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fore the pupil, the spot at the anal angle brown, marked with 

 pale rose-colour in the place of the carmine of the upper surface. 



Head dark brown, white posteriorly; antennae pale brown; 

 palpi white. 



Thorax brown above, paler below ; anterior legs white, posterior 

 pale brown. 



Abdomen brown, pale below. 



In the collection of the British Museum. Presented by Mrs. 

 J. P.>|L Smith. 



This beautiful species is closely allied to H. Andromeda, but is 

 readily distinguished by its immaculate anterior wings and the 

 brilliant blue patch of the posterior. 



Genus Argyrophenga. 



Maxillse rather long, slender. 



Labial palpi long, porrect, divergent, the basal joint short, the 

 second joint very long, both densely clothed with long hairs ; third 

 joint not quite so long as, and slenderer than, the second, densely 

 clothed with hairs of moderate length. 



Antennse short, gradually tapering to a compressed blunt club. 



Anterior wings rather elongate, subtriangular, anal angle 

 rounded ; the subcostal, median and radial nervules slightly di- 

 lated at the base, the first median nervule thrown oiF at the end 

 of the cell. Posterior wings obovate. 



This genus is closely allied to Erebia, and from Mr. EarFs ac- 

 count of its habits, they seem much to resemble those of the sub- 

 alpine species of that genus. The elongate palpi and short an- 

 tennse give it at first sight the appearance of Libythea, but there 

 does not appear to be any real affinity between them. The sil- 

 very markings below suffice alone to distinguish it from all the 

 other Satyrid(s, giving it a resemblance to the Argynnida. 



A. Antipodum. A. alls omnibus fusco-brunneis, plaga, magna pone 

 medium rufa, in qua in alis anticis ocellus niger albo bipupillatus, 

 in posticis tres vel quatuor unipupillati, posticis subtus ochraceo- 

 brunneis, vittis novem longitudinEilibus argenteis ( (J ). Exp. alar. 

 2 unc. vel 50 millim. 

 Hub. Nova Zealandia. 



Anterior wings fuscous bro\vn, the base and costa thickly 

 sprinkled with paler scales and hairs, with a large fulvous patch 

 beyond the cell, occupying the whole disc of the outer half of the 

 wings, and in some specimens almost attaining the inner margin, 

 in which, near the middle of its anterior margin, is a large black 

 ocellus with two snow-white pupils. Posterior wings coloured 

 as the anterior, the fulvous patch with a series near its outer mar- 

 gin of three or four black ocelli pupilled with snow-white. Be- 

 low, the anterior wings are much paler at the base and along the 



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