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HISTIAEA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
oculea. 
monticola. 
boliviano,. 
peruviana. 
falerina. 
maon. 
amazonica. 
inferior is. 
proserpina. 
glaucozona. 
excreta. 
tina. 
base of the lower median vein. In the cell-end an obsolete grey spot and 4 larger ones behind it, the two lower 
ones of which are moved more towards the margin. The hindwings exhibit large red spots below and behind 
the cell. Expanse of wings: 64 to 72 mm. Trinidad; Venezuela; Surinam. — It is open to doubt whether a 
form from Colombia (Medina, Fassl) lying before us in one example is to be taken as a subspecies to cepheus, 
or rather to be regarded as a distinct species: —- oculea (subsp. nov. ?) (16 h) above all differs by a quite yellow 
cell of the forewing, in the centre of which there is a jet-black round spot. Between 2 reddish submedian stripes 
there is on the fold a black, bent stripe, behind which there is a reddish yellow spot. Veins towards the margin 
somewhat lighter. Forehead, collar and forehips yellow. The 3 first abdominal rings exhibit large dorsal, metallic 
blue spots, so does the last ring. The red spots of the hindwings are very extensive. 
H. monticola Klages likewise resembles cepheus. Blackish-brown, on the forehead and shoulders 
yellow-brownish, on the vertex, collar, metathorax and chest blue spots. Forehips spotted yellow. The 1st 
abdominal ring exhibits dorsally and subdorsally 2 yellow-brownish spots each, the 2nd and 3rd ring with 
subdorsal yellowish transverse bands, on the 2nd ring dorsally a metallic blue spot, beginning from the 2nd ring 
there are lateral and sublateral blue spots; on the ventral side from the 2nd to 4th rings yellow transverse bands. 
Forewings at the base and transverse vein blue; subcostally, submedianly, in the cell-end and below the base 
of the lower median vein striped carmine with a brownish dusting; the postdiscal spot and hindwings like in 
cepheus. Expanse of wings: 62—66 mm. Venezuela. 
H. boliviana Druce (16 h) is easily recognizable by the yellow abdominal rings being not on the 1st 
and 2nd segments, but on the 2nd and 3rd, and being interrupted on the dorsum at their posterior margin 
by blue spots. Forehead and base of shoulder-covers exhibit yellow spots. In the cell-end of the forewing there 
is a large yellow spot being two-pronged towards the base, in the submedian space two extinct, yellow-reddish, 
bent, stripe-like spots. The lowest macula jrlaced outwardly of the postdiscal spot is the smallest. Bolivia. 
H. peruviana spec. nov. (16 h) approximates boliviana by being also yellow on the 2nd and 3rd rings, but 
the segments are broad and uninterrupted. The forehead is black, the shouldercovers in the whole upper half 
yellow. Beside the red stripes being arranged like in bellatrix, on the forewings, the basal half of the cell exhibits 
yet a fourth. At the cell-end there are, as usually, 2 blue dots. The yellow postdiscal spot is small and narrow 
and extends only from 4 to 7. The hindwings are almost quite pale red with an irregular brown border and 
brown costal-marginal spot. Behind the yellow rings the abdomen is above entirely metallic blue. One <$ from 
Peru (Cuzco), Bang-Haas. 
H. falerina Druce. The body is black, the abdomen with a metallic blue reflection, also the head 
and neck with blue spots. Forewing in the basal half quite red, with black stripes; at the base and cell-end 
metallic blue spots, and behind the cell a broad, yellow oblique band. Hindwings quite red with a black marginal 
band, which grows broader at the apex and at the middle of the distal margin. Expanse of wings: 72 mm. 
Peru (Marcapata). 
H. maon Druce (16 h), as imaon ) differs from imaon by the normal shape of the wings and more intensely 
prominent red stripes on the forewings. Bolivia. 
H. amazonica Btlr. (16 i) is characterized by a bent, narrow, red stripe in the submedian area, a 
narrow red costal stripe and a mostly quite obsolete inner-marginal stripe, a large yellow postdiscal spot exten¬ 
ding from the proximal margin almost to the distal margin, and like in the allies by a quite brown, blue-spotted 
body without any yellow markings. The hindwing, in the nomenclatory type, exhibits a large red postcellular 
spot, which is reduced and parted into two small ones in -—- f. inferloris Btlr. Amazon; from the Coll. Fassl 
there is before me a typical J' from East Colombia (Villavicencio, 400 m). 
H. proserpina Hbn. (16 i) differs from the preceding by a quite obsolete carmine spot in the cell-end 
and a lower one below the rise of the 2nd median vein. The yellow spot in the cell-end is absent. Amazon; 
Peru. 
H. glaucozona Druce (16 i) is well recognizable by the peculiarly greyish-yellow tint of the postdiscal 
spot. The abdomen is like in the preceding without any yellow rings. On the forewings there is only little to 
be noticed of red markings; in the middle of the cell there is a reddish spot being divided in two at the end. 
Veins and submedian fold are striped somewhat darker. On the hindwings a large red postcellular spot. 
Amazon. 
H. excreta spec. nov. (16 i). Closely allied to the preceding; at first sight discernible by two red spots 
on the hindwings. The forehead and base of the shoulder-covers are spotted yellow; the blue lateral spots at 
the abdomen are very large; the ventral side of the two first segments is spotted yellow. The veins are not 
darker striped; in the middle of the cell there is a square reddish spot; below it in the submedian space two 
reddish spots touching each other outside with the tips. The yellowish grey band behind the cell has a some¬ 
what different shape. Described according to a <$ from Peru (Tarapoto, Bang-Haas). 
H. tina Wkr. (= batesi Fldr.) (17 a) is a greatly deviating, little species with narrow wings and a 
black body with intensely metallic greenish-blue spots. The blackish-brown forewings, with greenish-blue 
stripes subcostally and in the cell, exhibit behind the cell a broad, orange transverse band. Amazon (Rio Grande 
do Sul, Oliveira). 
