ILLUSTRATIONS
OF
NEW SPECIES
OF
EXOTIC BUTTERFLIES,
SELECTED CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF
W. WILSON SAUNDERS ayy WILLIAM C. HEWITSON.
BY
WILLIAM C. HEWITSON.
VOL. II.
JOHN VAN VOORST, LONDON.
1857—1861.
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LONDON : WOODFALL AND KINDER, PRINTERS, ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET.
INTRODUCTION.
‘Tne author’s sole object in the production of this work has been to leave behind him
correct pictorial representations of the exquisite things which have been to him a joy
through life. He believes that there is nothing higher or more worthy of his
ambition than the simple child-like study of the works of his and their Creator. He
believes each species in itself perfect and as it first came from the hands of the
Creator; and if he could believe in the transmutation of species or that there was
one grain of truth in the chaotic jumble of Mr. Darwin, his life-long pleasure and
occupation would be taken from him. He has himself experienced so much pleasure
in identifying from a good figure any species which descriptions have failed to
elucidate, that, encouraged by his own experience and the kind aid of his friend, Mr.
Wilson Saunders, who bears half the loss sustamed in its publication, he is induced
to proceed with a third volume. At the commencement of this work, ten years ago,
the study of the Diurnal Lepidoptera had been so much neglected that our collections
were crowded with undescribed species ; except in England, where the “ Genera of
Diurnal Lepidoptera” had just been brought to a conclusion, scarcely anything had
been done of late years towards their illustration. Since then much has been done.
Dr. Boisduval has described the butterflies of California; M. Lucas several species in
the “Revue et Magasin de Zoologie;’ Dr. Felder has described and figured
numerous species ; M. Menetries has published a Catalogue of the Lepidoptera in the
Imperial Museum of St. Petersburg; Horsfield and Moore have described and illus-
trated the Butterflies im the collection of the East India Museum ; 412 new species
(with 790 figures) have been given in this work, and yet numbers of species (not less
than 500) remain unnamed. Mr. Wallace is still explormg the New Guinea group
of islands, and abundant materials are accumulated from which to select illustrations
for our third volume. The author cannot allow this opportunity to pass without
expressing his sincere thanks to those who have so kindly aided him during the
publication of this work; to Dr. Gray for the facilities of access which have been
1V INTRODUCTION.
given him over the collection of the British Museum; to Dr. Boisduval, to Mr.
Bates, and to Mr. Wallace, whose collections he has had access to as freely as if they
were his own.
CORRECTIONS.
Pieris Eliada is the male of Cramer’s P. Liberia.
Pieris Cycinna has been incorrectly printed P. Concinna in the description.
Cycinna is the name by which the author wishes it to be known.
Leptalis Antherize, of Boisduval, is L. Fortunata of Lucas (Annals Soc.
Entom., 3rd Series, Vol. II., Plate 3.)
Messaras Maonites is P. Lampetia of Cramer, Plate 349.
N.B.—An Index is given, by which the binder will be enabled to arrange the
Plates, as in the “ Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera.”
A second Index, alphabetically arranged, is given for the benefit of those who
will take the trouble to number the Plates (from 1 to 60) and the letterpress (from
1 to 120), after the book has been arranged by the first Index.
N.B.—On append un Index par lequel le reliewr peut arranger les planches de
la méme maniére qu’en ‘“‘ Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera.”
On append un second Index, arrangé alphabétiquement, pour servir a ceux qui
veulent mettre les nombres aux planches (1 @ 60), et aussi au texte (1 a 120), apres
qu’on aura arrangé le livre par l’aide du premier Index.
OarLanps, WALTON-oN-THAMES,
Sept. 13, 1861.
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HELICONIDA.
ITHOMITA,, XIV.
ITHOMIA ERRUCA. 81.
Uprerstpr. Male transparent glossy lilac-white; the nervures and margins
black. A narrow, short, almost perpendicular band at the end of the cell.
Unpersipe rufous, where black above.
Expan. 133 in. Hab. Rio Grande.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Though very nearly allied to I. Adasa, Fig. 43, they are very easily distinguished when seen
together. This species is more elegant in its form, is very glossy, and has the band at the end of the
cell narrower and more nearly perpendicular.
ITHOMIA DIAPHANUS. 82.
P. Diaphanus. Drury, Vol. 2. Pl. 7. P. Diaphana. Cramer, Pl. 231.
Urrrrsitpr. Male transparent glossy rufous-white ; the margins, which are very
narrow, and the nervures, which are very fine, black. Anterior wing with a narrow
oblique band at the end of the cell.
Unprrstpek rufous where black above.
Expan. 2345 in. Hab. Jamaica.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
ITHOMIA ESULA. 83.
Urrrrsipe. Male transparent rufous-white; more deeply tinted towards the
anal angle of the posterior wing.
The margins (except the costal margin of the anterior wing, which is rufous) and
the nervures black.
Unpersipe with the margins rufous, except the costal margin of the posterior
wing, which is dull yellow from the base to beyond the middle.
Expan. 23$ in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
HELICONIDH®—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA CGINO. 84.
L. Ceno. Doubleday § Hewitson Gen. Diur. Lep. Pl. 18. Female.
Uprersipr. Male transparent purple-white; the margins and nervures blue-
black, except the anal angle of the posterior wing which is orange. Posterior wing,
from the inner margin near the base to the middle, tinted with yellow. Both wings
with a submarginal row of indistinct white spots.
UnpersIDE as above, except that the marginal white spots are more distinct.
*Expan. 2344 m. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
The orange spot on the margin of the posterior wing is not a sexual distinction ; although it may
beautify the males only, they are usually without it. I have seen only one example of the variety,
which I have figured, which has the antenne (commonly black) orange from the middle to the tip.
ITHOMIA ONEIDA. 85.
Uprrrsipe. Female semi-transparent, rufous; the margins black. Anterior
wing slightly clouded beyond the middle, with the costal margin and the nervures,
to beyond the middle of the wing, rufous; the ends of the nervures black. A lunular
black spot at the end of the cell. Posterior wing, with the nervures (except the dis-
coidal nervule, which is rufous), black.
Unpersipe light rufous, where black above. The costal margin of the posterior
wing dull yellow; the outer margin of the same wing black, varied with rufous spots
at the end of each nervule. The nervures of both wings darker than above. An-
terior wing with three distinct white spots at the apex ; posterior wing with six large
lunular spots on the outer margin.
Expan. 23 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This and the two preceding butterflies were sent me by Mr. T. J. Stevens, of Bogota, to whose
love of entomology we are indebted for some of the most beautiful acquisitions with which our cabinets
have lately been enriched.
ITHOMIA SALONINA. 86.
Uprrrsipr. Female transparent rufous white; the margins and nervures (ex-
cept where they cross the yellow band) brown. Anterior wing with a short oblique
band at the end of the cell, joined to the outer margin by two broad nervules, and
followed by a broad indistinct band of pale yellow.
UnpeERsIDE as above, except that the outer margins of both wings are rufous,
and the costal margin at the base of the posterior wing orange.
Expan. 137 in. Hab. Bolivia.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
Very nearly allied to I. Salapia, Fig. 15, but easily known from it by the arrangement of
the nervures of the posterior wing.
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ITHOMIA XV.
ITHOMIA HYALA. 87, 88.
Uprersipr. Male transparent rufous-white; the nervures aud margins black.
Anterior wing with an indistinct narrow band across the cell, and a broad curved
band at the end of the cell, produced beyond the median nervule black. The usual
white spot on the costal margin very small. The space between the inner margin
and the median nervure and its first nervule, unusually broad (narrow in the female)
and light brown. Posterior wing unusually small (larger in the female).
UnpeErsIDE (except the nervures) rufous, where black above. The apex of both
wings with minute white spots, sometimes seen above. ‘The costal margin of the
posterior wing broadly orange (narrower and rufous in the female).
Expan. 2 in. Hab. Guayaquil.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
This will come next to I. Diasia (Fig. 28). I have figured both sexes, to point out more clearly
than I can by description, the differences which exist. In the female the disco-cellular nervules cross
the posterior wing transversely and at a right angle with the costal margin. In the male these
nervures are much lower down, cross the wing obliquely, and join the costal margin nearer the apex,
and at an acute angle.
I have ascertained, since figuring the beautiful Ithomia Stella, at Fig. 52, that the nervures
of the posterior wing differ in the opposite sexes exactly as in this species. The female of I. Stella
is figured.
ITHOMIA LAGUSA. 89.
Uprrrsipre. Female transparent rufous-white ; the margins (except the inner
margin of the anterior wing, near its base, which is rufous) black. Anterior wing,
with the space between the imner margin and the median nervure, and its first
nervule, orange; the nervures (except the median nervure to its first branch), an
oblique band at the middle of the cell, and a broad, irregular, transverse band at the
end of the cell, black. Two indistinct spots of white at the apex.
UnpDERSIDE as above, with the base of the posterior wing yellow. The margins
of both wings with very distinct round submarginal white spots.
The male I have 1 t seen.
Expan. 2355 nn. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Nearly allied to Ithomia Avella, Fig. 27.
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ITHOMIA LARINA. 90.
Uprersipe. Male. Anterior wing with a large space at the base orange ;
a spot in the cell, and the rest of the wing black, with several white spots; one
(a double triangle) im the cell; two below it, between the median nervules; two (the
first of which is large and trifid) placed obliquely across the wing beyond the middle,
and a submarginal row, white, or slightly tinted. Posterior wing orange, with the
outer margin, and a band of three spots, placed longitudinally across the middle,
black. A transparent spot near the apex, bounded by the black already described,
and a line of black near the costal margin. ‘Three small white spots near the
apex.
Unpersipe differs only in having a continuous row of white spots on the outer
margin.
Expan. 23% in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
If this species was not also a male I must have placed it as the female of Ithomia Celemia,
Fig. 22, to which it bears such close resemblance in its general aspect. Besides the black spots and
different position of the nervures of the posterior wing, the shape and relative proportions of the two
wings are very different.
ITHOMIA IPHIANASSA. 91, 92, 93.
Ithomia Iphianassa. Doubleday and Hewitson. Gen. Diur. Lep. Plate 18.
Uprrrsips. Male (Fig. 92). Anterior wing, from the base to beyond the
middle (except the margins, and two black spots, one of which crosses the end of
the cell), semi-transparent rufous. The rest black; crossed before the apex by a
curved band of yellow, and an oblong transparent spot between the second and third
median nervules. A curved line of orange near the outer margin, and two or three
white spots at the apex. Posterior wing, with the basal half transparent rufous-
white, with a small black spot at the end of the cell. The rest black; traversed by
a band of orange, parallel to the outer margin.
UNDERSIDE as above, except that both wings have a submarginal row of white
spots.
The female does not differ.
Figures 91 and 938, varieties from New Granada.
Expan. 23% in. Hab. Venezuela.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C Hewitson.
The figure of this species is repeated here although previously published in the genera of
Diurnal Lepidoptera, to make this series as complete as possible, and also to bring it into juxta-
position with Figures 91 and 93, which I believe to be varieties of the same species, their only
difference consisting in the quantity of black with which the wings are suffused. I have both sexes
of each of the varieties.
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ITHOMIA. XVI.
ITHOMIA ZERLINA. 94, 95, 96.
Uprrrsipe. Male (Fig. 96) transparent white, slightly clouded beyond the
middle. The margins (which are broad) and the nervures black. Anterior wing,
with a broad band at the end of the cell, black.
UnversibE bright rufous (sometimes edged with black), where black above ; the
apex of the anterior wing, and the outer margin of the posterior wing distinctly
spotted with white.
Female (Fig. 95), with the margins broader; sometimes clouded at the angle
formed by the median nervure and its first nervule on the anterior wing, and at the
disco-cellular nervules of the posterior wing.
Variety, female, Fig. 94.
Expan. 2 to 253; m. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Although Fig. 94 differs considerably in colour from the other figures, I have no doubt that I
am correct in considering it as a variety of the same species. It is a female.
ITHOMIA IOLAIA. 97.
UpprrsipE. Female semi-transparent. Anterior wing, from the base to near the
middle, rufous; the rest semi-transparent black, with seven round or oblong, slightly
tinted white spots; a black spot in the middle of the cell. Posterior wing rufous,
with an oblong spot below the cell and the outer margin, black. Both wings with a
submarginal row of slightly tinted white spots.
UNDERSIDE as above.
Expan. 233; m. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species, though very distinct, bears considerable resemblance to the beautiful Ithomia
Stella, Fig. 52.
ITHOMIA GEPHIRA. 98.
Upprrsipe. Female. Anterior wing with a large space at the base orange,
with a spot of white near the end of the cell; the rest black, with several longitudinal
transparent spots of rufous-white; the first (nearest the costal margin) large and
trifid; the second (in the middle) short; the third and fourth long, and clouded in
HELICONID®—ITHOMIA.
the middle. The apex with four distinct white spots. Posterior wing, from the
base to beyond the middle, orange; the rest black, with three oblong spots (two
transparent), and a submar ginal row of bifid white spots.
Unprrsipr as above, “except that the black at the end of the cell of the anterior
wing is intersected with a ‘rufous line.
The male differs only in having the posterior wing so much more narrow, that
it is without the oblong spot near the costal margin, and the single white spot at the
apex.
: Expan. 2375 m. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA OCALEA. 99.
Ithomia Ocalea. Doubleday and Hewitson. Gen. Diur. Lep. Plate 18.
Upprrsipr. Female semi-transparent. Anterior wing, from the base to beyond
the middle (except the margins, which are black) rufous ; “the rest black, crossed by
a curved band of five unequal oblong spots of light yellow. The third spot shorter
than the rest; the fourth and fifth joined to the rufous space. Apex with three
indistinct white spots. Posterior wing rufous, with the outer margin black.
UnpersIDE as above, except that the posterior wing has a line of black near
and parallel to the costal margm, and a row of bifid white spots near the outer
margin.
The male does not differ.
Expan. 2345 in. Hab. Venezuela.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA GONUSSA. 100.
Uprrrsipr. Female. Anterior wing (partly semi-transparent) black. The cell
(which has an indistinct band across the middle), and a spot between it and the
imner angle, hight orange; a triangular spot near the middle of the costal margin ;
a small spot below it, and a row of irregular-shaped spots parallel to the outer
margin, yellow-white. A submarginal row “of distinct white spots. Posterior wing,
with the basal half orange, the rest black, with a submarginal row of large distinct
white spots.
UNDERSIDE as above.
Expan. 27/9 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This beautiful Butterfly is very distinct from any of the numerous species figured hitherto. In
form only it somewhat resembles Fig. 49.
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ITHOMIA. XVII.
4 TTHOMIA UTILLA. 101.
Uprrrsipr. Female lilac-white, with the margins and nervures black. Anterior
wing rounded at the apex; slightly clouded beyond the middle; an indistinct, ill-
defined band of brown, at the end of the cell.
Unpersipeg, with the margins, except the costal margin of the anterior wing,
rufous. Anterior wing, with two or three white spots at the apex.
Expan. 155 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
~ZITHOMIA PHENOMOE. 102, 103, 104.
I. Phenomoe. Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. Diur. Lep. Plate 18.
Uprersipe. Male lilac-white; the margins and nervures black. Anterior wing,
with a slight cloud surrounding some indistinct spots of white near the outer margin ;
crossed at the end of the cell by a triangular band of black, and at the middle of the
cell by a short line of the same colour.
Unpersipg, rufous where black above. Anterior wing with three or four white
spots (one on the costal margin) at the apex. Posterior wing with sometimes one or
two spots at the apex.
Female, with the wings wider, the band at the end of the cell longer, broader,
and quadrate ; the line across the middle of the cell longer and much more distinct.
Expan. 133 in. Hab. Venezuela.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
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HELICONIDH®—ITHOMIA.
\ITHOMIA MAKRENA. 105, 106, 107.
I. Makrena. Hewitson Exot. But. Ithomia, Figs. 29 and 59.
Uprerstpe. Male lilac- or rufous-white. The nervures and the margins (which
are broad) black. Anterior wing, with a slight cloud near the outer margin, sur-
rounding some indistinct spots of white (two of which, at the apex, are sometimes
enclosed by a line of black) ; a line at the middle of the cell, and a triangular band at
the end of the cell, black.
Unpersipe bright rufous where black above. The apex of the anterior wing,
and the outer margin of the posterior wing, with white spots.
Females at figs. 29 and 59.
Expan. 13% to 233%. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species and I. Phenomoe, although differing but little above, are easily distinguished by
reference to the underside. I. Makrena has always a row of white spots near the outer margin of the
posterior wing, which Phenomoe is without.
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ITHOMIA. XVIII.
ITHOMIA LILLA. 108.
Uprrrsips. Female transparent purple-white, both wings tmted with yellow
within the cell. The margims and the nervures (except where they cross the yellow
band of the anterior wing and the middle of the posterior wing) black. Anterior
wing, with an oblique broad band of black at the end of the cell, followed by a band
of yellow.
UnprrsipE as above, except that the margins are rufous-brown. ‘The apex of
both wings with two small white spots, and the outer margin of the posterior wing
with an indistinct white spot between each nervule.
Expan. 13§ in. Hab. Guayaquil.
Tn the Collection of the British Museum.
Nearly allied to I. Vestilla (Fig. 17) and also to I. Salonina (Fig. 86). It wants the broad
black nervule on the anterior wing of the former, and differs from the latter in the arrangement of
the nervures of the posterior wing.
ITHOMIA SAO. 109, 110.
Hymenitis Sao. Hubner, Zutr., Figs. 123, 124.
Uprrrsipr. Male transparent, glossy, rufous-white. ‘I'he margins and nervures
(except where they cross the yellow band of the anterior wing) brown. Anterior
wing, with a broad triangular band of black at the end of the cell, followed by an
indistinct band of yellow which extends to the middle of the outer margin. Outer
margin of posterior wing traversed by a rufous band.
Unpersibz rufous where brown above; the apex of both wings, and the outer
margin of the posterior wimg, with minute white spots.
The female is smaller, has the wings more tinted with colour, the nervures
lighter, and the marginal white spots of the underside much more distinct.
Expan. 14% in. to 2345 m. Hab. Amazon and Venezuela.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
This, though much larger than Hubner’s figure, does not differ in any other respect. I have
examples from Venezuela of the same size as Hubnev’s. It is unusual to see the female less than the
male, as it is in this species.
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ITHOMIA VIRGINIANA. 111.
Tthomia Virginia. Boisd. MS. Hew. Eevot. But. Ithomia 1X., Mig. 54.
Although differmg greatly in size and form, this is undoubtedly the female of
fig. 54, which, though unique in the fine collection of Dr. Boisduval of Paris, was
kindly intrusted to my care to figure. It was accompanied by the manuscript name
of Virginia, which I carelessly adopted, having myself made use of the same name
at fig. 18; I have therefore changed it to Virginiana. ‘This species is remarkable for
the great length of the median nervure of the anterior wing before its first branch.
In colour, its chief difference from the male is in the larger proportion of black upon
both wings. It is in my own collection from New Granada.
ITHOMIA ZELICA. 112.
Uprrrsipg. Male black. Anterior wing with a large triangular transparent
space of yellow-white from the base to the middle, interrupted at the costal margin
by a black spot; beyond the middle and near the costal margin, a rather large white
spot crossed by three nervures ; near the apex three small spots of white (one scarcely
visible), and below them, near the middle of the outer margin, another spot com-
municating by a clouded indistinct band with the triangular space at the base.
Posterior wing with the basal half transparent yellow-white.
UNDERSIDE as above, except that both wings have a submarginal row of white
spots, largest near the middle of the posterior wing.
Expan. 237’5 in. Hab. Guayaquil.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
Printed byHullmandel & Walton
HELICON D Az.
ITHOMIA. XIX.
ITHOMIA ZIBIA. 113.
Urprrersipz. Male transparent light yellow, with the margins (especially the
outer margms) broadly semi-transparent black. Anterior wing crossed beyond the
middle by a clouded band of the same colour, and at the end of the cell by a line of
black. Both wings with a submarginal row of large white spots. Anterior wing
with two minute white spots near the apex.
UNDERSIDE as above.
Expan. 1395 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Nearly allied in form to Salacia Phyllodoce of Hubner’s Zutrage ; in colour it resembles the
spotted varieties of his Reckia. The nervures are scarcely seen. In the Plate they are much too
distinctly marked, but it was desirable to show their position.
ITHOMIA ZEMIRA. 114.
Uprersipr. Male brown. Anterior wing with a narrow longitudinal band of
light yellow from the base touching the median nervure, and curving with its first
nervule towards a small orange spot at the inner angle. Crossed obliquely beyond
the middle by a band of the same colour. Posterior wing with a longitudinal band
of light yellow from the base to nearly the apex.
UnprrsIDE as above, except that both wings have a submarginal row of minute
white spots.
Expan. 149 in. Hab. Guayaquil.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
The nervures on the posterior wing of this species are arranged as in the last.
HELICONIDH—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA YANINA. 115.
P. Kuritea. Drury, Vol. VWV., Pi. 13, Figs. 5, 6
Uprersipg. Female transparent. The basal half of both wings (except the
costal margin of the anterior, which is brown) light yellow. The rest light semi-
transparent blue-black ; a scarcely visible band of the same colour, and a short
curved black line at the end of the cell.
UnpersIDE as above.
Expan. 14% m. Hab. Brazil.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
This insect has an unfinished appearance ; it belongs to the same group as the last two, and has
the nervures of the posterior wing arranged like them.
Drury’s name of Euritea having been previously used by Cramer, must be dropped for this species.
ITHOMIA EURITEA. 116, 117
P. Kuritea. Cramer, Pl. 280, Fig. C.
Uprrrsipn. Male hlac-white. Both wings yellow from the base to the middle.
Margins and nervures (except where they cross the yellow) black. Anterior wing
with an oblique short black band at the end of the cell, followed by a small spot of
yellow.
UnpersiDE as above, except that there are two or three mdistinct white spots at
the apex of both wings.
The female does “not differ.
Fig. 117 represents a hght-coloured variety.
Expan. 149 in. Hab. Brazil.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA SYLVO. 118.
H. Sylvo. Hubner, Zutrage, Figs. 767, 768.
Upprrsipg. Male transparent rufous-white. The margins (except the immer
margin of the anterior wing, which is broad) narrow black, the nervures black.
Anterior wing with a curved, somewhat triangular, short band at the end of the cell.
Unpersipe light rufous where black above; the costal margim of the posterior
wing yellow. A single minute white spot at the apex of each wing.
” Phere is a variety of the female which has the wings more tinted with rufous ;
a spot of yellow at the imner angle of the anterior wing, and a spot of the same
colour on the costal margin of the posterior wing.
Expan. 132 in. Hab. Venezuela.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
JECID, IL ICC OI ICIDAL,
ITHOMIA. XX
123. ITHOMIA ROWENA
ITHOMIA AMALDA 124. IYTHOMIA ULLA
ITHOMIA CIDONIA 125. ITHOMIA ZABINA
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ITHOMIA. XX:
ITHOMIA ALEMA. 119.
Uprersipz. Male transparent rufous-white. 'The margins and nervures (except
those which cross the centre of the posterior wing, which are rufous) black. Anterior
wing with a curved narrow indistinct band at the end of the cell; the usual white
spot on the costal margm undefined, opaque-white. Clouded near the outer margin so
as to inclose white spots between each nervure. Posterior wing orange-yellow on its
inner margin.
Unpersibe as above, with all the margins rufous, except the costal mar gin of
the posterior wing which is black with its upper edge only rufous.
The female has the margins broader.
Expan. 2345 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA AMALDA. 120.
Uprrersipr. Female transparent rufous white. he margins and nervures (except
where they cross the lower half of the posterior wing, which is orange) black. Ante-
rior wing, with an oblique band across the middle of the cell, and a broad band at
the end of the cell, black. The apex broadly black, inclosing two transparent
spots.
Unpersip& as above, with two or three white spots at the apex of both wings.
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Expan. 14% in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Except in the colour of its posterior wing this species does not differ much from I. Makrena, jigs.
29 and 105.
ITHOMIA CIDONIA. 121.
Uprersipr. Female transparent rufous white. The margins and nervures black.
Anterior wing with an oblique black band at the end of the cell; the second and
third median nervules broad and black, until they reach a broad band of orange
which fills the space between them and the apex. Posterior wing with the black border
traversed by an orange band.
Unpersipr as above, except that the anterior wing has three white spots at the
apex, that the posterior wing has the orange band broader and continued on the
costal margin to the base, and a submarginal row of bifid white spots.
The male is less; has the margins narrower, the second median nervule pro-
duced to the outer margin, and the third scarcely seen, and has not the submarginal
white spots.
Expan. 145 to 2545 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This beautiful species, until compared with it, seems to differ very little from I. Ilerda at jig. 19.
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HELICONIDM—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA ROWENA. 122.
Uprerstpr. Male. Anterior wing, with the basal half, orange. The costal
margin at the base, the inner margin from the base to near the anal angle, a triangu-
lar spot in the cell, and a small spot at the base of the first median nervule, black.
The rest of the wing black, crossed obliquely by a deeply-sinuated band of yellow.
Posterior wing, with a large spot at the apex and a narrow band from it to the base,
orange ; the rest black.
UnpmrsivE as above, except that both wings have a submarginal row of very
minute but distinct white spots.
Expan. 2 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA ULLA. 123.
Uprrrsipr. Male transparent rufous-white. Anterior wing, with the outer and
inner margins, the nervures, and a narrow curved band at the end of the cell, black.
The costal margin, and the space between the median nervures and the black border
of the inner margin, rufous. Posterior wing with the outer margin broadly black ;
the nervures, except where they join the said margins, rufous.
UNDERSIDE as above, except that the margins are all rufous, that the anterior
wing has the usual apical white spots, and that the posterior wing has a row of large
lunular bifid white spots on the outer margin.
Expan. 23% in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species it will be seen is remarkable for the great size of the anterior wing.
ITHOMIA ZABINA. 124.
Upprrsipr. Female transparent rufous-white. The margins (except the costal
margin of the anterior wing, which is rufous) and the nervures, black. Anterior wing,
with a transverse band at the end of the cell, also black.
Unpersibz as above, except that all the margins are light rufous, that the anterior
wing has the usual apical white spots, and the posterior a row of lunular bifid spots
on the outer margin.
Z PORORE ;
The male has the anterior wing narrower and more pointed at the apex; the
margins narrower.
Expan. 23% in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species bears considerable resemblance to I. Zerlina, jiy. 95; but is easily known
from it by the nearly perpendicular direction of the band at the end of the cell of the anterior
wing.
NOTICE TO THE BINDER.
To destroy the descriptions which accompany Ithomia (Plates XX. and XX1.)
and replace them by those given with Part 40.
AVIS AU RELIEUR.
Tl faut annuler les descriptions qui ont rapport & Ithomia, Planches XX. et
XXL, et substituer ceux qui se trouvent dans la tome 40.
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ITHOMIA. XX.
ITHOMIA ALEMA. = 120.
Urrrrsipe. Male transparent rufous-white. The margins and nervures (except
those which cross the centre of the posterior wing, which are rufous) black. Anterior
wing with a curved narrow indistinct band at the end of the cell; the usual white
spot on the costal margin undefined, opaque-white. | Clouded near the outer margin
so as to inclose white spots between each nervure. Posterior wing orange-yellow on
its inner margin.
Unpersibe as above, with all the margins rufous, except the costal margin of the
posterior wing which is black with its upper edge only rufous.
The female has the margins broader.
Expan. 2355 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA AMALDA. 121.
Uprerstpr. Female transparent rufous-white. The margins and nervures
(except where they cross the lower half of the posterior wing, which is orange) black.
Anterior wing, with an oblique band across the middle of the cell, and a broad band
at the end of the cell, black. The apex broadly black, inclosing two transparent
spots.
Unpersine as above, with two or three white spots at the apex of both wings:
Expan. 14% in. Hab. New Granada.
Tn the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Except in the colour of its posterior wing this species does not differ much from I. Makrena, jigs.
29 and 105.
ITHOMIA CIDONIA. 122.
Uprersipr. Female transparent rufous-white. The margins and nervures
black. Anterior wing with an oblique black band at the end of the cell; the second
and third median nervules broad and black, until they reach a broad band of orange
which fills the space between them and the apex. Posterior wing with the black
border traversed by an orange band.
Unpersipx as above, except that the anterior wing has three white spots at the
apex, that the posterior wing has the orange band broader and continued on the
costal margin to the base, and a submarginal row of bifid white spots.
The male is less ; has the margins narrower, the second median nervule produced
to the outer margin, and the third scarcely seen, and has not the submarginal white
spots.
Expan. 148; to 2;45 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This beautiful species, until compared with it, seems to differ very little from I. Herda at jig. 19.
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HELICONIDM—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA ROWENA. 123.
Urrrrstpr. Male. Anterior wing, with the basal half, orange. The costal
margin at the base, the imer margin from the base to near the anal angle, a triangu-
lar spot in the cell, and a small spot at the base of the first median nervule, black.
The rest of the wing black, crossed obliquely by a deeply-smuated band of ‘yellow.
Posterior wing, w ith a large spot at the apex and a narrow band from it to the base,
orange: the rest black.
Unpersipe as above, except that both wings have a submarginal row of very
minute but distinct white spots.
Expan. 2 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA ULLA. 124.
Uprersipr. Male transparent rufous-white. Anterior wing, with the outer and
inner margins, the nervures, and a narrow curved band at the end of the cell, black.
The costal margin, and the space between the median nervures and the black border
of the inner margin, rufous. Posterior wing with the outer margin broadly black ;
the nervures, except where they join the said margins, rufous.
UNDERSIDE as above, except that the margins are all rufous, that the anterior
wing has the usual apical white spots, and the posterior wing has a row of large
lunular bifid white spots on the outer margin,
Expan. 258; im. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species it will be seen is remarkable for the great size of the anterior wing
ITHOMIA ZABINA. 125.
Uprrrstpr. Female transparent rufous-white. The margins (except the costal
margin of the anterior wing, which is rufous) and the nervures, ‘black. Anterior wing,
with a transverse band at the end of the cell, also black.
UNDERSIDE as above, except that all the margins are light rufous, that the
anterior wing has the usual apical white spots, and the | posterior a row of lanular bifid
spots on the outer margin.
The male has the anterior wing narrower and more pointed at the apex ; the
margins narrower.
Expan. 25% in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species bears considerable resemblance to I. Zerlina, fig. 95 ; but is easily known from it by
the nearly perpendicular direction of the band at the end of the cell of the anterior wing.
HELICONID 4.
ITHOMIA. XXI.
ITHOMIA VILLULA. 125.
Uprrrsipr. Female transparent purple, clouded with brown, with three white spots
beyond the middle, between the nervules. The margins and nervures black. Posterior wing
transparent light yellow, except near the apex, where it is opaque white ; a large spot of orange
at the anal angle; the costal and outer margins broadly and irregularly black, the nervures
white. ;
Unpmrsipe as above, except that the anterior wing has three white spots at the apex ;
that the posterior wing has a bifid white spot on the costal margin near its middle, and a sub-
marginal row of six white spots.
Expan. 238; in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA APULIA. 9¢ 126.
6 Ithomia Ceno, var., Hew. Ex. But. Ithomia, Pl. 14, f. 84.
Urrrrsipr. Female transparent purple white. Anterior wing, with the margins and
nervures, black. Posterior wing, with the outer margin, broadly black. A large spot of orange
at the anal angle. Both wings with one or two white spots at the apex.
Unpersipr as above, except that there is a submarginal row of white spots upon both
wings.
Expan. 6 2345 in., g 246 m. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
When the male of this species was figured, I believed it to be only a variety of I Cceno, but having seen
several females, I find that they differ from Cceno in the position of the nervures of the posterior wing. ‘The
females of this species are also much smaller than the males, differing thus from the rest of the genus Ithomia.
This species is very closely allied to I. Villula, they differ from each other in the nervures of the posterior wing.
ITHOMIA ERCILLA. 127.
UrrrrsipE. Female. Anterior wing black, with a large semi-transparent trifid triangular
rufous spot from the base to the middle. A transverse band near the apex of two white spots,
one oblong and divided into four by the nervures, the other small. Posterior wing semi-trans-
parent rufous, the outer margin broadly black, traversed by a broad band of orange.
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HELICONIDEH—ITHOMIA.
Unpersipe differs only in having four white spots at the apex of both wings. The maie
does not differ.
Expan. 1485 in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
This species will come next to I. Inachia and I. Cyrianassa.
ITHOMIA ILERDINA. 128.
Uprrrsipz. Male. Anterior wing black, with four transparent white spots; one at the
base triangular, slightly rufous ; the second oval within the cell; the third below it, between the
‘first and second median nervules ; the fourth minute touching a broad band of orange, which
crosses the wing from the costal margin near the apex to near the anal angle, keeping the curve
of the outer margin. Posterior wing lilac white; the nervures white, except where they join
the marginal band ; costal margin black ; outer margin black, traversed by a rufous band.
Unpersipe differs only in having one or two minute spots at the apex of both wings.
Expan. 1,2, 1m. Hab. Peru.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
ITHOMIA GUNILLA. 129.
Uprrrsipr. Male. Anterior wing black, with three large semi-transparent white spots ;
one spot across the middle, divided by the median nervure, and half way between it and the
apex two spots forming a band parallel to the outer margm. A triangular rufous-white spot
at the base ; the inner margin, from its base to the eae rufous. Posterior wing rufous; the
disco-cellular nervule, the outer margin, and a spot at the apex, black.
Unperstpe does not differ, except that the apex of the anterior wing is crossed by a band
of white, and the apex of the posterior wing has two or three white spots.
Female does not differ.
Expan. 14% in. Hab. Amazon.
_In the Golleagions of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA PRISCILLA. 130.
Upprrsipe. Male. Anterior wing black, with four large white spots; two oval across
the middle (one in the cell, the other between the median nervules) ; two (divided by nervures)
sumilarly placed nearer the apex. A triangular rufous white spot near the base; the inner
margin from the base to the middle rufous. Posterior wing rufous, the outer margm broadly
black, traversed by a broad orange band ; the disco-cellular nervule black.
Unpersipe differs only im having the usual white spot at the apex of both wings.
The female does not differ.
Expan. 1,8; in. | Hab. Amazon.
In the Gollections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA ILLINISSA, var. 131.
Ithomia Iltinissa, Hew. Ev. But., Ithomia, Pl. \, f. 2.
This does not differ from I. Illinissa, except that it has not the white spot at the middle of the costal margin
of the anterior wing, and in having its wings suffused with black, which many of the Heliconide are subject to.
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ITHOMIA. XXI.
ITHOMIA VILLULA. 126.
Urrzrsipr. Female transparent purple, clouded with brown, with three white spots be-
yond the middie, between the nervules. The margins and nervures black. Posterior wing
transparent light yellow, except near the apex, where it is opaque white ; a large spot of orange
at the anal angle; the costal and outer margins broadly and irregularly black, the nervures
white.
Unpersipr as above, except that the anterior wing has three white spots at the apex ;
that the posterior wing has a bifid white spot on the costal margin near its middle, and a sub-
marginal row of six white spots.
Expan. 24% in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA APULIA. ¢ 127.
& Ithomia Ceno, var., Hew. Ex. But. Ithomia, Pl. 14, f. 84.
Uprrrstpr. Female transparent purple white. Anterior wing, with the margins and
nervures, black. Posterior wing, with the outer margin, broadly black. A large spot of orange
at the anal angle. Both wings with one or two white spots at the apex.
UnpERsIDE as above, except that there is a submarginal row of white spots upon both
wings.
Expan. 8 235 n., ¢279 im. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
When the male of this species was figured, I believed it to be only a variety of I. Cwno, but having seen
several females, I find that they differ from Cceno in the position of the nervures of the posterior wing. ‘The
females of this species are also much smaller than the males, differing thus from the rest of the genus Ithomia.
This species is very closely allied to I. Villula, they differ from each other in the nervures of the posterior wing.
ITHOMIA ERCILLA. 128.
Upprrsipe. Female. Anterior wing black, with a large semi-transparent trifid triangular
rufous spot from the base to the middle. A transverse band near the apex of two white spots,
one oblong and divided into four by the nervures, the other small. Posterior wing semi-trans-
parent rufous, the outer margin broadly black, traversed by a broad band of orange.
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HELICONIDZ—ITHOMIA.
Unpersipe differs only in having four white spots at the apex of both wings. The male
does not differ.
Expan. 1585 in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
This species will come next to I. Inachia and I. Cyrianassa.
ITHOMIA ILERDINA. 129.
Uprrrsipn. Male. Anterior wing black, with four transparent white spots; one at the
base triangular slightly rufous ; the second oval within the cell; the third below it, between the
first and second median nervules; the fourth minute touching a broad band of orange, which
crosses the wing from the costal margin near the apex to near the anal angle, keeping the curve
of the outer margin. Posterior wing lilac-white ; the nervures white, except where they join
the marginal band; costal margin black ; outer margin black, traversed by a rufous band.
Unpersipe differs only in having one or two minute spots at the apex of both wings.
Expan 14% 1m. Hab. Peru.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
ITHOMIA GUNILLA. 180.
Uprrrsipe. Male. Anterior wing black, with three large semi-transparent white spots ;
one spot across the middle, divided by the median nervure, and half way between it and the
apex two spots forming a band parallel to the outer margin. A triangular rufous-white spot
at the base; the imer margin, from its base to the middle, rufous. Posterior wing rufous ; the
disco-cellular nervule, the outer margin, and a spot at the apex, black.
Unpersipe does not differ, except that the apex of the anterior wing is crossed by a band
of white, and the apex of the posterior wing has two or three white spots.
Female does not differ.
Expan. 145 in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA PRISCILLA. 181.
Uprersipr. Male. Anterior wing black, with four large white spots; two oval across
the middle (one in the cell, the other between the median nervules) ; two (divided by nervures)
similarly placed nearer the apex. A triangular rufous white spot near the base; the inner
margin from the base to the middle rufous. Posterior wing rufous, the outer margin broadly
black, traversed by a broad orange band ; the disco-cellular nervule black.
Unperstps differs only in having the usual white spot at the apex of both wings.
The female does not differ.
Expan 15{5 in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA ILLINISSA, var. 132.
Ithomia Ilinissa, Hew. Ex. But., Ithomia, Pl. 1, f. 2.
This does not differ from I. Ilinissa, except that it has not the white spot at the middle of the costal margin
of the anterior wing, and that it has its wing suffused with black, which many of the Heliconide are subject to.
HELICONID &.
ITHOMIA. XXII.
ITHOMIA INA. 133.
UprzrsipE. Male transparent rufous-white; the margins black ; the nervures very faintly
marked. Anterior wing with a row of indistinct white spots on the black of the outer margin.
Without the usual spot on the costal margin. Posterior wing with the inner margin broadly
rufous.
Unprrsipz. Does not differ at all except that the inner margin of the anterior wing, where
it rests upon the posterior wing, is brilliantly polished like silver.
Expan. 239 in. Hab.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
Near to I. Alema, fig. 120, but differs from it in colour. Near I. Apulia, 127, but has the nervures very diffe-
rently placed.
ITHOMIA ORIANA. 134.
Upprrsips. Male transparent, the nervures black ; the margins broadly black. Anterior
wing clouded with brown within the cell. _ Crossed obliquely by a broad band of black, which
divides at the median nervure, and passes down the second and third median nervules.
UnpiRsIDE as above, except that all the black margins are traversed by a rufous band ;
that the apex of both wings is marked with two or three small white spots, and that the outer
margin of the posterior wing has some indistinct white spots.
Expan. 2 im. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
Near I. Onega, fig. 1, but different in the arrangement of the nervures of the posterior wing.
ITHOMIA ALEXINA. 185.
Uprrrsipr. Male transparent purple-white; the margins black. Anterior wing crossed
obliquely at the middle by a band of black; triangular where it crosses the end of the cell,
linear where it follows the second median nervule to the outer margin. Apex broadly black. The
oval space between it and the black band slightly washed with white. Posterior wing with the
nervures black.
Unpersipz as above, except that the black band and margins are all traversed by a rufous
line.
Expan. 138m. —_ Hab. Bolivia.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
Although, at first sight, this species scarcely differs from I. Ardea, fig. 78, it will be seen at once how distinct
they are, upon examining the nervules of the posterior wing. They are both of them as nearly allied to I. Silphis,
of Guérin, as they are to each other, and yet differ as widely from it.
HELICONIDH—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA SYNNOVA. 126.
Upprrsipe. Female black. Anterior wing with nearly all the cell, and a line between it,
and the anal angle orange. A large semi-transparent white spot beyond the middle. Posterior
wing with the outer half, except the margin, orange.
Unpersrpe as above, except that there are two small white spots at the apex of the pos-
terior wing.
Expan. 133 in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
ITHOMIA DUESSA. 137.
Uprersipr. Female black. Anterior wing with the base rufous. A large central
irregular spot of light yellow, marked with a black spot. ‘Iwo small white spots at the apex.
Posterior wing rufous; the apex and two irregular bands, which spring from it and partly cross
the wing, together with the outer margin, black.
Unpnrstpe as above, except that the base of the anterior wing is black, with two rufous
lines only ; that the demi-bands of the posterior wing are continued to the inner margin, broken
into spots as they approach it, and that both wings have a submarginal row of white spots.
Expan. 1y%5 in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
ITHOMIA OULITA. 138.
Uprrrsipx. Male. Anterior wing pale yellow, semi-transparent, clouded near the base
and outer margin. The nervure, which closes the cell and the ends of the other nervures as they
approach the outer margin, black. The margins broadly black. Posterior wing orange, except
near the costal margin, where it is nearly white. Outer margin broadly black, narrow towards
the anal angle. Both wings with a submarginal row of white spots.
UnpersipE does not differ, except that there are two additional white spots near the anal
angle of the posterior wing.
Hxpan. 2;% in. Hab. Upper Amazon.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA NORELLA. 189.
Urrrrsips. Male black. Anterior wing black from the base to the middle; at the
middle a group of light yellow spots; one single, within the cell; one on the costal margin,
forming part of a curved unequal band which crosses the wing. Beyond the band transparent
grey ; the nervures and margins black. Posterior wing orange, with a black spot at the end of
the cell; the apex and outer margin to its middle black, with a row of white spots.
UNDERSIDE as above.
Expan. 2,% in. Hab. Cuenca.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and British Museum.
I quite expected that this and the preceding would prove to be sexes of the same species. They are, however,
both males; and, though very much alike, differ in the position of the nervures of both wings. In this species the
second branch from the subcostal nervure rises at the end of the cell; in I. Oulita the same branch is considerably
beyond it. ‘The disco-cellular neryules of the posterior wing also differ.
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HELICONIDE.
ITHOMIA. XXIII.
ITHOMIA ETHICA. 140.
Uprrrsipx. Male transparent pale-yellow. The margins black, bordered
inwardly with grey. Anterior wing crossed at the end of the cell by a waved band
of black, proceeding to the outer margin by the second median nervule, which is also
black. Posterior wing, with part of the median nervure, its second and third
branches, and the end of the cell, broadly black. Both wings with a submarginal
band of white spots.
Unpersrpn as above.
Expan. 133m. Hab. Cuenca.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson,
ITHOMIA OROLINA. 141.
Uprrrstpr. Male transparent hlac-white; the nervures and margins black.
Anterior wing crossed at the end of the cell by an indistinct band of brown, followed
by an ill-defined curved submarginal band of orange, from the middle of the costal
margin to the anal angle of the wing. Posterior wing with the outer margin broadly
black, marked at the apex by a bifid orange spot.
Unpersib as above, except that there is some white at the apex of both wings.
Expan. 13 in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
Much like I. Cidonia, but sufficiently distinct to form a species. The nervures of the anterior
wing are placed at very different angles with each other.
ITHOMIA CORENA. 142.
Upprrstpe transparent lilac-white; the nervures and margins black. Anterior
wing crossed beyond the middle by a broad band of orange, bordered on both sides
with black. Posterior wing with the outer margin broadly black, traversed by a band
of orange. Both wings with two or three obscure spots at the apex.
Unprrsib# as above, except that the apical spots are white.
Expan. 133 in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
Also much like I. Cidonia and Sarepta, but differs from them greatly in the position of the
nervures of the posterior wing.
HELICONID£Z—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA INACHIA. Var. 143, 144.
Ithomia Inachia, Ev. But. Vol. I., figs. 66, 67.
Uprersipe. Male transparent green-white, bordered with grey ; the margins
broadly black. Anterior wing crossed midway, from margin to margin, by an oblique
band of black—broad at the costal margin, narrow where it joins the outer margin.
UNDERSIDE as above, except that the black margins are all traversed by a band
of orange, and that there are three white spots at the apex of each wing.
Expan. 2in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
This, however much it may seem to differ at first sight, is, I have no doubt, only a variety of
I. Inachia, figs. 66, 67. Underside it does not differ from fig. 66, which I consider typical. I had some
doubt before as to my being correct in figuring two insects so different in colour’as one and the same
species. The sight of the Butterfly now figured has removed that doubt, and shown that it is a species
subject to great variation.
ITHOMIA ILERDINA. Var. ¢ 145.
3 Ithomia Ilerdina, Ex. But. Vol. I1., fig. 129.
Does not differ from the male figured before, except that it has two white spots near the middle of
the costal margin on both sides, one of these spots being sometimes obscured on the upperside. I do
not think that this is a variety peculiar to the female although the examples which I have seen are all
of that sex. The sexes of Ithomia seldom differ except in the position of the nervures.
ITHOMIA THEUDELINDA. 146.
Uprrrsipr. Male transparent green-white; the margins and nervures (which
are fine) black. Anterior wing with the costal margin rufous. Both wings with an
irregular black spot at the end of the cell; both with the outer margin black, deeply
sinuated inwardly ; broad on the posterior wing, where it is marked with five white
spots.
UnpERSIDE as above.
Expan. 233 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
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ITHOMIA XXIV.
ITHOMIA TELESILLA. 147.
Uprrrsips. Male transparent, very glossy: the margins and nervures (except
at the centre of the posterior wing) black. Anterior wing with a small ill-defined
white spot on the costal margin: two indistinct white spots at the apex. Posterior
wing with the outer margin broadly black, marked by some very indistinct white
spots.
Unprrsipu as above, except that the white spots at the apex of the anterior
wing and near the margin of the posterior wing are white and conspicuous.
Expan. 23m. Hab. Quito.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA TERESITA. 148.
Urrrrsipe. Female transparent, rufous-white, the margins and nervures black.
Posterior wing with the costal and outer margins broadly black.
Unperstne as above, except that the margins are all rufous-brown, that the apex
of the anterior wing is marked by one or two white spots: the outer margin of the
posterior wing by several white spots in pairs.
Expan. 24in. Hab. Quito.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This may be, and probably is, a female variety of Ithomia Adina of Vol. I. Pl. xvii. fig. 47.
ITHOMIA PADILLA. 149.
UprrrsipE. Male transparent, white: the margins and nervures (except where
they cross the white band of the anterior wing) black. Anterior wing crossed beyond
the middle by a broad band of white, bounded on one side by a short triangular band,
at the end of the cell; on the other by a broad apical band of black sinuated on its
inner side.
Unpersipe as above, except that the band and margins are entirely rufous.
Expan. 14% mm. Hab. Quito.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Very nearly allied to I. Alexina, Vol. II. Pl. xviii. fig. 185; the neuration is the same.
L
HELICONIDA—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA JANARILLA. 150.
Upprrstpr. Male black. Anterior wing with four transparent spots ; one at the
base, triangular, two placed obliquely across the middle of the wing, the fourth
forming a transverse bifid band near the apex. Posterior wing transparent: the
outer margin rufous-brown.
UnpersiDE as above, except that there is a rufous submarginal band encircling the
wings, and that both wings have two or three small white spots at the apex. .
The female does not differ.
Expan. 133 im. Hab. Cuenca.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
Most nearly allied to I. Onega, Vol. I. Pl. x. fig. 1, of which it is probably only a variety, since
the nervures do not differ.
ITHOMIA POLISSENA. 151.
Uprersipe. Male transparent, very glossy : the margins, which are very narrow,
the nervures, and a slight triangular band at the end of the cell, black. Anterior wing
with a small white spot on the costal margins beyond the middle.
UnpDERSIDE as above, except that the margins and band are all pale rufous, and
that the anterior wing has two minute white spots at the apex.
Expan. 2325 in. Hab. Quito.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
Very near to I. Diaphanus of Drury, figured in the First Volume of this work, Plate xxiii. fig.
82. This species has the band at the end of the cell at the middle of the wing, whilst I. Diaphanus
has the cell of unusual length, and the band much beyond the middle of the wing.
ITHOMIA AGRIPPINA. 152.
Uprersipr. Female. Anterior wing semi-transparent black, crossed before and
beyond the middle by oblique bands of pale yellow : the base rufous, marked by a spot
of brown. Posterior wing rufous, with the apex and outer margin broadly brown.
UNDERSIDE as above, except that the anterior wing has three small white spots at
the apex, and that the posterior wing has a submarginal band of eight spots.
Expan. 2345 m. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of E. Birchall.
Hazhazt
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HELICONID &,
ITHOMIA XXV.
ITHOMIA MUTILLA. 153.
Uprrrsipr. Male, orange. Anterior wing with four black spots: crossed
beyond the middle by a band of pale yellow; the apex and outer margin broadly
black, marked by two or three spots of orange and a band of white spots. Posterior
wing with a central band and the outer margin dark brown: a submarginal band of
indistinct white spots.
UnversibE£ as above, except that there is an orange band near the apex.
Exp. 2445 ch. Hab. Demerara.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA MOSELLA. 154.
Upprrrsipe. Male, rufous. Anterior wing with the apical half dark brown,
crossed by a broken band of three pale yellow spots, and a large subapical rufous
spot. Posterior wing with some lunular brown spots on the outer margin.
Unprrsibz as above, except that both wings have a submarginal band of white
spots.
Exp. 243 inch. Hab. Venezuela.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA JESSICA. 155
Uprrrsipr. Male, transparent lilac-white ; the margins, nervures, and a band
at the end of the cell of the anterior wing, black.
UnprrsibDE as above, except that the outer margins are traversed by a band of
orange, and that there are three white spots at the apex of the anterior wing.
Exp. 23/5 inch. Hab. Minas Geraes.
In the Burchell Collection of the Oxford University Museum.
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HELICONIDAH.—ITHOMIA,
ITHOMIA ACILLA. 156.
Uprrrsipr. Male, transparent rufous-white ; the margins, nervures, and a band
at the end of the cell of the anterior wing, dark brown.
Unperside as above, except that the margins are rufous,
Exp. 14% inch. Hab. Minas Geraes.
In the Burchell Collection of the Oxford University Museum.
This and the last described, though much like several species before figured, differ from them
all in the arrangement of the nervures, and, though still more like each other, differ, as I have shown
upon the plate, in the position of the costal nervures of the posterior wing. By the kindness of
Professor Westwood, I have the pleasure of adding three new species to my long list of this beautiful
group.
ITHOMIA YANETTA. 158.
Urrrrsipr. Male, transparent lilac-white ; the margins and a band at the end
of the cell of the anterior wing dark brown; the base of both wings yellow; the
inner margin of the anterior wing orange.
UnpersrbeE as above.
Exp. 24/5 inch.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA FENELLA. 159.
UprerstpE. Female, yellow; some of the nervures, the margins, and a band at
the end of the cell broadly brown. Anterior wing white near the apex.
UNDERSIDE as above.
Exp. 2325 mch. Hab. Minas Geraes.
In the Burchell Collection of the Oxford University Museum and of W. C. Hewitson.
Much as the nervures differ; I feel very much inclined to believe that this is the female of
I. Yanetta.
ITHOMIA ORESTILLA. 160.
Uprrrsipr. Male, transparent lilac-white, the nervures black. Anterior wing
with the margins, a band across the cell, a band at the end of the cell and the apex
(near which there are three white spots), black. Posterior wing with a short band at
the middle of the costal margin, and the outer margin which is broad, black.
UnpersibDz as above, except that all the bands are rufous, bordered only, with
black, that the apex of the anterior wing has four white spots, and the outer margin
of the posterior wing a band of bifid white spots.
Exp. 3335 inch. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Nearly allied to J. Attalia of volume i. f. 77, which has Susiana of Felder for its female.
W C Hewitson deleblith Jany 1st 1868 M&N Hanhart ing
lol. ITHOMIA KEZIA lo5. ITHOMIA ESTELLA
162. ITHOMIA ANCHIALA l66. ITHOMIA SYLVELLA
163. ITHOMJIA APULEIA 167. ITHOMIA ZITELLA
164. ITHOMIA ESPRIELLA 168. ITHOMIA ADELINDA
HE EC ON 1D AL:
ITHOMIA. XXVI.
ITHOMIA KEZIA. 161.
Uppersipr. Male, ‘rufous. Anterior wing with the basal half rufous: the
margins, the median nervure and a spot attached to it, dark brown: the apical half
dark brown, marked by a spot and transverse band of rufous-orange and three
white spots. Posterior wing with the outer margins and a broad longitudinal
band dark brown.
UNDERSIDE, as above.
Exp. 23 mch. Hab. Amazon (Nauta).
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA ANCHIALA. 162.
Upprrsipe. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with the basal half (except the
margins and median nervure, which are black), orange: two spots (one trifid) before
the apex, and a submarginal band of five spots, all white. Posterior wing with the
costal margin, and a band near the outer margin, orange.
Exp. 23% mch. Hab. Amazon (Pebas).
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This and the preceding species might readily be supposed to be further varieties only of
I. Iphianassa if they were not without the remarkable receptacle for hair possessed by that species
where the wings meet.
ITHOMIA APULEIA. 163.
Uprrrstpe. Male, transparent rufous-white, the margins, nervures, and a band
at the end of the cell, brown. Anterior wing with the costal margm rufous.
Unpersivg, with the margins and band all rufous, except the apex of the
anterior wing and a spot near the middle of the costal margin, which are ochreous.
Exp. 23% inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA ESPRIELLA. 164.
UPPERSIDE. Female, semitransparent, rufous: the margins narrow, dark
brown. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a broad triangular band of
yellow, marked on its inner border by two round black spots and a linear spot of
brown: the apex clouded with brown, the nervures there black. Posterior wing
crossed by three indistinct brown spots.
UnpeErsIDE, as above, except that the outer margins are spotted with white.
Exp. 2 inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
The nervures, which have been drawn black for the sake of their specitic character, are rufous.
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HELICONIDZ.—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA ESTELLA. 165.
Uprrrsipr. Male. Anterior wing dark brown, transparent at the base : crossed
beyond the middle by a large oval white spot, and by a submarginal narrow indistinct
band of orange. Posterior wing transparent, glossed with purple: the nervures
black: the outer margin broad, dark brown, traversed by an orange band.
Unpersipp, as above, except that the orange band of the anterior wing is broad
and distinct : that the costal margin of the posterior wing is orange: and that both
wings have four or five white spots near the apex.
Exp. 134 inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA SYLVELLA. 166.
Uprrrstpz. Male, transparent, glossy, rufous-white. The margins (except a
portion of the costal and inner margins, which are rufous), the nervures (except the
basal half of them), and a band at the end of the cell, dark brown: an oblong white
spot on the costal margin outside the band.
Unpersipg, as above, except that the margins and band are all rufous: that
there is a single white spot at the apex of each wing: and that the base of the
costal margin of the posterior wing is yellow.
Exp. 24/5 ich.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species and I. Apuleia scarcely differ except in the nervures of the posterior wing: they
bear the same resemblance, that I. Cymothoe and Artena do to each other.
ITHOMIA ZITELLA. 167.
Uppersipr. Male, orange rufous. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle
by a zigzag band of yellow, bordered irregularly with dark brown: the inner margin
and linear marginal spots between the nervures, dark brown. Posterior wing with
broad rays of dark brown between the nervures.
UnpersipE, as above, except that both wings have a submarginal band of
minute white spots between the nervures.
Exp. 235 inch. Hab. Amazon (Nauta).
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA ADELINDA. 168.
Uprrrsipe. Female, transparent: the anterior wing tinted with purple, the
posterior wing with yellow: the nervures (except those at the middle of the posterior
wing which are yellow) and margins black. Posterior wing with a large orange spot
at the anal angle.
UnpersipE, as above, except that there are three white spots at the apex of the
anterior wing, and a submarginal band of similar spots on the posterior wing.
Exp. 235 mch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Abundantly distinct from I. Apulia, which it most nearly resembles.
M & N Banhart imp
W.C Hewitson del et lth April 1* 1869
ITHOMIA ZAREPHA
173
169 170. ITHOMIA CLEONICA
OMIA. ALIDELLA
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‘175. 176 TTHOMIA ZALMUNNA
ITHOMIA GEDERA.
vale
172. ITHOMIA AZEKA.
HELICONID#.
ITHOMIA XXVII.
ITHOMIA CLEONICA. 169, 170.
UpprrsipE. Female, transparent lilac-white with the outer margins and band
at the end of the cell brown. Anterior wing with the costal and inner margin
rufous. Posterior wing tinted with yellow towards the inner mar gin.
Unperstve with all the margins and the disco-cellular band rufous.
Exp. 2385 inch. Hab. New “Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
The highly-coloured var. has been kindly lent to me from the Collection of Mr. Druce. The
only difference between this species and I. Panthyale of Felder and I. Esula of Hewitson is in the
arrangement of the nervures of the costal margin of the posterior wing. 169 c. represents those of
Panthyale and Hsula, 169 d. those of Cleonica.
ITHOMIA GEDERA. 171.
UrrrrsipE. Female, transparent rufous-white: the margins, the disco-cellular
band and nervures, black. Anterior wing with a broad band of white at the end of
the cell, in which the nervures are also white.
Unpersive with all the margins and band rufous bordered on both sides with
black. Anterior wing with two white spots at the apex; posterior wing with a mar-
ginal series of white spots bordered with black.
Male like the female, except that the margins and band are narrower, the white
band almost confined to the costal margin, and that it is without the apical and
marginal spots of the underside.
Exp. 2485 inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collections of W. C. Hewitson and H. Druce.
ITHOMIA AZEKA. 172 (not 173).
UppERSIDE. Male, anterior wing transparent lilac-white tinted with yellow
at the base: the margins, a broken band in the cell, and the band at the end of the
cell black. Posterior wing tinted with yellow: a spot on the costal margin and the
outer margin dark brown.
Unpersipg as above, except that the anterior wing has a spot on the costal
margin and the inner half of the outer margin rufous : the apex with four distinct
white spots. Posterior wing with the costal margin rufous, the outer margin
traversed by a rufous band marked by six distinct white spots.
Exp. 2 mch. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collections of H. Druce and W. C. Hewitson.
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HELICONIDA.—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA AEGLE.
Papilio Aegle, Fabricius. Genera Insectorum, p. 255.
Ithomia Hippodamia, Hewitson. Exot. But. I. Pl. 21, p. 41.
I am much indebted to Mr. Butler of the British Museum for enabling me to correct this error.
I was not before aware that Fabricius had described species in his “ Genera Insectorum.”’ The
description of Aegle is so exact as to distinguish it from the very nearly allied species now
figured.
ITHOMIA ZEREPHA. 173.
Uprersipr, male, black. Anterior wing with eight transparent spots of lilac-
white: the first at the base triangular, the second within the cell, the third (trifid)
near the costal margin, three below this touching each other, and two near the apex.
Posterior wing transparent, with the outer margin brown.
UnprrsipE as above, except that the apical spots of the anterior wing are
surrounded by a rufous band, and that the costal and outer margins of the posterior
wing are traversed by a broad rufous band.
Exp. 23'9 inch. Hab. Cayenne.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA ALIDELLA. 174.
Urrrrsipr. Female, rufous-white: the margins and disco-cellular band dark
brown. Anterior wing with a band of yellow at the end of the cell.
Unpersipp as above, except that all the margins and the centre of the band
are rufous: the apex of each wing with a single white spot.
Exp. 23% mch. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Scarcely differs from Alida, except in the disco-cellular nervures of the anterior wing: 174a.
represents those of Alida, 174b. those of Alidella. This species seems to agree nearly with Felder’s
description of Eulyra. He, however, says that it is considerably smaller than Cymothoe, which this is
not, and that it has a submarginal series of white spots on the underside, which this is without.
ITHOMIA ZALMUNNA. 175, 176.
Uprrrsipr. Male, transparent, rufous: the outer margins and disco-cellular
band dark brown. Anterior wing with the costal and part of the inner margin
rufous. Posterior wing with four white spots on the outer margin.
Unpersipr as above, except that all the margins are rufous.
Female like the male, except that the disco-cellular nervures of the posterior wing
are banded with brown, and that its outer margin is much broader, and has six large
white spots.
Exp. 233 inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Perhaps only a variety of I. Theudelinda, In this species the female has the colouring of the
male of Theudelinda.
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HELICONIDE.
ITHOMIA XXVIII.
PTHEOMEA ALPHESIB@A. 178. ¢
Ithomia Alphesibea, Hewitson. Equatorial Lepidoptera, p. 17, 1869.
Uprersipe. Male, transparent. Anterior wing tinted with lilac from the base tothe middle,
rufous beyond it, with the costal margin, the inner margin, the nervures, and triangular spots on
the outer margin at the end of the nervures, brown: the costal margin from the middle to the apex
rufous-orange. Posterior wing lilac-white, the outer margin broadly rufous: the costal margin, a
spot at the apex, and a triangular spot on the second median nervule red-brown.
Unpersibz as above, except that the costal margin of the posterior wing is broadly rufous, paler
at its base. ys
Exp. 24% inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Mapoto, Buckley.)
This species is altogether so much like 7. Duillia that, but for its great inferiority in size, I should have passed
it as the same. On the anterior wing of J. Duillia the point or spur is emitted at the end of the cell from the
second disco-cellular nervure, in J, Alphesibea from the third, and what is very remarkable, because it occurs in the
females only, the discoidal nervure 178a of the posterior wing of Alphesibea emits a branch, whilst in Duillia 178b a
‘similar branch is emitted from the subcostal nervure.
ITHOMIA EPONA. 179.
Ithomia Epona, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 19, 1869.
Urprrsipr. Male, transparent rufous-white: the nervures black. Anterior wing with
the costal margin and apex rufous: the inner margin broadly dark brown rufous at the base: a
triangular spot im the cell, a curved narrow band at the end of the cell, and spots on the outer margim,
all black. Posterior wing with the outer margin brown.
Unpers1bzE as above, except that the margins are rufous, that there are three white spots on
the apex of the anterior wing, and a series of similar spots on the outer margin of the posterior
wing; that the base of the posterior wing is pale yellow bordered below with black, and marked by
the singular oval white spot which indicates the sex.
Exp. 24 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (St. Ines, Buckley.)
Tn the Collection of W. C. Hewitson and W. W. Saunders.
ITHOMIA TICIDA. 180.
Ithomia Ticida, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 21, 1869.
Uprrrsipr. Male, transparent rufous-white: the base of both wings tinted with orange:
the nervures black, slender: the margins dark brown. Anterior wing with the usual costal spot
obscure white.
UnpersIbDE as above, except that the costal margin near the apex of the anterior wing is rufous,
that there are three subapical snow-white spots, and that the posterior wing has the base yellow, and
a submarginal series of five white spots.
Exp. 2 mech. Hab. Ecuador. (St. Ines, Buckley.)
180c. Neuration of posterior wing.
In the Collection of W. C,. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA ALISSA. 181.
Ithomia Alissa, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 22, 1869.
Upprrstpr. Female, transparent white: the nervures black. Anterior wing with the costal
margin, a triangular curved spot at the end of the cell, the apex (which is broad), and the outer and
inner margins, all black. A small white spot on the costal margin at the end of the cell. Posterior
wing with the costal and outer margins black.
Unperstpb as above, except that the margins and band of the anterior wing are all rufous, and
that each wing has two apical white spots.
Exp. 14% inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Rio Verdi, Buckley.)
10
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Published January 1st, 1871.]
HELICONIDA.—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA LAMIA. 182.
Ithomia Lamia, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 21, 1869.
Uprrrsipr. Male, transparent white, slightly tinted with yellow near the base. Both wings”
with the outer margin broadly brown traversed by a series of large white spots. Anterior wing
with the costal and inner margins brown: crossed at the end of the ell by a band of brown which
follows the second branch of the median nervure to the outer margin. Posterior wing with a
similar but angular band of brown at the end of the cell, following the third branch of the median
nervure.
Unpersipe as above, except that the costal margin of the posterior wing is yellow from its base
to its middle.
Exp. 14%5 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Curaray, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Much like 7. Hthica of Hewitson, but with the neuration of both wings different. In Lamia the spur is on the
second disco-cellular nervule of the anterior wing. In Lthica it is on the third.
ITHOMIA TICIDELLA. 183.
Ithomia Ticidella, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 21, 1869.
Uprrrsipz. Male, transparent white: the margims brown, narrow. Anterior wing with the
inner border of the costal and inner margins rufous to the middle of the wing: the costal spot
white. Posterior wing rufous near the inner margin.
UNDERSIDE as above, except that the margins are rufous-yellow, that the anterior wing has
three apical white spots, and that the posterior wing has its base yellow, and a series of submarg ginal
white spots in pairs.
Exp. 236 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (St. Ines, Buckley.)
180d. Neuration of posterior wing.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Neuration as in Sylvo, but without the band at the end of the cell of the anterior wing.
ITHOMIA THABENA. 184.
Ithomia Thabena, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 18, 1869.
Uprrrsipr. Female, transparent: the nervures black. Anterior wing with a rufous tint :
the costal margin (which is half rufous) and the outer margin (which is dentated inwardly) narrow,
the inner margin (which is broad) and a band at the end of the cell, all dark brown: the spot on the
costal margin white. Posterior wing tinted with lilac, with the neuration of Zerlima: the costal
margin and the outer margin (which is very broad) dark brown.
UnperstpdE as above, except that all the margins and the band at the end of the cell of the
anterior wing are rufous, that the anterior wing has three minute apical spots of white, and that the
posterior wing has a submarginal series of white spots in pairs: the apical spot largest and single.
Exp. 27 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Rio Verdi, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA AUIGINETA. 185.
Ithomia Aigineta, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 17, 1869.
Uprersipg. Female, transparent lilac-white, except the apical half of the anterior wing which
is tinted with orange. Both wings with the margins broadly black: the outer margins (very broad
on the posterior wing) dentated on the inner border: the nervures black, very slender. Anterior:
wing with a large black spot at the end of the cell, and beyond it a rufous spot on the costal margin.
Posterior w ing with the neuration of Zerlina: a black spot on the costal margin at the end of the cell.
Unperstpe as above, except that both wings have a submarginal series ‘of white spots in pairs,
except at the apex and at the anal angle of the posterior wing » where they are single. Posterior
wing with a white spot at the middle of the costal margin.
° Exp. 234 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Rio Verdi, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
PE Ee: OND An.
ITHOMIA XXIX.
ITHOMIA PHAGESIA. 186.
Ithomia Phagesia, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 16, 1869.
Uprrrsipz. Male, semitransparent, with several white spots: the margins brown. Anterior
wing brown: the base dark brown rufous near the median nervure: a spot in the cell, two bands,
each of five spots parallel to the outer margin, the first of which commences on the costal margin by
a trifid spot : the last spot of each band near the inner margin connected with each other. Posterior
wing rufous, with a large transparent spot near the apex. The outer margin dark brown.
Unperstb& as above, except that the anterior wing has two apical white spots, and that the
posterior wing has the base dark brown, and a submarginal series of white spots.
Exp. 27% inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Villano, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Very like I. Olyras of Felder. In Phagesia the spur is emitted from the upper disco-cellular nervule of the
posterior wing, in Olyras from the lower.
ITHOMIA AUMILIA. 187.
Ithomia Aimilia, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 15, 1869.
Urversipr. Male, orange. Anterior wing with the base of the costal and inner margins,
three spots in the cell, and the apex (which is broad) dark brown: a broad oblique sinuated ban d
beyond the middle, and five subapical spots (two of them minute) pale yellow. Posterior wing with
the neuration of Z Mionia: a large brown spot at the anal angle.
Unprrsipe as aboye, except that the posterior wing has the base of the costal margin yellow,
and a band of dark brown near and parallel to the costal margin.
Exp. 2445 ch. Hab. Ecuador. (Sarayaco, Buckley.)
Tn the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA ABIDA. 188.
Uprrrsipr. Female. Anterior wing black: orange from the hase to the middle, except the
margins, which are black : a bifid spot on the costal margin beyond its middle, a curved band of four
spots and an apical series of six minute spots, all white. Posterior wing orange with an oblong
central band and the outer margin black: a white spot at the apex.
Unpersipe as above, except that there is a rufous band near the anal angle of the posterior
wing and a marginal series of white spots on the posterior wing.
Exp. 24/5 ch. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA ACHAA. 189.
Ithomia Achea, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 14, 1869.
Upprersipr. Male, orange. Antenne yellow, with the base brown. Anterior wing with a
band from the base, the base of the costal and inner margins, the apex (broadly), and two spots at
the end of the cell, dark brown: a short band from the costal margin beyond its middle and a spot
near the anal angle yellow. Posterior wing with the neuration of Cyrianassa: dark brown, with a
large spot of orange at the apex.
UnpersipzE as above, except that there is a submarginal band of white spots on both wings,
and that the base of the posterior wing is yellow.
Exp. 2 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Canelos, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Published, January 1st, 1871.]
HELICONID®.—ITHOMIA,
ITHOMIA ATHRA. 190.
Ithomia Athra, Hewitson. Eyuat. Lep. p. 15, 1869.
Uprersipr. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with the base orange, except the margins and
a large triangular spot in the cell which are black: a spot in the cell (near the end), an angular
band of six spots (the first four touching each other), and a small spot at the apex, yellow. Posterior
wing with the neuration of 7. Cyrianassa : orange, with a longitudinal band of four spots, and the
outer margin which is very narrow dark brown.
UnpursipE as above, except that the anterior wing has a submarginal band of pale yellow
spots, and that the posterior wing has three apical spots of the same colour, that it has a band of
brown near the costal margin, and two ochreous spots bordered below with brown near the apex.
Exp. 23/5 to 23 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Curaray, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson,
ITHOMIA ANTONIA. 191.
Ithomia Antonia, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. \4, 1869.
Uprrrsipr. Male, orange. Both wings with the outer margin broadly dark brown, traversed
by a series of large yellow spots. Anterior wing with the costal and inner margins, a triangular
spot in the cell, and a triangular spot below this black: a broad, short, irregular band of yellow trom
the costal margin beyond the middle bordered with black. Posterior wing with the neuration of
I. Thea: a longitudinal band of black spots at the middle.
UnpersivE as above, except that there is a band of brown near the costal margin of the pos-
terior wing.
Exp. 2y’9 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Jorge, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA MAMERCUS. 192.
Ithomia Mamercus, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 18, 1869.
Uprrrsipe. Male, orange. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a broad irregular
band of yellow, sinuated on both sides: the base of the costal margin, a band at the base of the
inner margin, a triangular spot between them, three spots (one minute) near the middle, and the
apex which is broad, all black. Posterior wing with the neuration of 7, Minonia: a band, a large
spot at the anal angle, and a small spot near it, black.
Exp. 2445 to 248; inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Sarayaco, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
I shall have, I believe, to consider this species as a variety of J. Mansuetus. They do not differ in the neuration of
the wings.
ITHOMIA VARINA. 193.
Ithomia Varina, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 15, 1869.
Upprrsipn. Male, semitransparent, rufous: the margins dark brown. Anterior wing unusually
long, with the base rufous : a brown spot at the middle of the cell: crossed near the middle by a
broad palmate band of pale yellow marked by two brown spots and divided into six parts by the
nervures: the apical half brown, with the nervures black. Posterior wing with the outer margin
brown, narrow.
Unperspz as above, except that there are two minute white spots at the apex of each wing.
Exp. 3 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (St. Ines, Buckley.) .
193a. Neuration of posterior wing.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
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ITHOMIA XXX.
ITHOMIA OZIA. 194.
Ithomia Ozia, Hewitson. Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 155, 1870.
Urrrrsipr. Male, transparent yellow-white; the nervures which are slender
and the margins black. Anterior wing with a triangular band at the end of the cell ;
the spot on the costal margin oblong, pale yellow.
Unprrsipg. As above, except that the outer margins are traversed by a rufous
band forming sagittate spots at the ends of the nervures of the posterior wing.
Anterior wing with three minute apical white spots. Posterior wing with a marginal
series of five white spots.
Exp. 2 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Granadillas, Villagomes.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Neuration of I. Zerlina.
ITHOMIA KUSA. 195.
Upprrsipz. Male, dark brown. Both wings with a submarginal series of white
spots. Anterior wing with three transparent pale yellow spots; one large, triangular
from the base outwards, one below this between the medium nervules, the third
subapical, large, oval, and quinquefid. Posterior wing with the basal half transparent
pale yellow.
Unperstn# as above.
Exp. 1485 inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Closely alied to I. Zibia, and with the same neuration.
ITHOMIA SEBA. 196.
Urrersipre. Female, transparent white, tinted with blue in a favourable light.
The margins dark brown. Anterior wing with a broad triangular band at the end of
the cell, and the second branch of the median nervure, which is broad, black: a small
white spot at the end of the cell.
UnpersIbz as above, except that the margins are traversed by a rufous band, and
that there is a linear white subapical spot on the anterior wing.
Exp. 1585 inch.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Neuration as in I. Utilla, which it very closely resembles, differing from it in the broad brown
apex and broad median neryule.
Published 1st January, 1872.]
HELICONID®.—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA EGLA. 197.
Uppersipr. Male, transparent white, the margins and nervures dark brown.
Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a broad band of orange: a brown band
at the end of the cell: the median nervules broad and between them near the outer
margin two white spots.
Unperstp# as above, except that the apex of the anterior wing has three spots
of white, and that the costal and outer margins of the posterior wing are traversed by
a band of orange.
The female does not differ from the male.
Exp. 14% inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Very near to I. Cidonia, differing from it chiefly in the neuration of the posterior wing of the
female. 197a represents Cidonia, 197b Egla.
ITHOMIA KENA. 198.
Uprzrsipr. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with eight transparent white
spots: two in the cell, one below these, three (the upper one trifid) in a band beyond
the middle, and two subapical: a rufous band near the apex and outer margin.
Posterior wing transparent, the outer margin broad traversed by a rufous band.
UnpersIbE as above, except that the costal margin of the anterior wing is rufous.
The female does not differ from the male.
Exp. 14% mech. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Neuration of Jlerda and Flora.
ITHOMIA ILERDINA. Var. 199.
ITHOMIA LOTA. 200.
Uprersipr. Male, transparent white. Anterior wing with the margins, a band
across the cell, a broad band at the end of the cell and the second and third median
nervules which are broad, dark brown: a band of orange near the outer margin.
Posterior wing with the outer margin broad traversed by a rufous band.
Unpersipe as above, except that the apex of each wing has two or three white
spots and that the costal margin of the posterior wing is orange.
Exp. ly’ mech. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Neuration of Flora and Ilerda.
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ITHOMIA. XXXI.
ITHOMIA PRONUBA. 201.
Ithomia Pronuba, Hewitson. Trans. Entom. Soc. p. 156, 1870.
Urprrsipr. Male, transparent: the margins broad, dark brown, especially on
the posterior wing ; the nervures black. Anterior wing with the costal margin near
the base rufous: the band at the end of the cell triangular, broad: a large white
spot beyond it reaching the third median nervule, the nervures crossing it white.
Unpnrsipr. Rutous where brown above. Anterior wing with three apical
white spots. Posterior wing with a marginal series of white spots, bordered with
black.
Female (fig. 201) like the male, except that it is suffused with black, bordering
the median nervure and the white spot, and that the white spot is extended (but less
distinct) to the first median nervule.
Exp. 2425 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Granadillas, Villagomes.)
Neuration of Zerlina, of which it is probably a variety. Some small males much resemble
specimens of J. Artena.
ITHOMIA ANTHEA. 202.
Ithomia Antea, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 20.
Uprrrsips. Male, transparent lilac-white. The nervures and margins, which
are broad, blue-black. Anterior wing with three or four subapical white spots.
UnperstpE as above, except that the base of the posterior wing is yellow, and
that both wings have a submarginal series of white spots.
Antenne with the club rufous. Body below yellow.
Female like the male, except that it has the disco-cellular nervures of the
posterior wing arranged differently (as in fig. 207 of the plate), and that there are
some minute white spots near the outer margin.
Exp. 3 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Rio ‘Topo, Buckley.)
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA HARBONA. 208.
Ithomia Harbona, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 18.
Uprrrsipr. Male, transparent lilac-white. The nervures, the margins, which
‘are broad, black. Anterior wing with a narrow band at the end of the cell, and three
subapical white spots.
Unprrsipr as above, except that the margins are rufous and that both wings
have a series of white spots near the outer margin.
Exp. 258; inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Mapoto, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Neuration of I. Inachia.
ITHOMIA LYCORA. 204.
Ithomia Lycora, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 19.
Uprrrsipr. Male, transparent lilac-white. The margins dark brown, broad :
the nervures slender, black. Anterior wing with two dull white subapical spots.
Unpersipn as above, except that both wings have a series of white spots near
the outer margin.
Club of the antennz rufous.
Exp. 14% inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Mapoto, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Published 1st January, 1872.]
HELICONID®.—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA C@NINA. 205.
Ithomia Canina, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 20.
Upprrsipr. Male, transparent rufous-white, very glossy: the margins dark
brown, broad: the nervures slender, black.
UnprrsipE as above, except that the anterior wig has three subapical white
spots, and that the posterior wing has a series of large white spots on the outer
margin.
Exp. 14%; inch. Hab. Ecuador. (St. Ines, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Neuration of I. Ovestilla.
ITHOMIA THEUDA. 206.
Uprrrstpr. Male, transparent yellow-white: the margins blue-black, broad:
the nervures slender, black. Anterior wing with two indistinct subapical white spots.
Posterior wing pale yellow.
Unpersipr as above, except that both wings have a series of white spots near
the outer margin, minute on the anterior wing except at the apex, and that the
base of the costal margin of the posterior wing is yellow. Antenne black. Body
below yellow. Neuration of Jphianassa.
Female like the male, except that the margins are much broader.
Exp. 253; ch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This is, probably, a variety of I. Adelinda wanting the scarlet anal spot of the posterior wing.
Another differs from Theuda in having the club of the antenne yellow and wants the yellow tint of
the posterior wing. For this I propose the name of Ithomia Linda. It is from Keuador. It is a
curious fact that, in the species or varieties of this group, when the club of the antenne is yellow, the
wings are destitute of that colour, and vice versa.
ITHOMIA PRAXILLA. 207.
Ithomia Praxilla, Hewitson. Trans. Hat. Soc. p. 155, 1870.
Uprrrsipr. Female, transparent lilac-white. The nervures very fine, black.
The margins (except at the anal angle of the posterior wing, which is rufous-orange)
blue-black, broad: the outer margin traversed by a series of minute white spots,
sometimes absent on the anterior wing except at the apex. Antenne and body
below black.
Unpversipr as above, except that there is a lilac-white spot at the base of the
posterior wing.
Exp. 24°9 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Churuyaco, Villagomes.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA TABERA. 208.
Ithonia Tabera, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 19.
Uprrrsipr. Male, transparent lilac-white: the margims and nervures black.
Both wings with some apical white spots. Anterior wing with a broad oblique band
in the cell and a narrow angular band at the end of the cell dark brown: the dis-
coidal nervures curved and broad near the outer margin: the usual spot on the costal
margin and a second spot near the apex white. Posterior wing with the outer margin
very broad.
Unprrsipe as above, except that the margins and band of the anterior wing are
all rufous, that those of the posterior wing are traversed by a band of the same
colour, and that both wings have a submarginal series of distinct white spots.
Exp. 24% inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Mapoto, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Neuration and appearance of I. Makrena, of which it is probably only a variety.
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ITHOMIA CYRCILLA. 209.
Uprersipz. Female transparent rufous-white: anterior wing with the costal
margin rufous: a band at the end of the cell, the outer margin and nervures dark
brown, an indistinct band of lilac-brown at the middle of the cell. Posterior wing
with a band at the disco-cellular nervules and the outer margin which is broad and
irregular dark brown, two minute white spots near the apex.
UnpersiIpz as above except that the bands and margins are all rufous.
Exp. 23 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA CLEOMELLA. 210.
Uprzrsipe. Female transparent rufous-white. Anterior wing with a broad
band at the end of the cell, the nervures and all the margins dark brown. Posterior
wing with a band at the discoidal nervules and the outer margin which is broad
black : a submarginal series of white spots.
UnperstpE as above except that there are three white spots at the apex of the
anterior wing.
Exp. 3 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
Tn the Collection of W. ©. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA TORQUATILLA. 211.
Uprrrsipr. Male transparent lilac-white: the margins and nervures dark
brown. Anterior wing with a band of dark brown at the middle and end of the
cell. Posterior wing with a band between the discoidal and median nervures.
Unpersip as above except that the bands and margins are all rufous.
Exp. 239 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Published October 1sé, 1874.]
HELICONIDZ.—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA PUPILLA. 212.
Uprersipe. Male transparent rufous-white with the margins brown. Anterior
wing with the costal margin near the apex rufous: a short band in the cell and a
band at the end of the cell dark brown.
Unprrstpe as above except that the bands and margins are rufous.
Exp. 23%) inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA CHRISPINA ¢. 213.
Uprrrsipr. Male transparent yellow: the margins dark brown, the outer margins
broad traversed by a series of white spots: the nervures towards the margin broad
dark brown. Anterior wing with the base orange, a spot in the cell and a band at
the end of the cell dark brown.
UnpERSIDE as above, except that the base of the anterior wing is not orange.
Female like the male except that the anterior wings are broader.
Exp. 23%; inch. Hab. New Granada (Villagomes).
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA CYTHARISTA. 214.
Upprrsipe. Female. Anterior wing transparent rufous-white: the margins and
a band at the end of the cell dark brown: two white spots at the apex. Posterior
wing lilac-white the outer margin broadly dark brown and traversed by a series of
white spots.
UnprrsipE as above except that the margins are rufous: the outer margin of
the posterior wing and the submarginal spots bordered with brown.
Exp. 24% inch. Hab. Peru (Chanchamayo, Thamm).
Tn the Collection of Dr. Staudinger.
ITHOMIA CRINIPPA. 215.
Urrrrsipr. Male transparent rufous-white with the margins and nervures dark
brown. Anterior wing with the costal margin rufous: a spot in the cell and a band
at the end of it dark brown.
Unprrsipp as above except that the margins and band are all rufous.
Exp. 37'5 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
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ITHOMIA. XXIII.
ITHOMIA TALIATA. 216.
Uprersipr. Male dark brown. Both wings with a submarginal series of
white spots. Anterior with the cell (which is marked by a band of black) a curved
band of six spots beyond the middle and a subapical band of four spots all trans-
parent lilac-white. Posterior wing with a broad band of the same colour.
Unpmrstpe as above except that it is rufous where brown above.
Exp. 23% inch. Hab. Peru (Chanchamayo, Thamm).
Tn the Collection of Dr. Staudinger.
Nearly allied to 7. Attalia, from which it differs chiefly in the length of the middle disco-cellular
nervule of the posterior wing. In Attalia it is three times as long as in Taliata.
ITHOMIA STATILLA. 217.
Uprrrsipe. Female transparent lilac-white. Anterior wing with the margins
and nervures dark brown: a submarginal series of indistinct spots except at the
apex where they are white. Posterior wing yellow near the base: the margins which
are very broad dark brown.
Unpersips as above except that both wings have a submarginal series of dis-
tinct white spots.
Exp. 23% inch. Hab. Peru (Chanchamayo, Thamm).
In the Collection of Dr. Staudinger.
Besides the difference of form this species differs from I. Coeno in the neuration of the posterior
wing.
TTHOMIA THIRA. 218.
Upprrsipr. Male transparent rufous-white. Anterior wing with a band at
the end of the cell continued down the second median nervule and the margins
dark brown: a large white spot at the end of the cell. Posterior wing with the
nervures and apex dark brown, the outer margin rufous.
Unpmrsrpr as above except that the margins and band are rufous and that
each wing has two spots of white at the apex.
Exp. 133 inch. Hab. Peru (Chanchamayo, Thamm).
In the Collection of Dr. Staudinger.
Very near to J. [thra of the Amazons.
ITHOMIA VERTICILLA. 219.
Upprrsipr. Male transparent lilac-white: the margins and nervures dark
brown. Anterior wing with a dark brown band at the end of the cell and beyond
it a spot of white.
Published October 1st, 1874. ]
HELICONID#.—ITHOMIA.
Unpersipr as above except that the margins and band are rufous and that
each wing has two white spots at the apex.
Exp. 135 inch. Hab. Peru (Chanchamayo, Thamm).
In the Collection of Dr. Staudinger. :
This species which is also in the Warsaw Museum has been sent to me with other species to
name by M. Nicolas Erschoff of St. Petersburg who has very kindly left it to me to figure and describe.
ITHOMIA CANILLA. 220.
Uprrrsipr. Female pale transparent yellow with nervures of the same colour
the margins dark brown. Anterior wing with the outer half lilac-white upon which
the nervures are black. Posterior wing with the nervures towards the outer
margin black.
Unprrsipr as above except that the margins are rufous, that the anterior
wing has two bifid white spots at the apex and that the posterior wing has a marginal
series of similar spots.
Exp. 23% inch. Hab. Peru. (Chanchamayo, Thamm).
In the Collections of Dr. Staudinger and W. C. Hewitson. ‘
The kindness of Dr. Staudinger has enabled me to add to the long series of Jthomias the very
interesting species figured in the accompanying plates.
ITHOMIA ELLARA. 221.
Upprrsipr. Male black. Both wings with the margins and nervures black,
the outer margin which is broad traversed by a series of white spots. Anterior wing
with two spots in the cell, (one triangular) and a band of five large spots beyond
the middle transparent lilac-white: a small white spot on the costal margin.
Posterior wing with a spot in the cell and a central band of transparent lilac-
white.
Unpersipe as above except that the margins and bands are rufous bordered
with black.
Exp. 239 inch. flab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Very like the female of Avella.
ITHOMIA BERONILLA. 222.
Uprrrsipr. Female. Anterior wing with the base rufous-orange: crossed
before the middle by a trifid band of yellow marked where it crosses the cell by a
black spot: outer half of the wing semitransparent dark brown with a spot near
the costal margin, three spots near the apex and two minute spots near the outer
margin pale yellow. Posterior wing rufous-orange the outer margin broadly brown.
Unversipu as above except that the anterior wing has three or four white spots
at the apex and that the posterior wing has a brown spot at the base, a brown spot
at the middle of the costal margin followed by a spot of yellow and a series of sub-
marginal white spots.
Exp. 23'9 inch. Hab. New Granada (Villagomes).
Probably only a large variety of I. Agrippina to which it is nearly allied.
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ITHOMIA ZURIPPA. 223.
Uprrrsipr. Female. Anterior wing black with the base rufous-orange: a
black spot in the cell, a spot at the end of the cell, two spots between this and the
outer margin, and a large quadrifid spot near the apex, yellow. Posterior wing
rufous-orange crossed by a transverse band of three black spots: the outer margin
black dentated inwardly.
UnpERSIDE as above except that both wings have a submarginal series of white
spots: that the anterior wing has a small yellow spot below the apical spot and that
the posterior wing has the costal margin, a spot in the cell and a transverse band of
seven spots all dark brown.
Exp. 2} inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA DISPAENA. 224.
Uprrrstpr. Female, transparent lilac-white tinted with yellow on the outer
half of the anterior wing: the nervures black. Anterior wing with the costal margin
rufous a band at the end of the cell and the outer margin which is dentated
inwardly dark brown. Posterior wing with the costal margin and the outer margin
which is deeply sinuated on its inner border, dark brown.
UnpersIvE as above except that the brown is rufous and that the posterior
wing has a series of white spots on the outer margin.
Exp. 25 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA CATILLA. 225.
Uprrrsipr. Male dark brown. Both wings with a submarginal series of white
spots indistinct on the posterior wing. Anterior wing with the base rufous marked
by two triangular black spots: crossed at the middle by a broad band of yellow
sinuated on both sides. Posterior wing rufous with a transverse band and the
outer margin dark brown.
Unpersipu as above except that there are some rufous spots beyond the yellow
band of the anterior wing.
Exp. 235 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
Tn the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA DIDYMAVA. 226.
Uprrrsipr. Female transparent lilac-white. Anterior wing with the margins,
alinear spot (not always) in the cell, a broad triangular band at the end of the cell
and the second branch of the median nervure black: crossed beyond the middle by
a broad band of white. Posterior wing with the margins dark brown.
Male differs only in the neuration of the posterior wing.
Published January 1st, 1876.]
HELICONID®.—ITHOMIA.
Unpersibz as above except that the brown is traversed by a rufous band.
Exp. 2 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA SYLPHIS. 227.
Heliconia Sylphis. Guerin, Icones Régne Animal Insects, texte, page 471.
Uprrersipr. Male transparent lilac-white, the margins and nervures dark
brown, a broad triangular band which includes the second median nervule dark
brown.
UnpersipE as above except that the brown is rufous and that the posterior
wing has two white spots at the apex.
Exp. 2 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA DOLABELLA. 228.
Uprrrsipr. Male. Anterior wing black with a large triangular transparent
lilac-white spot in the cell crossed by an indistinct band of brown: a transverse
irregular band and two spots near the apex white. Posterior wing transparent
lilac-white, the outer margin (which is traversed by an indistinct rufous band) and
the nervures black.
Unpersipe as above except that the black is traversed by rufous bands and that
both wings have an apical series of three bifid lilac-white spots.
Female does not differ from the male.
Exp. 24/9 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
ITHOMIA CANTOBRICA. 229.
UpprersiprE. Female. Anterior wing dark brown, the base rufous with a
triangular black spot im the cell: crossed beyond the middle by an irregular band
and spot of yellow and a submarginal series of yellow spots. Posterior wing rufous
with the outer margin which is dentated inwardly and a short central band dark
brown.
UNDERSIDE as above except that the anterior wing has rufous longitudinal striz
between the band and the apex: that the central band of the posterior wing is longer
and bordered above with yellow and that there is a submarginal series of white spots.
Exp. 23% inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA PHILETAERA. 230.
Upprrsipr. Female. Both wings with the basal half rufous-orange, the outer
half black: both with a submarginal series of yellow spots. Anterior wing with a
large irregular sinuated central yellow spot deeply indented at the costal margin
and bordered inwardly by two triangular black spots.
UnpersipE as above except that the submarginal spots (save three at the apex
of the anterior wing) are white.
Exp. 23%5 inch.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
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ITHOMIA GALATA. 8 231.
Tthomia Galata. ¢ Hewitson, Exotic Butterflies, Vol. I. Plate XXTI. fig. 73.
Uprrrsipr. Male transparent tinted with lilac, the nervures black. Anterior wing with
the margins black: crossed at the end of the cell by a broad unequal black band continued
below the median nervure between its second and third branches, the second branch broader
than the rest: a white spot on the costal margin. Posterior wing with the outer margin,
except towards the apex which is dark brown, rufous bordered with brown.
Female like the male except that it has only a small rufous space near the anal angle.
Exp. 134 mch. Hab. New Granada.
Tn the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
The female which I figured before is without the rufous space near the anal angle, and is most likely a
variety.
ITHOMIA CLEOBULINA. 232.
Uprerstpr. Female transparent, the nervures black. Anterior wing with the margins
dark brown : the cell lilac-white : the rest of the wing rufous-white crossed in and at the end
of the cell by bands of black. Posterior wing lilac-white with a triangular spot on the costal
margin and the outer margin which is broad, black.
UnperstbE as above except that it is rufous and that there are three spots at the apex
and one near the anal angle of the anterior wing, and six marginal spots on the posterior wing,
most of them bifid.
Exp. 3 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
ITHOMIA OSUNA. 233.
Urrrrsipr. Male transparent rufous-white, the margins dark brown. Anterior wing
crossed at the middle and end of the cell by bands of black: the band at the end of the cell
continued by the second median nervure to the outer margin. Posterior wing with a band
at the end of the cell, and a band on the third median nervure nearly united.
Unprrsipr as above except that there is a submarginal row of white spots on both
wings, indistinct on the anterior wing except at the apex.
Exp. 23%; inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA CLAUSINA. 234.
Upprrsrpr. Male transparent rufous-white, the nervures and margins (except the costal
margin of the anterior wing which is rufous from the base to the middle) dark brown.
Anterior wing with a narrow triangular band of dark brown at the end of the cell, followed on
the costal margin by an oblong spot of bright yellow: the base of the discoidal nervures also
yellow.
Unpersipr as above except that the margins and bands are rufous and that there are two
white spots at the apex of the anterior wing and one at the apex of the posterior wing.
Female like the male except that the inner margin of. the anterior wing 1s rufous.
Exp. 133 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
Near to J. Lilla, but differs from it in the greater length of the wing from the cell to the apex and in haying
two discoidal nervures whilst 7. Lilla has only one. 7
Published July 1st, 1876.]
HELICONID®,—ITHOMIA.
ITHOMIA ARZALIA. 235.
Upprrsipe. Female transparent rufous-white, the margins dark brown, a triangular band
at the end of the cell followed by a broad band of white, bounded by the third branch of the
median nervure: the second branch of the median nervure broadly black.
Unprrsipr as above except that the bands are all more or less rufous, and that both wings
have two or three indistinct white spots at the apex.
Exp. 148; inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
Tn the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. ; ; ! : Lig:
Too close, perhaps, to Z. Timna, but differs from it on the posterior wing, Timna has two discoidal nervures,
I, Arzalia has but one.
ITHOMIA DOMIDUCA. 236.
Uprrrsipr. Female black, marked by transparent lilac-white spots. Anterior wing with
a large triangular spot occupying nearly the whole of the cell, a triangular spot below it: two
transverse bands of spots (some of which are united) beyond the middle and three white spots at
the apex. Posterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a broad sex-partite transparent band.
Unperstpe as above except that all the bands and margins are traversed by rufous bands
and that there is a marginal series of white spots (bifid except near the apex).
Exp. 243; inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA MANTURA. 287.
Uprrrsipz. Female transparent rufous-white, the margins and nervures dark brown.
Anterior wing crossed at the middle and end of the cell by broad bands of dark brown: the
second and third branches of the median nervure broader than the rest. Posterior wing with
a brown band at the end of the cell, the second and third median branches broader than
the rest: the outer margin, near the apex, marked by three white spots. Apex of antenne
orange.
UnpersibE as above, except that there are two or three white spots at the apex of the
anterior wing and seven on the outer margin of the posterior wing.
Exp. 24°9 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ITHOMIA DERONDA. 238.
Urprrsips. Female transparent, the nervures black. Anterior wing tinted with lilac on
the basal half, with yellow on the apical half, crossed at the middle and end of the cell by broad
bands of black, a black spot on the costal margin near the apex, the median nervure and its second
and third branches and the outer margin black. Posterior wing lilac-white, the costal margin,
a triangular spot at its middle and the outer margin which is broad especially between the
branches of the median nervure, black.
UnpersipgE as above, except that the bands and spots are partly rufous chiefly on the
nervures of the posterior wing, that there are three white spots on the apex of the anterior wing
and a marginal series on the posterior wing all bifid.
Exp. 3y'9 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ACRAILD &.
ACRAA. Fabricius.
ACRAA ABDERA. 1, 2.
Urrersipe. Anterior wing with the base, costa, and apical half dark brown, the
rest crimson, with seven black spots, the lowest two minute, the outer one large and
placed upon the margin of the brown. Posterior wing crimson, with the base brown,
the outer margin, which is broad and sinuated inside, together with several round spots
near the base, very black.
Unpersipg. Anterior wing nearly as above but lighter, the crimson extending to
the base, with a minute black spot upon it. Posterior wing light crimson, with a nearly
white transverse band below the middle, the basal half with eighteen very black spots ;
upon the black of the outer margin a row of round white spots.
Expan. 2-3 in. Hab. Fernando Po.
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders.
Nearly allied to P. Egina of Cramer, as well as to A.Perenna of Doubleday figured in the “Genera
of Diurnal Lepidoptera.”
ACRAA ACTIACA. 3.
Urrersive of a beautiful light crimson-orange. The greater part of the costal margin
of the anterior wing, and the outer margin of both wings (that of the posterior wing
broadly so), dark brown. Anterior wing with five spots before the middle, and a helt
beyond it black. Posterior wing with nineteen black spots.
Unprrsie as above, but lighter, the outer margin of the posterior wing with a
row of semicircular white spots.
Expan. 12 in. Hab. Natal.
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders.
ACRHA ALCIOPE. 4, 5. 6 ?
Urrersipe. Anterior wing brown, crossed by a band of brick-red (the outer margin
deeply sinuated, the inner margin with three black spots), reaching from the costa
ACRAIDM—ACRAA.
beyond the end of the cell to the inner margin, the same colour extending to the base
below the median nervure. Posterior wing brick-red, broadly margined with brown,
with three or four small black spots near the base.
Unprrswve much lighter, almost white across the middle of the wings. Base of the
posterior wing with eleven small black spots.
Expan. 22 in. Hab. West Africa.
Female yellow where the male is red, the base of the posterior wing clouded with
light brown, the spots more distinct.
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders.
ACRAA AGANICE. 6.
Uprersipe. Anterior wing dark brown, crossed a little beyond the middle by a
narrow sinuated band of white, divided by nervures into five unequal parts, followed,
near the anal angle, by a small triangular white spot. Posterior wing with the base
rufous spotted with black, the middle crossed by a broad band of. yellow white, the
lower margin broadly bordered with light brown.
Unprrsipe lighter, the nervures and lines between them more distinct, the spots at
the base more distinct, and seventeen in number.
Expan. 2 in. Hab. Natal.
10
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders.
ACRAA ALCIONE. 7.
UprersipE brown. Anterior wing, which is the darkest, with the basal half, except
the costal margin, light ochreous yellow, sinuated at the margin and divided by black
nervures, followed by an indistinct narrow band of the same colour, from which it is
separated by a band of black.
Unpersip4, with the whole space, which is brown above, of a dirty indistinct yellow,
the nervures, and lines between each of them, black.
Expan. 2 in. Hab. Quito.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. ®.
Ae Cae a Ae Dh.
ACRA‘tA. ILI.
ACRAIA ACIPHA. 8&8.
Uprersipg. Male black. Anterior wing crossed transversely near the middle
by a broad irregular band of orange, sinuated on both sides, and marked at the end
of the cell by a black spot. Posterior wing glossed with blue.
Unprrsipe as above, except that the orange band is much paler and extended
inwardly nearly to the base: that the posterior wing is so much lighter that the
nervures and the rays between them are visible, some of the rays, especially near the
costal margin, rufous.
Female much larger, the upperside brown, the band of the anterior wing
dull yellow, the underside light brown, with the nervures and rays between them
black, the posterior wing crossed beyond the middle .by an indistinct band of paler
colour.
Expan. 8 2535, ¢ 248; in. Hab. New Grenada.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. CO. Hewitson.
ACRAIA NECODA. 9.
Uprrrsipr. Semitransparent, the outer margins dark brown. Anterior wing
light brown, chiefly towards the margins, marked with nine black spots: one at the
middle of the cell, a second below it: one at the end of the cell, and two below it
(between it and the anal angle): an oblique band of four beyond the middle, forming
the mner boundary of a band of white, divided by the nervures which are black.
Posterior wing, rufous, paler near the outer margin, with four or five black spots near
the base ; crossed near the middle by a curved band of eight black spots: the ner-
vures and the rays between them dark brown.
Unpersipr as above with the spots near the base of the posterior wing more
distinct, and to the number of eight.
Expan 242; in. Hab. Abyssinia.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
ACRHADH—ACRAA.
ACRAA CERASA. 10.
Uprrrsipr orange and white, with several black spots, the margins broadly
brown. Anterior wing orange from the base to the middle, from the middle to the
outer margin transparent white, with the nervures black, a spot within the cell and
one at its termination black. Posterior wing with the base and four or five spots
near it black; crossed near the middle by an irregular band of seven black spots, the
nervures near the outer margin black.
UNDERSIDE as above, with the spots near the base of the posterior wing more
distinct, and eight in number.
Expan. 158; in. Hab. Natal.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ACRAIA ESEBRIA. 11, 12.
Uprrrsipr. Male, dark brown, with a broad, central, rufous band, which is com-
mon to both wings: commences on the anterior wing at the second median nervure,
and occupying nearly the whole of the posterior wing, extends to its inner margin.
Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a band ‘of five light yellow spots, the
lowest spot separate and minute. Posterior wing with the nervures beyond the
middle, the rays between them, and some spots at the base, black.
UnperstpzE as above, except that the anterior wing beyond the white band and
the outer margin of the posterior wing (which is brown above) are rufous, with the
nervures and the rays between them black. Posterior wing with nine black spots at
the base.
Female differs from the male only in having the transverse band of the anterior
wing white, and the band which is common to both wings light yellow.
Expan. 6 254, ¢ 243 in. Hab. Natal.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
ACRAA NEBULOSA. 13.
Upprrsipr dark brown. Anterior wing transparent, with the base, the nervures,
and the outer margin dark brown. Posterior wing dark clouded brown, with an ill-
defined pale yellow band (divided into four by the nervures) between the middle of
the inner margin and the middle of the wing.
UNnpERsIDE as above, except that both wings have a submarginal band of pale
yellow spots more distinctly marked on the posterior wing, that the ‘pale yellow band of
the posterior wing is more distinct, and that there are two small spots near the base,
one on the costal margin, and a clouded, ill-defined spot in and below the cell, all
hight yellow.
Expan 33 in. Hab. Ceram.
In the Collection of Mr. Wallace.
ACR #1D &.
ACRA III.
ACRAA ANEMOSA. 14, 15.
UpprersipE orange. Anterior wing, with the base, two minute spots, a short
transverse band beyond the middle and the apex dark brown. Posterior wing
crossed near the middle by a broad band of orange-carmine.
UNDERSIDE as above, except that the anterior wing is paler near the apex, the
posterior wing paler at the centre of the transverse band (which is broader), and
that there are some minute white spots near the base, and a transverse band of
similar spots near the margin.
Exp. 24% mches. Hab. Zambesi.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ACRA ADMATHA. 16, 17.
Uprrrsipz. Anterior wing transparent, clouded with brown towards the
margin ; with some obscure brown spots. Posterior wing scarlet, spotted with black
from the base to beyond the middle ; the outer margin broadly black, traversed by a
band of six round scarlet spots.
UnpersiprE as above, except that the posterior wing is carmine-white, rufous
near the base; the black spots eighteen im number; the submarginal spots orange
and carmine-white.
Exp. 2445 inches. Hab. Old Calabar.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species is near to A. Horta, but differs from it in having the broad band on the upperside
of the posterior wing. It is nearer to A. Neobule of Reich, ‘‘ Voyage en Abyssinie,” Plate 33, figs. 3, 4
(not A. Nobule of Doubleday, in the ‘‘ Genera,” which is A. Mahela of Boisduval).
ACRHIDA—ACRAA.
ACRAMA ACRITA. 18.
Urprrrsips. Anterior wing rufous-orange, paler beyond the middle: with a spot
in the cell, a band of three spots at the middle and the apex dark brown. Posterior
wing orange-carmine with some brown spots at the base and a transverse band of
five black spots at the middle; the outer margin broadly black, traversed by a band
of seven rufous spots.
Unpersips. Anterior wing as above, except that the apex is not brown. Pos-
terior wing carmine, with nimeteen black spots, bordered irregularly with white; the
submarginal spots larger, white.
Female like the male, except that it is rufous-brown above.
Exp. 2335 mches. Hab. Zambesi.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ACRAA ACARA. 19, 20. .
Uppersipe rufous; the base of both wings dark brown. Anterior wing with a
spot in the cell, a transverse band of three spots at the middle, a broad band beyond
the middle, the apex and the outer margin (marked with two rufous spots) from the
middle to the anal angle, all dark brown. Posterior wing with two bands of spots
and the outer margin which is broad, black.
UnpersipE as above, except that the anterior wing near the apex and the
posterior wing are carmine-white, and that there are minute spots of white at the
base and a band of seven white spots near the outer margin.
Var. one-third smaller, with the outer margin above much broader, the sub-
marginal spots of the underside very minute.
Exp. 248; inch. Hab. Natal and White Nile.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This may be only an extraordinary variety of A. Menippe. When we know more of Africa and
its entomological productions, we shall, I believe, find that the Acreeas and the Lepidoptera generally
vary more than those of other parts of the world.
ACR AID &.
ACRA IV. & V.
ACRAEA EURYTA. ¢ 21, 22, 28, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 ¢ 29, 30, 31, 32.
¢ Papilio Euryta Linneus. Cramer Pl. 233 A. B. Palisot and Beau-
vois, Pl. VII. fig. 4. Lucas Lep. Exot. Pl. LIT. fig. 2. P. Umbra Drury Vol. IT.
Pl, XVIII. figs. 1, 2.
8 Acrea Vestalis Felder. Novara Exp. Zoolog. Pl. XLVI. figs. 8, 9.
Acrea Alcinoe Felder, Pl. XLVI. figs. 12, 13.
Ir must be always a pleasure to an entomologist to name and introduce a
new species about which there can be*no controversy, and I must confess that I
should have been very glad to have found some such species in the series of figures
which are illustrated in the accompanying plates. I find it, however, quite beyond
my ability to separate the twelve varieties there given, unless they are divided into
nine or ten species. Every one will, I think, agree that 27 and 32 are the sexes of
one species, however much they may hesitate to follow me in placing all those now
figured under the name of Euryta. Figure 29 is the only variety about which I feel
the least hesitation, as it much resembles some broad-banded specimens of A. Esebria.
My collection contains other examples, which differ as much from those figured as
they do each from the other; two of these, exact copies of my specimens except that
the black spots on the posterior wing of mine are more alike, are figured by the
Felders. In the figure of Vestalis it is only necessary to alter the black spot near the
costal margin of the posterior wing (which is lower down the wing than usual), and
this species will agree with their A. Alcinoe and all the varieties which I have figured.
The typical variety described by Linnzeus, under the name of Euryta, in the
Banksian Collection, is an Acrzea, and altogether distinct from the Eurytus of Clerck,
which is a Diadema. Godart evidently believed them to be one and the same species.
Mr. Westwood has also placed them together m the “Genera of Diurnal Lepi-
doptera.” *
Cramer’s figure 2338 so completely represents the typical specimen in the Linnean
Cabinet, even in the setting, that the drawing might have been made from it. His
* Mr. Westwood thinks that when Linnzeus described his Acreea Euryta, he confounded it with
Diadema Eurytus of Clerck, believing it to be the same species. He certainly quotes Clerck’s figure.
His description, however, agrees with the Acriea in his collection, and does not agree with the Diadema
of Clerck, which has conspicuous black spots on the anterior wing.
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ACRAIDA.—ACRAA.
figure 233, of the same plate, which Godart quotes as the other sex, differs but slightly
from my figure 30. The very clumsy misshapen figure of Drury (his P. Umbra) is
evidently intended for the insect of my figure 32, and though he does not indicate
in the figure the black spots at the base of the wing, he describes them.
There is not much to be learned from examining the underside of the Acrzeas,
except that the basal spots are better seen. It differs but little from the other side.
The base of the costal margin of the anterior wing of this species is always black,
marked by a rufous or white spot.
The position of the first branch of the sub-costal nervure of the anterior wing
varies slightly. In some examples it rises exactly at the end of the cell, in others
slightly beyond it, and in figure 32 is at a greater distance than in any of the others,
so much so, that in other genera I should have considered it a specific distinction.
Fig. 21, which is from Sierra Leone, scarcely differs from Felders’ figure of
Vestalis. It has the incipient band at the inner margin of the anterior wing.
Fig. 22, from Old Calabar, is a small edition of figure 26, from Congo. Whilst
23 and 24 differ but little, except in size, from 27, which is certainly the male of
Drury’s Umbra. The black discal spot of figure 25, though producing a marked
peculiarity in its appearance, is left there by the interposition of a portion of the
rufous band between it and the base of the wing.
Figs. 28 and 30 will pair pretty well together ; the male is from Old Calabar,
the female from Congo.
Fig. 31 differs from the Linnean type and from Cramer’s figure in not possess-
ing the two white spots, which mark the first, or a continuation of the band, as in
the figure, to the inner margin of the anterior wing.
Figs. 22, 28 and 32 are from Old Calabar. Figs. 21, 27 are from Sierra Leone.
Figs. 25, 26, 29 and 30 are from Congo. Of the three other varieties I do not
possess any precise locality.
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ACRAA. VI.
ACRAA TENEBROSA. 33, 34.
Uprersip, dark brown. Anterior wing crossed by two indistinct, ill-defined
bands of brick-red, one before the middle, the other beyond the middle composed of
small spots: the space between the bands blue-black.
Unpersipe, pale grey-brown, with the nervures and lines between them dark
brown. Anterior wing with the base and inner margin dark brown: the basal half
nearly rufous-orange: crossed at the middle by a broad band of dark brown. Pos-
terior wing clouded at the middle and outer margin with brown.
Exp. 2485 inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ACRAIA ABANA. 35, 36.
Upprrsibg, greenish brown, the nervures and lines between them dark brown.
Anterior wing crossed at the middle by a broad rufous band, divided longitudinally
by the nervures, and transversely by the end of the cell.
Unverrsipz, pale grey-brown: the nervures and lines between them and in the
cell of the posterior wing, dark brown. Anterior wing from the base to beyond the
middle, rufous.
Exp. 2 imch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ACRAIA CLEASA. 37, 38.
Urrrrsipg, dark blue-brown. Anterior wing with the base marked by a
large trifid carmine spot having its outer border orange-yellow.
Unpersipg. Anterior wing as above, except that the basal spot extends further
into the wing its outer half pale yellow, and that the apex is ochreous with the
nervures and lines between them black. Posterior wing ochreous (nearly white at
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ACRHIDH.—ACRAA.
the base), clouded with brown at the middle and outer margin, the nervures, lines
between them and a line in the cell, dark brown.
Exp. 148; inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
So much like Acreea Trinacria of Felder that though the same description might serve for both
it is very distinct.
ACRAA RADIATA. 39, 40, 41.
Uprrrsipr. Male, dark rufous-brown. Anterior wing crossed beyond the
middle by a curved band of eight rays and spots of orange.
UNDERSIDE, as above, except that the rays and spots of the transverse band of
the anterior wing are broader, and that the apex and the whole of the posterior wing
are marked between the nervures and in the cell by lines in pairs of brick-red.
Female larger, grey or green-brown: the orange rays longer and broader on
both sides of the wings.
Exp. 23% inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Nearly allied to Acrwea Erinome of the Felders.
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ACRAIA ORETA. 42.
Acrea Oreta, Hewitson, Entom. Monthly Mag., \874, page 131.
Uprrrstpr. Male dark brown. Anterior wing with the cell (where it is marked
by two black. spots), a band parallel and near to the inner margin, an oblong spot
between the first and second median nervules, and two small spots below these, all
dull scarlet; an oblique band of three ill-defined white spots beyond the middle.
Posterior wing scarlet with several spots near the base, a band of spots at the
middle and the outer margin, which is finely indented inwardly, all black.
Unpversipe ochreous-yellow. Both wings with the nervures near the outer
margin and lines between them brown. Anterior wing with a central spot of
brown. Posterior wing with four spots at the base, an oblique band of five spots,
three spots (one minute) in the cell and a central transverse band of eight spots, all
black.
Exp. 238; mch. Hab. Fernando Po. (Rogers.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ACRAA ORINA. 43, 48.
Acrea Orina, Hewitson, Eutom. Monthly Mag., 1874, page 130.
Upprrstpr. Male dark brown. Anterior wing with the cell scarlet ; a band of
six spots, three of which nearest the apex—sometimes dull white, sometimes rufous,
sometimes not there at all—are at an angle with the other three which are scarlet,
and placed between the branches of the median nervure, the last forming a band
near and parallel to the immer margin. Posterior wing scarlet with several spots,
which are crowded together near the base, and the outer margin black.
Unpersip# ochreous-yellow. Both wings with the nervures as they approach
the outer margin and lines between them dark brown. Anterior wing with the
brown as above, but paler. Posterior wing with eighteen or nineteen spots some
of which are united in the figure.
Exp. 23%5 inch. Hab. Fernando Po. (Rogers.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
In this species no dependence can be placed upon the number of spots near the base of the
posterior wing. ‘The specimen I have figured has twelve spots, two or three spots being united into
one; another example has nineteen spots.
ACR#A ACERATA. 44.
Acrea Acerata, Hewitson, Annis. and Mag. of Nat. His., 1874.
Upprrstpr orange. Both wings with the outer margins broad, dark brown.
Anterior wing with the base and two large triangular spots on the costal margin
dark brown.
Unpersipe paler. Both wings with the outer margins as above, marked on the
margin by a series of triangular rufous spots. Anterior wing with a lunular black
Published April 1st, 1875.]
ACRA1DAi.—ACRAHA,
spot at the end of the cell and a large triangular brown spot on the costal margin as
above. Posterior wing with eleven or twelve minute black spots near the base.
Exp. 14 inch. Hab. West Africa. (River Prah, Bell.)
Belongs to the group which contains A. serena, A. Eponina, and A, Vinidia of the plate of which
I think it is a variety.
ACRAIA VINIDIA. 45, 46.
Acrea Vinidia, Hewitson, Entom. Monthly Mag., 1874, page 130.
Upporsive dark brown. Anterior wing with a spot near the apex and a broad
band below it to the middle of the inner margin, marked (not always) by a black
spot, both rufous-orange. Posterior wing rufous-orange with the base and outer
margin dark brown; a small black spot on the middle of the costal margin.
Unpersipr rufous. Both wings with the outer margin rufous-brown marked
by a series of pyramidal rufous spots. Anterior wing with a spot in the cell, a band
at the end of the cell, and two small spots below these, all black. Posterior wing
with fifteen small black spots between the base and the middle.
Exp. 148; ich. Hab. Angola. (Rogers.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Near A. Eponina ; its chief difference being the arrangement of the basal black spots, which are
here spread over half the wing and in Eponina crowded together near the base.
ACRAA ORESTIA. 47.
Acrea Orestia, Hewitson, Entom. Monthly Mag., \S874, page 131.
Uprrrstpe. Male. Anterior wing transparent, clouded with brown chiefly at
the base and outer margins, the nervures black. Posterior wing rufous-orange, with
some black spots near the base and inner margin, and a circular series of seven spots
of the same colour at the middle; the outer margin dark brown, dentated inwardly.
Unpersipz altogether transparent. Posterior wing with seventeen black spots:
four spots near the base, an oblique band of four spots, a large spot in the cell, and a
central band of eight spots.
Exp. 133 inch. Fernando Po. (Rogers.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ACRAA OPPIDIA. 49, 50.
Acrea Oppidia, Hewitson, Lntom. Monthly Mag., 1874, page 131.
Upprrsipe dark brown. Anterior wing with an indistinct rufous band parallel
and near to the immer margin; two central spots of the same colour (one in the cell),
and an oblique trifid white spot beyond the middle. Posterior wing brick-red, with the
base, which is marked by three or four black spots and the outer margin, dark brown.
Unprrsipe ochreous-yellow. Both wings with the nervures near the outer
margin and lines between them dark brown. Anterior wing clouded with brown
from the base to the middle. Posterior wing marked near the base by sixteen black
spots.
Exp. 249 ich. Hab. Fernando Po. (Rogers.)
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MESSARAS MAZONIDES. 1, 2.
Uprrersipr. Male, from the base to near the middle, rufous; crossed at the
middle by a broad transverse orange band, clouded where it meets the inner margin,
and marked with a black spot. Beyond the band dark brown, with a submarginal
band of black. Posterior wing rufous; crossed before the middle by a transverse
narrow band of orange, margined on both sides with black, followed (touching it) by
an indistinct band of lilac, by a band of six black spots, and by two submarginal
bands of the same colour. The outer margin brown,
Unpersipe yellow. Both wings with four transverse rufous bands; the first
before the middle and very narrow; the second and third zigzag, inclosing between
them a band (broken in the middle) of black spots. The black spot near the inner
margin of the anterior wing large; the second band of the posterior wing margined
inside with silvery white.
Expan. 2;%, in. Hab. Celebes.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
MESSARAS MADESTES. 3, 6.
Uprrrsipr. Female dark brown. Both wings crossed transversely at the
middle by a broad common band of orange, marked on the anterior wing by a round
black spot. Anterior wing with two orange spots near the apex.
Unpersipre. Both wings, from the base to the central band (which is light
yellow), rufous-yellow, rufous beyond the central band; both with a submarginal row
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of lunular and linear spots of yellow. Anterior wing with a bifid spot near the apex,
and four other large spots of yellow, also a band of black spots. Posterior wing
with a band of eye-like purple spots, their centres black, their upper margins lilac-
white.
The male does not differ.
Expan. 2;% in. Hab. New Guinea.
In the Collections of W.W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
MESSARAS MAONITES. 4, 5.
Uprrrsipr. Male. Anterior wing with the base rufous-brown ; crossed at the
middle by a broad transverse band of orange. Beyond the band black. Posterior
wing rufous-brown. ‘The outer margin, and a row of round spots near it, black.
Unpersipn yellow. The base of both wings rufous-yellow. The central band
light yellow, and beyond it to the outer margin rufous-brown, marked with some
indistinct lilac spots near the costal margin ; two black spots near the anal angle, and
a submarginal row of pale yellow spots. Posterior wing crossed at the middle by a
narrow band of pale yellow; beyond it to the outer margin rufous-brown, crossed
by a band of lilac spots, by a band of black spots, by a band of triangular yellow
spots, and again by a band of linear yellow spots.
Expan. 2;4 in. Hab. Amboyna.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
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ERESIA PHILLYRA. 1.
Urrrrsipe. Anterior wing black. At the base, a broad unequal horizontal band of
orange intersected by black nervures, on the middle of the wing an oblique band of four
oblong portions commencing at the costa, and between it and the apex, which it crosses,
a similar band of three oval spots, followed along the outer border of the wing by five
other oval spots, all yellow. Posterior wing orange, surrounded, except on the inner
margin, and divided horizontally in its centre by a belt of black. On the apex two oval
spots of yellow, and parallel to the outer margin a row of minute lines besides the usual
marginal ones.
Unversine only differs in having the submarginal linear spots of the posterior wing
larger and silvery.
Expan. 2° in. Hab. Mexico.
This is the largest known species of Eresia, and is especially interesting from its analogical resem-
blance to other genera. In form it might be taken for a Euterpe, whilst in colour it differs but slightly
from a Leptalis.
It is in the Collection of W. W. Saunders.
ERESIA PELLA. 2.
Uprersivg. Anterior wing black, two triangular patches at the base, and a small
spot upon the outer angle, rufous, touching the basal spots, and obliquely across before the
middle a belt of three spots, beyond the middle a second continuous band parallel to it,
deeply sinuated, commencing on the costa, and nearly reaching the outer margin, and a
line across the apex, all yellow. Posterior wing rufous (lightest above the belt), the upper
and outer margins, and a horizontal central belt, black.
Unpersive as above, with the addition of several spots of yellow near the outer
margin of the anterior wing, and near the same margin of the posterior wing a double
row of lunular spots besides the usual marginal ones.
Expan. 2 in. Hab. Amazon.
This species is nearly allied to Hresia Eunice as well as to H. Erysice.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C, Hewitson.
ERESIA PELONIA. 3.
Urrersipg. Anterior wing, with the base and the whole of the inner margin to
nearly the middle of the wing, orange, the median nervure in it broadly black ; separated
from the orange by two square spots of black, an unequal band of yellow crosses the
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wing obliquely from the costa to nearly the outer margin ; the remainder of the apex
black. Posterior wing rufous ; the upper margin and a central horizontal band reaching
from the inner margin two-thirds across the wing, black ; outer margin, from the anal
angle half across the wing, also black, followed by four oval, black spots, dotted with
white.
Expan. Lie in. Hab. Quito. In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA PERILLA. 4.
Uprersipr. Anterior wing black, with the base brick-red, and an oblong central
patch of yellow divided by the nervures across the middle. Posterior wing brick-red,
with the nervures, lines between each of them and the outer margin (broadly at the outer
angle), black.
Expan. 2 in. Hab. Quito. In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA PERNA. 5.
Urrrrsipz. Anterior wing with a curved tripartite horizontal belt, having its origin
at the base, and extending half way across the wing, and an oblong spot between it and
the apex, yellow slightly rufous. Posterior wing with a broad central transverse band of
yellow and a rufous line near to the outer margin.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing with the belt at the base much wider; a triangular spot
upon the costa beyond the middle, and a large patch, nearly occupying the apex, yellow.
Posterior wing with a narrow belt across the base, parallel to the central band described
above, yellow. Anterior wing with three small apical spots of silvery white, posterior
with a submarginal line of the same colour.
Expan. 1,8, in. Hab. Rio Janeiro. In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA POLINA. 6.
UprrrsipE dark brown, with a common band of yellow, commencing at a distance
from the apex of the anterior wing, and ending above the middle of the inner margin of
the posterior wing. On the anterior wing, composed of three distinct spots ; on the pos-
terior (on which is also a very fine submarginal white line), it is continuous.
Unpersipe, very different. Anterior wing brown, with an oblong horizontal patch
at the base, a triangular one beyond the middle of the costa, a square one below it
at the anal angle, and a large patch across the apex (which has also three silvery dots of
white), yellow. Posterior wing silvery white, with two transverse belts of black across it
near the base, and a third (a broader one) below the middle divided horizontally by a
line of white, and reaching from the inner margin two-thirds across the wing ; between it
and the outer margin, which is black, a rufous band.
Expan. Ws in. Hab. Quito. In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Much like E. Nauplia, from which it is however sufficiently distinct.
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ERESIA EMERANTIA. 7, 11.
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margin broadly black.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing as above, but lighter, with a triangular spot of
yellow on the middle of the costal margin; a submarginal row of spots, white near
the apex of the wing, yellow below, and a second row of indistinct white spots at the
apex. Posterior wing with the orange as above, but lighter; the costal margin from
the base to beyond its middle yellow, bordered by a band of black which joins the
black of the outer margin ; a submarginal row of seven large yellow spots, and within
them, on the inner border of the black, a row of four lilac spots, divided by the median
nervules.
BExpan. 23% in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA ERANITES. 8, 9, 10.
Upprrsipr. Male black. Anterior wing with an oblong space from the base
to beyond the middle; a short oblique trifid band from the costal margin beyond the
middle; a bifid spot between it and the outer margin; two parallel rows of minute
spots across the apex, and two minute spots near the anal angle, all rufous-orange.
Posterior wing with a longitudinal central band, a minute spot at the apex, and two
short limes near the anal angle, rufous-orange.
Unpursipe. Anterior wing nearly as above, but much lighter; the spots be-
yond the middle and the apex light yellow. Posterior wing light yellow with a band
from near the base ending in a large spot at the middle of the costal margin, and a
broad band on the outer margin from the anal angle to beyond its middle, claret
colour, the latter traversed by two rows of lunular yellow spots, the upper ones upon
a narrow band of black.
Female larger than the male, from which it differs on the anterior wing in
having all the spots beyond the middle hght yellow or white, and one half of the
bifid spot replaced by two minute spots which form part of the two rows across the
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apex. Posterior wing rufous-orange, with the base, the costal and outer margins, and
a longitudinal band beyond the middle, black; a spot at the apex, and a waved line
near the outer margin from the anal angle to the middle of the wing, white.
Expan. 8 1485 in., ¢ 23 im. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA ESORA. 12.
Uprrrsipe black. Anterior wing with a large space from the base to near
the middle (except the margins) and reaching to the anal angle (where it is marked by
a black spot) rufous at the base, yellow outwardly. Crossed beyond the middle by an
oblique, broad, angular band of yellow. Posterior wing with the basal half yellow,
the rest rufous. ‘The base, a transverse band at the middle, a round spot near the
apex, and the outer margin black.
Unpersipe. As above, but lighter. Anterior wing with the central band ex-
tending to the outer margin, where it is crossed by a black lme which runs parallel
to the outer margin; near the apex a band of yellow. Posterior wing with a row of
oblong black spots, instead of the central band; the outer margin traversed by a band
of yellow from the anal angle to beyond its middle.
Expan. 2in. Hab. Brazil.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
N.B. This is the species which ought to have been figured in a former Plate as E. Pella. The
butterfly there called Pella has been previously well figured under the name of Eunice, in Hubner’s
Sammlung Exotischer Schmetterlinge.
ERESIA EZORIAS. 13.
Uprrrsipe. Male black. Anterior wing with a large space from the base to
beyond the middle of the outer margin, occupying the lower half of the cell and ex-
tending to the inner margin which is black; an oblique band of four oblong spots, a
small spot on the middle of the outer margin, and a row of three or four small spots
across the apex; rufous-orange. Posterior wing rufous-orange, with the base, the
costal and outer margins, and a band from the middle of the costal margin to the
apex, black; an orange spot at the apex.
Unpersipe. Anterior wing, as above, but lighter; the base yellow ; the oblique
band and the spots at the apex, which here form a band like the other, yellow.
Posterior wing, as above; the base, the central band, and two spots at the apex,
yellow ; a submarginal row of lunules, and a line on the inner margin at the
anal angle, silvery-white.
Expan. 23% in. Hab. Mexico.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
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Uppersipg. Male. Anterior wing black, with a large triangular spot of scarlet
at the base: a large triangular spot of yellow at the middle, divided into six by the
nervures : three or four indistinct minute white spots near the apex. Posterior wing
scarlet: the outer margin black, traversed by a band of minute white spots.
UnpERsIDE as above, except that the anterior wing has a submarginal band of
white spots, and that the nervures of the posterior wing are brown.
Expan. 25 inch. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA ACRASINA. 15.
Uprrrsipr. Female black. Anterior wing with the base and a band which
crosses the centre of the wing carmine. Posterior wing from the base to beyond the
middle carmine: the nervares and rays between them black.
UnpemrsipeE as above, except that the apex of the anterior wing is pale brown,
the nervures and rays between them black, and that the posterior wing is grey-brown,
rufous at the base, clouded beyond the middle with darker brown; the nervures and
rays between them black.
Expan. 23% inch. Hab. Upper Amazon.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Near to E. Castilla of Felder, of which it can scarcely be a variety as he does not mention the
basal spot of the anterior wing, and describes the band which crosses it as pale ochraceous. It is also
nearly allied to E. Perilla of this work (vol. i. pl. 30), but is of different form and colour.
ERESIA MYIA. 16, 17.
Uprrrsipz. Male black. Anterior wing deeply emarginate at the middle of
the outer margin: a bifid round spot near the middle of the inner margin: crossed
beyond the middle by a band of four small spots, two of them grey, two white
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Posterior wing dentate, with a central transverse band of white, ending in two
minute white spots where it touches the costal margin.
Unpersipe. Anterior wing rufous-brown: the cell rufous, marked at the end
by two minute white spots; the spots as above, but larger: a white spot near the
middle of the outer margin : two minute white spots on the costal margin near the apex.
Posterior wing with the basal half white, marked with two spots and several lines of
brown: outer half of the wing clouded with rufous-brown, marked with some lunular
black spots and two submarginal waved brown lines.
Expan. 15%; inch. Hab. Mexico.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA OFELLA. 18, 19.
Uprrrsipe black. Both wings crossed transversely by a common band of
white, commencing at the third median nervule of the anterior wing. Anterior wing
with a spot in the cell: crossed beyond the middle by a band of five small spots ; and
nearer the apex by a second band of four smaller spots.
Unprrsipz. Anterior wing as above: the white spots larger: the base grey-
yellow: the middle of the outer margin and apex white. Posterior wing with the
basal half white, undulated near the base with brown: the outer half rufous-brown,
with black spots and two submarginal waved lines of black.
Expan. 1,85 inch. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of E. Birchall.
ERESIA ITHOMIOIDES. 20.
Uprersipr. Male dark brown. Anterior wing with numerous spots of rufous-
yellow. Posterior wing crossed transversely before the middle by a broad band of
scarlet: the apex with two small white spots, one of them touching the transverse
band.
Unpersipe as above; except that the posterior wing has a submarginal band of
seven white spots.
Expan. 23/5 inch. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of E. Birchall.
The Eresias form a genus exceedingly interesting from its great diversity of form and colour ;
whilst figure 15 of the plate has a considerable resemblance to Acrwa Trinacria of Felder, figure 20
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Uprrrsipr. Male dark rufous-brown. Anterior wing with several rufous-
yellow spots; one in the cell, a second trifid by the median nervules, a third near it, a
fourth near the costal margin beyond its middle, and three smaller nearer the outer
margin. Posterior wing with a central transverse band of rufous-yellow and a single
lunular spot near the anal angle.
Unversipr. Anterior wing with the spots as above; the basal half orange-
yellow: beyond it dark brown: the apex and outer margin broadly rufous, with paler
spots at the apex and the middle of the outer margin. Posterior wing with the trans-
verse band as above: the base clouded with rufous spots and lines; beyond the cen-
tral band rufous, marked with black spots: the outer margin and a parallel waved line
rufous-brown.
Expan. 1} inch. Hab. Minas Geraes.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA OROBIA. 23, 24.
Upprrsips. Anterior wing dark brown: the basal half orange, divided in the
cell and near the anal angle into separate spots: an oblong spot near the costal
margin, and three near the outer margin also orange. Posterior wing rufous-orange,
with a submarginal band of spots and waved line of black from the anal angle to the
middle of the wmg: the outer margin dark brown.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing as above; except that the spots near the outer
margin are extended to the apex and outer margin. Posterior wing rufous-yellow,
clouded and undulated with rufous-brown.
Expan. 1,°5 inch.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
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ERESIA VELICA. 25, 26.
Uprrrsipn. Male dark rufous-brown. Anterior wing with several ill-defined
rufous spots; three near the base, one near the costal margin, three between it and
the inner margin, and three towards the apex. Posterior wing with a broad transverse
rufous band and some submarginal lunules of the same colour.
Unprrsipr. Anterior wing brown; with the base and two spots near it, the
spots above (the three lower spots united in one), and the apex and cuter margin
rufous. Posterior wing rufous, clouded and undulated with darker colour.
Expan. 1-8; inch.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA VERENA. 27, 28.
Upprrsmpg. Male dark brown. Both wings crossed by a common band of orange ;
both with several small spots near the base, and a submarginal band, irregular and
broken into spots, on the anterior wing, continuous and waved on the posterior wing.
Unpersipe rufous-yellow, with the bands as above: the base of both wings
crossed by lines of brown. Anterior wing with the apex rufous-brown, with spots of
paler colour. Posterior wing undulated with brown at the outer margin.
Expan. 135 inch. Hab. Bolivia.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
ERESIA EZRA. 29.
Uprrersipe Male black. Anterior wing with two spots in the cell, a large spot
below them bifid by the first median nervule, a quadri-partite band from the costal
margin beyond the middle, and below it a small spot, all rufous-white. Posterior wing
with a minute spot im the cell; crossed before the middle by a curved band divided by
black nervures.
Unpursipz as above; except that the posterior wing has three spots at the base,
a band of indistinct spots near the outer margin, and a submarginal band of white
spots.
Expan. 15°5 inch.
Tn the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
I have thought with Dr. Felder that the butterflies figured in this plate, as well as the North-
American species, which were put with Melitseea in Doubleday and Hewitson’s Genera of Diurnal
Lepidoptera, would be better associated with Hresia; they cannot be separated from EK. Hera and
Ianthe, which Mr. Doubleday considered as belonging to this genus. It seems to me that there is very
little generic difference between Meliteea Eresia and Synchloe besides their outward appearance. I am,
however, quite content with this distinction when the eye can at once separate them.
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ERESIA SIMOIS. 30, 31.
UrrrrsipE brown. Anterior wing rownded at the apex and outer margm, with
several indistinct white and rufous spots. Posterior wing scarcely dentated ; crossed
by three equi-distant bands of rufous spots.
Unprrsipr. Anterior wing orange, with the white spots as above enclosing a
large black spot: a band of three white spots near the base. Posterior wing orange
yellow, with the three bands of white spots as above.
Expan. 145 to lq inch. Hab. Brazil.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
There is a variety of this species in which the central white spots of the anterior wing become a
broad rufous band, broken in the middle; the inner row of spots on the posterior wing is also increased
to a broad band; the black spot on the underside of the anterior wing is much smaller, and the bands
of spots on the posterior wing much more defined.
ERESIA HERMAS. 32.
UprersipE. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with twelve or more distinct
white spots: outer margin slightly sinuated. Posterior wing with two white spots
near the base, and a broad macular central band, followed by two narrow bands of
rufous spots.
Unpersipe. Anterior wing orange at the base, brown beyond it; with the
white spots nearly as above. Posterior wing brown-white, with several indistinct
white spots and a submarginal band of white Iunules: the outer margin rufous: a
spot on the costal margin and one near the middle of the outer margin rufous.
Expan. 1485 inch. Hab.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
ERESIA SMERDIS. 33, 34.
Uprrrsipe dark brown, paler at the base. Anterior wing with eleven or more
white spots; the outer margin deeply sinuate. Posterior wing crossed by two bands
of white spots: the outer margin deeply dentate.
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Unpersipe. Anterior wing with the basal half bright orange, the middle dark
brown ; the outer margin rufous brown; the spots as above. Posterior wing pale
brown, crossed before the middle by a band of brown, at the middle by a band of
white: marked beyond the middle by two large triangular brown spots.
Expan. 145 inch. Hab. Mexico.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
ERESIA ARDYS. 35, 36.
Uprersipr. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with eight or nine yellow spots :
the costal margin much curved: the outer margin sinuate, toothed below the sinuation.
Posterior wing with a central band of yellow spots, a submarginal band of lunules,
and between them a band of linear spots half across the wing.
Unprrsipe. Anterior wing dark brown, with the base and a large spot on the
outer margin orange: the spots nearly as above, but larger. Posterior wing beauti-
fully variegated with grey, white, orange yellow, and brown.
Expan. 13 inch. Hab. Mexico.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
This and the preceding species are nearly allied to Hera of Hubner: his figures are, however, so
accurate in form and colour that I am compelled to consider them as distinct.
ERESIA ABAS. 37, 38.
Uprrrsips. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with seven distinct white spots
(one bifid), three in a line, nearly parallel to the outer margin: a submarginal line of
indistinct white spots. Posterior wing with a central band of white, followed by two
narrow rufous bands.
Unversipr. Anterior wing with the basal half and spots at the apex and outer
margin ochreous yellow; the outer half brown, with the spots as above. Posterior
wing pale, with the central band as above; followed by four blind ocelli.
Expan. 13 inch. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
This species may be known from those just described by the arrangement of the white spots of
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ERESIA ACETA. 39, 40.
UprrrsibE dark brown. Anterior wing with some indistinct rufous spots near
the base, and two rufous spots beyond the middle. Both wings crossed by a band of
eye-like spots, with rufous-orange borders; more distinctly ocellated on the anterior
wing: both with a linear rufous submarginal band.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing rufous, with the spots as above, and two blind
ocelli towards the apex. Posterior wing pale brown, with spots of rufous brown near
the costal and outer margins, and three or four minute blind ocelli.
Expan. 1} inch. Hab. New Granada.
Tn the Collection of the British Museum.
ERESIA DICOMA. 41, 42.
UrrrrsibE dark brown, with a spot near the base, a large 5-partite spot near
the inner margin, a linear spot beyond the middle, and three spots (one bifid) near the
outer margin, all rufous. Posterior wing with a broad rufous band and a submarginal
band of rufous lunules.
UnpersibE rufous. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a band of
darker colour: the apex and the whole of the posterior wing marked with lunules and
lines of rufous brown.
Expan. 13%5 inch.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
There is a variety of this species in which the large rufous spot on the inner margin is extended
to the base. It is near Teletusa on the upperside, but of different furm: on the underside it is iden-
tical with Claudina of Eschscholtz.
ERESIA ANIETA. 43, 44.
Uppersip& rufous orange. Anterior wing with the base and costal margin and
a band near the apex rufous brown: the outer margin broadly dark brown. Posterior
wing with the outer margin brown.
Unpersipe paler. Anterior wing darker at the base and outer margin: the apex
with some lunular spots. Posterior wing clouded beyond the middle with rufous lines
and lunules.
Expan. 145 ch. Hab. Venezuela.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
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ERESIA GYGES. 45, 46.
Uprrrsipr. Male, dark brown: the base of both wings crowded with rufous
spots. Anterior wing with seven large orange spots. Posterior wing with four trans-
verse bands; the first rufous, the three followmg orange; the first and second united
towards the inner margin.
Unprrsipe. Anterior wing with the base orange, the middle dark brown, the
outer margin broadly rufous: the spots as above, but larger ; one of them extending
to the outer margin. Posterior wing pale rufous yellow, with darker spots on the
costal and near the outer margins: a submarginal band of white lunular spots and
three or four minute blind ocelli.
Expan. 1485 to 14% inch. Hab. Jamaica.
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
This species has a close resemblance to KE. Drusilla of Felder in the marking of the upperside,
but differs from it in its much paler colour.
ERESIA OTANES. 47.
Uprersipr. Male, uniform dark brown: anterior wing with a small rufous spot
near the apex. Posterior wing of a different colour, slightly tinted with purple: the
outer margin of the same brown as the anterior wing.
Unprrsipr. Anterior wing rufous brown; the base paler, crossed by bands of
black : a spot on the costal margin, a triangular spot at the apex, and a spot near the
outer margin, rufous white. Posterior wing grey and rufous, with several large
rufous brown spots.
Expan. 14%; inch. Hab. Guatemala.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This butterfly was kindly added to my collection by Mr. Salvin. It may be only a variety of the
next species, C. Acesas, of which I possess several examples, which are of the same size and of a spot-
less brown above.
ERESIA ACESAS. 48, 49.
Uprrrsips. Female, dark rufous brown: anterior wing with two spots near the
base and four or five near the outer margin orange yellow: two large indistinct trian-
gular spots near the middle. Posterior wing crossed by three bands of spots; the
first orange yellow, the others rufous.
Unversipr. Anterior wing, with the base, two large spots in the middle, and
a spot at the outer margin, orange: the apex grey, with lunular white spots. Pos-
terior wing grey and rufous, with spots and lunules of paler colour and a submarginal
band of lunules.
Expan. 1,25 to 14% mch. Hab. Venezuela.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
There are varieties of this species of much smaller size ; some of a uniform spotless brown, others
with one, two, or three of the transverse bands of the posterior wing.
I have thought it superfluous to describe minutely any of the species figured in the three accom-
panying plates where both sides are given.
NYMPHALIDS&.
ERESIA VII.
ERESIA ELAPHIABA. 50, 51.
Uprersipg. Male, dark brown, wrorated (except at the apex of the anterior
wing) with ochreous yellow. Anterior wing crossed obliquely beyond the middle by
a broad band of orange. Posterior wing, with the outer margin dentated : crossed
beyond the middle by three ochreous bands.
Unpersrpg, rufous-brown. Anterior wing with the band as above: the base
ochreous, crossed by a brown line: three lilac-white spots, two of which are lunular,
near the apex. Posterior wing rufous-brown, irrorated with paler colour: marked by
several lilac-white spots: clouded with dark brown beyond the middle, and crossed
near the outer margin by a zigzag line of white.
Exp. 1} inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA CLAUDINA. Var. 52, 53.
ERESIA ELADA. 54, 55.
Upprrsipg. Male, dark brown. Both wings with several spots of orange at
the base: both crossed at the middle by a band of pale yellow (broken on the
anterior wing), and followed on both wings by two other bands of orange spots :
the fringe spotted with white.
Unpersivz. Both wings, with the central band (traversed longitudinally on the
posterior wing by a black line) followed on both by a broad band of brown traversed
by an orange band of spots, by a band of conical white spots (large on the posterior
wing, preceded on the anterior wing near the apex by other spots), and by a sub-
marginal band of orange: the frmge brown spotted with white. Anterior wing with
the basal half orange, marked by some paler spots. Posterior wing with the base
orange, marked by a band and a single spot of white.
Female (figs. 54, 55) does not differ from the male, except in being larger.
Exp. 13% inch. Hab. Mexico.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA ETIA. 56, 57.
Urrersipe. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with two large brick-red spots.
Posterior wing irrorated with brick-red towards the outer margin, where it is crossed
by an indistinct line of the same colour.
Unprrsipg. Anterior wing rufous-brown: the lower red spot extended to the
base, where it is crossed by a brown line. Posterior wing rufous-brown, with some
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lilac spots and brown lines near the base: a band of brown spots beyond the middle,
a submarginal band of lunular spots: the fringe spotted with white.
Exp. 1445 inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA ANGUSTA. 58, 59.
Uprrrsipn, dark brown. Anterior wing with a spot in the cell, a bifid spot
between the median nervules, a trifid band beyond the middle, and some minute spots
near the apex, pale yellow. Posterior wing dentate, with a transverse band and a
spot near the costal margin, pale yellow : a band of very indistinct lunular spots near
the outer margin.
Unpersipe, as above, except that it is rufous-brown: that the base of both
wings is ochreous undulated with brown, and that both have a submarginal band of
lunular ochreous spots: the apex of the posterior wing also ochreous.
Exp. 13% ich.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA EZBA. 60.
Urrrrsipr. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with a spot in the cell, a band
of spots at the middle, some spots near the apex, and a submarginal waved band, all
rufous, except those at the apex, which are white. Posterior wing irrorated with
paler colour from the base to beyond the middle: crossed near the outer margin by
two bands of lunular spots.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing rufous, darker towards the outer margin : a spot in
the cell: a band below the median nervure: a band of spots beyond the middle
composed of a large triangular spot and three circular spots the lowest’ spot marked
with black: the apex and outer margin which is traversed by a black line, all pale
yellow. Posterior wing, pale rufous-grey from the base to the middle, with two
lunular spots near the base: crossed beyond the middle by a pale yellow band followed
by four black spots and a submarginal band of lunular spots.
Exp. 1} mch. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Near to A. Acesas and also to Abas, of which it may be only a variety : the colour on the upperside
of my specimen is much rubbed off.
ERESIA FLAVIDA. 61.
Uprersipg. Male, yellow. Anterior wing, with the costal margm brown from
the base to the middle: apex and outer margin broadly dark brown. — Posterior wing,
with the outer margin brown.
Unprrsipg, paler than above, spotless.
Exp. 14% ch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
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62.63. ERESIA ALSINA 64.65.66.67. ERESIA PELONIA
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ERESIA VIII.
ERESIA ALSINA. 62, 63.
Eresia Alsina, Hewitson. Trans. Hut. Soc. p. 33, 1869.
UprrrstpE. Female, dark brown. Anterior wing with a broad rufous-orange
band from the base : crossed obliquely by three bands, the first of which (the longest)
before the middle is divided into four by the nervures, the second beyond the middle
divided into five, the third near the apex trifid: and besides these a submarginal band
of five spots, all orange-yellow. Posterior wing with the costal and outer margins
broadly dark brown ; a submarginal band of seven orange-yellow spots.
UNDERSIDE as above.
Male like the female, except that the bands of the anterior wing are produced
until they reach and absorb the submarginal spots.
Exp. 2445 imches. Hab. Nicaragua. (Chontales, Belt.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Most nearly allied to #. Phillyra.
ERESIA PELONIA. 64, 65, 66, 67.
$ Lresia Pelonia, Hewitson. Kzxot. Butts. Vol. I. Plate 30, fig. 3.
@ Eresia Ithomiola. Salvin. Annals, & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th Ser. Vol. IV. p. 171.
Uprrrsipr. Male, rufous-orange. Anterior wing, from the base to near the
middle (except the costal margin, a band on the median nervure, and the nervures,
which are dark brown) rufous-orange: crossed at the middle by a band of yellow,
divided above the median nervure into five parts, and below it into one large oval spot :
a spot within this touching the red of the base, a spot beyond it, and a submarginal
series of five spots, all yellow. Posterior wing with a band on the costal margin from
the base to beyond the middle, a band at the middle divided into five spots, and the
outer margin which is undulated on its inner border and traversed by a series of
yellow spots, all dark brown.
Female (fig. 66), dark brown. Anterior wing rufous-orange from the base to
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NYMPHALID.—ERESIA.
beyond the middle, with a band at the base of the inner margin, a band on the median
nervure, two large spots and a smaller spot below these (not surrounded with red), all
dark brown. Posterior wing with the apex broadly rufous-orange, sinuated on its
inner border, and marked with minute black spots on the outer margin which is also
black.
Exp. ¢ 2 ¢ 2g inches. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.)
Variety A. Female (fig. 64). Anterior wing dark brown, with the basal
half (except the costal margin and a band on the median nervure, which are dark
brown as in the male) rufous-orange: crossed at the end of the cell by a band of
four oblong yellow spots, and below this an indistinct spot of the same colour.
Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.)
Variety B. Female (fig. 67). Anterior wing as in fig. 66, except that the
band at the end of the cell and the oval spot below it are yellow, that there are two
yellow spots beyond these and a subapical band of three large spots of the same
colour, the first spot irregular and divided into three parts by the nervures, the other
two spots triangular, and that the posterior wing is crossed before the middle by a
band of rufous-orange, and has the marginal black spots larger, some of them crowned
with yellow.
Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.)
All in the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
T have no hesitation in figuring these as remarkable varieties of one species. The spots upon the
beautiful female of fig. 67 may all be traced, although indistinctly defined, upon the wings of the
male.
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ERESIA SESTIA. 68, 69, 74.
Eresia Sestia, Hewitson. Equatorial Lep. p. 26.
Upprrsipr. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing crossed from the base, curving
towards the outer margin (having the median nervure and its first branch for its
lower border), by a band of rufous-orange divided into three parts by the nervures,
and into a fourth part at its lower extremity (where there is a minute spot) by a
black line: crossed before the apex by a band of seven spots, the first on the costal
margin minute, the others in pairs. Posterior wing crossed longitudinally before the
middle by a broad band of rufous-orange intersected by black nervures: a subapical
yellow spot and a submarginal band of linear white spots.
UnpERSIDE as above, except that the spots of the anterior wing are yellow and
much larger, and that there is a submarginal band of spots of the same colour, that
the posterior wing has the central band broader and paler, that the base, a band near
it, and a submarginal band of spots are all pale yellow: four small white spots near
the anal angle.
Female like the male, except that all the spots and bands on both sides are pale
yellow or white.
Exp. ¢ 14%, ¢ 2 mches. Hab. Ecuador. (Jorge, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA BELLA. 71.
Eresia Mylitta, Hew. LEquat. Lep. p. 26.
Upprrsipre. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with a broad band from the
base (which runs parallel with the mer margin, and occupies one-third of the wing)
and a large subapical spot divided into four parts by the nervures rufous-orange.
Posterior wing with a broad central band (occupying more than half the wing) and a
narrow band from the anal angle to the middle rufous-orange.
UnpersIbDE as above, except that the subapical spot is yellow, that there are
some white spots in a double series at the apex, that the posterior wing has the base
and a band near it yellow, the central band paler, and a submarginal linear band of
white.
Exp. 148; inch. Hab. Ecuador. (St. Ines, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Much like a small example of Hueides Aliphera.
NYMPHALIDA.—ERESIA.
ERESIA CASIPHIA. 72, 73.
Eresia Casiphia, Hew. Lquat. Lep. p. 25.
Uprzrsipr. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with a band from the base, a
trifid irregular oblique band at the middle and a subapical band of four spots (the
first minute) all rufous-orange. Posterior wing crossed longitudinally before the
middle by a broad band of rufous-orange, intersected by black nervures, and by a
submarginal band of the same colour: a minute spot of white at the apex.
UnpERSIDE as above, except that the bands and spots are paler, that both wings
have a submarginal series of white spots, that the anterior wing has three apical
white spots besides, and that the submarginal band of the posterior wing is broader.
Exp. 2 inches. Hab. Ecuador. (Jorge, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA LETITIA. 70, 75, 76.
Lresia Letitia, Hew. Equat. Lep. p. 24.
Uprrrsipe. Female, dark brown, crossed by a broad tripartite band, which,
after nearly filling the cell, curves towards the outer margin where it is followed by
a bifid spot: a triangular spot (which is divided into four by the nervures) beyond
the middle of the costal margin, a large trifid spot between this and the apex, and a
submarginal series of spots all pale rufous. Posterior wing crossed longitudinally
before the middle by a broad pale rufous band intersected by black nervures: a sub-
marginal band of lunular spots, and an apical white spot.
UNDERSIDE as above, except that both wings have a submarginal black line,
and that there is a double series of lunular pale spots near the outer margin of the
posterior wing.
The male is like the female, except that the spots are white, smaller and clouded
with brown.
Exp. 23’ inches. Hab. Ecuador. (St. Ines, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
The ordinary colour of the female is, I suspect, white, like the male, and that the specimen
figured may be considered as a variety.
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ERESIA MARGARETHA. 77.
Urrrrsipn. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with a large central irregular
trifid yellow spot, a small yellow spot below this and a second similar spot near the
costal margin beyond its middle, also yellow. Posterior wing with the basal half,
except the costal margin, brick-red.
Unversrpz as above except that both wings are crossed by a submarginal series
of white spots, that the anterior wing has a red spot near the base and a series of
three white spots, the first quadrifid, near the costal margin beyond the middle, and
that the centre of the posterior wing is dull carmine.
Exp. 235 inch. Hab. New Granada. (Chesterton.)
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA LEVINA. 78.
UpprrsipeE. Male, blue-black. Anterior wing crossed obliquely at the middle
by a broad hexafid band of grey-blue.
Unverstpe blue-black. Anterior wing with a large yellow quinquefid spot on
the costal margin beyond its middle. Posterior wing with a series of six small yellow
spots from the middle of the inner margin to the middle of the wing, and two spots
of scarlet near the middle of the outer margin.
Exp. 2 inch. Hab. Colombia. (Chesterton.)
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders.
ERESIA NERIA. 80.
Li. Neria, Hewitson. Entom. Monthly Mag. p. 98. Equat. Lep. p. 27.
Uppersipe. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing with a large triangular basal
spot of rufous-orange divided by the nervures : the nervure which closes the cell broad
and black.
Unprrsip£ rufous-brown, with the nervures and lines between them black.
Anterior wing with the basal spot as above. Posterior wing irrorated with yellow :
the base yellow, with two red spots near it.
Exp. 148; inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Sarayaco, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA ELAA. 81, 82.
Eresia Flea, Hewitson. Equatorial Lep. p. 25, 1869.
Uprrrsipr. Female, dark brown. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by an
oblique band of scarlet divided into four spots by the nervures: the first spot, which
is nearer the base than the others, is within the ceil and quadrate.
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NUMPHALIDA.—ERESIA.
Unperstpg. Anterior wing as above, except that the apex is broadly rufous-
grey with the nervures and lines between them black, and that the lowest spot
of the scarlet band is extended to the outer margin and there intersected by black
lines between the nervures. Posterior wing Sian with the nervures, lines
between them, and a submarginal line black: two spots near the base and part of the
outer margin scarlet.
Exp. oe 5 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Rio Verdi, Buckley.) .
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA QUINTILLA. 83.
Uprmrstpn. Female, dark brown: the base of both wings rufous-orange, both
wings crossed by a submarginal series of white spots. Anterior wing with a large black
spot within the cell: crossed at the middle by a large heptafid yellow spot marked in
its middle by a triangular black spot which closes the cell.
UnpErsipe as above.
Exp. 23%; inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
ERESIA ILDICA. 84.
2. Idica, Hewitson. Equatorial Lep. p. 24, 1869.
Uprrrsipe. Female. Both wings with a submarginal series of white spots.
Anterior wing ochreous-grey irrorated throughout with brown, rufous towards the base
and inner margin: the nervures and the costal and outer margins dark brown,
broad. Posterior wing orange, with the costal and outer margins dark brown,
broad.
UnprrsibE as above except that the anterior wing has the base pale yellow.
Bxp. 24% inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Aguano, Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Mr. Buckley’s second collection contains a butterfly, a female, which though different in colour is
I think a variety of this, It is semi- transparent lilac-grey white near the base me the posterior wing :
the nervures and margins of both wings dark brown, traversed by a series of white spots. On the
underside, which is paler, the bases of the anterior wing and of the costal margin of the posterior wing
are yellow. This variety is nearly allied to H. Moesta, “of Salvin.
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JUNONIA.
JUNONIA ELGIVA. 1.
Uprzrsipr. Female, rufous brown: both wings crossed beyond the middle by
a continuous band of orange-yellow and two submarginal bands of dark brown.
Anterior wing crossed in the cell, and beyond it by five lines of black: two minute
white spots near the apex, and two or three black spots upon the transverse band.
Posterior wing with a band of ocelli touching the outer border of the transverse
band: the anal ocellus (which is double) and the next to it, brick-red, bordered with
orange, and again with black: the pupils black, with centre of pale blue: the other
ocelli are blind, with a rufous centre and border of black.
Unpversipe pale yellow. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a band of
ocelli; on the anterior wing by five without pupils, the middle one represented by a
pale yellow spot: on the posterior by six, three of which are pupilled with blue, the
first, third, and fourth nearly obliterated. Anterior wing crossed before the middle by
three zigzag rufous bands: clouded at the apex and marked with two minute white
spots. Posterior wing with some indistinct spots and a curved linear rufous band
near the base: crossed at the middle by a linear band of brown: the anal angle with
a purple line.
Expan. 23/6 ch. Hab. Zambesi.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species bears a close resemblance to J. Terea, but differs from it in various ways: in the
absence of the line which passes through the transverse band of that species, and in having the upper
margin of the said band clearly defined. My examples of J. Terea are very much less than J. Elgiva;
Cramer’s and Drury’s figures are, however, of the same size.
JUNONIA CHAPUNGA. 2, 3.
Upprrsive rufous brown. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a common
band of spots, commencing on the anterior wing by a quadrifid white spot, followed
by three rufous spots with black centres, and on the posterior wing by five similar
spots: both wings with a submarginal black line. Anterior wing with three minute
white spots, and four rufous spots near the apex.
Unperrsipr rufous brown. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a common
band of white rufous on its outer border, traversed by a line of small black spots,
bifurcate on the anterior wing, where some of the black spots are centred with white.
Anterior wing with three indistinct bands before the middle, posterior wing with
one similar band: both wings with the outer margin rufous.
Expan. 2349 inch. Hab. Zambesi.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This may be a variety of J. Pelasgis of Godart, and although the broad transverse band of that
species is only represented on the upperside of this by round spots, it has the band, as in that species,
on the underside.
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JUNONIA CUAMA. 4, 5.
Urprrsips rufous. Both wings with the outer margin broadly brown, traversed
by a line of brown, and bordered inwardly by a line of the same colour: both wings
with a band of small black spots, two of which, near the apex of the anterior wing,
have white centres. Anterior wing with a spot in the cell, a spot at the end of the
cell, a transverse broken band (from margin to margin) of irregular spots, and a large
spot near the apex, all dark brown. Posterior wing with a large black spot on the
costal margin, and two smaller spots below it.
UnprrsipE rufous and lilac brown. Both wings with several indistinct spots
near the base: both crossed near the middle by an indistinct band of paler colour :
both with a band of indistinct rufous spots; posterior wing with a submarginal band
of indistinct spots.
Expan. 2445 inch. Hab. Zambesi.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
JUNONIA ARTAXIA. 6.
Uprersipr. Anterior wing grey blue: the centre blue black: the margin
rufous brown: the cell crossed by five bands of black: two minute white spots near
the apex, and three bands of brown near the outer margin. Posterior wing rufous
brown with a crimson ocellus, with pupil of lilac and yellow iris bordered with black
and two indistinct submarginal bands of brown.
UnpersipE grey brown. Anterior wing crossed before the middle by three
rufous brown bands: beyond the middle by a curved band of purple brown: marked
at the apex by three minute black spots, and below them, near the outer margin, by
several rufous and brown spots. Posterior wing crossed at the middle from the
costal margin to the anal angle by a linear rufous band, with its outer border broadly
brown ; clouded near the base by some indistinct spots, and marked beyond the band
by an indistinct blind ocellus, and some minute black spots ; and nearer the margin
by a curved black line.
Expan. 2485 inch. Hab. Zambesi.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
On the underside this species has a near resemblance of J. Iphita.
The butterflies represented in the accompanying plate were collected by Mr. John Dickinson, of
Jarrow, in the county of Durham, who was appointed surgeon to the Universities’ Mission to Central
Africa, under Bishop Mackenzie, but unfortunately did not live to return to England. The collections
in the various branches of Natural History which have reached his relations, show the zeal with which
he must have prosecuted the pursuit. To the generosity of his relations I owe the pleasure of
publishing these new species, and of adding them and others of equal interest to my collection.
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CYBDELIS. Boisduvai.
CYBDELIS CONCORDIA. 1.
Urrersipe dark brown, glossed with bright purple from the base to beyond the
middle of both wings. Anterior wing with three clouded white spots.
Unprrstpe. Anterior wing with the base and margins light brown, the centre black,
with six white spots, (two clouded,) one which is near the base, and joined to a black spot,
lunular; apex ashy purple. Posterior wing ashy purple, with a white space between two dark
brown spots on the outer margin, followed, beyond the middle, by two waved transverse lines
of brown, inclosing four eyes in pairs, black pupilled with white, irides the colour of the wing,
the upper pair oblong and inclosed by one iris.
Expan. 27. in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collection of Mr. Bates.
CYBDELIS CINARA. 2.
UrrersipeE. Anterior wing, from the base to beyond the middle and the posterior
wing, except the margins, glossed with brilliant purple, the rest black.
Unversiwz. Anterior wing brown, lighter at the base and inner margin, with three
equidistant short belts of white between the costal and median nervures, a white spot below
the middle belt. Apex gray, with two small black eyes, one pupilled with blue. Posterior
wing with two spots of dark brown near the base, followed by two very irregular transverse
bands of the same colour composed of spots (chiefly triangular) inclosing thrée black eyes, irides
yellow, pupils blue ; the upper eye, which is large and crossed by a nervure, has two pupils.
Expan. 2° in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collection of Mr. Bates.
CYBDELIS CELMA. 3.
UrrersivE dark dull purple brown. Posterior wing with two indistinct black eyes and
a submarginal waved line of light blue.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing brown, with three equidistant short belts of light blue
between the costal margin and median nervure ; apex gray, with a large rufous iris inclosing
two black eyes, one pupilled with blue. Posterior wing marbled with light brown and purple,
outer margin gray ; near the base three brown spots followed by two very waved brown lines
which inclose three black eyes, irides rufous, pupils blue, the upper eye large and crossed by a
nervure.
Expan. 2° in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collection of Mr. Bates.
This and the preceding species are very much alike on the underside ; above, however, they differ much.
Whilst C. Cinara is of a beautiful glossy blue purple, C. Celma is quite dull and purple brown.
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NYMPHALIDA—CYBDELIS.
CYBDELIS CASTALIA. 4.
Uprersivg dark brown. Both wings glossed with purple from the base to beyond the
middle, margins excepted.
Unversipr. Anterior wing with the base and inner margin gray ; centre black, with
five white spots, one (within the cell) lunular ; apex brick-red. Posterior wing brick-red
tinged with purple, with two spots of red-brown near the base, followed beyond the middle by
two waved lines of the same colour inclosing four eyes, in pairs, black, pupils white, irides
same colour as the wing, the upper pair in one iris.
Expan. 2 in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
CYBDELIS CLYTIA. 5, 6.
UprersipgE. Male, dark brown ; both wings dull purple from the base to beyond the
middle. Female light brown; apical half of the anterior wing dark brown, with five pure
white spots.
Unpersipe. Both sexes nearly alike. Anterior wing with the base and margins gray ;
centre dark brown with the spots as above (clouded in the male); apex ashy white. Posterior
wing ashy white, with three transverse waved black lines, the two lower inclosing four eyes in
pairs, black, pupils blue, irides same colour as the wing, upper pair in one iris.
Expan. 2+. in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
The five insects described above would form part of the third section of the genus Miscelia of Doubleday
in the “Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera.” I have, however, preferred to adopt the genus Cybdelis of Boisduval.
Two of the insects which form the second section (Catonephele) of the genus Myscelia, have been proved by
Mr. Bates to be females of the orange-banded Hpicalias, and I have now no doubt that the butterfly, which I
have figured in the first part of this work as M. Samaria, is also a female of an Hpicalia. When that plate
was published I was unwilling to adopt the genus Miscelia, but was then ignorant of Mr. Bates’ discovery.
The genus Miscelia must therefore cease.
CYBDELIS EUROTA. 7.
P. Eurota, Cramer. Callianira Eurota, Doubleday.
UprersidE brown. Apical half of the anterior wing black, with an oblique band of three
white spots across the middle, and two smaller spots between them and the apex.
UnversinE red brown. Centre of anterior wing black, with the five white spots of
the upperside, and a lunular brown spot near the base. Posterior wing as in the male.
This is the female of P. Hurota, Cramer, and Callianira Eurota, of the “Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera.”
I cannot understand why Mr. Doubleday has separated this from the other species of Cybdelis. It will be seen
by the figures how closely they resemble each other in appearance, and, upon closer examination, I can see no
reason whatever for their separation.
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CYBDELIS DIOTIMA. 8, 9.
UprersipE. Male, brown, Anterior wing with four spots of light blue. The first
at the base, trifid; the second at the costal margin beyond the middle ; the third half-
way between the second and the anal angle; the fourth near the apex partly white.
Unversipe. Light brown. Anterior wing with the centre dark brown; a large
orange spot in the cell, an oblong spot of white on the middle of the costal margin, and
a waved line of brown across the apex. Posterior wing with the costal margin sinuated,
very angular at the base, where it is marked by a line of white, succeeded by a waved
line of black. Some scarcely seen spots of lighter colour near the middle, and a row of
indistinct lunules parallel to the outer margin.
Expan. 14 in. Hab. Bolivia and Quito.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
The palpi of this species are almost as long as those of C. Cuvierii (Lybithea Cuvierii, Godt.)
CYBDELIS BECHINA. 10.
Uprrrsipe. Male. Dark brown. Both wings glossed with purple, in the middle.
Anterior wing with the usual five spots; four white, the middle one clouded with
brown. Posterior wing with a submarginal black line.
Unpersipz. Anterior wing with the base and margins light brown; the centre
dark brown with the five spots as above ; two white, three clouded with brown. Two
black spots near the base ; one in the cell, the other on the inner margin. The apex
light brown, with a silky gloss, crossed by a waved line of brown. Posterior wing light
brown, with a silky gloss; two spots of black near the base, two lines of the same
colour on the costal margin at right angles with it; the longest, which is near the
middle, followed by a linear spot of white upon the margin, and touching the black spot
of the anterior wing. Wing crossed by the usual two zig-zag lines of brown, with
between them six indistinct circles (scarcely eyes) also brown.
Expan. 2; in. Hab. River Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
CYBDELIS CARETA. 11, 12.
Uprersipe. Anterior wing of a dark dull purple brown, with three of the usual
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spots; two near the apex white, one near the outer margin light brown. Posterior
wing dark brown, with a submarginal line of black.
Unversipze. Anterior wing with the base and margins light brown, the centre dark
brown, with the usual five spots, and a triangular one near the base white or nearly so ;
apex ash-colour, crossed by two waved lines of black ; a black eye with pupil blue, joins
one of the apical white spots. Posterior wing clouded with red-brown and grey ; two linear
black spots across the cell, and a zig-zag black line near the base followed on the costal mar-
gin by a patch of white and a triangular spot of red-brown. Wing crossed by two waved
lines of black with between them five small black eyes with iris rufous, and pupil white.
Expan. 24 in. Hab. River Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
I believe this species to be nearly allied to C. Ccelina (Vanessa Celina, Godt.).
CYBDELIS NORICA. 13.
Urrersipe. Dull black. Lower half of the posterior wing glossed with bright blue.
Unprrswwe. Anterior wing light brown, clouded with darker brown in the centre ;
a black spot within the cell; a spot of white a little beyond the end of the cell; a
round spot near the apex, and a line across the apex, black. Posterior wing light brown
with a silky gloss. Divided longitudinally in a line with the median nervure by a band
of lighter colour. Between this band and the upper margin commencing at the base
are a belt of dark brown, two large spots, a small linear spot and a second belt of the
same colour, followed by a large, very black eye with a double pupil of blue, and iris the
colour of the wing. Between the band and the inner margin an oblique belt of dark
brown, two small eyes, and a line also brown. A submarginal macular band of brown.
Expan. 2 in. Hab. Columbia.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This is the male of a species allied to P. Amelia, and P. Sophonisba of Cramer, which are females.
It is a Callianira of the “ Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera.”
CYBDELIS PHARSALIA. 14, 15.
Urrersipe. Male with wings of a beautiful lilac-purple except the margins, which
are brown. Anterior wing darker than the other, with three spots of orange. The
first near the base to which it is joined by a ray of red-brown; the second near
the costal margin beyond its middle; the third between the second and the outer margin.
Uypersipr. Anterior wing with the base ferruginous, the centre brown, with the
second and third spots as above, the apex grey with a line of four black spots across it.
Posterior wing clouded with grey and white, undulated throughout with transverse
lines of brown.
Expan. 1-* in. Hab. River Amazon.
In the Collection of Mr. Bates.
This butterfly differs considerably from the other species of Cybdelis in the form of the club of the
antennee as well as the position of the costal nervules ; I know no better place for it at present.
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CYBDELIS. III.
CYBDELIS CAPENAS. 16, 17.
Urrrrsipr. Male. Anterior wing blue-black with four light blue spots before
the middle ; three of them (two of which are within the cell), triangular; the fourth,
minute and round. Crossed beyond the middle obliquely by a band of white. Near
the apex an oblong bifid spot of light blue, with the centre white. Posterior wing
brown, with the base, a cloud across the middle, and two bands parallel to the outer
margin, darker brown. ‘Towards the anal angle a small black spot, with the centre
light blue.
Unprrsipe light brown. Anterior wing with the white band as above, but
bordered on its outer edge with lilac. The spot near the apex indistinct and white.
Posterior wing crossed before the middle and near the outer margin by a line of
darker brown, and at the middle by a band of lilac and a cloud of brown marked by
two minute black spots, one with the centre blue.
Expan. 235 in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
CYBDELIS CARALIS. 18, 19.
Uprzrstpz. Male dark brown, slightly glossed with blue from the base to
beyond the middle; lighter brown near the outer margins, especially on the anterior
wing.
Unpersipz. Anterior wing light brown, clouded with darker brown; the apex
grey. Posterior wing grey or purple-brown, clouded by darker colour. The base
also darker.
Expan. 233 im. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
It is much easier to figure this species than to describe it. It is nearly allied to the next,
C. Caresa. There is some difference of form as well as of colour. This is also without the con-
spicuous white margin of the other.
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CYBDELIS CARESA. 20.
Uprersipr. Male black, glossed with brilliant purple ; on the anterior wing from
the base to beyond the middle ; on the posterior wing to the end of the cell only; the
margins white.
Unversipe. Anterior wing dark brown, with the base, a curved line across the
cell, a band across the middle, and the inner margin, lighter brown. The apex
grey, with a black spot. Posterior wing from the base nearly to the middle
purple-brown, marked with rufous spots. The apex of the same colour. ‘The rest
of the wing grey or rufous. ‘T'wo indistinct eye-like spots between the median
nervules.
Variety with the base of the posterior wing on the underside all rufous instead
of purple, the rest grey.
Expan, 23%; in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Except that it is larger C. Caresa does not differ on the upperside from C. Sidonia of Godart ;
on the underside it is very variable.
CYBDELIS CARIAS. 21, 22.
Uprrrsipr. Female dark brown. ‘The outer half of the anterior wing and the
apex of the posterior wing rufous-brown. Posterior wing glossed with blue from the
base to beyond the middle.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing dark brown, with the base lighter crossed by three
black lines. The apex red-brown, with some minute lilac spots. Posterior wing
brick-red, with three short black lines (one near the base, two within the cell). Crossed
before the middle by a very curved black line, and marked beyond it by three very
indistinct eye-like spots surrounded with lilac.
Expan. 23 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
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CYBDELIS IV.
CYBDELIS CALAMIS. 238, 24.
Uprrrsipr. Male, dark brown. Anterior wing glossed with lilac-blue: a white
spot on the costal margin, beyond the middle: a second white spot between this and
the apex: a trifid pale green-blue spot near the anal angle.
Unpersipg. Anterior wing with the basal half (except the base of the costal
margin, which is grey) carmine ; the apical half (except the apex, which is rufous-grey)
black, with the white spots as above, except that the spot nearest the apex has a lilac-
white spot on each side of it. Posterior wing grey, tinted with red towards the apex
and outer margin : crossed, at aright angle with if, from the middle of the costal margin
by a black line, crossed obliquely between the median nervules by an undulated
black line, both bordered outwardly by paler colour: a submarginal zigzag line and
the outer margin carmine.
Exp. 14% ich. Hab. Bolivia (Apolobamba).
In the Collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman.
CYBDELIS CARDASES. 25.
Uprersipe. Male,dark brown. Anterior wing, except the margins, blue-black :
a band from the base (interrupted by the median nervure), two spots beyond this, a
spot on the costal margin beyond the middle, and a line at the inner margin, all blue :
a subapical bifid white spot.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing black: the base and costal margin grey-white :
a large spot within the cell, a bifid spot between the median nervures, half of a band
from the middle of the costal margin, all carmine; the other half of the said band,
and a subapical spot, white: the apex rufous. Posterior wing rufous-brown, with
the costal margin near the base white: a pale spot on the middle of the costal
margin with the margin on each side of it black: crossed by two zigzag brown
lines.
Exp. 143 inch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Very nearly allied to C. Diotima, from which it scarcely differs on the upperside. On the under
side it is adorned with two carmine spots which do not exist in C. Diotima.
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CYBDELIS CECIDAS. 26, 27.
Urrrrsipe. Male, blue-black. Anterior wing with two longitudinal bands
from the base, two spots between the median nervures, and a spot near the costal
margin (the upper part of which is white) green-blue: a subapical spot of green.
Posterior wing with a submarginal band of pale grey-blue lunular spots.
Unpersipe. Anterior wing with the basal half carmine; the apical half black,
brown towards the outer margin : a spot, lilac and white, at the middle of the costal
margin: a large subapical spot of lilac bordered outwardly by a zigzag black line.
Posterior wing dentated rufous, dark brown tinted with purple towards the outer
margin, spotted in the middle; crossed near the outer margin by a band dentated
outwardly and bordered narrowly with carmine, the spaces between the dentations
slightly marked with white : the base of the costal margin white.
Exp. 1; ch. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
CYBDELIS CAMPASPE. 28, 29.
Uprrrsipr. Male, blue-black. Anterior wing with a longitudinal spot at the base,
a spot nearly touching this, two spots (one very small) between the median nervures
and a bifid spot on the costal margin, all brillant blue: a small brown spot touching
the blue spot near the costal margin, and a subapical white spot. Posterior wing with
a large central trifid spot of green-blue.
Unvpersipg, red-brown. Anterior wing with the centre black, bordering a large
irregular sinuated spot of carmine: a white spot at the middle of the costal margin,
and a lilac spot before the apex which is marked by three small brown spots. Pos-
terior wing with three central brown spots: crossed before the middle by a curved
black line, and beyond the middle by a zigzag band bordered inwardly with dark
purple-brown : a large pale spot on the middle of the costal margin with the margin
on each side of it black : a minute spot near this and the base of the costal margin
white.
Exp. 1485 inch. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
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EPIPHILE.
EPIPHILE EPIMENES. 1, 2.
UprersipE. Male black, glossed, from the base to beyond the middle, with bril-
hant silvery blue. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by a macular rufous band,
changing, as the light changes, to a most beautiful pink. Crossed near the apex by
three spots, two of them rufous, the other (the middle one) white. Posterior wing
with the apex rufous.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing dark brown, the base and the band (which is as
above) rufous ; near the apex there is a rufous eye-like spot inclosing a spot of white
and one of black. The apex grey or red-brown. ‘'T'wo spots near the outer margin
and one beyond the end of the cell light blue. Posterior wing red-brown, clouded
from the costal margin (which is marked by a silvery triangular spot) to the middle
with darker brown. Beyond the middle there are four eye-like spots in pairs, those
nearest the anal angle very indistinct.
Expan. 2345 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
The blue upon the wings of this species is not surpassed by any of the Morphos. It passes over
the rufous band and changes it, in a bright light, to a most exquisite pink.
EPIPHILE EPICASTE. 3, 4.
Uprrrsipr. Male black. The centre of the wings (especially the posterior)
glossed with purple. Both wings crossed by a band of orange commencing in the cell
of the anterior wing and ending near the middle of the outer margin of the posterior
wing. Anterior wing from the base to the said band (above the median nervure)
orange, marked by three black spots. Crossed obliquely beyond the middle from
the costal margin to near the anal angle (where it ends in a round spot) by a sinuated
band of orange. A spot of orange on the costal margin near the apex, and below it a
spot of white.
Unprrsipe. Anterior wing as above, but lighter. The base without the black
spots. The apex red-brown, with both the spots near it white, and a third spot below
them black marked by a minute spot of light blue. Posterior wing clouded with
red-brown and grey, with the usual silvery spot on the costal margin. Beyond the
middle four indistinct eye-like spots in pairs; near the margin some triangular and
- lunular spots of brown.
Expan. 23% in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
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EPIPHILE ERIOPIS. 5, 6.
Uprrrstpr. Male black. Posterior wing slightly purple. Both wings crossed
by a broad band of orange which commences near the base of the anterior wing and
proceeds in a nearly direct line to the middle of the outer margin of the posterior
wing, where it curves towards the anal angle, and is marked by a small black spot.
Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a band of white from the costal
margin to near the anal angle, where it is divided into spots. Apex with a small
yellow spot.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing as above, but lighter, with a double eye-hke spot
near the apex, one-half spotted with white, the other with black and white. The apex
red-brown and orange-yellow, with several minute spots of lilac-white, two of them
near the middle of the outer margin. Posterior wing varied with orange-yellow and
red-brown, darker from the base to the middle. The silvery spot on the costal
margin large. Beyond the middle four eye-like spots in pairs, those nearest
the anal angle indistinct. A row of white spots near the outer margin.
Expan. 28 m. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species is most nearly allied to Nymphalis Chrysites of Latreille, figured in Humboldt and
Bonpland “ Obs. de Zoology.” The same broad orange band crosses the wings of both.
NYMPHALID4&.
PAROMIA, Hewitson.
Thorax moderately robust, abdomen rather long, slender. Eyes small, smooth.
Palpi robust, thickly clothed with scales. Antennze rather long, slender, terminated
in an oblong club.
Anterior wing trigonate; costal margin arched; outer margin short, very
slightly simuated at the middle ; inner margin slightly sinuated at the middle. Costal
nervure robust, not reaching to the middle of the wing, subcostal nervure slender,
with four branches, the first and second nearly together before the end of the
discoidal cell, the third and fourth at a distance from the first pair and from each
other. Discoidal cell short, closed; the upper disco-cellular nervure very short,
the second about half the length of the third, curved inwards; the third long and
united to the third median nervule at its base.
Posterior wing circular. Costal nervure continued to the apex of the wing.
Discoidal cell short, closed. The upper disco-cellular neryure (rising a little below
the first branch of the subcostal nervure) half the length of the second, joming the
median nervure at the base of the third branch.
Fore-legs of the male rather long, slender, clothed with long hair, femur longer
than the tibia, tarsus longer than either.
Hind-legs long, smooth; the femora longer than the tibia, the tibize and tarsi
of nearly equal length.
PAROMIA PULCHRA. 1, 2.
Uprrrsips. Male black. Anterior wing, with the base and a broad oblique
transverse band sinuated inwardly, scarlet. Posterior wing with a large oblong
central scarlet spot.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing as above, except that the apex is brown. Posterior
wing rufous, with a spot on the costal margin before its niiddle, and a broad trans-
verse band beyond the middle, red-brown; the band bordered outwardly with dull
lilac, and marked towards the anal angle by a minute spot, half black, half light blue.
Expan. 23'5in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
There is no genus in this group with which Paromia can be associated. If its general
appearance were to guide one it might be placed with Catagramma; in colour it scarcely differs on
the upperside from C. Cynosura, but has the discoidal cell of both wings closed. Its nearest alliance is
with Epiphile ; its palpi are however of different form, its anterior wings are not truncate, and it is
without the remarkable silvery spot which marks the costal margin on the underside of all the species
of Epiphile.
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EPIPHILE OREA. ¢ 7, 8.
Zemenis Orea Hubner Samml, Exot. Schmett.
Hubner has figured the males of two species as the sexes of Orea. I have here
figured the female of his figs. 1 and 2, and for the butterfly given by him at
figs. 3 and 4 of the same plate as the female of his Orea, I propose the name of
Epiphile Hubneri as a tribute to the memory of a man whose exquisite figures of
butterflies give me pleasure every time I see them.
EPIPHILE ADRASTA. 9, 10, 11.
Urrrnsipz. Male black, crossed transversely by two bands of orange-yellow.
The first band broad, of nearly uniform breadth, common to both wings, commences
at the costal margin of the anterior wing near the base and continues through the
posterior wing to the middle of its outer margin where it becomes wider. Anterior
wing crossed obliquely from margin to margin by a band of the same colour; a
small white spot near the apex. The apex rufous.
UnpersiDE as above, but paler, except that the apex has two ocelli; one with
the white spot (described above) as its centre, the other with a pupil of black.
Posterior wing grey-brown, clouded before the middle by rufous-brown with the
usual silvery-white spot on the costal margin and four indistinct ocelli im pairs beyond
the middle.
Female differs from the male in having the base of the anterior wing, and the
whole of the posterior wing (except the apex, which is black), rufous, and the band
of the anterior wing of a pale yellow, more sinuated, and not reaching to the outer
margin, and in having a small black spot and submarginal band. On the underside
the sexes are alike.
Expan. 25% in. Hab. Mexico.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
I have adopted the name by which this species stands in the collection of Dr. Boisduval, at the
same time that I enter my protest against the custom (so prevalent on the Continent) of giving
manuscript names to insects.
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EUBAGIS SERINA. 1.
P. Serina, Fabricius. NV. Serina, Godart.
E. Serina has not been figured before, and as there are three other species very like it, I have thought
it well to figure it. It is very closely allied to Postverta, to Dionis of Hubner (Zutr. 871) as well as to
Zetes of Menetries (Mem. Soc. Imp. des Nat. de Moscou) ; but differs from them all in the form of the
central band of the underside. In H. Serina this band is narrowest at the inner margin of the wing,
in the other three species it is widest. yr
EUBAGIS RACIDULA. 2, 3.
UrrersipE. Male, blue green. Anterior wing with seven slightly tinted, almost
white spots; apex and outer margin broadly black. Posterior wing crossed midway
by a ray of lighter colour, the outer margin black, divided by a line of green.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing with the base orange, the apex rufous, the centre
dark brown with the spots as above, but whiter ; the two spots near the apex blended into
one. The space between the costal nervures, and three small spots in the cell silvery
blue. Posterior wing silvery white with the outer margin and two bands orange, bor-
dered with black. The first band before the middle, nearly straight, curved to join
the second band and the outer margin at the anal angle, and marked with two spots
of blue; the second, curved and parallel to the outer margin to which it is joined at
both ends. The outer margin with double lunules of white.
Expan. 1+ in. Hab. River Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
This species, though identical with S. Tithia of Hubner (Zutr. 391) on the upperside, differs
from it considerably below. It is also closely allied to H. Irma of Godart, (Nymphalis Irma Encl. Met).
EUBAGIS DECIMA. 4, 5, 6.
Uprersipe. Male gold-green. Anterior wing with the costal and outer margins
and a broad space at the apex, black. Two spots across the apex ; one large and green,
the other small and white. The spots of the underside seen indistinctly through.
Posterior wing lightest in the middle ; the outer margin black, divided by a line of green.
Unpersipe. Anterior wing with the base (except the costal margin which is
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white) and outer margin rufous. The rest brown, with seven large spots and a small
one on the outer margin, white. The space between the costal nervures, a line near
the outer margin, and several small spots of silvery blue. Posterior wing silvery white,
with the base, the outer margin and two transverse bands rufous, bordered with
black. The first band before the middle, straight, and marked with spots of blue ;
the second parallel to the outer margin, and joined to it at both ends. The anal
angle marked with two lines of blue.
Female brown, with two bands and four spots of white; (the bands common to
both wings). The first band which commences above the median nervure of the
anterior wing, ends at the inner margin of the posterior wing near the base; the
second which commences at the middle of the anterior wing, becomes very broad when
it reaches the posterior wing. Two of the spots on the anterior wing are in a line with
the first band ; the other two are near the outer margin. Posterior wing with a sub-
marginal line of light purple brown.
Expan. 1% in. Hab. River Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
EUBAGIS ERCHIA. 7, 8.
Urrerstpr. Male, orange. Anterior wing with the base and inner margin
green. Costal margin with two triangular spots upon it, and a line across the apex,
light brown. Apex and outer margin dark brown. Posterior wing with inner half
green, outer margin brown, divided by a line of lighter colour.
Unpersipz. Anterior wing orange, with several indistinct spots of lighter colour
and clouds of brown; base of the costal margin and a band across the apex pure
white ; costal and outer margins rufous. The space between the costal nervures, three
spots near it, and a line near the outer margin silvery blue. Posterior wing with the
base, the outer margin and two bands rufous, bordered with brown. The first band
broad and straight; the second curved and parallel to the outer margin, to which it is
joined at both ends; the three united on the costal margin. Five spots of silvery
blue upon the first band; three dotted with black upon the second near the anal
angle, and a line of the same colour, near the outer margin, from the anal angle to the
middle of the wing where it is followed by a border of white.
Expan. 1. in. Hab. River Amazon.
In the Collection of Mr. Bates.
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EUBAGIS GISELLA. 11, 12.
Uprrrsipe. Male purple. Anterior wing with the costal and outer margins
and the apical half black. Four white spots beyond the middle irregularly placed,
two on the purple, two on the black, three of them almost in a line across the wing.
Posterior wing with the margins black.
Unpersipge. Anterior wing dark brown, the margins rufous. The costal margin
at the base, a longitudinal band within the cell, another short band below, near and
parallel to it, five spots, (three as above, but larger,) and a band across the apex,
white. A line in the cell touching the costal nervure, a spot in the cell and a spot
just beyond it silvery blue. Posterior wing dull silvery white, with four transverse
equidistant bands, and the outer margin rufous. Between the fourth band and the
outer margin two eye-like black spots, with pupils of silvery blue, a black spot near
the anal angle also marked with blue. Both wings with a submarginal faint line of
blue.
Expan. 1485 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species is especially interesting, personating as it does on the upper side a Cybdelis, whilst
on the underside it is so true to this genus.
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NYMPHALID£—EUBAGIS.
EUBAGIS ONIAS. 18, 14, 15.
Uprerstpz. Male (13) clouded green, the outer margins black. Anterior wing
rufous in places where the white spots of the underside are seen through. A small
black spot near the end of the cell. The apex broadly black.
Unpersipe. Anterior wing black. The cell and the costal and outer margins rufous.
The costal margin at the base and ten spots white, two within the cell connected by a
curved line of silvery blue, one between them and the mner margin, a fourth (mmute)
just beyond the end of the cell (partly blue), three placed transversely near the middle,
the eighth (a large one) across the apex traversed by a rufous line, one between it and
the anal angle and joined to it by a line of blue, and one (a small one) at the said
angle ; a spot of blue between the fourth white spot and the costal margin. — Posterior
wing white, with a transverse band near the base, a second (a broad one) before the
middle traversed by a line of silvery blue from the costal margin to its middle, and from
its middle to the inner margin by one of white (a// blue in the female). Two semi-
circular spaces, each marked by a round black spot, and the outer margin, rufous.
The two black spots and a third near the anal angle marked with silvery blue. Apex
white. Both wings with a submarginal blue line.
Female (14,15) dark brown. Anterior wing with seven spots of white, one
within the cell, one below it (forming part of a band which crosses the posterior wing),
three in a line across the middle, the sixth (minute) near the apex, the seventh between
it and the anal angle. Posterior wing with two transverse bands, one near the base,
the other (a broad one) at the middle, and a submarginal curved line of neutral colour.
Expan. 14% im. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
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EUBAGIS ANUBIS. 16, 17.
Upprrsips. Male white, margined with black. Anterior wing with the base
blue, forming one side of a semicircular space which occupies most of the inner
margin and extends to the middle of the wing. ‘The remainder of the wing black
with three white spots; one at the costal margin beyond its middle, two near the
outer margin. Posterior wing white, its outer margin with a narrow border of black.
; UnpERSIDE as above, except that the margins of both wings are rufous ; that the
spot nearest the apex of the anterior wing is extended across the apex; that there are
two lines (one curved at the end), and a spot between them of a silvery-blue, near the
base of the costal margin; a similar line between the two spots nearest the outer
margin, and another running parallel and near to the said margin; and that the
posterior wing has a triangular rufous spot, bordered with black, on the middle of the
costal margin.
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wing much broader. On the underside it has the same narrow, rufous margin as the
male, traversed by a line of blue and parallel to it (united with it at both ends) a band of
brown.
Expan. 133m. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
EUBAGIS AMPLIAS. 18, 19, 20.
Uprrrsipr. Male black and green. Anterior wing black, with a broad
longitudinal band of green from the base to beyond the middle curved towards the
outer margin, touching a spot near the anal angle. Two spots of green near the apex.
Posterior wing with a broad central transverse band of green.
Unpersipe brown, with bands and spots white. A band of white, common
to both wings, commences at the median nervure of the anterior wing, and continues
to the imner margin of the posterior wing near the base. Anterior wing with six spots,
and the costal margin at the base white; one spot near the commencement of the
white band, three in a transverse line beyond the middle, and two near the outer
margin. The base rufous, with a curved line and spot of silvery-blue within the cell,
an oblique line near the middle of the costal margin, a line between the two white
spots nearest the outer margin, and a line parallel and near to the outer margin, all
silvery-blue.
NYMPHALIDHZ—EUBAGIS.
Posterior wing white, with the base rufous and black. Crossed before the middle
by a broad rufous band margined with black and marked with silvery-blue. _ Crossed
again near the outer margin by a curved band of brown. The outer margin rufous
traversed by a line of blue. A line of blue between the bands where they are united
at the anal angle. The three bands united on the costal margins.
Female dark brown. A white band near the base, common to both wings. An-
terior wing with six white spots. Posterior wing with a second transverse band of
white. Underside as in the male.
Expan. 1}in. Hab. Amazon.
Tn the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
EUBAGIS PERSIS. 21, 22.
Uprrrsips. Male light-blue, the margins black. Anterior wing with an in-
distinct black spot within the cell; the apex broadly black.
Unperstwn. Dirty white or grey. Anterior wing with three transverse bands,
and the outer margin light brown. ‘The first band short within the cell; the second
before the middle bordered with black ; the third ill-defined, not reaching the mner
margin, inclosing an oval white spot. Two minute black spots near the apex.
Posterior wing crossed transversely by six rufous lines, one near the base ; two before
the middle, two beyond the middle, united at both ends, and enclosing four minute
spots of black; one dotted with blue; the sixth band near the outer margin. The
costal margin near the base and outer margin rufous.
Expan. 14%; in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
EUBAGIS NEORIS. 238, 24.
Urrrrsipr. Male golden-green, clouded; the margins brown. Anterior wing
with a triangular spot at the middle of the costal margm. The outer margin twice
deeply sinuated.
Unpersipr, pure silvery-white. Anterior wing rufous. The costal margin at
its base, and five large spots white. Two spots extending from the imer margin to
the middle of the wing, each bordered with black. The first encircled, also on its upper
side (in the cell), with silvery-blue, the second with, between it and the outer margin,
around spot, and above it on the costal margin an oval spot, both bordered with
black ; the fifth spot crosses the apex. A small spot of blue above the second spot,
anda line of the same colour near the outer margin. Posterior wing with five transverse
bands, and the outer margin from the anal angle to beyond its middle rufous; one
band near the base, two before the middle united at the costal margin by a spot of
blue, the fourth (which is united to the fifth at the anal angle) marked there by two
black spots dotted with blue ; the fifth band curved and near the outer margin. These
last two bands nearly meet at the costal margin, and have between them a black spot
with a dot of blue.
Expan. 13$in. Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of W.W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
Prnted by Holly amndel Walton
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CATAGRAMMA ATACAMA. 1, 2.
Urpersipe deep black. Anterior wing crossed obliquely in the middle by a broad
band of orange. Its base and the inner half of the posterior wing of a glossy dark blue.
Unpersipe black. Anterior wing with the orange band as above, the costa between
it and the base, and a parallel line in the middle of the cell yellow, a belt of the same
colour across the apex, followed by a line of silvery blue. Posterior wing crossed by six
narrow equidistant belts of yellow, commencing at the upper margin, and converging
towards the anal angle; the first at the base follows the abdominal fold, the fourth,
which is shortest, is followed by two spots of silvery blue, the sixth, which is on the
outer margin, by three smaller spots of white surmounted by a waved line of blue.
Expan. 2% in. Hab. Quito.
CATAGRAMMA PARIMA. 3, 4.
UppersipE deep black. Anterior wing crossed obliquely in the middle by a band
of crimson. Its base, a small spot on the apex, and nearly the whole of the posterior
wing, of a glossy dark blue. The posterior wing distinctly margined with white.
UnpersipE black. Anterior wing with the base of the costa and a parallel line
white, the crimson band wider than above, between it and the apex a line of yellow
followed by a longer submarginal line of silvery green. Posterior wing crossed by four
narrow belts of white, commencing on the upper margin and tending towards the anal
angle, the first which follows the abdominal fold joins the fourth at the anal angle,
inclosing the other two, together with seven silver-edged spots of white. The outer
margin of the wing white, with between it and the fourth belt a line of silvery green.
Expan. 2 in. Hab. Quito.
In a genus remarkable for splendour of colour this, and the preceding species, stand pre-eminent.
They are remarkable as well for the singularity of the pencilling on the underside, which is very different
from that of any before known species. They are both in the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C.
Hewitson.
NYMPHALIDH—CATAGRAMMA.
CATAGRAMMA KOLYMA. 5, 6.
Uprersipe deep black, with a submarginal belt of lead-colour further from the
margin on the anterior wing, both wings purple at the base.
Unpersipg. Anterior wing black. The cell and an oblique band across the middle
(sometimes united in one) crimson; three lines of white run parallel to the outer margin ;
the inner one short, the middle longer and tinged with blue.
Posterior wing white, with the base and half of the upper margin crimson, and
encircled by two black lines ; the space between which is blue, the inner circle enclosing
two smaller ones, each with a centre of blue, the lower divided into two by a nervule ;
both of the larger circles open at the upper margin of the wing, the outer one at the
anal angle also. Both wings margined with black.
Expan. ;°; in. Hab, Quito.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
CATAGRAMMA TOLIMA. 7, 8.
Urrersipe black. Anterior wing crossed obliquely at the middle by a broad band
of orange. Posterior wing with a large patch of shining blue towards the anal angle.
Unpersipe black. Anterior wing with the costal margin near the base, a line
parallel to it and a line across the apex of the wing yellow. Posterior wing with the
base, a patch near it on the upper margin with two lines which proceed from it and cross
the wing to the inner margin, a large double circle or figure of 8 and a line on the
apex yellow. The upper circle with a centre spot of silvery blue, the lower one with two.
Both wings with a submarginal line of the same colour ; the margins dotted with white.
Expan. 1% in. Hab. Quito.
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CATAGRAMMA EUNOMIA. 9, 10, 11, 12.
UpprrsipE black. Male (figs. 9,10). Anterior wing with the basal half orange-
yellow, the base clouded with brown ; the inner margin and the outer half of the wing
black, with an oblong spot of white near the apex. Posterior wing black, with a band
of silvery blue from the anal angle to the middle of the outer margin, and below it on
the margin three small spots of white.
UNDERSIDE as above, with a band of yellow across the apex, a short line near the
costal margin, and a longer one near the outer margin silvery blue. Posterior wing
yellow, with a spot of orange on the upper margin near the base; a band which crosses
the base and is continued near the inner margin, and a double circle united near the
apex of the wing, black. The larger circle touches the outer margin near the anal angle,
where it is marked by three points of white ; the smaller circle which is sinuated on its
inner margin so as to form the figure of 8, encloses two large, black spots, the upper one
round, marked with a round spot of blue; the lower one oblong, and marked with two
oval spots of the same colour. ‘The outer circle traversed by a line of blue from the
apex of the wing to the middle of the inner margin, where it meets the band proceeding
from the base.
Female (11, 12) with the basal half of the anterior wing crimson, instead of yellow.
Expan. 12. Hab. Quito.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
Fig. 11 represents the underside of both sexes.
Fig. 10, a not uncommon variety of the male.
This species bears a near resemblance to C. Tolima of a former plate, especially underneath. I have
had some hesitation in describing figs. 9 and 12, as the opposite sexes of the same species; they are from
different localities, but do not differ on their undersides.
CATAGRAMMA PATELINA. 13, 14.
Urrrrsipe. Male rich purple, with the outer margin black, dotted with white.
Anterior wing with a large spot of brilliant crimson at the base, divided into three by
the nervures which are black. An indistinct spot of dirty white across the apex.
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UnperrsivE black. Anterior wing with the crimson spot as above, a band of yellow
across the apex, followed by a line of blue. Posterior wing with a band across the base,
and a triangular band in the centre (its smaller end touching the costal margin, and
enclosing three spots of blue) yellow, followed by a band of eight spots of blue, (the
second from the anal angle at right angles with the rest) and a band of yellow parallel
to the outer margin.
Expan. 1°, in. Hab. Guatemala.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This very beautiful species scarcely differs from C. Astarte on the underside of the posterior wing.
CATAGRAMMA PERISTERA. 15, 16, 17.
Uprrrsipe. Male black. Anterior wing with a large, irregular spot of crimson from
the middle of the inner margin to, and slightly above, the median nervure. Posterior
wing with a large, central, pear-shaped spot of the same colour. The crimson spots
appearing lilac in a certain light.
Unpersipz. Anterior wing with a spot at the base, and a band across the apex,
yellow. The basal half crimson, with a lunular black spot at the end of the cell ; the
rest black, with a line of blue near the costal margin and the apex. Posterior wing
yellow-ochre with two bands which cross the base and run parallel to the inner margin
uniting near the anal angle ; two central spots (the upper one round, and marked with a
spot of blue, the lower one oval, and marked with two); the outer margin and a band
parallel to it and uniting with it at the anal angle, all black. The last-mentioned band
is traversed by a line of blue, and marked by a spot of the same colour where it is joined
to the upper central black spot.
The female differs from the male above, in having the whole basal half of the anterior
wing crimson, and a spot of white near the apex; on the underside the marginal and
submarginal bands do not unite at the anal angle.
Expan. $ 1% in. ¢ 1%. Hab. Amazon and Bolivia.
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders.
N.B.—Catagramma Parima, Hewitson, is a variety of ©. Hesperis of Guérin-Ménéville. All the
specimens I have seen, have seven spots of silvery-white on the central black on the underside of the
posterior wing ; M. Guérin-Ménéyville states that his Hesperis has but five.
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CATAGRAMMA. III.
CATAGRAMMA BECKERI. 18, 19.
C. Beckeri. Boisd. MS.
Uprersipz black ; the base of both wings of a glossy blue; the middle of the
anterior wing, and the whole of the posterior wing, with a double line of light blue
parallel to and near the outer margin; anterior wing with a band of three white
spots across the apex.
Unprrsipe. Anterior wing with the basal half brick-red, followed by an irre-
gular band of black; the white spots as above; the apex beyond them, and the outer
margin, ash colour, traversed by darker lines. Posterior wing ash colour; a transverse
line at the middle, and two near the outer margin, brown, with, between them and
the median nervules, two round black spots centred with blue.
Expan. 135 im. Hab. Brazil.
In the Collection of Dr. Boisduval.
CATAGRAMMA SINAMARA. 20, 21.
C. Sinamara. Boisd. MS.
Upprrsipe. Anterior wing with the basal half orange; the rest black; the
apex crossed by an oblong spot of yellow. Posterior wing brown, powdered with
orange at the base.
Unperstpr. Anterior wing as above, with the yellow spot across the apex
larger ; a submarginal line of light blue from the apex to the middle. Posterior
wing blue-black, with a double circle of yellow; the outer circle open on the costal
margin, and, at the anal angle, the imner circle inclosing three spots of light blue,
separated by a line of yellow; one spot above, two below it ; a line of eight light blue
spots between the circles, and parallel to the outer margin.
Expan. 14% in. Hab. Cayenne.
In the Collection of Dr. Boisduval.
This species has, at first sight, a great resemblance to C. Eunomia of Fig. 9. On the underside
of the posterior wing it does not differ from C. Astarte.
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NYMPHALID®—CATAGRAMMA.
CATAGRAMMA CYNOSURA. ¢ 22, 23.
C. Cynosura 3. Doubleday and Hewitson—Gen. Diur. Lep. Plate 28.
Upprrsipe purple-black. Anterior wing, with the base, a narrow central trans-
verse band, and an oblong spot (paler) across the apex, crimson. Posterior wing
with a triangular spot of crimson from the base to beyond the middle, touching the
costal margin.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing as above, with a lme on the costal margin at the
base, and a band across the apex, yellow; a submarginal line of light blue from the
apex to the middle. Posterior wing blue-black, with a double broad circle of yellow ;
the outer circle open on the costal margin, and, at the anal angle, the inner circle
inclosing three spots of light blue, divided by a line of yellow; one spot above and
two below it; a line of eight light blue spots between the circles, and parallel to the
outer margin. .
Expan. $ 23/5, 9 23% m. Hab. Minas Geraes.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
Nearly allied to C. Astarte. The sexes do not, however, differ, except in size, as in that species.
Above, this is much richer in colour ; below, it has a much larger proportion of yellow. I have again
fizured this species, to show the underside, without which our former figure in the “Genera” is of
little use.
CATAGRAMMA TEXA. 24, 25.
C. Texa. Boisd. MS.
Urrrrsipr black, glossed with purple. Anterior wing, with the basal half
scarlet; a line across the apex, orange. Posterior wing with a large central scarlet
spot. a
Unpversipr. Anterior wing as above; the scarlet lighter, clouded at the base ;
the costal margin at the base, and a band across the apex, yellow ; the apex with three
spots of light blue. Posterior wing blue-black; the costal margin near the base; the
inner margin, and a line near it, from the base of the wing to the middle, with a
double circle, and a broad band which divides the imner circle, yellow. The mner
circle contains four light blue spots in pairs. There is also a row of indistinct linear
blue spots between the circles, parallel to the outer margin.
Expan. 2485 in. Hab. Colombia.
In the Collection of Dr. Boisduval.
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CATAGRAMMA. IV.
CATAGRAMMA PATARA. 26, 27.
Uprersive black. Anterior wing, with the cell, and an indistinct curved trans-
verse band beyond the middle, purple; a small spot near the apex, light blue.
Posterior wing, with a band of lunular spots (touching) near the outer margin, light
blue. :
Unpersipe. Anterior wing, from the base to beyond the middle, crimson,
followed by a semicircular band of black marked on the costal margin by a spot of
light blue; the costal margin at the base and the apex, ash-brown. Posterior wing
ash-brown, crossed by two zigzag black lines, with, between them, five small black
spots ; the costal margin near the base, and a part of the lower zigzag line, edged with
crimson.
Expan. 2in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of the Entomological Society.
This species forms one of the same group as Humboldtii and Euriclea.
CATAGRAMMA GABAZA. 28, 29.
UprrrsipE black, glossed with purple. Anterior wing with a transverse central
band of blue, commencing at a distance from the costal margin; a very small white
spot near the apex.
Unpersipz. Anterior wing, from the base to a little beyond the middle, crimson ;
the rest black; the costal margin at the base, and two bands across the apex, dirty
white. Posterior wing brown-white, with a line close to the outer margin ; a double
circular black line open on the costal margin which is crimson from the end of the
outer circle to the base of the wmg. ‘The imner circle incloses two unequal ovals.
Expan. 155 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Closely allied to C. Astala, but is of a much darker black above. Below, it has more crimson on
the anterior wing ; more on the costal margin of the posterior wing ; has no crimson edge to the lower
margin of the outer circle, as in Astala, and has the upper oval of quite a different form.
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NYMPHALIDZ—CATAGRAMMA.
CATAGRAMMA ELUINA. 30, 31.
UprersipE black. ‘The anterior wing from the base to the band below the
median nervure, and the whole of the posterior wing, glossed with brilliant blue.
Anterior wing with a central transverse band of silvery blue or green; a small blue
spot near the apex. Posterior wing with a narrow submarginal line of light blue.
UnpsrsipE crimson from the base to beyond the middle; the rest black, with
the costal margin at the base, and two bands across the apex, satin-white. Posterior
wing satin-white; a line near the outer margin, and two circular black lines open on
the costal margin which is crimson. The umer circle incloses two unequal ovals :
the upper pyriform, with one black spot; the lower oval, with two spots.
Expan. 1;4;in. Hab. Venezuela.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
Much like C. Clymena, but surpasses every similar species by the brilliant blue gloss over most
of its surface, and the metallic splendour of the blue bands, impossible to imitate successfully with earthly
colour.
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CATAGRAMMA VANINKA. 32, 33.
Uprrrsipe blue-black. Anterior wing with some lines at the base, and a central
transverse band of blue glossed with green. Posterior wing with a band of light
blue parallel to the outer margin.
Unprrsipe. Anterior wing, with the basal third, crimson ; the centre (which is
traversed by a line of blue) black ; the costal margin at the base, the apex, and outer
margin, which is marked by two black lines (one close to the margin), satin-white.
Posterior wing satin-white, with a line across the base, a line close to the outer margin,
and a circular line open at the anal angle and inclosing six black spots, black.
Expan. 15%; in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collections of W. C. Hewitson and W. W. Saunders.
The figure is from a female. All the males which I have seen are much less, but do not differ,
except that the blue band of the anterior wing is sometimes more sinuated.
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CATAGRAMMA CHASEBA. 34, 35.
Uprersipe black; anterior wing, from the base to beyond the middle, dark
blue, glossed with green between the median nervules. Posterior wing with two
or three indistinct oblong blue spots below the middle.
Unpersipre. Anterior wing brown, with the base and apex rufous; a short
band from the middle of the costal margin, and a longer one near the apex, white.
A spot within the cell, and another in continuation of the short white band, blue.
Posterior wing rufous, clouded with brown; crossed before the middle by a black
line, and near the outer margin by a band of black lunular marks, from some of
which proceed white hastate spots, pointing upwards, and above them, touching the
upper black line, an oblong spot of white.
Expan. 1,8; in. Hab. Bolivia.
In the Collection of the British Museum.
CATAGRAMMA BROME. 36, 37.
C. Brome. Boisd. Régne Animal, edit. Crochard Ins. Pl. 138.
UprrrsiveE blue-black ; anterior wing crossed before the middle by a large
oblong spot of orange. Posterior wing with a large spot of dark blue touching the
abdominal fold, and extending from the base to near the outer margin, where it is
marked with glossy green.
Unpersipe. Anterior wing as above, with the costal margin at the base yellow,
a narrow band across the apex also yellow, succeeded by a submarginal line of
silvery blue. Posterior wing with a large broad inner circle of yellow, open at the costal
margin, and enclosing four spots of light blue centred with white. Outside of this
circle is a second broken circle, one portion of which commences at the costal margin,
near the base, crosses the wing, and keeping parallel to the inner margin, joins the
inner circle xear the anal angle. ‘The other portion, commencing at the middle of the
costal margin, runs parallel to the outer margin, and ends before the anal angle,
where it touches one of four silvery light blue spots.
Expan. 14% in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
NYMPHALIDAZ—CATAGRAMMA.
CATAGRAMMA LYCA. 38, 39.
C. Lyca. Doubleday §° Hewitson, Gen. Diur. Lep. Pl. 28.
UprersipE blue-black; crossed at the middle by a broad band of orange,
sinuated on its inner side. Posterior wing with a large spot of glossy blue beyond
the middle.
Unpersipe black ; anterior wing as above, with a line at the base of the costal
margin yellow ; a narrow band across the apex also yellow, succeeded by a sub-
marginal line of silvery blue. Posterior wing crossed by three wnconnected narrow
bands of yellow, two before the middle, followed by six oval spots (in two lines, of
three each), of light blue, centred with white, the third band beyond the middle
followed by a line of silvery blue, which runs parallel to it and the outer margin, and
nearly joms a spot of blue at the anal angle.
Expan. 2355 in. Hab. Mexico.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
CATAGRAMMA MIONINA. 40, 41.
Uppersipx blue-black ; anterior wing crossed before the middle by a large oval
spot of orange. Posterior wing with a large spot of blue glossed with green beyond
the middle.
Unpersipr black; anterior wing as above, the costal margin at the hase
of the wing yellow, a band across the apex also yellow, followed by a submar-
ginal line of silvery blue. Posterior wing with a large broad inner circle of yel-
low, open near the anal angle, and enclosing five oblong spots of light blue,
centred with white. Outside of this circle there is a second broken circle, one
portion of which commences at the costal margin, near the base, crosses the wing,
and running parallel to the inner margin, joins the inner circle xear the middle
of the wing. The other portion of the circle commences at the costal margin,
where it is jomed to the immer circle, runs parallel to the outer margin, and ends
before the anal angle, where it touches one of four spots of silvery blue, the largest
of which passes inside the central circle.
Expan. 23'9 in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
The three very beautiful butterflies of the plate are so much alike, that, although two of them
have been figured before, I have thought it best to place them together, in order to show clearly the
points in which they differ from the new species which I have introduced ; which, though it resembles
Brome most in general appearance, is more nearly allied to Lyca.
From Brome it differs in the number and arrangement of the central blue spots, and the
Junction of the yellow circular bands, From Lyea, in having the submarginal band of the posterior
wing yellow, instead of blue.
NYMPHALIDE.
CATAGRAMMA. VI.
CATAGRAMMA YEBA. 42, 43.
Uprrrsipe. Male blue-black. Anterior wing with a line from the base to the
first median nervule, a transverse narrow sinuated band near the middle, and a small
narrow spot near the apex, glossy blue changing slightly to green. Posterior wing
with a broad band of the same blue near the outer margin. Margins of both wings
white.
Unpersipr. Anterior wimg black, with the base (which is followed by a patch
of blue) and the apex (which is crossed by a black line) grey-white. Crossed at the
middle by a curved macular band of blue, attached at the costal margin to a white
spot. Posterior wing grey-white, crossed before the middle by a transverse black
line, and near and parallel to the outer margin by a second line also black, with mid-
way between them a row of five small black spots.
Expan. 2m. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Nearly allied to C. Vaninka (figs. 32, 33), but without the crimson which adorns the underside of
that species.
CATAGRAMMA OPPELIT. 44.
EB. Oppelii. Latreille in Humb. and Bonpl. Obs. de Zoology, Pl. 24.
The underside of this species has been figured to show the resemblance as well
as the dissimilarity between it and the new species.
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CATAGRAMMA TRYPHENA. 45, 46.
Uprrrsipr. Male black. Anterior wing with a narrow band of gold-green
from the base to the middle where it joms, at a right angle nearly, a broad band of
the same colour which crosses the wing between it and the inner margin. An oblique
gold-green spot near to and beyond the middle of the costal margin, and a line of
hght blue near the apex. Posterior wing with a trifid spot of blue below the middle
of the costal margin, and a broad submarginal band of grey-blue.
Unprrsipr. Anterior wing black, with the base (which is followed by a patch
of green) and the apex orange-yellow. Crossed near the middle by a short band,
which is white at the costal margin, green below. Posterior wing orange-yellow,
crossed before the middle by a black line, followed by a row of very minute black
spots, and below them by an undulated black line, parallel.to but not near the
outer margin.
Expan. 148; in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
On the upperside this species differs little from C. Humboldtii, of Guérin; on the underside it
resembles C. Oppelii.
CATAGRAMMA ARETAS. 47, 48.
Uprrrsipr. Male blue-black. Anterior wing from the base (which is brown)
to the middle (except the costal margin, which is brown) bright crimson. A narrow
band of the same colour, but lighter, crosses the apex. Posterior wing with a large
central spot of crimson.
Unprrsipr. Anterior wing as above, except that the band crossing the apex is
wider and orange-yellow ; that there is a line of the same colour near the middle of the
outer margin, and three spots of light blue at the apex. Posterior wing orange-yellow,
with two parallel black bands from the costal margin near the base to the anal angle,
where they jom each other and continue in one band parallel to the outer margin till
it nearly touches the commencement of the inner line on the costal margin, forming
an irregular circle and inclosing two large distant spots of black, each marked with a
single spot of light blue. That part of the band near the outer margin is traversed
by a row of light blue lunular spots. The margin is black, with minute spots of
white.
Expan. 23'5 in. Tab. Venezuela.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species does not at all differ on the upperside from C. Texa of jig. 25. On the
underside it is more like C. Pitheas of Latreille figured in Humboldt and Bonpland “ Obs. de
Zoology.”
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CATAGRAMMA. VII.
CATAGRAMMA EXCELSIOR. 49, 50.
Uprrrsipe dark blue, the margins black. Anterior wing crossed by a broad band of
bright orange from the base to the middle (occupying the whole of the cell), from whence it pro-
ceeds im a curve to near the anal angle. A small white spot near the apex. Posterior wing
with a broad spot of lighter and more brilliant blue (changing to green as the light changes)
near the outer margin.
Unpersipe. Anterior wing with the orange band as above, the inner margin brown ;
the rest of the wing black, with a narrow band of yellow across the apex, and a line of light
blue near and parallel to the outer margin. Posterior wing blue-black, with a double circular
band of yellow ; “the outer circle open at the costal margin and at the anal angle; the inner
circle inclosing three spots of light blue divided by a line of yellow, one spot above the line,
two below it. A band of light blue (divided by the nervures) between the circles.
Expan. 243 im. _ Hab. Amazon.
In the Collections of the British Museum and W. C. Hewitson.
In a genus remarkable for the great beauty of every species this surpasses them all. I cannot but envy Mr.
Bates the very great pleasure which he must have experienced in its capture. It vies with the splendid Callitheas
named after himself and Mr. Mark, and resembles them as the figure 5 of C. Markii does a Catagramma. Indeed,
I may say that that figure is much more characteristic of a Catagramma than that of C. Excelsior is. On the under-
side this species is identical with C. Cynosura.
CATAGRAMMA LEBASII. 51, 52.
C. Lebasii, Guérin Ménéville, Icon. du Régue Animal, texte 485.
UprrrsipE blue-black. Anterior wing with two lines of blue from the base outwards.
Crossed at the middle by a broken band of blue or golden green (changing as the light changes)
commencing at the costal margin by an oblong narrow spot and continued in an irregular band
to near the anal angle ; a spot of the same colour near the apex. Posterior wing with three or
four longitudinal lines of blue near the middle. The outer margin with a broad band of golden
grey or green divided by the nervures into six conical spots.
Unversipz. Anterior wing blue-black the imner margin brown ; the base light grey, fol-
lowed first by a crimson spot (sometimes absent), next by two spots of light blue (sometimes
united). A bifid spot of white and blue near the middle of the costal margin ; two blue spots
between the median nervules. The apex and most of the outer margin light grey. Posterior
wing light grey, crossed transversely by two distant black lines. One before the middle drohkex
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as it crosses the nervures ; the other not far from the outer margin much undulated. Between
these lines five minute black spots. ‘The costal margin crimson from the base to the second
black line.
Expan. 133 im. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
CATAGRAMMA D’ORBIGNII. 53, 54.
C.D Orbignii, Guérin Ménéville, Icon. du Regne Animal, texte 485.
Urprersipr blue-black. Anterior wing with two lines of blue from the base outwards.
Crossed by a straight transverse band of blue or golden green (changing as the light changes),
from the costal margin deyond its middle to the immer margin near the anal angle, nearly touching
both margins, sinuated onitsinner side. A minute spot of blue near the apex. Posterior wing
with the outer margin broadly bordered with golden grey or green, xot divided by the nervures.
Unpersipz. Anterior wing black, the inner margin brown. The base grey, followed by
light blue ; a bifid spot of white and blue at the middle of the costal margin, and below it two
light blue spots between the nervules. ‘The apex and outer margin to beyond the middle grey.
Posterior wing grey (darker than Lebasii), crossed transversely by two wot distant black les ;
one before the middle zearly straight ; the other not far from the outer margin slightly undulated ;
with, between them, a row of five minute black spots. The costal margin crimson from the
base to the first black line.
Expan. 1;% im. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
CATAGRAMMA BONPLANDII. 55.
C. Bonplandii, Guérin Ménéville, Icon. du Regne Animal, texte 4835.
Uprersipe blue-black. Anterior wing irrorated at the base with blue and golden green.
Crossed obliquely by a nearly equal band of golden green or blue from the costal margin defore
the middle, to the inner margin above the anal angle, nearly touching both margims. A minute
white spot near the apex (sometimes absent). Posterior wing irrorated at the base with golden
green, the middle of a brilliant blue ; the outer margin broadly bordered with greenish grey.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing black, the inner margin brown. The base grey, followed by
light blue. Crossed near the middle by a band of five blue spots, the first spot white where it
touches the costal margin. ‘The apex and outer margin grey. Posterior wing grey, slightly
clouded and tinted with yellow, crossed by two nearly approximating black lines. The base only
of the costal margin crimson.
There is a variety of this species in which the broad band of the posterior wing is nearly
absent, being represented only by a line of oblong spots.
Expan. 2,2, in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
It would have been more to my liking to have given a plate of undescribed species. I believe, however, that
I cannot better employ my time than in pointing out the difference of these three very nearly allied species, which,
eveh accurately described by Guérin Ménéyille, have never been figured. ‘Two of them are very rare and little
nown.
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CATAGRAMMA VITRINGA. 56, 57.
Urrrrsipg. Black. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by a band of green of
uniform breadth, except near the costal margin, where it is sinuated on its inner side.
Two lines of blue from the base. Posterior wing with a band of green from the anal
angle to beyond the middle.
Unpversipz. Anterior wing black; the base and the apex light yellow. A
white spot near the costal margin beyond the middle, and below it two spots of light
blue. A line of blue between these spots and the base. Posterior wing light yellow,
crossed by two transverse black lines. One line before the middle nearly straight, the
other curved, parallel to and near the outer margin.
Expan. 23/5 in. Hab. Upper Amazon.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Nearly allied to C. Oppelii, but differs from it on the underside, in the much greater distance
between the transverse black lines of the posterior wing. On the underside it is very like C. Triphena,
but differs from it widely on the upperside.
This is a very curious and most interesting group of Butterflies, and though, at first sight, they
bear a very puzzling proximity to each other, they are, I believe, well-marked species. In some of those
the most nearly allied, although the position of the transverse black lines on the underside of the
posterior wing forms the chief distinction, it is always confirmed by some corresponding difference of the
blue bands above. ‘There are three sections of the group, in each of which some of the characters of
its neighbour are repeated. The first section contains Bonplandii, D’Orbignyi, Lebasii, and Yeba,
clothed on the underside in almost uniform light grey. The second contains Oppelii, Triphena, and
Vitringa, just described. The third has Humboldtii, Euriclea, and Vaninka, resembling the other two
sections, but adorned with crimson underneath.
CATAGRAMMA ZELPHANTA. 58, 59.
Uprrrsipr. Black. Anterior wing crossed before the middle by a broad
oblique band of crimson. The base light silvery-blue. The apex with a spot of
white. Posterior wing with a large triangular spot of blue near the outer margin from
the anal fold to beyond the middle of the wing. The outer margin dotted with
white.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing with the central crimson spot as above. The base
yellow, clouded with brown. ‘The costal nervure black. The apex crossed by a band
of yellow and a submarginal line of silvery-blue. Posterior wing rufous-yellow with
a crimson spot on the costal margin near its base. A band which crosses the base is
continued near the inner margin (where it is traversed by a line of blue) to beyond its
middle, and two circular bands (united near the apex of the wing) black. The outer
circle, which commences at the crimson spot near the base, is traversed by a line of
blue from the inner margin (where it nearly touches the line which crosses the base)
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to the costal margin above the juncture of the two circles. The inner circle
encloses two large black spots ; the upper round, with one spot of silvery-blue, the
lower oval, with ‘two spots of the same colour. ‘The outer margin black, interrupted.
Expan. 1, in. Hab. Upper Amazon.
In the Collections of W.W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
CATAGRAMMA DENINA. 60, 61.
Uprzrsipg. Male black. Anterior wing with a large central oval spot of
orange. Posterior wing with a large triangular spot of silvery-blue, from the middle
of the wing to the anal fold.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing with the central orange spot as above. The base
yellow ; the costal nervure, and a triangular spot (traversed by a line of white), black.
‘The apex crossed by a band of yellow. A submarginal line of silvery-blue. Pos-
terior wing yellow, with a crimson spot on the costal margin near the base. A band
which crosses the base, and is continued near the inner margin to its middle, and two
circular bands (united near the apex of the wing), black. The outer circle, which com-
mences at the crimson spot near the base, touches the outer mar gin from the anal
angle to the middle, where it is marked by three white dots ; it is ale traversed by a
line of blue from the middle of the outer mar ein to the middle of the inner mar gin,
where it meets the band which crosses the base,
Expan. 1, in. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson
Abeve, this species bears a very close resemblance to Brome, to Mionina, and to Tolima. From
the first two it differs entirely underside ; from Tolima, in having a double circular band of black. On
the underside it scarcely differs from Hunomia, but is abundantly distinct on the upperside.
CATAGRAMMA MAIMUNA. 62, 63.
Uprersipz. Black. Anterior wing from the base to beyond the middle crimson.
The apex crossed by a band of orange. Posterior wing with two or three indistinct
spots of blue near the outer margin.
Unpersipe. Anterior wing as above. The costal margin at the base yellow ;
the base clouded with brown ; the apex crossed by a band of yellow, and three sub-
marginal spots of blue, followed by a line of yellow. Posterior wing black; the
margins (except the extreme outer margin, which is black) surrounded with yellow,
except at the anal angle. Two lines and a transverse band near the base, and an
irregular circle, all yellow. This circle is nearly divided by a band of yellow, and
encloses four round silvery-blue spots in pairs. Parallel to the circle, and between it
and the outer margin, there is a row of silvery-blue lunular spots.
Expan. 2,% in. Hab. Upper Amazon.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
On the upperside this species bears a very close resemblance to C. Pygas. On the underside it
does not differ from a variety of C. Texa, which is in my collection.
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CATAGRAMMA EXCELSIOR. 64.
C. Excelsior, var. Hew. Ex. But. Cat. VII. Figs. 49, 50.,
The insect now figured must be considered as typical of the species, and the
figures 49 and 50 of a former Plate as a variety. Some examples have, and some are
without, the white spot near the apex of the anterior wing. The blue spot on the
posterior wing varies considerably in size and intensity of colour.
Hab. Upper Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
CATAGRAMMA ELUINA, var. 65.
C. Eluina, Hew. Ke. But. Cat. 1V. Figs. 30, 81.
Uprerrsipe with a broad submarginal band of green on the posterior wing. On
the underside the posterior wing and apex of the anterior wing are of an exquisite,
pure, silky white.
Hab. Upper Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
I am glad of an opportunity to give another figure of this species better coloured than the previous
one, which ill represents the brilliancy of its blue. It is represented with the butterfly facing the light.
CATAGRAMMA BONPLANDII, var. 66.
C. Bonplandii, Guérin. Ménéville, Icon. Regne Animal, text. 485.
Hew. Ex. But. Cat. VII. Fig. 55.
Differs on the underside from the usual examples of the species, in having part
of the blue near the base of the anterior wing replaced by crimson. The posterior
wing is also without any trace of the transverse black lines.
Hab. Upper Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
NYMPHALIDZ—CALLITHEA.
CATAGRAMMA KOLYMA, var. 67.
C. Kolyma, Hew. Ex. But. Cat. I. Figs. 5, 6.
With an oblong transverse crimson spot at the middle of the wing. Other
examples from the same locality are without it.
Hab. Upper Amazon.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
CALLITHEA DEGANDII. 7, 8.
Uprersipr. Male, blue-black, with a broad submarginal band of lustrous
green, broadest at the apex of the anterior wing, where its outer edge is clouded with
brown. ‘The extreme margin of both wings is white.
Unpersipe of a beautiful light silvery-green, with a large spot of orange at the
base of both wings. Anterior wing with three small black spots (one very minute)
in a row parallel to, and not far from, the outer margin. Posterior wing with four
rows of black spots, parallel to each other and the outer margin; the outer row of
spots oblong, the rest chiefly round or oval.
Expan. 2} im. Hab. Upper Amazon.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, and the British Museum.
It is with much pleasure that I have to record another new species of this very beautiful genus,
so rare that, before the time when Mr. Bates reached the banks of the Amazon, the group was repre-
sented in England by a single example. Two species only were then known—now we have five. I
have adopted the name for this species proposed by Mr. S. Stevens, in honour of Mr. Degand, to whom
we are indebted for its discovery. The Catagrammas of the two accompanying Plates (C. Denina ex-
cepted) were also collected by him.
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CATAGRAMMA FELDERI. 68, 69.
Urrrrsipr. Male black. Anterior wing crossed by a broad oblique band of
orange. Posterior wing with a large space of ultra-marine blue.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing with the band of orange as above, but connected
to the base of the wing by a narrow band of paler colour, which passes through the
cell ; a band of pale yellow near the apex, and at the apex a line of white. Posterior
wing ochre-yellow, crossed obliquely from the middle of the costal margin to the
anal angle by a broad black band, which is traversed by seven white spots; crossed
before the middle by two bands of black, one curved and parallel to the abdominal
margin, the other straight, meeting each other, and the central band near the anal
angle: the abdominal margin, the nervures below the middle, and a submarginal
line, black ; the outer margin from its middle also broadly black, marked with lunules
of blue and white.
Expan. 2346 in. Hab. Upper Amazon.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
I have pleasure in dedicating this very distinct species to the Messrs. Felder, father and son—two
ardent brother lepidopterists. On the upperside it resembles closely many species ; on the underside it
is very different from all.
CATAGRAMMA CERYX. 70, 71.
Urpzrrsipe. Male black. Anterior wing crossed obliquely at the middle by a
band of blue-green; a spot of white near the apex. Posterior wing with the centre
ultra-marine blue, the outer margin pale rufous-white.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing black; the base pale yellow, followed by carmine ;
the apex rufous-white, with a submarginal black line. Posterior wing pale brown,
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clouded with darker brown beyond the middle; crossed near the base by two black
lines: marked in the centre by four circular spots in pairs (three dotted with black) ;
crossed beyond the middle by two waved black lines: the costal margin from the base
to its middle carmine.
Expan. 133 in. Hab. Cuenca.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
CATAGRAMMA BONPLANDII (Var.) 72.
CATAGRAMMA PASITHEA. 738, 74.
Upprrsipr. Male black. Anterior wing blue near the base ; crossed at the
middle by an oblique band of carmine. Posterior wing from the base to the middle
brilliant blue, with a submarginal band of grey-blue: the outer margin black: the
fringe white.
Unpersipz. Anterior wing black: the cell (the end of which is marked
by a black line) and the band as above carmine: a band across the apex, a sub-
marginal band, and the fringe, white. Posterior wing white: the base and costal
margin to its middle carmine: the costal and outer margin, two lines parallel to
them, and two central bifid oval rings, all black: the space within these rings as well
as that which is inclosed by the lines which run parallel to the outer margin, pale
blue.
Expan. 2 in. Hab. Ecuador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
T have felt doubtful whether or not I ought to consider this as another variety of C. Kolyma. On
the underside it does not differ from it, except that the submarginal band of the anterior wing, which in
C. Kolyma is pale blue bordered with black, is in this species all black. On the upperside C. Pasithea
has no submarginal band on the anterior wing.
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CATAGRAMMA XANTHICA. 75, 76.
Uppzrsipg. Male. Anterior wing black, crossed near the middle by an oblique
band of green: a minute subapical spot of white. Posterior wing dark brown.
UnpersIpE orange-yellow. Anterior wing black, with the base to the middle
and apex orange-yellow: a small spot of white at the middle of the costal margin :
the frmge alternately black and white. Posterior wing crossed obliquely by two
linear bands of black, approximating as they approach the anal angle: the fringe
brown.
Exp. 14 inch. Hab. Pozzuzo.
In the Collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman.
CATAGRAMMA COMNENA. 77, 78.
Upprrsipr. Male, black. Anterior wing with a line from the base, an irregular
band at the middle and three subapical spots of green-blue. Posterior wing with a
submarginal band of blue.
UnpersipE orange-yellow. Anterior wing black: the base (which is followed
by a triangular space of carmime) and the apex orange-yellow: a spot of white
(followed by some minute spots of blue) on the costal margin. Posterior wing crossed
by two slender linear bands of black, farther apart as they approach the anal angle,
the outer band waved and parallel to the outer margin: the fringe brown.
Exp. 145 inch. Hab. Apolobamba.
In the Collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman.
CATAGRAMMA CLOELIA. 79, 80.
Urrrrsipn. Male, black. Anterior wing with a line from the base, a spot
beyond the middle of the costal margin, and a large spot touching the inner margin,
all blue. Posterior wing irrorated with grey near the outer margin.
UnprrsipE ochreous-yellow. Anterior wing dark brown, with the base and
apex ochreous-yellow : a spot of white partly blue, and a blue line, on the costal
margin: the fringe alternately black and white. Posterior wing crossed by two nearly
equidistant slender linear bands of black : the fringe brown.
Exp. 14% mch. Hab. Napo.
In the Collection of the British Museum,
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CATAGRAMMA LUCREZIA. 81.
Uprersipr. Male, black. Anterior wing with two linear bands from the base,
a transverse band at the middle, and three subapical spots, green-blue. Posterior wing
with a submarginal broad band of blue.
Unpersipr ochreous, tinted with red. Anterior wing black : the basal half
carmine : the base of the costal margin and apex, which is crossed by a waved black
line, ochreous, tinted with red: a spot of white (which has near it two small spots of
blue) on the costal margin. Posterior wing crossed by two linear bands of black,
with between them five minute black spots: the first band short, the. other submar-
ginal and zigzag.
Exp. 14% inch. Hab. New Granada.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson.
Does not differ from . Euriclea, except in the colour of the underside.
CATAGRAMMA HUMBOLDTII. Var. 82, 83.
This variety differs so much from the typical form of C. Humboldtii, that I should have con-
sidered it a distinct species were there not intermediate varieties.
The variety figured differs from the type in having a much larger space of carmine on the under-
side of the anterior wing, and in having the bands of the posterior wing much more slightly marked,
and farther apart : the inner band shorter: these bands are, however, very inconstant, varying in each
of the four specimens in my collection.
CATAGRAMMA NYCTIMENE. 84, 85.
Uprrrsipr. Male, black. Anterior wing with a band from the base to the
middle of the wing, where it forms part of a broad transverse band below the median
nervure, and a spot beyond the middle of the costal margin, brilliant blue: a sub-
apical grey spot. Posterior wing with a submarginal band of four distinct spots of
the same blue.
Unversipz, ochreous-brown. Anterior wing black, with a small space at the
base and the apex ochreous-brown: a spot at the middle of the costal margin (near it
two spots of blue), and a subapical band, white. Posterior wing crossed by two linear
bands of black, with between them five black spots, and some lines of blue and white
between the nervures: the outer band submarginal and undulated.
Exp. 159 inch. Hab. Equador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This species does not differ from C. Chaseba on the underside.
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CATAGRAMMA. XII.
CATAGRAMMA ALICIA. 86, 87.
Uprrrstpr. Male, black. Anterior wing with two lines from the base, a trans-
verse nearly straight band almost touching both margins, and a subapical trifid spot,
blue-green. Posterior wing with a very broad submarginal band of blue-green.
UnpersipeE white, slightly tinted with lilac, the outer margins black. Anterior
wing black: the basal third carmine, the base itself and the apex (which is crossed
by a black line) white, a white spot at the middle of the costal margin, and near it
three spots of blue. Posterior wing crossed by two broad black lines, slightly apart
on the costal margin, enclosing five (comparatively) large black spots.
Exp. 1485 inch. Hab. Equador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. :
Very close to C. Vaninka, but unlike it in the very different position of the band of the anterior
wing, and in having a trifid spot of blue near the apex.
CATAGRAMMA VOLARA. 88, 89.
Uprrrsipe. Male, black, crossed at the middle by a band of green-blue. Pos-
terior wing with a submarginal band of blue.
UnpersipE white. Anterior wing black, with a large subbasal space of car-
mine: the base and the apex which is crossed by a black line, white. Posterior
wing crossed by two slender linear bands of black, and between them six small black
spots, the inner band very short: the costal margin carmine.
Exp. 1545 to 158 inch. Hab. Venezuela.
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 3
Also nearly allied to Vaninka, but differs from it in the shape and colour of the blue bands, and
in the much more slender bands of the underside. It is also much smaller.
CATAGRAMMA EURICLEA. Var. 90, 91.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Differs from C. Euriclea of the “Genera” in the wider separation and different form, and
greater length of the blue band of the anterior wing, as well as in the shape of the small spots on the
underside of the posterior wing. I have examples of Huriclea in which the blue band of the anterior
wing is unbroken.
CATAGRAMMA LANICE. 92.
Upprrsipr. Male, black. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by a band of
blue. Posterior wing with a submarginal band of grey-green.
Unpersipb grey-white, clouded with darker colour. Anterior wing black, with
the base, which is bordered with blue, and the apex, grey-white : a small white spot
NYMPHALID#A.—CATAGRAMMA.
on the costal margin, and below it a band of small blue spots. Posterior wing crossed
by two lear bands of black, and between them three small indistinct brown spots,
the inner band curved, the outer band zigzag.
Exp. 14% ch. Hab. Equador.
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
This may be an extraordinary variety of C. D’Orbignyi.
CATAGRAMMA MORONA. 93, 94.
Uprrrsipr. Male, black. Anterior wing crossed by a band of gold-green: a
subapical trifid white spot. Posterior wing with a submarginal band of green-grey.
UnpersipE grey-white. Anterior wing black, with a large subbasal space of
carmine: the base and apex white: a white spot on the costal margin, and below it a
band of four small blue spots. Posterior wing with a lunular white spot bordered
inwardly with carmine, at the middle of the costal margin: a pale spot at the middle
of the wing, bordered inwardly with black: the base of the costal margin carmine :
the outer margin broadly white.
Exp. 2 inches. Hab. Apolobamba.
In the Collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman.
CATAGRAMMA LEPTA. 95.
Urrrrsipr. Male, black. Anterior wing with more than the basal half
scarlet : a subapical pale-yellow spot. Posterior wmg with two small grey spots
near the anal angle.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing as above, except that it has a band of pale yellow
across the apex, and three apical blue spots. Posterior wing yellow, with three
bands of black near the base and inner margin, two large central black spots each
marked with two spots of blue, and a broad submargimal black band traversed by a
band of blue: the outer margin black, spotted with white.
Exp. 2485 ch. Hab. Amazon (Nauta).
In the Collection of the British Museum.
On the underside this species is exactly similar to C. Tewa.
CATAGRAMMA FELDERI. Var. 96.
In the Collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, from Pozzuzo.
This variety differs from C. Felderi exactly as examples of C. Eunomia and Zelphanta do from
each other: in having the band of the anterior wing carmine instead of orange-yellow, and in having the
blue of the posterior wing darker, and occupying a smaller space.
Tam indebted to Dr. Gray, of the British Museum, and to Messrs. Salvin and Godman for the
pleasure of adorning my work by the very beautiful species now figured from their collections.
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CATAGRAMMA. XIII.
CATAGRAMMA CLISITHERA, 97, 98.
Catagramma Clisithera, Hewitson, Bolivian Butterflies, page 7.
UprrrsipE. Male blue-black. Anterior wing with a longitudinal band from
the base to beyond the middle, divided by the sub-median nervure, and a transverse
band of spots beyond the middle, all brilliant blue: a linear spot of grey near the
apex. Posterior wing with four longitudinal bands of the same blue beyond the
middle, and a submarginal band of green-grey.
Unprrsipe dark grey. Anterior wing from the base to beyond the middle
carmine tinted with lilac on the costal margin: the base of the costal margin and
apex grey, bounded inwardly with black marked by one white and three blue spots:
the outer margin and a submarginal linear band carmine: the fringe alternately
black and white. Posterior wing crossed before the middle by an irregular linear
band of carmine, and near the outer margin by a band of the same colour and
between them by five indistinct brown spots: the fringe white.
Exp. 14% inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Nearly allied to C. Patara.
CATAGRAMMA CAMELITA. 99, 100.
Urrrersmpr. Male blue-black. Anterior wing with a longitudinal band from
the base, a small spot at the end of it, a broad transverse indented hexafid band
beyond the middle and a trifid spot near the apex all blue-green. Posterior wing
with a broad submarginal band of the same colour.
Uypersipg. ,Anterior wing with the base pale yellow, succeeded by carmine,
by a broad band of black marked near the costal margin by a blue and by a white
spot and traversed by three blue spots: the apex orange-yellow crossed by an in-
distinct short brown band, the outer margin black, the fringe black and white. Pos-
terior wing orange-yellow crossed near the middle and outer margin by two bands
Published January 1st, 1876.]
NYMPHALIDZ.—-CATAGRAMMA.
of black united at but not touching the costal margin and enclosing a series of five
minute black spots.
Exp. 1485 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Most like C. Comnena and C. Ochreipennis on the upperside; more like C. Humboldtii on the
underside.
CATAGRAMMA CABIRNIA. 101, 102.
Catagramma Cabirnia, Hewitson, Bolivian Butterflies, page 6.
Urrnrstpr. Male black. Anterior wing with a longitudinal band from the
base to the middle part of a broad tripartite band, which, running at a right angle
with it, ends near the anal angle; a bifid spot beyond the middle of the costal margin,
and a subapical linear spot all green; the fringe alternately black and white. Pos-
terior wing with a submarginal band of green: the fringe white.
Unpersipr. Anterior wing with the basal half, except the base which is white,
carmine, followed by black marked at the middle of the costal margin by a white
and blue spot ; the apex white to a linear band, grey beyond it. Posterior wing grey-
white, paler between the bands: crossed before the middle by a linear band of black,
at the middle by a series of five black spots, and beyond the middle by a zigzag linear
band of the same colour: the costal margin and the end of each of the bands carmine.
Exp. 134 inch.
Nearly allied to C. Zuriclea and C. Priene on the underside, but different from both above.
CATAGRAMMA COTYORA. 108, 104.
Catagramma Colyora, Hewitson, Bolivian Butterflies, page 7.
Uprrrsipr. Male. Anterior wing black, with a longitudinal band from the
base to the middle, a spot near the middle of the costal margin, and two spots near
the anal angle, all green: a linear trifid band of grey near the apex. Posterior wing
brown with a submarginal macular band of green-grey.
Unpersipg. Anterior wing dark brown, with the base, a spot at the middle ot
the costal margin, and the apex which is crossed by a very slender black line, all
silver-white. Posterior wing silver-white tinted with lilac, crossed before the middle.
by an irregular black line, and beyond the middle by a series of five black spots and
a zigzag linear band of the same colour.
Exp. 13$ ch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.)
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson.
Hewitson, William
Chapman, 1806-1878.
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