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for examination, a series of Mexican Rhopalocera, descriptions of a number of 

 which will be found scattered throughout this memoir. 



6. Terias solana, nov. sp. 



Male. Upper surface : primaries yellow, becoming whitish on the inner mar- 

 gin ; costa thickly strewn with greenish-black atoms ; a large black apical 

 patch running from the middle of the costa to the first median vein, along 

 which it is continued to the outer margin ; the interior outline of this patch is 

 somewhat crenulate. 



Secondaries white, yellowish only at the apex, on which there are two large 

 black conical spots ; short black lines run up the upper nervules from the 

 outer margin. 



Below the base and central portion of the primaries are yellow, becoming 

 whitish on the inner margin ; the apex of the same and the secondaries are 

 ochreous, strewn with multitudes of dusky atoms, of which there are three 

 principal condensed rows on the latter; all short, and none extending entirely 

 across the wing; there are two small discal spots upon each wing, the upper 

 upon the hind wings forming the terminus of the first atomic line. 



Fringe yellowish, becoming pale ferruginous at the apex of the primaries, 

 and towards the anal angle of the secondaries ; expanse 1-5 inches. 



Thorax above black, with whitish hairs, and three short dark stripes ; abdo- 

 men whitish, with a narrow dark dorsal line. Thorax underneath ochreous, 

 abdomen pure white ; antennae black, with white annulations. 



Hab. Mexico (near Vera Cruz). Coll. Wm. H. Edwards. 



7. EOPLffiA PAPUANA, nOV. Sp. 



Male. Upper surface dark velvety brownish-black, paler on the outer mar- 

 gin of the fore, and upon the hind wings ; two long, rather narrow dull brown 

 vittae in the medio-posteiior interspace ; a submarginal row of seven chalk- 

 white spots, fringed with bluish ; of these the first two are respectively above 

 and below the filth subcostal veinlet, both being larger than any of the follow- 

 i n g ) the second mostly so, and in each of the ensuing interspaces there is 

 one, the fourth being the least, and the seventh tripartite, composed of two 

 small lunes and a dot ; there are three minute dots nearer the margin, ob- 

 liquely below the fourth, fifth and sixth spots respectfully. 



Secondaries with a submarginal row of ten spots, of which seven are oval ; 

 the main axis of the first three is placed transversely to that of the others ; the 

 eighth and ninth are rounded, and the tenth a narrow streak ; following these 

 is a marginal series of small dots, obsolescent towards the outer angle. 



Under surface, the submarginal row of above is reproduced, having added a 

 small spot nearer the costa. There is also a marginal series of eleven .small 

 rounded spots; a small bluish spot above the upper radial, near the cell, 

 another within the cell, and a third, considerably larger, in the medio-superior 

 interspace ; a small oblong patch of appressed hairs in the medio- central 

 interspace. 



Secondaries have two white spots at the base of the wings ; the submarginal 

 series of above, and a marginal row of twelve, the last coalescing with the ter- 

 minal one of the preceding row ; a minute spot in the medio-superior interspace. 



Color of under side shiny brown, darkened at the base of the primaries. 



Fringe brown and white alternately; expanse 3-5 inches. 



Hab. New Guinea. Coll. Tryon Reakirt. 



I am not quite sure of the specific distinctness of this beautiful Danaid; 

 many of the published descriptions of the members of this genus are extremely 

 imperfect, and the insects themselves so subject to variation that it is very 

 difficult to determine them correctly, without comparison with the original 

 specimens. 



AMAURIS, Hiibn. 



Amauris. p. , Hiibner. 



Banais, (Sect. I.) E. Doubleday. 



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