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marcomantts Kammel. SO-Mähren, NO-Nieder- 

 Oesterreich. 



silcsiimits Marschner. Schlesien. Ausgestorben. 



Rabengebirge Coli. Standfuß Zürich. 

 ffihiin/ensis Niep. Salzgrund, Kynau. Coli. 



Fruhstorfer. 

 aiic/lc. Frühst. Fichtelgebirge. Ausgerottet. 

 meJUculus Stich. Fränkischer Jura. Regensburg 

 bis Bamberg. 

 Nahe verwandt: 

 ccdiis Frühst. Wachau. 



Ln'dimldus Frühst. (Maxiraihanus Frühst.) Kofel 

 bei Ober-Ammergau. 



57 . 89 Yramea : 14 . 99 



Yrainea nov. gen. 



A suppleraentary note to (anteaj : The androconial 

 scales of Yramea (n. g.) ci'Uieris (Drury). 

 By T. licuss, Rüdnitz i. d. Mark. 



Since the above mentioned note was -«Titten, 

 I was able b\- the kindness of the Berlin Museum 

 authorities to examine perfectly fresh specimens of 

 ri/theris, as well as specimens of dejamcuc Bsd. 

 (= Darwini Stdgr.) and vica Stdgr., the latter a 

 Speeles living at high altitudes among the Bohvian 

 mountaius. Of inoiirt<la Blancliard , evidently the 

 (Hohles of Boisduval, I only found two females and 

 one might suspect they were the $ form of de.mmcnc 

 (which would be "modcsfa Bl." in this case), as 

 latlmüokJcs Bl. certainly is the $ form of cytiieris 

 (= s'nia Hbn.). Hortensia Bl. and thecJa Stdgr. 

 helojig to luipfoieta Doubl. Aryi/iuüs Äniia B\. is only 

 a third synonym of cyt/ieris, named and figured by 

 Drury in ''Illustrations of Zoolog}'" in 1773, togeüier 

 with numerous other exotic insects. 



The nomenclature of these si)ecies will require 

 a chai)ter for itself. Of eorn Lucas, which may only 

 be a form of iura. I haye not yet seen any speci- 

 mens. 



At jiresent, after collecting and comparing the 

 details of the natural specimens before me, which 

 undoubtedly represent three vertaiii Speeles — 

 evidently restricted in their distribution to South 

 America — I <im able to place them in a separate 

 genus, l'rainen, with c_i/t/teris as the type, wlüch 

 s])ecies up tili now wandered among several genera 

 of northern Dri/adinae {Drijndes-Dryas , Hübner, 

 '•Tentamen", 1805, IV, Type: papliia, has priority 

 before Anjumüs, Fabricius in 'IlUger's Mag.', vol. C, 

 1807, Type (= firstnamed): paphia L., fitted exactiy 

 by the definition "Palpi — articulo secundo (wle 

 apiceni^) dilatato"). 



1) I cite this from the one existing, printed, never 

 published, incomplete example (of the fiist 112 pages) of 

 rSyst. Glossatorum" in Dohrn's Library, Stettiner Museum, 

 sent to me by the kindness of the Museum authorities through 

 Mr. E. Schmidt. The rest of the MSS. was lost. Jlliger 

 translated: „Palpen — das zweite Glied vor der inneren 

 Spitze erweitert." This is the opposite to the real fact. 

 .Ante apicem" signifies the „äußere Spitze". This fits 

 paphia better than any other species, as its jialpi are alto- 

 gether not strongly dilated and therefore the apical sudden 

 swelling becomes a characteristic of 'paphia. Argi/imis for 

 this reason falls as cotypical with Dri/as Hbn. and cannot 

 be uscd again. 



None of the previous definitions of the genera 

 (= Aryijtwis, Bohria, Brenlhis) which have con- 

 tained cijther'is and with it the other South American 

 species, took any account of the genital armature, 

 nor were the -wings ever searched for androconia, 

 except for tiiose visible to the naked ej'e in conse- 

 quence of large accumulations on the veins. For 

 these reasons the pecuUarities of the South American 

 species escaped detection, though Elwes, 1889, in 

 "A Revision of the genus Arfii/inii.i", Trans. Ent. 

 Soc, London, pointed out that '-they were no doubt 

 aberrativ". In truth, these purely South American 

 species show such peculiar and primitive details that 

 they can be said to form a group reminding of 

 Kiiptolctu by their genital armature and of Dione'ü.hn., 

 Colaenis Hbn., 3letamaiidnnea Stichel (all South Ame- 

 rican) by their peculiar androconia. 

 The generic details are as foUows: 

 Yramea nov. gen., Type: cythcris (Drury). 



1. Costal neuration of forewings. . "Vein 10 out 

 of 7." This agrees with Iloloria Moore, 1899, "Lep. 

 indica", which is Iheidliis (Hühner) Felder, 1861, 

 „Neues Lepidopteron'', 2nd Section of the genus, 

 with pales, ri/thcris (expressly mentioned), but not 

 Brent/üs Hübner, 1816, „Verzeichnis", Type: hecatc. 

 The details of the latter, which with daplme and ino 

 comprises the genus, are totally different and the 

 costal venation itself is variable in all three species. 



2. Palpi. They are dilated, and not only „ante 

 apicem", as in the definition of Ari/i/nnis by Fab- 

 ricius. 



3. Shape of wings. The species agree in this 

 respect fairly well with the wellknown Pudhora 

 lalotiia L., thougli the wings are rounded olf in two 

 species, one of which, iriea , lives at very high 

 altitudes. The costal margin of the hindwings is 

 broadly lobed adjoining the body — gener.illy rauch 

 raore so than in luknüa — and this is followed by 

 a deep incavation of the whole marginal outUne. 

 In some varieties of riitlmis the detail is nearly 

 lost — as is also the case in the two female ,,dioides 

 Bsd.", which I have seen. Also in the niountain 

 species, inca, it is inconspicuous in the (J, but the $ 

 preserves the peculiarity. This unique detail, which 

 has been given little attention (except by Elwes, 

 who tried to separate nwdcsta and cf/fitcris by it, 

 1. c, not being aware of its Variation in each species) 

 is not found in any other genus, a mere indication 

 of the sarae development being visible in latoiiia. 



4. Androconia. Only the type species, ci/lheris, 

 has these peculiar scales. They are distributed on 

 six iorewing veins, m,— m,, cu,, cUj, ax, and even 

 in fresh specimens are scarcely discernible to the 

 naked eye. The androconia strikingly resemble in 

 habitus the pluraules of other South American genera, 

 a long thin filament connecting the spoon-shaped 

 transparent "head" and brownish, broadly lobed base. 

 The detail is a raost remarkable one, recurringnowhere 

 except in South America among genera, which F. 

 Mr-LLKK was quite justified to count as Heliconid 

 (Bione, Colaenis, Mctamnndanea). 



The scales do not appear to vary otherwise than 

 in the lengthning or shortning and broadning out 

 of the neck between base and apex. Though so 



