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A. pandemia Druce (24 b) resembles monoplaga, but it has a considerably smaller hyaline spot being pandemia. 
placed more towards the margin. The hindwing exhibits a discal hyaline spot. The head is black and white, 
not red. Amazon (Paia). 
A. rubroanalis Rothsch. Body sooty black, suffused with blue; the last abdominal ring carmine with rubroanalis. 
a black anal tuft. The forewing is in the basal half hyaline with a lustrous blue costa and proximal margin; 
behind the cell there is a very large, hyaline oblique spot from the subcosta to the border as far as the upper- 
median vein. Hindwings are not mentioned in the description of this species having remained unknown to me. 
Length of forewings: 17 mm. West Ecuador. 
A. mathani Rothsch., unknown to me, according to the description, most exactly resembles Cyanopepla mathani. 
chelidon Druce (23 b). Described from Colombia and Ecuador. 
A. porphyria Cr. (= cryptoleuca Wlcr.) (24 a) is a large species with preponderantly black forewings porphyria. 
and a greenish-blue stripe being usually broadly interrupted by black in the middle, in the submedian fold. 
The hyaline spot outside on the 3rd radial is divided in two parts by the black ground-colour entering it in a 
tooth-like fashion. The entirely black hindwings are lustrous blue on the median and its veins; between the 
median veins there are indistinct, whitish, blurred spots. From Venezuela, Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia. — rothschildi rothschitdi. 
subsp. nov. (24 b) is distinguished by the green sub median stripe being very broad and extending as far as the 
margin; on the hindwings there appear distinct hyaline spots below the median. Before me from Peru (Tarapoto). 
A. conspicua Schmis. Head carmine, as well as the palpi with a black terminal joint. Body above conspicua. 
dark blue; above, on the abdomen, a whitish dorsal line, the venter dusted with whitish. Forehips white, wings 
bluish-black, at the costa and proximal margin of a brilliant metallic blue. Forewing with a large hyaline area 
in and below the cell, extending near the distal margin. Hindwing with a long hyaline stripe from the base 
above and below the median as far as near the distal margin. Expanse of wings: 45 mm. Costa Rica. 
A. birchi Rothsch. Head white, on the vertex black. Thorax brownish-black; abdomen blue with birchi. 
an obsolete, interrupted, white median line. Forewing velvety black with a white oblique stripe through the 
middle from the subcosta towards the proximal margin as far as the middle between the median and inner- 
marginal vein. Fringes at the apex white. Hindwing velvety black with white fringes at the apex and a broad, 
drab proximal margin. Length of forewings: 14 mm. Minas Geraes. — borealis Rothsch. is larger, and the borealis. 
proximal margin of the hindwing is white. Length of forewings: 16 mm. Venezuela. — pumila Rothsch. from pumila. . 
the Rio Madeira is smaller, with narrower and more pointed wings, the proximal margin of the hindwing being 
likewise white. Length of forewings: 12 mm. 
A. pseudodelphire Rothsch. Head and thorax blackish-brown, shoulder-covers striped white. Abdomen pseudo- 
above brown, suffused with blue, beneath with sublateral white stripes. Chest yellow-reddish. The forewings delphire. 
are purple brown, on the subcosta towards the base striped white, with a white, postcellular oblique band from 
the subcosta to the proximal angle. Hindwings black with a blue lustre and a white discal band from the base 
as far as half the length of the lower median vein. The $ has shorter and much broader wings, a white forehead 
and inner-marginal vein of the forewing. Length of forewings: $ 20 mm, $ 18 mm. Venezuela. 
A. buchwaldi Rothsch. This species having remained unknown to me, according to the description buchwaldi. 
exactly resembles Cacostatia flaviventralis (23 c), only a little smaller. Described from Colombia, Ecuador, 
Bolivia. 
A. acutipennis Rothsch. greatly resembles nitens, but the apex of the forewing is extended into a acutipcn- 
sharp point. Head, thorax, and abdomen are above purple blue; chest sooty black, venter white. Wings marked nis - 
as in the preceding, but the postdiscal hyaline spot extends farther down as far as the lower median vein. Length 
, of forewings: 21 mm. Colombia (Bogota). 
A. nitens Rothsch. Body of a brilliant deep blue; a spot on the forehead, the chest and venter are nitens. 
white. Forewing of a brilliant deep blue, at the base above the inner-marginal vein and below the subcostal 
hyaline, a hyaline oblique spot extends from the subcosta at the cell-end as far as the border. Hindwings hyaline 
with a broad distal margin and veins of a brilliant blue colour. The $ is blacker on the dark places of the 
wings, suffused with blue. Length of forewings: 20 mm, $ 19 mm. Colombia; Ecuador and Peru. 
A. germana Rothsch., at first sight greatly resembles nitens, but the dark margin of the hindwing gcrmana. 
extends at the proximal margin farther towards the base and is broader on the median. The species is smaller, 
with narrower wings and may immediately be distinguished by white spots on the collar and base of the shoulder- 
covers, as well as by subdorsal and sublateral, lavender-grey lines on the abdomen. From Surinam and Venezuela. 
A. pulchriformis Rothsch. Head black, forehead spotted white; thorax and abdomen blue; shoulder- pulchri- 
covers light bluish-grey; chest and venter greyish-white. Forewings black with a blue lustre; above the inner- formis. 
marginal vein a large hyaline spot extends as far as 4 / 5 of its length; behind the cell there is a hyaline oblique 
spot from the subcosta to the margin on the lower radial. Hindwings hyaline with a black margin suffused 
with blue, being very much broader at the proximal margin and apex. Length of forewings: 14 mm. Peru. 
