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are connected by short brown stripes lying along the veins. There are 2 brown clots before the margin 

 near the eye-spot. — Cayenne. 



C. philis Cr. (= cissa Hbn.) (42 b). Very similar to the preceding species, but has the brown philis. 

 marginal and submarginal stripes of the hindwing somewhat narrower and the median area before these 

 stripes sprinkled over with violet-blue dust, which, however, is laid on so thinly that the "wing remains 

 transparent, only in certain positions showing a very distinct blue reflection. Surinam. — harpalyce Btlr. harpalyee. 

 is probably only a local form of the preceding, which has the blue reflection along the median veins 

 specially distinct, and which in addition to the eye at the anterior part of the distal margin has also a 

 small eye with a yellow ring between the middle and lower median veins. From the Upper Amazon. 



C. esmeralda DM. (The older name midromeda F. cannot be employed for this species, because esmeralda. 

 Fabkicius has mixed up several species together under this name.) Similar to the preceding species, 

 but the blue reflection in the central area of the hindwing is wanting. Instead of this the posterior part 

 of the distal margin is bluish violet, and at each side of the lower median vein is placed in this border 

 a red-yellow ring with white centre. The eye in the anterior part of the distal margin is as in the other 

 species. Between this and the two posterior oceUi there are 2 round white spots. Para. — As bandusia bandusia. 

 Stgr. an esmeralda-ioxm has been described in which instead of the two anal ocelli of the hindwing there 

 are two reddish white spots placed in a large cyaneous spot. From the Eio Maues, a tributary of the Lower 

 Amazon. 



C. pyropina Godm. & Salv. (42 b). Forewing without markings. Hindwing at the anal angle with pyropina. 

 broad, brownish violet distal margin which extends to the lower radial. In this are placed 3 rose-red 

 spots and close to the margin a narrow rose-red stripe. The ocellus in the anterior part of the distal 

 margin is as in the alHed species, behind this is a white dot. — From Bolivia and East Peru. 



C. polita Hew. (42 b). The only species of the genus which shows on the hindwing no red or blue polita. 

 colour-. The wings are shorter and broader than in the other species. Costal and distal margins of the 

 forewing are narrowly brown, 2 half and 2 entire narrow brown transverse stripes traverse the forewing, 

 whilst the hindwing has only a marginal and a submarginal band, of which the latter is strongly angled. 

 The ocellus in the anterior part of the distal margin as in the other species. — From Nicaragua, Chiriqui 

 in Panama, Costa Piica, Colombia, rare. 



2. Genus: Haetera F. 



The butterflies are on an average somewhat larger than those of the genus Gallitaera, but the 

 wings are equally dehcate and transparent, and the submedian of the forewing is forked at the base. But 

 the costal vein of the forewing is less strongly inflated. The principal difference, however, consists in the 

 position of the lower discocellular of the hindwing. This vein ends at the origin of the middle median 

 vein. The 3 discocellulars are placed vertically and form almost a straight line, the apex of the cell 

 being acute. 



H. piera L. ($ = anacardii F. nee L.) (42 c). Forewing diaphanous, without markings, only with piera. 

 narrow brownish costal and distal margins. Hindwing in and behind the middle with fine ochre-yellow 

 dusting, with a fine brownish transverse stripe, which is strongly angled in the middle and whose posterior 

 part in the $ is darker and more distinct, with brownish distal margin, which forms in the middle a 

 somewhat obtuse angle. Before the distal margin anteriorly a larger and posteriorly a smaller black 

 ocellus, the former with obhquely placed, the latter with centrally placed white pupil. Both ocelli have 

 ochre-yeUow iris and brown ring; between the ocelh 2 white dots. Common in Guiana and on the whole 

 of the Amazon, extending to the south of Brazil. In the forests of the Cordilleras of Colombia common 

 at elevations of 1200 — 2-500 m. FHght very slow. The egg is spherical, somewhat flattened at the base, 

 smooth, shiny white. — diaphana Luc. (= hymenaea Fldr.) is a form of piera, in which the ochre-yellow diaphana. 

 dusting on the hindwing is absent and the brown markings are more distinctly prominent. Bahia. — 

 negra Fldr. is another, larger, form of piera, in which the brown submarginal stripe in the cJ is effaced negra. 

 and the marginal stripe placed further from the margin. In the $ both stripes are narrower and the 

 proximal one is more curved than in the type form. Eio Negro. — unocellata form. nov. (42 c), a hitherto unocellata. 

 undescribed local form of piera, has on the hindwing only the smaller ocellus before the anal angle. The 

 other larger eye-spot at the apex is absent or only indicated by a black dot. The brownish submarginal 

 band is only distinct in the posterior half of the wing and the space between it and the brownish distal 

 margin is dusted with ochre-yellow at the anal angle. On the under surface the iris of the eye-spot is 

 not red-yellow, but sulphur-yellow and twice as broad, the black centre on the contrary much smaller than 

 above. Bolivia. 



