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quadrangular discal spot and, separated from it, a basal inner-marginal spot, as well as a fine, rather indistinct 
postmedian line terminating in a large steel-grey spot at the anal angle. Type in the Coll. Niepelt. 
C. consofarina Rothsch. shows the same colour as mexicana aroa\ hindwing more produced at the anal consobrina 
angle, with a discal band terminating in a blackish-brown spot at the anal angle. Under surface: the light 
markings are sulphur-coloured, hindwing dusted with rusty red and yellow below the cell. Genital organs very 
different, harpes much longer etc. South-Eastern Peru. 
C. beledonon Dyar (131 b) differs from mexicana in the lighter drab ground-colour, broader reddish- beledonon. 
yellow veins and, above all, in the much larger creamy apical spots; all the spots and the submarginal line of a 
purer yellow without any red strewing. Thorax much more extensively yellow. Hindwing also in the 0 much 
rounder. Mexico (Cuernavaca). -- colimae j.n. (131 c) is smaller, with broader wings, inner margin shorter colimae. 
than distal margin, just as long in beledonon. The ground-colour is much darker, lead-coloured black, the veins 
finer orange, the spots more creamy white, not yellow. Submarginal band of hindwing more intensely and 
regularly notched, much blacker. Evidently the West-Mexican form from Colima and Guerrero. According to 
several specimens; type in the Coll. Draudt. 
C. collaris Rothsch. (133 a) is a very beautiful and easily recognizable species. Head and collar lemon- collar is. 
coloured; thorax and forewing purple brown, forewing dusted with violet especially at the costal and distal 
margins; postmedian macular band yellow, the other spots and the submarginal notched line orange, the 
uppermost spot produced into the apex. Hindwing with a large lemon-coloured spot in the centre of the inner 
margin, enclosing a round dark cellular spot; costal-marginal half and submarginal notched line orange brown. 
Rothschild described the species according to a $ from Western Ecuador; a very fine £ which we figure is 
before me from Western Colombia, e Coll. Niepelt. 
C. guayaquila Schs. is evidently allied to the following species; head and thorax creamy white, shaded guayaquila 
somewhat grey, abdomen reddish ochreous with yellow ring-indentations. Forewing brownish sand-coloured, 
the spots yellowish-white, arranged as in claveryi. Hindwing yellow in the costal-marginal portion, brownish 
claret-coloured in the basal half of the inner margin, dark greyish-brown in the terminal half with a dentate 
orange subterminal line. Ecuador (Guayaquil). 
C. claveryi Bouv. (133 a) resembles guayaquila, but the body is more mixed with red-brown, the ground- claveryi. 
colour of the forewing is brownish-red; hindwing yellow with indistinct subterminal lines and marginal band 
of a red-brown colour, the former widened in the inner-marginal part almost to the base. Ecuador (Rio Pastazza). 
C. phoronea Or. (= laocoon Dru.) (133 a) approaches the claveryi- type. Forewing dark red-brown with phoronea. 
a violet reflection, small orange postmedian spots, a large cell-end spot, 3 small spots of the ground-colour 
before the whitish cross-vein, 2 larger ones behind it; submarginal line feeble and irregular. Hindwing almost 
quite red-brown, yellow only at the costal and inner margins and in the faint subterminal line. Brazil. Larva 
blackish olive green, ventrally almost black, strewn with white, with a broad pinkish-white, slightly undulate 
lateral stripe, and lilac red thorns and fleshy cones. It lives on a parasitic plant. 
C. laocoon Or. (= anassa Hbn., princeps Wkr.) (132 b, c) is not to be mistaken for any other species laocoon. 
by the shape of the broad yellow median area which is very narrow at the inner margin. Surinam. ixion ixion. 
Bsdv. (133 b) is the stronger Brazilian form, especially from Novo Friburgo, separated by the somewhat duller 
colour especially in the females. — subsp. lobesis Rothsch. is a more northern form described from Costa Rica, lobesis. 
in which the red-brown colour of the forewing is so extensive that the yellow is confined to a large cellular spot, 
some indistinct yellowish spots below it, and a very large subapical spot which is continued to the inner margin 
by a series of small yellowish spots. — Very similar is a form found in Mexico, which I denominate: jordani jordani. 
subsp. n. (131 a as “ lobesis ”); forewing more pointed, distal margin more concave; forewing light grey; with fine 
yellowish-brown veins, the uppermost of the much larger apical spots extends into the apex as in collaris. 
Hindwing with a very broad macular band being almost black analwards. According to the kind information 
by Dr. Jordan, the genitals are similar to those of lobesis, though they are somewhat different. According to 
several 00 from Colima (West Mexico): type in the Coll. Draudt. marion Dyar, from Panama (Trinidad R.), marion. 
on the contrary is more extensively yellow, dusted with purple on the yellow ground in the basal area, as well 
as subterminally, deeper purple brown behind it at the margin. The yellow ground-colour of the hindwing 
exhibits a red discal spot and postmedian line, a red spot is near the inner margin below the cell. Larva light 
brownish sand-coloured, clouded darker in some places, with 4 or 5 fine, torn, black transverse lines composed 
of dots on each ring and a white sublateral stripe; thorns orange, the fleshy cones black, at the end orange with 
a black terminal knob. 
C. johnsoni Schs. belongs to the laocoon-group, but it is very different. Thorax reddish-yellow, collar johnsoni. 
bordered with red. Forewing dark greyish claret-coloured, veins red in the basal and marginal areas, in the 
median area only veins 1 and 2; two basal spots maize-coloured, the median area with larger partly confluent 
yellow spots separated from the subterminal row of spots by faded brownish shadows; small yellow and red 
internerval spots before the margin. Hindwing yellow with a large quadrangular red discal spot and a large 
round basal inner-marginal spot; the red dentate distal line terminates at the anal angle with a triangular 
spot. Rio Grande do Sul. 
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