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P. primula Baies, from the Upper Amazon, is a species similar to vestilla; the dark oblique band at jjnmitta. 

 the end of the cell is forked at the 2'"' and 3'* median veins. The vitreous parts of both wings are for the 

 most part dusted with vellow. The distal margins are broadly blackish brown, broadest in the apex of the 

 forewing and the middle of the distal margin of the hindwing; on the under surface they are suffused 

 with light brown, yellow-brown at the base and the inner angle of the hindwing. — tenuis Hsch. (40 c), tenuis. 

 from Colombia, is a similar form with delicate wings. Between the 2"'^ and 3''^ median veins of the fore- 

 wing is placed a triangular additional 3^ellow spot. The yellowish oblique band is arc-shaped. On the 

 under surface the margins are paler and in the distal margin of the hindwing there are no white dots as 

 in primula. 



P. auricula Hsclt. (40 c), also from eastern Colombia, is larger, with broader black margins. The auricula. 

 proximal edge of the distal border of the hindwing is nearly straight, not parallel to the outer edge. On 

 the under surface the edges are dark, except at the end of the cell of the forewing and at the costal and 

 distal margins of the hindwing, where they are j-ellow-brown. 



P. giauca Hsch., from western Ecuador, recalls Leucotliijris quadrata, but the vitreous spots in the glauca. 

 apex of the forewing are absent. The wings have a strong blue-white sheen. The oblique band at the 

 end of the cell is forked at the median veins. At the costal margin there is only one small whitish spot. 

 On the under surface the margins are red-brown, dark-edged; Avith 4 white dots in the apex of the fore- 

 wing, and 5 in the apex and distal margin of the hindwing. 



28. Geiuis: Miraleria Fhch. 



Here belong only a few forms, which may be recognised by their having the end of the cell 

 straight in the hindwing. The lower and middle discocellulars are of equal length, Aveakly curved and 

 alone closing the cell, whilst both the upper discocellular and the upper radial are absent in the (^. The 

 o has an oblong scent-spot, which, as in Hypoleria, is not closed distally. The known forms are plain- 

 looking, medium-sized butterflies, and occur only in the north-west of South America; they are not rare. 



M. cymotiioe Heiv. (40 e), from Venezuela and Colombia, has colourless wings with brown margins, cymothoe. 

 of which the distal ones are proximally dentate. The subcostal of the forewing is red-brown; the costal 

 margin of the hindwing and all the margins on the under surface are yellow-brown. Beside the brown 

 half-band of the forewing is placed a whitish band and in the apex of both wings on the under surface 

 2 whitish dots. — In ab. flavomaculata Hsch., from Venezuela, the band at the end of the cell is yellow, i^'^l"'"^"''^"' 

 and also the dots on the underside. 



M. sylvella Heic. (40 e), from western Ecuador, closely resembles the smaller Episcada sylpha (39 e). syli-ella. 

 The (5 has in addition to the red-brown subcostal a broad streak at the median of the forewing and 

 also a partly reddish brown distal margin to the hindjving. The half-band at the end of the cell is proxi- 

 mally narrower and beside it is placed only a small white spot at the costal margin. In the 5? the red- 

 brown coloiu- is absent above, only the subcostal of the forewing is slightly red-brown. — In ab. ornata ornala. 

 Hsch. the forewing has a broad white half-band, which in the $ is sometimes continued, though here less 

 distinct, to the distal margin. 



29. Genus: Aeria Hb7i. 



Here begins the group of genera in which the lower discocellular of the hindwing in the (J is not 

 angled and forms an acute angle with the median. In Aeria-^ the lower discocellular is slightly undulate, 

 the middle somewhat shorter than the long upper one; in the $ the lower is angled, the upper is absent, 

 as the upper radial branches off from the subcostal. The (^^ of some forms have at the end of the cell 

 of the forewing on the upper surface a larger spot of thickly massed, glossy brown scales. The few known 

 forms are all very nearly allied and recall species of Scada by their yellow-black colouring. They mostly 

 occur in northern South America and in Central America, and are not rare in open places in the woods. 



A. eurimedia Cr. (= aegle Hbn., indola Dhl. <£ Hew.) (40 f). Typical examples of this species occur euriviedia. 

 only in Guiana and on the Lower Amazon. They have a large, half oval yellow subapical spot in the 

 forewing and also broad black oblique band and margins, there being only an oblong yellow spot at the 

 base. — In the form negricola Fldr., from the Upper Amazon, the subapical spot is longer and the yellow negricola. 

 basal patch is broader and triangular. On the under surface of both forms the margins are variegated 

 with red-brown. — pacifica Godm. & Salv. is the form from northern Central America. The black pacifica. 

 markings are very broad, so that only narrow yellow stripes remain at the base of the forewing and in the 

 disc of the hindwing. The subapical band of the forewing is very large and like the other yellow mark- 

 ings darker than in eurimedia. The under surface, as in the latter, is variegated with red-brown. — agna agna. 

 Godm. & Salv. (40 f) is the form from southern Central America as well as Colombia and Venezuela. It may 

 be recognised especially by the absence of the red-brown colour on the under surface. The pattern and 

 colouring are otherwise similar to the preceding, with somewhat broader yellow bands at the base of the 

 forewing and on the hindwing. — palmara Hsch. is a form from western Ecuador. It differs from agna in idalmara. 



