AMYCLES. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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C. chalcoviridis Hmps. Black; palpal base spotted white; in the neck carmine spots. The body is c halcoviri- 
suffused with a brownish-green. The abdomen, except the last rings, shows white sublateral stripe^. Hindwing 
blackish-brown, in the costal area lighter. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Brazil (Minas Geraes). 
C. flammea Dogn. (20 i) has a very intense blue metallic lustre on the forewings, warming more flammca. 
or less into a purple violet in the basal part; at the base of the costal margin there is a small, bluish- 
green spot. Head and thorax are spotted light golden green like the abdomen; the first 4 segments show white 
sublateral stripes. Base of collar spotted red. The black underside likewise exhibits a blue lustre. Colombia, 
Ecuador and Bolivia. 
C. chloroplegia Druce (20 i) has a black anterior body, the collar being spotted metallic green, chloro- 
and a metallic green abdomen, on which two subdorsal, black, longitudinal stripes are running through; the plegia. 
black ventral side shows sublateral, white, longitudinal stripes. The wings are black with a dark green lustre. 
The under surface is black except the grey inner-marginal area of the forewing; the discal area of the forewing 
and the costal area of the hindwing are suffused with a metallic green. Venezuela, French Guiana. 
C. affinis Rotksch. Head and thorax black with lustrous bluish-green spots; neck red; collar metallic affinis. 
bluish-green. Abdomen coppery green with black, subdorsal, and yellowish-white lateral stripes. Forewings 
steel-blue, in the basal third greenish. Hind wings dark brown, in the costal half grey. Length of forewings: 
17 mm. Amazon (Teffe). 
C. viridisaturata Rothsch. Head and antennae black with greenish-blue spots; thorax and abdomen viridisafu- 
of a brilliant coppery colour, collar metallic greenish-blue. The forewing is black in the basal fifth, in the 2 rata ■ 
middle fifths golden green, in the distal two fifths of a deep olive-green. Hind wings black, in the larger costal 
half yellowish-grey. Length of forewings: 23 mm. Probably from Rio. 
C. underwoodi Rothsch. The head is black with a red neck and steel-blue antennae, thorax and abdomen underwoodi. 
are coppery olive, the 1st segment metallic green. Forewings deep olive-green, the disc is traversed by an 
indistinct metallic green band. Hindwings greenish black, the costal area chestnut-brown. Length of forewings: 
20 mm. Costa Rica. 
C. simplex Rothsch. Head and thorax are brown, with coppery spots, the neck carmine, chest white, simplex. 
abdomen black, with dorsal and lateral coppery bands. Forewing purple brown. Hindwing dark brown, in 
the costal half brownish-grey. The 2 is a little paler and more monotonously brown. Length of forewings: 
18 mm. From Ecuador and Colombia. 
C. klagesi Rothsch. is of a deep olive-green on the body and forewings; neck carmine; antennae idagesi. 
deep steel-blue; chest white. Hindwing olive-green, in the costal half silvery grey. Length of forewings: 18mm. 
Surinam, taken in February. 
C. musicola Cockerell seems to be allied to hutleri (20 g). Body like there, only with more white spots, musicola. 
for instance on the shoulder-covers, forehead and sides of the head. Forewings above unicolorously bluish- 
black, faintly metallic. The costal-marginal half of the hindwing lustrous whitish. Under surface of a more 
intense metallic lustre than above. Expanse of wings: 37 mm. It was found in banana shipments in Colorado, 
and has undoubtedly been imported from Central America. 
94. Genus: Amycles H.-Schaff. 
This genus containing but few species is very closely allied to Ceramidia and only differs by the course 
of the lowest subcostal vein on the forewing, rising here only close before the apex, and by the middle radial 
of the hindwing rising more from the middle of the discocellular. 
A. anthracina Wkr. (20 i). Blackish-brown, antennae at the tips white, in the neck two red dots, anthracina 
The first abdominal segment shows a white spot on each side. The dark colour of the forewings turns lighter 
to a reddish-brown before the yellowish-white apical spot. The apex itself is narrowly dark-brown in the <j>, 
hyaline diaphanous in the <$. The dark hindwing shows two hyaline stripes at the proximal margin, the costal 
margin being whitish. Distributed from Mexico through Central America as far as Brazil. 
A. adusta Fldr. (20 i) is on an average larger than anthracina , and the light, brownish apical spot adusta. 
of the forewing is much more broadly margined by black, so that it makes the impression of a subapical oblique 
band. The shape of the wings is comparatively more extended, and the small hyaline stripes at the base of 
the hindwing are, particularly in the narrower and shorter. Length of forewings: 21 to 22 mm. Mexico. 
A. affinis Rothsch. (20 k) differs from the preceding by its smaller size and decidedly broader affinis. 
shape of the wings, as well as by the much more extensive hyaline spot occupying the whole apical 
third and being defined from the dark ground of the wings by a concave band being proximally reddish-brown, 
distally cream-coloured. The inner-marginal area of the hindwing is more extensively hyaline. Length of 
