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■n"hat lighter. The fore\ving has here 4 white dots at the costa as in poetica, of which the second, reckoning 

 from the apex, is extended into a small spot. Before the middle of the distal margin a rather small, sharply 

 defined chestnut-red wedge-spot. HindAving ferruginous, but little clouded, with an indistinct dark discal 

 band, a very small, obscure grey costal spot and a white dot at the anal angle. From S. Inez in Ecuador. 



P. auraria Thieme (53 f). Upper surface brown with very large, straight -margined scale-spot, extend- aw-aria. 

 ing to the costal and inner margins. Beneath lighter brown, at the costal margin irrorated with dark brown 

 and gold-yellow, mixed with silver-white scales. Fringes chequered with brown and white. The hindwing 

 beneath marbled with brown and black-brown, with a row of white submarginal dots and a bright gold-yellow 

 costal spot, such as otherwise only recurs in pallantias Hew. From Vilcanota in Peru. 2 ^^ in coll. Statj- 

 Di>'GEE in the Zool. Museum in Berlin. 



Prosa Group. 



P. prosa Stgr. (= phrasina 8m.) (53 f). Above dark black-brown, the scent-scale spot only reaching prosa. 

 as far as the posterior end of the cell. Under surface brown, both wings with a broad lighter brown submarginal 

 band, traversed in the middle by a row of white dots. The dot in cellule 2 of the hindwing is larger than the 

 rest. At the costal margin of this wing a white spot, at the inner margin sometimes an obscure red-brown 

 one. From Bolivia (Loco Valley, San Jacinto, Yungas de la Paz). — phrasiclea 8m. (53 d) is a form of prosa, phrcmdea. 

 chiefly differing in the absence of the white costal spot on the underside of the hindwing, the presence of a di- 

 stinct rust-red spot at the inner margin of this wing and of a grey band in the cell of the forewing. From 

 Bolivia. — phrasis 8m. (53 e) is a form in which the darkening has proceeded still further. The basal hsli phrasis. 

 of both wings is entirely dark brown and only the distal part of the submarginal band is perceptible, while 

 only the white dots stand out distinctly. From Bolivia. 



P. pheretiades Sm.. & Kirby (= subtangula Stgr.) (53 f). This species may be known by the snow- phereiiades. 

 white apical spot on the underside of the forewing, below which is placed a brownish red-yellow spot. The upper 

 surface is dark brown, in the middle of the forewing with a velvety scent-scale spot, distally lighter. The white 

 spot of the under surface shows through above, but is here light brown. — In the form sufiutnata Stgr. this suffumata. 

 spot is dull white on the upper surface, somewhat dusted with brown. The red-yellow spot on the under surface 

 is often joined to the white apical spot. Bolivia, 1500^ — 3000 m. 



P. emma St^r. A beautiful species; upper surface brown with 4 oval white spots before the distal emma. 

 margin of the forewing, which decrease in size posteriorly, except that the 3rd is somewhat smaller than the 

 4th. On the under surface the last 2 white spots are placed in broad black rings, otherwise they are as above. 

 The underside of the hindwing is as in pheretiades. From the Rio Songo (prov. Yungas de la Paz in Bolivia). 



P. panthides Hew. (= panthius Kirby) (53 f). Upper surface unicolorous brown. Beneath the fore- panthides. 

 wing is red-brown in the basal half, distally marbled with brown and dark brown and with 2 dark transverse 

 bands. Hindwing marbled with light and dark brown and with a darker band across the middle, a row of darker 

 spots before the margin and 2 or 3 white dots. Bolivia (Yungas de la Paz, Cocopata). 



pcrperna. 



Perperna Group. 



P. perperna Heu\ (= Pronoph. satyroides Fldr.) (53 c). Above dark brown, distally somewhat lighter, 

 the 2 with a black, white-pupilled eye-spot in cellule 2 of the forewing, which in the S is usually replaced 

 by a round black spot, but may sometimes also be entirely absent. In single cases, however, this spot has also 

 in the rj a white pupil. On the under surface the eye-spot is always large with a distinct white pupil, 

 a second eye-spot is placed in cellule 2 of the hindwing and a further round white spot before the apex 

 of the forewing. In the $ these eye-spots and dots on a yellowish grey, sometimes somewhat reddish, sub- 

 marginal band, striated with brown. In the (J this band is less distinct. Costa Rica, Panama (Chiriqui), Colombia 

 (Cauca Valley, Carmen, 1600 m.), Venezuela (Caracas). — petronius 8m,. is a form of perperna, distinguished peironius. 

 by the larger size of the 2 (65 mm. in expanse). The apex of the forewing is somewhat more produced, otherwise 

 the shape is as in perperna, the somewhat prominent angle at the 3rd median vein of the hindwing being 

 also present. The upper surface of both wings is velvety dark brown, the distal third of the forewing is some- 

 what lighter. The eye-spot of perperna is absent above. On the under surface the submarginal band of both 

 wings is broader and more distinct. Proximally to this band is placed at the costal margin of the forewing a 

 brownish white triangle and at the costal margin of the hindwing a brownish white spot. The eye-spot on each 

 wing and the white dot in cellule 5 of the forewing are as in perperna. The male is still undescribed. From 

 Valdivia in Colombia. Coll. Grose-Smith. 



