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HOMIDIANA. By M. Gaede. 
guenei 
ledereri 
strandi. 
subpicta. 
monotone. 
rubrivena. 
brachyura. 
evenus. 
flawed below the cell. The exterior line is broadly edged with white outside and likewise varies somewhat in 
the intensity of the curve, being often quite straight in the $, but always behind it vein 5 distinctly white. 
The red band on the hindwing is more angled than in egina. Forewing beneath scarcely different from egina, 
the exterior band on the hindwing is mostly somewhat yellowish and undulately defined, the distal margin 
never pink. 50—62 mm. Panama, and northern half of South America. — In a form from the Chanchamayo 
and Chiriqui the light line at vein 5 of the forewing is less prominent, the reniform macula is rather conspicuous. 
The band on the hindwing is rather orange and perhaps somewhat less angled. Colour beneath pale yellow, 
little dusted with dark at the apex. It may be the form mentioned by Deuce : — guenei Drc. 
Ho ledereri Pfeiffer. Similar to canace. The interior band on the fore wing is somewhat excurved, the 
exterior band forming a long inward bow so that the distance of the two bands, at the narrowest place, is hardly 
as large as their width. As a specimen forming the transition to it, from the Chiriqui in the Berlin Museum, 
surely belongs to canace , it may be that ledereri is only an extreme aberration. Described from Ecuador. 
H. strandi Pfeiffer also resembles canace. Very dark brown. Basal line of forewing moderately light, 
exciu'ved at the inner margin. Interior line neither very light. Three light lines in the median area similarly 
notched as in canace, their bows towards the inner margin nearer to the exterior band which is bluish-white, 
parted by 2 fine brown lines, split in the middle at the costal margin; the band is sharply dentate inside. Two 
almost white submarginal lines. Hindwing with a short red band of 3 mm width, ending before the inner margin 
near the anal angle. Forewing beneath with a white main band and submarginal line, being pink on the hind¬ 
wing, the distal margin paler. 50 mm. Peru ? 
2. Species with a yellow band on the hindwing. 
H. subpicta Wkr. (— echenais $ Hpff., biblina $ Ww., grenadina Win.) (139 d). The $ with abroad 
median band being darker at the edges. Numerous light lines in the basal area, the reniform spot intense. 
The exterior edge of the median band with white inward notches, faded undulated lines behind it. Submarginal 
line sometimes with white spots. Hindwing with a bright yellow band, a yellow and white spot at the apex. 
The $ exhibits the median band of the forewing replaced by a sometimes double, feebly white interior line, 
besides a white exterior band which is slightly brownish before its interior edge. It extends almost rectilinearly 
to the anal angle and is slightly excurved behind the cell. 50—60 mm. Mexico to Peru, Bolivia. —- The original 
figures of subpicta show the band on the hindwing more faded than in the type of echenais , but the difference 
will be due to the imperfect description. 
H. monotona Hmps. <$. Forewing red-brown, dusted with grey. The dark oblique lines in the basal 
area are distally edged with white at the costal margin. The cross-vein and exterior line are black; the latter 
indistinct, faded, excurved as far as vein 4, then strongly inwards. Marginal area somewhat greyer as far as 
below vein 4, below which an undulated black submarginal line extends to the submedian fold. Hindwing 
pale reddish-brown, the band orange, incurved from vein 5, ending at vein 2. Fringe white at the apex. 
55 mm. Peru. 
H. rubrivena Dogn. Forewing brown; dusted somewhat brownish ochreous, reddish and lilac, and 
traversed by undulated blackish-brown lines. Veins reddish, cross-vein black, edged with lilac in front. Some 
incomplete lines in the basal area. Interior line double, strongly excurved at the inner margin, then some 
ochreous spots at the costal margin. Exterior line double as far as vein 4, then single, obliquely outwards as 
far as before the anal angle. Somewhat lighter at the margin. Hindwing brown, in the middle third of veins 
1—5 ochreous, with lilac scales between veins 1 and 2. Marginal line yellow, enclosing some black ocelli as in 
evenus. the tail likewise very short. 52 mm. Colombia. 
3. The $ of the following species has no yellow band on the hindwing. 
The forewing partly also without a light exterior band. $ and $ of a very different exterior. 
H. brachyura Hmps. Both wings deep dark reddish brown, forewing with black lines. Interior line 
indistinct, double, undulated, oblique. Median line edged with somewhat grey, oblique as far as the median 
vein, then undulated. Exterior line finely edged with grey outside, oblique at the costal margin, then undulated 
and vertical to the inner margin. Submarginal line undulated, double, indistinct with black oblique streaks 
before the margin. Hindwing with white fringe at the apex, an undulated black line below it as far as the tail 
which is without a white spot as in evenus. $ 40 mm. Ecuador. 
H. evenus Blanch. (= ducalis Schauf., ducatrix Scliauf.) (139 a). On the B forewing the dark median 
area is said not to contrast so much with the lighter basal and distal areas as in briseis, but neverthelees the 
dark shadow before the submarginal line is said to be distinct. Hindwing with many finely notched light sub¬ 
marginal lines, being distinct at the inner margin. The figure is that of subevenus Strd. which is presumably 
the same as evenus. The $ is similar to leachi. Forewing red-brown and grey, but the interior band whitish- 
brown. The whitish exterior band is brownish in its interior portion, except at the costal margin, wkere it is 
somewhat obl'quely inward, otherwise vertical, somewdiat notched. The orange band on the greyish-brown 
hindwing is sometimes a little broader than in briseis and extends to vein 2. 44 mm. Colombia, Venezuela, 
Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru. 
