260 PEDALIODES. By G. Wbymbr. 



Peucestas Group. 



peucestas. P. peucestas Hew. (55 c). Above dark brown; forewing with the same white band as beneath. The 



$ is quite like the (^ except that the broad submarginal band on the underside of the hindwing is much lighter 

 whitish grey. Colombia (Quindiu Pass, Salto de Tequentama), Peru, Ecuador (Bafios), locally common. 



porina. P. porina Heip. (= Tisiphone lyssa Burm.) (55c). Differs from the preceding species in the shorter 



white band above and beneath and also in the absence of the white spots on the underside of the hindwing. 

 ■palaepolis. Ecuador (Bafios, Huamboya), Bolivia (Rio Pongo, Yungas de la Paz), North Argentina (Tucuman). — palae- 

 polis Heiv. is a form of porina which on the underside of the forewing bears a small blackish, white-pupilled 

 corderoi. eye-spot at each side of the white band. From. Bolivia and Limbani in Peru. — corderoi Dogn. (55 c) is a fur- 

 ther form in which the light brownish grey submarginal band on the underside of the hindwing is broader 

 and is also visible on the ujaper surface as a washed-out yellowish brown band. From Loja and Macas in Ecuador. 



porima. P. porima ySm. (=porrima*S'igr»-.) (55c). The white band on the forewing extends into cellule 2, which is 



not the case in the 3 preceding forms. Further recognizable by the 3. to 5 whitish yellow dots on the under- 

 side of the hindwing, of which the middle one is somewhat larger. Bolivia. 



pnllantis. P. pallatitis Hev}. (55 c). The white band takes in the anterior part of the cell and extends nearly to 



the inner margin. The distal margin of the hindwing is obtusely angled. The 9 is somewhat larger and has 

 the forewing concave below the apex. Colombia (Monte Socorro, 3500 m.), North Peru (Huancabamba). 



pylas. P. pylas Hew. (= pilas Hew. in tabula) (55 c). The 2 white spots of the forewing are present also on 



the upper surface. The hindwing on the contrary is unicolorous dark brown above. Colombia (Bogota). — In 

 imiplaga. the form utliplaga Thieme the small white spot at the costal margin of the forewing is absent. Colombia. — 

 parma. parma Thieme is a very similar form, in which the small spot is likewise absent, but the large spot is som.e- 

 what further removed from the distal and inner margins and placed nearer to the costa. On the under surface 

 this spot is somewhat larger and takes in a part of the cell. From the coast Cordilleras in Colombia (Kal- 

 breyer). 



phaedra. P. phaedra Hew. Above brown with a bright isrimrose-yellow band across the forewing and a large 



spot of the same colour in the middle of the hindwing. On the under surface the yellow band of the forewing 

 is broader than above and the spot on the hindwing is prolonged anteriorly and posteriorly into a complete 



mclaleuca. band, melaleuca Weym. (= Pronoph. palades Hew.) (55 d) is a form of phaedra in which all the yellow markings 

 are milk-white. Transitions occur between the two forms. The name Pron. palades Hew. cannot be retained 

 for this form, as Hewitson himself had previouslj^ described another species under the name Pronophila pa- 



niphoessa. lades (the present Lasiophila jMlades). niphoessa Thieme (55 d) is another form of phaedra, with the band of the 

 forewing chalk-white and somewhat broader, occupying the distal part of the cell. The white spot on the upper- 

 side of the hindwing is in both forms prolonged to the inner margin. From the Quindiu Pass in Colombia, 3500 m. 

 (Thieme and Fassl). 



Plotina Group. 



plotina. P. plotina //e(r. (55 d). Ma j^ be known by the large red-yellow spot before the anal angle of the hind- 



wing above. Beneath this spot is ochre-yellow, marbled with brown, and from it a straight ochre-yellow 

 raplia. stripe runs up to radial 2, where it is followed distally by a white dot. Venezuela. — rapha Btlr. (= plo- 

 tinella Sm.) (55 d) is a form of plotina in which the red-yellow spot on the upperside of the hindwing is smaller 

 and shorter. On the under surface of the hind\v'ing the ochre-yellow stripe is broken up into crescent-shaped 

 spots and from the end of the stripe a row of white dots runs to the costal margin. Venezuela. ■ — In the 

 pharnaspes. form pHamaspes Hew. (55 d) the separate spots of the yellow band on the hinchving are not crescent-shaped, 

 but elongate-quadrate, of the row of dots only one is present and before the distal margin on the underside 

 of the forewing there is a broad, light reddish brown band. Venezuela, Ubala (Colombia, East Cordilleras). Fassl. 



cocytia. P. cocy tia. Fldr. (=phaesana Hew. [in tabula]) (55 d). Above unicolorous dark brown. On the under- 



side of the hindwing is placed between the narrow, straight ochre-yellow band and the distal margin a curved 

 row of grey-brown spots. The yellow band is often broken up into small, more or less widely separated 

 spots. In a $ captured by Fassl (55 d) the separate spots are proximally pointed. The figure of the (J has 

 been prepared from Felder's type m the Tring Museum. — The egg is spherical, milk-white, somewhat trans- 

 parent. The surface is smooth and glossy. From the plateau of Bogota, 2600 — 3200 m. 



hopiferi. P« hopfferi Stgr. (55 e). The broad red-yellow band of the hindwing is strongly sprinkled with dark 



iyrrheus. brown on the under surface and extends to the apex. From Cuzco and Huancabamba in Peru. — tyrrheus 



Godm. cfc Salv. is probably only a form of hopfferi Stgr. The red-yellow submarginal band of the hindwing is 



shorter, only extending fi'om the inner margin to one-half the wing. On the under surface it is ochre-yellow, 



somewhat longer than above and anteriorlj^ pointed. Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta (Colombia). Simons. 



