ACLYTIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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A. mariamne Druce (23 d). Body black, with a blue lustre. Palpal base, hips, and a middle stripe mariamnc. 
on the venter white. The wings are black, in the basal halves metallic blue, on the hindwing more extensive. 
The hindwings exhibit an orange oblique band from the costal centre to the proximal angle. Expanse of wings; 
38 mm. Colombia. 
A. flavicaput Rothsch. Head and neck orange, vertex black. Thorax sooty black, shoulder-covers flavkaput. 
striped yellowish-grey. Chest and underside of abdomen orange. Abdomen above lustrous greenish-blue with 
a broad, sooty black dorsal band on the 4 first rings. Forewings brownish-black with lighter veins. Hindwings 
bluish-black with a white, transparent cliscal area. Length of forewings: 16 mm. Colombia; Venezuela; Guiana. 
A. flavigutta Wkr. (= simulatrix Wkr.) (23 e). Blackish-brown; the front of the palpi, hips, and flavigutta. 
a median stripe on the venter are white. The liindhead, collar and shoulders are spotted orange. Abdomen 
with broad, metallic blue lateral stripes. Forewings blackish-brown with yellowish veins and, in the <$, round 
orange discal spot, in the $, an oblique band. Hindwings black with hyaline stripes in the disc. Expanse of 
wings: 34 mm. Sao Paulo. 
A. punctata Btlr. (= lieber Wkr.) (23 e) is recognizable by the base of the palpi, forehips and ventral punctata. 
side being white. The abdomen is only laterally striped bluish-green, the dorsum remains blackish-brown. 
The veins of the basal half of the forewing are striped yellowish-grey. The nomenclatural type shows a yellow, 
small spot at the transverse vein, which is entirely absent in astigma Strand, whilst it grows to a large, yellow, asiigma. 
round spot in — megastigma Strand. Distributed from British Honduras through Guatemala, Costa Rica megastigma. 
as far as Para. 
A. petra Scliaits. Blackish-brown; palpi, sides of the forehead, and liindhead spotted and striped petra. 
white. Forehead and lateral spots on the abdomen metallic blue, venter white. Forewings blackish-brown 
with darker veins. Hindwings hyaline with black veins and margins. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. Peru. 
A. klagesi Rothsch. (23 e) is immediately recognizable by the subdorsal, black abdominal stripes on ldagesi. 
the 4 first rings, which are united to a dorsal stripe beginning from the 5th ring. Hips and venter isabel-coloured, 
forehead metallic blue. The forewings are unicolorously brown. Distinguished from terra by the yellowish- 
white underside. From Venezuela and Bolivia. 
A. affinis Rothsch. differs from klagesi by its purely white chest and underside of the abdomen, affinis. 
smaller size, only one black dorsal band on the abdomen, and with a reduced white, only very little transparent 
disc of the hindwing. Length of .forewings: 15 mm. Venezuela. 
A. coeruleonitens Rothsch. Head and thorax blackish-brown; palpal base and small spots on the coeruleo- 
collar orange; chest and venter white. Abdomen lustrous greenish-blue, the 1st ring above spotted sooty black. 
Forewings brownish-black, hindwings bluish-black with a white, transparent disc. Length of forewings: 16 mm. 
East Bolivia. 
A. hoffmannsi Rothsch. (23 e) is recognizable by the orange-yellow basal joint of the palpi, the underside hoffmannsi. 
being white. The collar shows laterally a small, orange-yellow spot which may also be absent. Shoulder-covers 
striped grey; abdomen above blue. The forewings are brown, the veins in the basal half striped yellowish-grey, 
at the cell-end a round, orange-yellow spot to which, in some specimens, a yellow streak is attached below, 
which in its further development may grow into a yellow oblique band: taeniata form. nov. (23 e). — Numerous taeniata. 
specimens of every possible transitions from Peru, and also from Cuyaba (Matto Grosso). 
A. jonesi Rothsch. Head blackish-brown, thorax more greyish-brown, on the shoulder-covers striped joncsi. 
yellowish-grey. Neck, distal half of the collar, and a spot at the base of the forewing orange. Chest and venter 
white. Abdomen sooty black, with lustrous bluish-green lateral spots. Forewings velvety brown with greyish- 
yellow veins, at the cell-end there is a brilliant orange-yellow spot. Hindwings bluish-black, in the disc hyaline 
white. Length of forewings: 19 mm. Sao Paulo; Parana. 
A. reducta Rothsch. Head and antennae black; thorax blackish-brown with 2 white, small discal reducta. 
spots. Abdomen above lustrous bluish-green with a broad, black dorsal band, beneath white, like the chest. 
Forewings brownish-black with an orange spot at the cell-end. Hindwings black with a strongly reduced, 
hyaline white disc. Length of forewings: 16,5 mm. Venezuela. 
A. albistriga Schaus. Head and thorax black; forehead and shoulder-covers striped white; 1st palpal albistriga. 
joint, spots on the hindhead and on the sides of the collar ochreous-yellow. Abdomen above blue, beneath 
white, like the hips. Forewings black, veins at the base grey; across the cell-end runs a white oblique stripe 
from the subcosta to the proximal angle. Hindwings blackish-blue with a broad hyaline stripe below the cell; 
shorter, small hyaline spots are in the cell-end, between the median veins and at the base of the proximal margin. 
Expanse of wings: 31 mm. Costa Rica. 
A. gynamorpha Hmps. (= flavigutta Btlr.) (23 e). Deep blackish-brown, palpal base, forehead, vertex, gyna- 
collar, and hips spotted orange. Abdomen suffused with blue, beneath on the first 6 rings orange-yellow. The 
blackish-brown forewings also in the <$ exhibit a broad, orange-yellow transverse band, the black hindwings 
with a blue lustre are hyaline in the disc. French Guiana, Amazon. 
nitons. 
