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egaensis. N. egaensis sp. nov. (45 k). Forewings very much like in theon, but the hindwing considerably smaller. 
at the proximal margin rosy, in the anal part tinged dark grey. The scent-spot of the hindwing beneath more 
than twice as large, pink in a yellow ground, the abdomen above purple-pink, not greyish-brown as in theon. 
Teffe on the Amazon; type {<$) in the Museum Senckenberg at Francfort on the Main (Coll. Seitz). 
bell a. N. bella Sells. (45 k). Spots of the forewings very intensely coloured, but smaller than in egaensis 
and not so close together; an antemarginal row of dots, in the place of the sagittiform spots of egaensis. Hindwing 
of a bright purple pink, the whole distal half blackish. French Guiana. 
Icmnedyi. N. kennedyi Rothsch. (45 k) is larger than bella with a rounder border of the forewing; the spots of 
the forewing in the distal part pale and blurred, in the inner-marginal area flown together, the base of the fore¬ 
wing yellow. Hindwings much larger and more regularly shaped, yellow with a rosy basal part. Minas Geraes. 
jlavieolUs. N. flavicollis Rothsch. (45 k). Forewing in the yellow apical half intermixed with but few pale reddish 
dots, only before the apex a small, costal, violettish-red cloud; on the whole proximal margin there rests a 
violettish-red nebulous spot being convex above with darker margins. Hindwings pink; head and collar yellow, 
thorax violettish-brown, abdomen dark red. The distribution of colours on the forewing is already more like 
that of Neonerita arcifera, syrissa (45 h) etc., whilst the other Neaxia resemble Amaxia pardalis, osmophora 
(45 e, f) etc. Fontea Boa (Amazon). 
g no si a. N. gnosia Schs. entirely resembles the preceding, but in the yellow part of the forewing, between 
the radial veins, some large, purple-brown spots are embedded. British Guiana. 
87. Genus: BO rioslepla Hr ups. 
Like the preceding genera this also contains about half a dozen forms; they deviate, however, more 
from each other, than the Neaxia do. Even the fleece-like hairing of the surface of the hindwing, mentioned 
in the diagnose of the genus, does not apply to all the species having been inserted here later on. Also here 
the hindwing of the <$ is often distorted by scent-organs; sometimes the proximal margin, sometimes the area 
of the median is monstrously prolonged. The forewing, as a rule, is broader than in most of the Neaxia, but 
similarly coloured and marked. Palpi and proboscis, like there, strongly developed, the palpi with a long middle 
joint and very short terminal joint. The 1st subcostal vein rises far before the upper cell-angle; the cell itself 
is longer; the uppermost median vein rises almost at the cell-corner, close at the lower radial. Hindwing 
beneath with a large, subcostal androconial pad. All the species have become known only after 1900, and we 
know nothing about their early stages nor their habits. 
bacchant. E. bacchans Schs. (45 i). Forewings scarlet with yellow veins and yellow streaks, small, blackish 
guttiform spots in, behind and below the cell and in an angled chain extending from the costa before the apex 
to the middle of the proximal margin. Hindwing purple with a yellow border. French Guiana. 
fulvesccns. E. fulvescens Rothsch. (45 i). Forewings yellow, with a fine, vanishing red vein- and streak-marking. 
At and before the margin, and dispersed in the costal half, there are numerous, small brown dots; the hindwings 
coloured almost like the forewings, somewhat paler, without any distinct marking. Guiana to the Amazon. 
roseireia. E. roseireta limps, from the Amazon is almost like the preceding, and also shows distinctly the hairing 
of the hindwings, but the red striation of the forewings is more distinct, in the anal angle more intense macular 
marking. 
peruana. E. peruana Rothsch. (45k) entirely resembles again Neaxia by its shape, colouring and marking; 
in the yellow area there are beside smaller violettish-brown dots 4 larger oval spots before the apical area. Peru. 
he at a. E. beata Dgn. is almost exactly like peruana (45 k), but the subapical spots of the forewing are 
flown together to an irregular cloud. Guiana and Peru. 
pseuda- E. pseudamaxia Rothsch. likewise shows the colouring of peruana (45 k), but it is smaller and in the 
ma.ria. a pi ca l area of the forewing there is, instead of a transverse cloud formed by the 4 oval spots below each other 
having flown together, a spot being slit up at all its edges, and the hindwings being without markings in peruana 
exhibit here the border shaded dark and in its middle a violettish-brown cubiform spot. Guiana. 
38. Genus: Paraneriia limps. 
This genus bears a relationship to the following genera ( Neritos, Hyponerita) similar to that between 
the Prumala, Neaxia, Idalu-s etc., i. e. certain colorial types are repeated again and again. In the catalogues 
which have exclusively laid great stress upon the neuration (in this instance upon the presence or absence of 
an anastomosis of the subcostal system) Neritos (without an areola) is, therefore, separated far from Paranenta 
