spun on with the cremaster. Having 
the size of a pupa of Limenitis populi, it is of the well-known compact shape of the Anaea-pupae (lycaenid- 
like), but of an extremely conspicuous and singular colour and marking. On an ivory, white-shining ground 
it is symmetrically covered on the whole surface with jet-black dots and streaks, the detailed description of 
which would be too circumstantial; the wing-cases bear 5 long black wedge-shaped streaks based at the distal 
margin of the forewing. The pupa was apparently motionless and dead; after 6 weeks it yielded a ¢g of 
A. rosae. The size of the female larva and pupa may be about again as large as that of the male, according 
to the proportion of the size of the butterflies. 
A. anassa Fidr. (= ada Btlr.) (120 Ae) from Veragua and Colombia is known to us only in the 
male sex. This form seems to be very constant. It is not rare. — aulica subsp. nov. from Chiriqui is smaller, 
has broader and more coherent blue marking on the forewings; the margin of the hindwings is more green- 
ish and proximally more sharply defined. The under surface is darker without any rust-brown marking at 
the inner angle, it is more profusely scaled in whitish and the brown bands on the hindwings are absent. 
A. elara G. and S. (120 Cb, c) from Costa Rica is allied to the anassa, but still it shows such differences 
that it has to be considered a proper species; it resembles beneath proserpina (120 Be), whereas the upper 
surface resembles that of ambrosia (120 Da). On the under surface, however, ambrosia is less irrorated in white, 
of a more monotonous brown, especially on the hindwing. The 9 of elara has tails like most of the following 
species; the species seems to be rather rare or very local. 
A. lineata Salv. (= vestina Hew., betillina Hpffr.) (120 Ae) from Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador is a 
species of very different sexes. The upper surface of the 2 resembles that of a schausiana (120 Ca), but 
it has a fainter blue decoration, especially on the hindwing and the apical part of the forewing .is without 
spots. The under surface is marked like in indigotica (120 C b), of which it has also the faint hue of violet- 
pink which is spread across the under surface and is of an especially magnificent lustre in the sun. 
A. vicinalis spec. nov. (120 Ae) from South Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Espiritu Santo, Santa Catharina) 
greatly resembles lineata, but those parts of the wings which are above green in lineata, are blue in vicinalis. 
Also the 29 of the two species greatly resemble each other, but the under surface shows differences in both 
sexes. It is not impossible that lineata and vicinalis are subspecies of one and the same pecies. 
A. magdalena Weym. i. ile (120 bc) from East Colombia (Upper Rio Negro, 800 m) and Bolivia (Co- 
roico, 1200 m, A. H. Fass) is somewhat larger, but it has, with the exception of a small tooth at the third 
median vein of the hindwing which is hardly noticeable with the naked eye, the same shape of the wings 
and above almost the same marking as drucei (119 e), from which it is, however, as shown by the under sur- 
face, entirely different. The 9 has lustrous light-blue basal halves of all the wings, bluish-white subapical spots 
