Pub!. 27. X. 1021. 
ARAEOMOLIS; NEAXTA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
35. Genus: Araeomolis limps. 
This genus consisting of 0 forms likewise contains both normally shaped butterflies and such with 
long foliated hindwings. Colours throughout yellow and red, the latter colouring being often preponderant. 
g antennae doubly combed; tibial spurs short, abdominal base above roughly haired. In the forewing the upper 
median vein rises close before the lower cell-angle; the 4 subcostal veins are arranged in such a way that the 
lowest rises yet before the middle between the cell-end and apex. Cell somewhat more than half the length 
of the costa; discocellular proximally angled. No areola. The genus is scarcely to be called normal: the diagnose 
of the genus: ,,forewings long and narrow “ is not correct with regard to the of some species (e. g. A. san¬ 
guined Hmps.). Of almost all the species but one or few specimens are known; they consequently seem to be 
very rare and are confined to the northern parts of South America. 
A. persimilis Rothsch. (45 i). Forewings violet tish-red and spotted pale yellow, in the pale yellow 
ring-spots small red dots, behind the cell-end a small white vitreous spot. Hindwings quite pale pink. Head 
and thorax pale yellow with a red line, abdomen crimson pink. A rather small butterfly; presumably the most 
widely distributed species. From Surinam to the Amazon and Peru. 
A. rhodographa Hmps. Size and shape of the preceding, but the small white vitreous spot behind 
the cell-end smaller, the basal part of the forewing more finely marked, containing red, partly strongly curved 
lines in the light yellow spaces between the veins. Hindwings yellow, tinged pink in the apex. 
A. guianensis Joicey from French Guiana is almost 1 3 larger than rhodographa, the forewings pale 
greyish-brown, speckled bone-white and with red vein-streaks; in the submedian space purple embedments; 
in and below the cell white spots proximally bordered with red, at the border white internerval spots, in front 
of them black streaks; hindwings pale purple pink, the costal-marginal area as far as beyond the middle whitish. 
Head and thorax white, marked purple, abdomen purple. Oidy 1 $ known, discovered by Le Moult on the 
Mar on i River. 
A. sanguinea Hmps. (45 i). Immediately recognizable by the shape of the q hindwing being lobatedly 
extended in the apex and anal part, and between deeply indented. Somewhat larger than persimilis. Forewings 
of a bright dark red with yellow veins in the distal part and small yellow rings and streaks in the proximal part, 
the hindwing purple with a yellowish brown inner-marginal area. St. Jean Maroni in French Guiana. The 
species recalls Eriostepta bacchans (45 i), the border of the hindwing of which, however, is in the not indented 
below the apex. 
A. nigripuncta Joicey (45 1), from the same district, is the size of the preceding and has also scarlet 
forewings marked yellow, with a white costal margin streaked red-brown, in and below the cell black dots, 
in and behind the cell-end bands of brown punctiform spots, being united downwards, an antemarginal row 
of small brownish spots. Hindwings light purple-pink, behind the cell hyaline. 
A. haematoneura Joicey from Colombia. somewhat smaller than nigripuncta, head and thorax 
like in most of the Araeomolis yellow, marked purple, and the abdomen red. Forewings greyish-brown with 
white-yellow spots and red markings, the spots mostly bordered with red and some pupilled white: hindwings 
pale pink with a whitish costal area. 2 unknown. 
36. Genus: Aleaxia H mps. 
This genus also contains about half a dozen of species known, the of which mostly exhibit very 
much altered, stunted hindwings. Beneath the typical species —- theon — shows a furry scent-spot round the 
upper cell-angle of the hindwing, and also the forewing has an oval stigma above the submedian, before its 
centre. Moreover, the very small hindwing of the $ is at the costa very far bulged out, in the apex, however, 
indented and below it curtailed. The genus is very natural and the species are very much alike; the butterflies 
are apparently rare; the $9 are mostly unknown. 
N. klagesi Rothsch. (45 k). Yellow, the forewings rather scantily spotted violet tish-red, hindwings 
tinged quite pale rosy-red, at the border broadly shaded with brown. Surinam. 
N. ockendeni Rothsch. (45 k). The forewings quite similar, but broader, the hindwing of the without 
the brownish-grey marginal shade. Upper Amazon (Fonte Boa) and Peru. 
N. theon Drc. (45 k). This typical species shows the dark spots of the forewing in the proximal half 
of the wing flown together to a purple brown cloud being only at the base interrupted by yellow and marked 
violettish-red and grey. The hindwing is white, towards the margin darker ; the scent-spot denoted by Hampson 
to be orange, is likewise white in the figured specimen from Merida. Venezuela and the adjoining Colombia 
(Villavicencio). 
persimilis. 
rhodngra- 
pha 
guianensis 
sanguinea. 
nigripunc¬ 
ta 
haemato¬ 
neura 
klagesi. 
oekenden i. 
theon. 
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