306 Mr. E. Doubleday on some new Diurnal Lepidoptera. 



proportion to the outer margin j black, irrorated with green at the 

 base of the discoidal cell and on each side of the nervules ; the 

 radial nervure, the fold between that and the first median nervule, 

 the first and second median nervules clothed with long hairs, as 

 in P. Bianor, &c. Posterior wings elongate-ovate, the abdominal 

 margin nearly straight, the outer quadridentate, black, iri'orated 

 with green, the anterior margin shaded with blue as in P. Bianpr ; 

 the anal angle marked with an ocellus incomplete towards the 

 margin, the pupil jet-black, the iris purplish red, irrorated with 

 light blue. Cilia of the inner margin and of the indentations 

 pale. Below, the anterior wings are pale, more fuscous towards 

 the apex, the nervures and nervules, four streaks in the cell, and a 

 series of streaks between the nervules fuscous. Posterior wings 

 fuscous black, with purplish reflections, the anal angle with a large 

 rufous patch pupilled with black, irrorated with blue, surmounted 

 by an intense black cloud, and connected with a large lunule of 

 the same rufous colour, and also irrorated with blue ; the outer 

 angle has an imperfect black pupilled ocellus followed by three 

 lunules, and in the interstice of the second and third median ner- 

 vule a cloud of scattered scales of the same colours ; the black 

 ground-colour being more intense above all these markings. 



Head buff, vertex and antennae black. 



Thorax black. 



Abdomen pale, marked down the back with a black streak. 



In the collection of the British Museum. 



Fam. SATYRIDyE. 

 Genus H^etera. 



H. Esmeralda. H. alis omnibus hyalinis, pube tenuissima brunnea 

 vestitis, posticis fusco-limbriatis ocello magno ad angulum exter- 

 num, punctis duobus marginalibus albis, plagaque Isete ianthina in 

 qua maculae du3e chermesinse. Exp. alar. 2 unc. 6 lin. vel 65 milHm. 



Hab. Para. 



All the wings diaphanous, the nervures and nervules brown, 

 the whole wing covered with delicate downy hairs of the same 

 colour, longest on the dilated portion of the costal nervure and 

 the anterior part of the cell of the anterior wings, which are in^- 

 maculate. Posterior yviuQB with a slender brown margin exter- 

 nally, the outer angle with a large purplish black spot, sur- 

 rounded by a yellowish and a brownish iris, and pupilled by a 

 pure white spot placed beyond the centre ; this ocellus followed 

 by two pure white spots, beyond which, extending to the anal 

 angle, is a large patch of the most beautiful ultraniarine, in 

 which arp two slightly opalpscent carmine spots. Below, the 

 jftarkings nearly as above, the ocellus with a few white scales be- 



