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HELICONINAK. Additions. By Dr. A. Sxrrrz. 59! 
The following forms are to be added yet to melpomene (p. 385—6): 
— funebris ab. obscurata Riff. differs from cybele Cr. (75) only by the sulphurous spots round the cell-end 
being more prominently dusted in dark; especially the spot in the cell. From Berg en Dal in Surinam. 
— aglaope ab. cognata Riff. from Pozzuzo in Peru is like aglaope, but the yellow band of the forewing is narrow- 
er, more irregular, sometimes the spots forming it separated. The red basal band on the hindwing broader, 
the rays more in the shape of a wedge than of a nail. Transitions to typical aglaope are not rare. 
The form timareta Hew. quoted on p. 385 and 386, has in its typical form only a large irregular, sul- 
phurous cell-end-spot greatly varying in the shape, so that its outward appearance reminds us of a yellow, 
instead of white spotted hecale (73 a) without submarginal maculae; it comes from Ecuador; we may form 
an idea of its appearance by imagining all the red in its side-form richardi (76 b) being replaced by black, or 
by the absence of the red tornus-spot in the forewing and of the small yellow basal band in the hindwing, in 
pluto (76 a); it is approximated the most closely by contigua (p. 386) and virgata exhibiting only narrow radiate 
rays of the hindwings. — ab. insolita Riff. approximates timareta (p. 386), especially its form contigua from 
which it differs by the yellow spot of the forewing lying outside the cell and being at most accompanied by 
few small scales of yellow within the cell. Harnscu brought it along from Ecuador. 
— vulcanus (p. 387). The form sticheli Riff. is to be added yet. Resembles cythera Hew. According 
to the figure by RirrartH in Deutsch. Ent. Zschr. 1907, t. 5 fig. 10, it is larger than cythera, the red band 
of the forewing is twice as broad, its inner margin only with traces of white, the costal marginal area of the 
hindwing broad whitish-grey in the g. It is described from Ecuador where it was collected in February (in 
the dry period). 
xenoclea-microclea. Mr. NEUSTETTER writes about these species being only exteriorly similar, that 
the former may be taken to the melpomene-group. Of the other side-forms of xenoclea the very fine iris Roff. 
is to be mentioned yet. It greatly approximates aglaope, but the yellow spot of the forewing is placed nearer 
to the apex and is of the same shape as the red-yellow spot at the same place in plesseni; it is also margined 
in red at its distal border, whereby a transition is formed between the plesseni-(microclea) forms and the group 
of melpomene-aglaope, From Ecuador. 
In niepelti Riff. (see p. 385) which was in the meantime figured in the ,,Lepidoptera Niepeltiana™, 
the red spots of xenoclea are white, but the whole inner area of the forewing, from the inner spot to the base, 
is fiery-red, and in the cell of the hindwing there are the beginnings of short, small rays. — In adonides 
Niep. these red rays of the hindwing are continued beyond the lower cell-margin, and the distal spot of the 
forewing is bordered rosy on the outside; from Jibara in Ecuador. — adonis Riff., a form of plessei, comes 
from Ecuador (Pastaza) and resembles wnimaculata (75 f), but the spot of the forewing is white, and the cell 
of the forewing is, before its end, traversed by another white band-like spot. — In rubicunda Niep. the two 
spots are similarly placed, but they are red instead of white; pura Niep., on the contrary, exhibits them all 
white, without a reddish margin or an interspersion of small yellow scales. All these aberrations occur in the 
same district (Pastaza). — isolda Niep., likewise from Jibara, stands between niepelti and aglaope, being diffi- 
cult to explain, according to NeusterreR (i. |.). ,,The small dark spot in the cell of the forewing in niepelte 
is more prominent in isolda (especially the 3) at the proximal border of the plesseni-spot, whereby the latter 
is more isolated ... The white apical band-like spot in both sexes slightly margined in crimson within its 
proximal contour.~ (Niepelt). — rubripicta Niep. is an isolda-form in which the remaining white of the discal 
spot outside the cell, as well as the apical band-like spot being white in isolda are greatly strewn with red scales, 
like in plesseni-rubicunda Niep.; Canelos, Ecuador; based upon 1 g. — gisela Niep. approximates adonides 
and represents, according to Niepelt, a transitional form from aglaope to plesseni-pura. ,,The plesseni-spots 
of the forewings are here white on top, the discal spot at its proximal border strewn with black scales and 
bordered by a strong black spot. Hindwings like in adonides, as well as the under surface, the plesseni-spots 
of a pure white (NippeLT). Based upon 1 2. From Jibara. 
On the whole, microclea and xenoclea (76 c) are probably composed of a great number of transitional 
forms running parallel to each other like the forms described first, belonging, however, as already mentioned, 
to different groups. NeusterrerR enumerates (i.1.) the following forms of xenoclea: niepelti, plesseni, adonides, 
adonis, isolda, rubripicta, gisela. All of these probably belong, like wxenoclea itself, to the melpomene-type and 
are closely allied to its aglaope. — microclea belongs to quite a different type, and we quote yet the following 
forms of it: feyeri Niep. resembling niepelti by the fiery-red basal area of the forewing and the red rays of the 
hindwing, but the proximal spots situate before the cell-end of the forewing are already prominently tinged 
in red, and the half -band behind the cell-end exhibits a pinkish inner margin. According to a ¢ from Canelos 
in Ecuador. — beata Riff. resembles aoede (76 f) by the red-yellow tinge in the forewing and in the rays of 
the hindwing; but instead of the yellow conglomeration round the cell-end we find here 2 reddish-white spots 
obscurata. 
cognata. 
timarela. 
insolita. 
sticheli. 
iris. 
adonis. 
rubicunda. 
pura. 
beata, 
