248 LYMANOPODA. By G. Weymer. 



c/ortynoides. tember. The other form of the $, -which I call gortynoides form, nov., has been already briefly mentioned by 

 'Thieme in the Berliner Entom. Zeitschr., vol. 50, p. 70. It resembles Lym. gortyna, but is smaller (expanse 

 50 mm.), the hindwing not round but bent or obtusely angled at the distal margm and the row of eye-spots 

 on the hindwing not present beneath. Thieme possessed this form from Bogota, Merida and Bolivia. Fassl 

 has now also met with it fljong together with (^3* of obsoleta-larunda in the Colombian East Cordillera. These 

 9$ have the same strongly undulate hindwing that Thieme mentions, but the eye-spots on the underside of 

 the hindwing are not absent but are present in cellules 1 c to 5 (in cellule 1 c there are two), and although some 

 of them are small those in cellules 2 and 3 are distinct, and all have white pupils. The upper surface is dark 

 brown. Forewing with 2 large ocelli between the median veins, bordered with red-yellow and with white pu- 

 pils; sometimes also a somewhat smaller, blind eye-spot below them in the inner angle. Two very small, indis- 

 tinct ocelli before the apex. On the hindwing are placed 5 round black spots in red-yellow rmgs, in a curved 

 row, only the last of which has a white pupil. The ground-colour of the under surface is yellowish grey-brown, 

 finely striated with dark brown, towards the base darker. Fore^^dng with the same markings as the upper sur- 

 face, but with the bordering of the eye-spots lighter. Hindwing variable as regards the eye-spots, as already 

 mentioned above, obsoleta {lartmda) occurs in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia. — My grounds for em- 

 ploying the name obsoleta for this species which is known ui Germany under the name larunda are as follows: 

 HoPFFER says at the conclusion of his description (Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 1874, p. 361): "Dffers from all the species 

 known to me in the distinctly angled hindwing." Thus he has overlooked the fact that the figure of the upper 

 surface of obsoleta in the ,, Genera Diurnal Lepidoptera" shows just these angles and also agrees with larunda 

 in the shape of the fore^ving, as well as the colouring and markings. Unfortunately the author of the above 

 work gives neither a description nor a figure of the under surface. But I am indebted to Mr. Kirby of London 

 for a description of the underside of obsoleta drawn up from the type in the Brit. Museum and fully agreeing 

 with larunda (J. 

 gortyna. L. gortyna Weym. (53 a). Of this species only the $ is known; it is similar to the 2nd form of the $ 



of obsoleta (larunda) and to that of albocincta. It is, however, larger than either. Ground-colour of the upper 

 surface brown, distally lighter. On the forewing there are 5 eye-spots, of which the 3rd and 4th are placed 

 more proximally and are much larger than the rest. The hindwing has a proximally curved row of 5 small, 

 white-pupilled eye-spots. On the under surface the wing is finely striated with dark brown to the base, the 

 eye-spots on both wings are as above, except that the 2 larger on the forewing are bordered with ochre-yellow 

 and the smaller, at the anal angle, is absent. The hindwing has a somewhat lighter submarginal band. From 

 Paramo cle Guasco (2500 m.), Colombia (Stubel). 

 levana. L. levana Godm. (51 b). Forewing with the apex pointed, but not sharply, distal margin nearly straight. 



Upper surface dark brown, both wings with a small black, wliite-pupilled eye-spot in cellule 2 and one or two 

 black dots above it. Forewmg beneath as above, but the distal margin ferruginous, anteriorly broad, posteriorly 

 narrow. Hindwing likewise ferruginous, with a strongly dentate ochre-yellow band. Chapmero near Bogota, 

 2800 m. (Fas.sl). Flies in September. 

 apiculaia. L. Hpiculata Fldr. (53a, misprmted apiciculata). Shape of the preceding species, but the apex of the 



forewing somewhat sharper and the distal margin slightly excised below the apex. Above dark brown, dis- 

 tally somewhat lighter, without markings. Beneath likewise dark brown; forewing with a fine, dentate dark 

 brown submargmal Ime, which is followed by grey dustiirg to the distal margin, proximally broadly dusted 

 with yellowish. Beside this a row of wliite dots. HindA\dng with broad grey-brown distal margin, also with 

 a row of white dots at its proximal side and traversed by a dark brown dentate submarginal line. In the middle 

 of the hindwing a row of yello^vish brown spots. Colombia (Bogota [Lindig], Boqueron de Cipaque in the Co- 

 curvilinea. lombian East Cordillera, 3200 m.). Flies in January (Fassl). — curvilinea forrn. nov. is a form of apiculata 

 which has on the underside of the hind\\dng a somewhat outcurved white line instead of the row of yellowish 

 brown spots. This Ime travei'ses the whole A\'ing from -3 of the costal to 73 of the inner margin. Boqueron 

 de Cipaque, 3200 m., Colombian East Cordillera (Fassl). 



altis. L. altis Weym. (52 f). The apex of the forewing is rectangular, the huidwing rather obtusely angled 



at vein 4 and its distal margin somewhat undulate. Above brown; the basal half of both wings somewhat 

 lighter brown. Beneath lighter brown. The apex of the forewmg occupied by a red-brown triangle, at the prox- 

 imal edge of which are placed several white dots. Between the median veins 2 black, white-pupilled eye-spots 

 in red-yellow bordering. Across the middle of the liindmng runs a straight white band, irregularly defined at 

 the edges, from the costal to the inner margm, including the apex of the cell. Beyond tliis a row of white dots. 

 Colombia (Paramo de Aponte, 2800 m.) (Stubel), Ecuador. 



leacna. L. leaena Hew. (52 f). Above dark brown; distally reddish brown. Forewing beneath as above, but 



with a submarginal row of white dots. Hindwing beneath brown wdth a straight, light yellow band through 

 the middle and a row of wliite dots beyond it. Distal margin dusted with grey. The $ differs from the (^ only in 

 having a small, triangular wliite spot on the upper surface at the apex of the liindwing, which marks the beginning 

 of the light band of the imder surface. Colombia, eastern slopes of the Cordillera of Bogota, 2000 — 2500 m., 



