eryx. 
crameri. 
inaurata. 
reziu. 
oehri playa. 
India. 
mygdon. 
marthae. 
aplaga. 
alpha. 
chrysobasis. 
semimargi- 
naia. 
splcndens. 
el earn. 
sieinbachi. 
riolitincta. 
328 BELEMNIA; DIO SPA GE. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
2. Genus: Keleimiia Wkr. 
Charming, small butterflies looking like Syntomidae with variegated and metallic lustrous spots on a 
jet-black, velvety ground. Proboscis strong, palpi slightly raised, short, the antennae long, the teeth suddenly 
decreasing before the tips of the antennae Thorax round, abdomen broad, the hindwing in the 3 often with 
a pointedly extended anal angle. The 10 forms known have nearly all the same size; they rest on blossoms, 
together with Cyanopepla and Macrocneme-species and fly in the sunshine in a similar way as the Zygaena- 
species do. 
B. eryx F. (= obscura Drc.)*). Forewing with a brassy lustrous basal part and a bright hemochrome, 
small discal band. Hindwing with a pointedly extended anal angle. Colombia and in the Amazon District 
as far as Bolivia, dispersed. — In crameri Btlr. (= inaurata Cr. nec Sulz.) the small red band of the forewing 
is duller and more obtuse, often also shorter or narrower. Brazil and Bolivia, particularly common on the 
*■ 
Amazon. 
B. inaurata Sulz. (= eryx Roem., jovis Btlr.) (42 c) is similar, larger, the anal angle of the hindwing 
in the 3 roundish; basal half of the forewing of a lustrous bluish-green instead of brassy golden, the hemochrome 
band of the forewing above broader than beneath (in eryx just the contrary). Mexico and Central America. — 
In the form rezia Drc. (42 c) from Colombia the red band of the forewing is broader and extends farther down, 
on the under surface down to the proximal angle. Common. 
B. ochriplaga Hmps. (42 c). The small band of the forewing is narrower and orange-yellow, the 
basal part of the forewing less lustrous. On the Amazon River everywhere; near Para, Ega, Humayta etc. 
The figured specimen from South Brazil. 
i B. lydia Drc. (42 c). Body with golden red spots and bands. Forewing at the base little metallic 
with small dull bluish-grey spots at the cell-end. Colombia. Apparently rare. 
B. niygdon Drc. (42 b). Forewing above without any transverse band at all, but the whole basal part 
of a bright golden lustre, crossed by black veins. Beneath the small red transverse band is visible. Colombia. — 
In marthae Rothsch. from Sa. Martha in Colombia the small band beneath slightly shows through above. 
B. aplaga Hmps. (42 b) is similar to mygdon , above entirely without the small transverse band 
appearing also beneath merely as a faint red trace. Forewing in the basal half with a coppery lustre. Ecuador, 
Paramba; the figured specimen taken by R. Haensch in July. 
B. alpha Drc. (42 c) entirely recalls Syntomids from the genus C yanopepla together with which it 
also flies, particularly from the affinities of C. cinctipennis (22 g) or quadr{color (22 f), but it is easily rcognizable 
by the whitish apical spot of the forewing. From the volcan de Chiriqui in Costa Rica. 
3. Genus: l}ios|»agc Wkr. 
Very closely allied to the preceding genus, but in the hindwing the subcostal vein, which is feeble or 
absent in Belemnia, is strong, and vein 5 being absent there is present here. The structure is usually somewhat 
more slender, and the anal angle of the hindwing is not pointedly extended as in Bel. eryx dubia. 
D. chrysobasis Hmps. (42 d). Forewings as in Bel. inaurata. but the hindwings broadly bordered with 
a purple red. Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. 
D. semimarginata Rothsch. Forewings similar to those of the preceding; hindwings thinly bordered 
with pink, before the middle of tHe border a narrow, purple, longitudinal spot. Paramba (Ecuador). 2 S3 in 
the Tring Museum. 
D. splendens Drc. (42 d). The small band of the forewing is narrow and of a dull pink, an antemarginal, 
broad red band on the hindwing is crossed by the black veins. Bolivia, Peru. 
D. cleasa Drc. (42 c). Above quite black, only the bases of abdomen and of hindwings with a metallic 
golden green lustre. Beneath there is behind the middle of the forewing a broad, bent transverse band, in the 
hindwing the whole distal half is hemochrome, and besides the venter, too. Colombia to Ecuador. 
D. steinbachi Rothsch. (42 d). Forewing in the basal third bronze-green, in the cell an indistinct red 
spot, a post cellular light red band from veins 4 to 9. Hindwing black with a metallic lustrous base. Beneath 
in the disc of all the wings irregular hemochrome spots. Bolivia. 
D. violitincta Rothsch. (42 d). Black, the proximal half of the forewing coppery golden, crossed by 
the black veins, quite similarly to the Belemnia aplaga (42 b). Beneath the wings are in the basal halves metallic 
blue. Cauea Valley, May to July. 
* The form represented by Huebner in his ..Sammlg. Exot. Schmett.' 1 as gemma ns ery.r. was recently separated 
from it under the name of dubia Ky. 
