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P. translucida Rothsch. (40 b) from Peru lias the hyaline band of the forewing almost just as broad translucidu. 
as metaxantha, but it is steeper, so that it terminates directly above the anal angle, not in the middle of the 
border. Hindwing greyish-brown with a light border, abdomen bright red. Smaller than metaxantha. 
P. carminata Schs. (40 b). The yellrnv oblique band separating the purple apical part from the purple runninula. 
proximal area of the forewing, runs quite straight from the middle of the costa to the anal angle. Thorax purple, 
marked yellow. Abdomen red. French Guiana. 
P. lophosticta Schs. (40 c). The yellow oblique band of the forewing is widened on both its ends, before lophosticta. 
the border, however, strangulated; thereby the purple apical spot has already the round discous shape. Below 
the median, near the base a small white spot, where we notice a white hair-lock on the under surface of the 
wing. Hindwings pink; head with a yellow vertex, body red, above the base of the abdomen a white trans¬ 
verse spot. Hindwings at the apex in the deeply notched. Costa Rica, on the volcano Irazu near Orosi etc. 
P. persimilis Rothsch. (46 b). The yellow oblique band more uniform, not so much strangulated before pa-similis. 
the border; the apical discous spot smaller, abdomen without the small white transverse band at the base. 
Surinam and Peru. In the ^ the discous spot may be confluent with the purple inner-marginal area. 
P. perversa Rothsch. (46 c) exceedingly resembles lophosticta, but it is much smaller, the apical disc pen-ersa. 
smaller, almost exactly circular, forewing without the small white spot below the middle of the cell. Fonte 
Boa on the Amazon. 
P. phaeocrota Dgn. (46 c). Thorax and forewing much darker brown; on the forewing the apical disc phaeocwla. 
is small and separated afar from the innermarginal brown. Hindwing pink, darkened at the proximal margin. 
Abdomen red. Discovered by Le Moult on the Maroni River in Guiana. 
P. androconiata Rothsch. (46 c). Very small; it rather exactly resembles granatina (46 c), but it is androconia- 
considerably smaller, the hindwing of a paler light pink, and below the middle of the cell a white androconial ta - 
spot. Peru. 
P. orbifer Hmps. (46 d) resembles the two preceding, but it is larger than androconiata , the brown orbifer. 
basal area towards the yellow apical part of the forewing smoothly cut off, the apical disc darker brown; hind¬ 
wing pink with a broad, black border. Abdomen pink. Colombia. 
P. granatina Rothsch. ( — postrosea Rothsch.) (46 c). Similar to the preceding, but the dark inner- granatina. 
marginal area defined in a distally convex bow towards the yellow band, hindwings and abdomen purple. Guiana, 
Venezuela and Bolivia. 
P. sithnides Drc. (46 c). Forewings very similar to granatina , but at once discernible by the unicolorously sithnides. 
dirty grey hindwings. Brazil and Peru. — Iavendulae Rothsch. (46 c) is a somewhat smaller form, the apical tavcndulac. 
discous spot much smaller and more smoothly defined, the hindwing has a whitish-yellow costal area with a 
pink tinge. Guiana, Amazon, Peru. — In meridionalis Rothsch. from South Brazil the hindwing is whitish meridiona- 
also at the base. //i ' - 
P. occidentalis Rothsch. (— rosacea Rothsch. p. p.) (46 c). A rather small species; the apical discous uccidcntalis. 
spot is removed more inward from the apex of the forewing, so that the apex remains rather broadly yellow; 
the disc itself is surrounded by purple. The basal brown spot is cut off before the anal angle, so that the anal 
angle itself remains yellow. Body purple; hindwing of the dark wooden-brown as in sithnides, in the + pink. 
Amazon and Ecuador. 
P. triangularis Rothsch. (46 c) is much larger than the preceding, more slender, the hindwing with triangulu- 
a straighter border. The dark parts of the forewing of a purer purple, the apical spot larger, irregularly defined m * 
and not surrounded by purple. Hindwings yellowish-brown. At the base of the abdomen a white transverse 
spot parted in the middle. Guiana and Peru. 
P. inequalis Rothsch. (46 d). Size between the two preceding, the shape, colour and marking almost inequal is. 
exactly as in the following species, Neritos macrostidzi, distinguished by exhibiting an areola in the forewing, 
and by the absence of the mark on the upper surface; the hindwings are also somewhat differently shaped. 
From Guiana through Brazil to Bolivia ancl Peru. 
39. Genus: Jferitos Wkr. 
The genus Neritos likewise contains 40 forms which have only lately become known except three. These 
butterflies are also nearly only taken by the lantern, and on using more intensely illuminating devices their 
number will also increase considerably. We find here parallels to most of the colorial types of the Paranerita: 
