empedocles. 
selene. 
(liana. 
aegishis. 
hyphasis. 
erecfhea. 
difficilis. 
ecuadoren- 
sis. 
S3 2 CORONIDIA. By M. Gaede. 
are mostly 3 somewhat feebler, slightly undulated lines on the forewing and mostly 4 hardly undulated lines 
on the hindwing. In the $ above, especially on the forewing, the exterior main line is as broadly whitish as 
its distance from the interior main line, both lines straight, the interior one with inward notches as in the <$. 
Sometimes also both lines form one uniformly whitish band. Fore wing beneath paler brown, the entirely 
white exterior band straight or outside somewhat irregular. 75—85 mm. Mexico, Central America, Trinidad, 
British Guiana, Brazil. — According to Pfeiffer, lunus is separable from the following species or form empe¬ 
docles by the following marks: lunus is said to be more thinly scaled, which I cannot notice, and has more 
pointed wings, the ground-colour is never so dark as it is sometimes in empedocles. The anal angle of the hind¬ 
wing and often the whole margin is much redder in lunus than in empedocles. This intensely red colour, however, 
is not to be noticed in the bad original figure of Cramer, and Pfeiffer is also inclined to consider them as 
one species, since there are also doubtful specimens among greater numbers of them. 
S. empedocles Cr. (= empedoclaria Hbn.) regarded yet as a species by Hampson occurs in the same 
district as lunus and besides in Venezuela and Colombia. The exterior line of the exterior band on the hindwing 
has sometimes also inward notches. This mark will be just as uncertain as the degree of the red colour. - 
selene Gn. (139 a) is placed to empedocles by Hampson. The original description is imperfect. It may be that 
the specimens described below belong to this form here: the exterior line of the two main lines is distinctly 
stronger than the interior one, but not so strong as in diana. The other lines are as notched as in lunus. Instead 
of the fine lines on the veins within the main lines there are more pointed angles here. The red colour on the 
hindwing varies as in lunus and empedocles. The $$ vary in the width of the white band, resp. the intensity 
of the double lines and the red colour on the hindwing to such a degree that one can hardly tell to which of 
the 3 forms a certain specimen is to be assigned. It would be best at any rate to cancel the name selene owing 
to its insufficient description. According to Druce, selene is the same as lunus. 
S. diana Guen. (138 c) shows the exterior line of the exterior band in both wings much stronger than 
the interior one, and almost straight; only on the hindwing it becomes irregular near the end. In the $ above 
half or more of the exterior band is whitish-yellow, narrowly edged with dark inside, and much broader than 
in lunus. Beneath it contrasts much more intensely with the darker surroundings than in lunus ; in the middle 
it shows sometimes a few dark scales and may be accompanied outside by a light line. The submarginal line is 
strongly undulated in the and $ and exhibits a light spot between veins 3 and 4. The margin behind it is 
mostly somewhat lighter. This spot is a good mark of distinction of the species in both sexes. 70—90 mm. 
Brazil. 
S. aegistus F . (= excavatus Wkr., lunigera Hbn., lunus Cr., phoebe Gn.) (138 c) corresponds with the 
others in the colour, but it is easily discernible by the exterior line (not band) in the $ forming an angle 
in the fore wing above vein 5 and then extending incurved, notched, obliquely outwards to the submedian fold, 
ft is quite irregularly notched on the hindwing. It is inside edged with dark in both wings of the <$, whilst in 
the $ there is a light band with less sharp notches instead of it. 70—80 mm. Jamaica, Haiti, Surinam. 
According to Pfeiffer, selene is the same species, and Westwood already considered this to be possible, too. 
3. Genus: Coronidia Ww. 
Palpi and neuration of both wings almost the same as in Sematura. The hindwings only show short 
broad little tails. Antennae of the <$ at the ends somewhat more fusiformly thickened than in Sematura, those 
of the bipectinated. This case is unparalleled. The forewing beneath of the C exhibits a hair-pencil above 
the inner margin. Hind wing always with a blue band which is broader in the <§. Type: orithea Cr. 
C. hyphasis Hpff. (139 b) is discernible from the other species by the position of the white cross-band 
on the forewing being well separated from the light narrow distal margin. It bears a fine white triangle inside 
in its centre in the <$. The blue band on the hindwing exhibits a white spot at the costal margin in the $ 
and $. 42—52 mm. Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador. 
The transverse band of the forewing ends at about the anal angle in all the following species. 
C. erecthea Ww. (= hysudrus Hpff. pro parte) (139 b). On the forewing the transverse band is slightly 
dusted with rusty red, notched inside and narrower in the broader and rectilinear in the The submarginal 
line is very little incurved at the apex. The blue band of the hindwing is slightly reddened at its end in the 
C and $. 50—55 mm. Mexico, Brazil. 
C. difficilis Strd. (139 b) is very similar to the following species. The o is recognizable on the forewing 
by the absence of the light undulate line at the margin. The transverse band is narrower and less notched, 
slightly inserted. The blue band of the hindwing is less broad. The forewing of the $ shows a purer white, 
somewhat narrower transverse band, whilst the band on the hindwing of the and is more light blue, 
without the violet gloss of orythea, and less red at the end. On the fore wing beneath the transverse band is of 
a bluish gloss in the $, and the hair-pencil of the is black. 50—55 mm. Chanchamayo. — ecuadorensis Strd. 
shows a very narrow transverse band of the forewing, and besides it is brownish in its interior half. The blue 
