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than in nigrescem and martha. On hindwing the spots situated just ontside 



the pinkish diseal area deeper brown than in erycina, the submarginal spots 

 also somewhat more blackish ; cm anderside, at ontside of pink area, a blackish 

 patch in centre and another before anal angle. 



Huh. A long series of both sexes from various places in Carabaya, South- 

 East Peru (G. R. Ockenden). 



15. Rothschildia erycina luciana subsp. nov. 



?. Antenna blackish brown. Ground-colour of wings dirty tawny, the central 

 area being only faintly tinged with red ; the white antemedian and diseal lines 

 broad, the diseal one of forewing non-dentate from costa to transparent spot ; 

 the tawny ochraceons border of this line also broad. Forewing : the disc at tip 

 of transparent spot only slightly darker than the apical costal area; the greyish 

 diseal area distally bordered with dirty tawny ; the white line extending from 

 apex of wing towards the transparent spot posteriorly farther away from the blackish 

 postdiscal line than in the other subspecies ; the clayish drab admarginal band 

 dilated into lobes on the proximal side midway between the veins from It 1 to M 2 . 

 Hindwing : black proximal border of transparent spot very thin, as on fore- 

 wing; submarginal spots black, but not large; submarginal bars situated outside 

 them olive-brown. 



Hub. iSta. Lucia (S. Branch). 



1 ?. 



16. Dysdaemonia platydesmia spec. nov. 



c??. Iii shape similar to D. pinto Westw. (1S53). Base of forewing and 

 the bands dark brown or bright chestnut ; between base and apex of cell there 

 is one broad band which stands nearly at right angles to the hind margin aud 

 reaches costal margin at apex of cell, the band being less oblique than the two 

 narrow bands which replace it in D. pinto and kadeni H.S. The pale inter- 

 space situated at the proximal side of this band much dusted with white 

 posteriorly. The short discocellnlar band joining the antemedian baud in front. 

 On disc a broad band corresponding to the double band of I), kadi ni, deepest in 

 colour at its proximal edge, slightly paling in its centre. The black diseal line 

 curved or angulate as in kadeni and reaching inner margin at two-thirds, but 

 the point of curvature lying a little farther back than in kadeni (at or just in 

 front of M'); this line as well as its pale outer border in costal region better 

 defined and narrower than in the allied species. Distally to the diseal double 

 line a white blotch at inner margin and two between R 3 and M 3 . Distal 



margin from near apex to about centre of the same colour as the bands. 



Hindwing as in Brazilian pluto. 



Underside nearly as in kadeni ; the marginal band of forewing tawny. 



Antenna more feebly pectinate than in the allied species, the pectinations 

 of all segments being shorter than the segments themselves in both sexes. 



Unit. Peru and Costa Rica, in two subspecies. 



16a. Dysdaemonia platydesmia platydesmia. 



Bands of forewing very dark chocolate ; the ? somewhat brighter than the 

 <$ ; the white diseal band of hindwing very faint towards costal margin. Under- 



