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COPIOPTERYX. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
dictynna. narrowly red-brown. In dictynna Wkr. a brownish discal band appears, the distal margin is not red-brown, less 
oblique, and the tails of the hindwings are shorter. A more southern form which seems to occur down as far 
marine, as Mexico. f. mariae Benj. is the spring-form from the Mississippi and Florida, showing a purple red margin 
rubromargi- beside the discal band; tails somewhat longer. rubromarginata Davis, a spring-form from New York, shows 
a muc h broader red distal margin, in contrast with dictynna. — ab. rossi Boss, is a northern form in which the 
rubrosuf- c? is of a pure white, the $ with a slight yellowish tinge (Toronto, Canada). - - ab. rubrosuffusa CHI. resembles 
fu.sa. rubromarginata , but the red colour of the distal margins, particularly on the hindwings, is still broader and 
proximally diffuse, 5 mm broad at the base of the tail, inwards suffused with light bluish, ocelli especially large. 
truncati- truncatipennis South. (130 b), from Mexico, is larger, the apex of the forewing more produced and somewhat 
penms. truncate, the tails are longer and relatively somewhat broader, the red distal margin is narrow but much more 
azteca. distinct. azteca Pack., from Nicaragua, has still shorter tails and a rounder apex of the forewing. Larva green 
with red tubercles, living on walnut, hickory, Liquidambar, and Diospyros. It pupates in a thin paper-like 
cocoon dropping to the ground with the leaves in autumn, as in Telea. In southernmore districts the species 
has two generations. A race bred in Europe (Switzerland) described as bolli Wagner is said to be smaller with 
shorter tails and smaller ocelli. 
9. Genus: CJopiojjteryx Dune. 
This peculiarly beautiful genus resembles the preceding one by the formation of the tail of the hindwing, 
which however is different since also vein 5 participates in it, whilst the inner-marginal portion of the hindwing 
is extremely narrow, so that the lower cell-wall is almost contiguous to it and the inner-marginal veins, excepting 
the stronger vein 4, are almost entirely stunted; 3 arises on a long stalk from 4. Cell of forewing very broad, 
cross-vein very long, straight in its upper half, feebly concave in its lower half towards the margin; 5 arises 
almost from the centre of the cross-vein. The insects nearly all of which are very rare inhabit Tropical America, 
partly the highest mountains. Biologically little known. 
Type : C. semiramis Cr. 
semiramis. C. semiramis Cr. The nomenclatural type of this species originates from Surinam, the specimens before 
me from French Guiana (St. Laurent) probably correspond with it. Ground-colour very light reddish-brown, 
with a red-brown basal area, a pointedly triangular hyaline spot surrounded by brown at the lower discocellular; 
behind it with a light reddish dove-coloured narrow postmedian band, bordered with red-brown inwardly, 
notched between 6 and 8; apical area partly almost white, the apex itself red-brown at the distal margin; on 
the outside of the postmedian band between 3 and 4 a large triangular hyaline spot, below which there is a 
smaller one centred with a dark brown triangle; the lower two thirds of the marginal area red-brown. Hindwing 
similarly coloured and marked; tail very long and thin, more extensively brownish purple grey, bone-white 
steindach- at the end. - steindachneri Fassl (130 a), from the Bolivian Andes (Rio Songo), 1200 m, is larger, more variegated, 
nen ■ the dark areas deeper blackish-brown, the light ones almost white especially at the apex of the forewing. Tails 
phoenix, of hindwings somewhat shorter and broader. - phoenix M. & W. (Deyrolle i. 1.), according to the figure of a 
$ e Coll. Pogge, from Central Brazil, has broader wings and is more uniformly coloured darker brown, the 
banghaasi. bands and apical area of the forewing are greyer, not so white. banghaasi /. n. (130 A b), the northernmost 
form from Guatemala and Honduras, on the contrary is much more slender, the forewing much higher and 
narrower with a more oblique distal margin, of a more brownish-yellow ground-colour, the discal hyaline spot 
very narrow, not at all triangular, the broad subterminal band lilac grey, apical area reddish white, subterminal 
area only between 3 and 4 with a triangular hyaline spot; tail very long and narrow, deep brown and blackish- 
violet, only the last quarter light brownish yellow. Type: 1 $ e Coll. Bang-Haas. 
jehovah. C. Jehovah Stkr. seems still to be an extremely rare species described according to a C from Brazil and 
excellently figured. Ground-colour greyish-brown, slightly tinted reddish at the costal margin, the marking 
not dissimilar and intermediary between semiramis and the following sonthonnaxi ; apical area of fore wing 
scarcely lighter, the postmedian line very fine, distally very narrowly edged with white, strongly notched below 
the costal margin, with an almost trapezoid white hyaline spot between 3 and 4, a very small triangular spot 
above 5 and a pointed blackish-brown triangular spot below 3; basal area narrow, blackish-brown; the hyaline 
discal spot is pointedly produced outward at its lower end. Hindwing with a somewhat darker base, a slightly 
arcuate postmedian line behind the small discal spot; tails very long and thin. - By the kindness of Mr. O. 
adaheli. Bang-Haas a different form is before me from French Guiana (St. Laurent): — adaheli *) /. n. (130 A c), in 
which the blackish-brown basal area is twice as broad, whilst the discal spot is strigiform and lacks the distal 
tooth beneath; the postmedian line is still more pointedly notched below the costal margin, the white hyaline 
*) This name is about the same as Jehovah in the language of the Guiana Indians. 
