( 98 ) 



triangle is a streak of dark steel-blue scales, and a small lilotcli of the same 

 be3'ond tlie eml of tiie curved line above anal aiij^'h^; beyond the outer line the 

 ground-colour is paler brown ; fringe dark brown, deep yellow round anal angle. 



HiiiiliciiK/ : base narrowly grey-brown edged liy a silvery pale belt, followed 

 by a fulvous yellow s|iace above ; fringe and ajiical margin chrome yellow ; a 

 streak of scattered lustrous scales along inner margin; a broad metallic baud 

 from aual angle to vein 4, above which is a small embossed metallic spot in 

 a yellow ring ; above it the yellow margin is edged internally l)y a steel-blue 

 line which ends on costa ; an isolated jiatch of steel-blue scales at base of 

 interval between 6 and 7, followed l)y a large eye-spot ; rest of wing mottled 

 with red and white atoms, excej)t the area above vein 4, which is (dive-grey 

 and pinkish without dusting; inner margin and fringe whitish. 



Underside cream-colonr, dark grey towards outer margin of forewing ; costa 

 yellow. 



Head brown ; shoulders pale pearly grey ; thoriix and two basal segments 

 of abdomen brown ; abdomen beyond ]iale grey. 



Expanse of wings : 'M mm. 



'i 6 6 from La Union, R. Hnacaniayo, t 'arabaya, Peru, '^niiO f t , Jannary 10(1.5, 

 wet season (Ockendeu). 



A ? from La Oroya, expanding 'M) mm., dilTers in having the pale triangular 

 costal mark at two-thirds instead of throe-fourths, with no jiale curved line 

 from it; the mottling of the hindwing is fuscous brown instead of reddish, and 

 the lustrous patch before the large eye-spot is continued ditl'nscly towards anal 

 angle. With these exce])tions the two sexes agree. 



TT. Ophthalmophora contrariata ab. orbata nov. 



The examples of tliis species, esjiecially those from La Oroya, Peru, described 

 by me in yoi\ Zool. xi. p. 94 (1904), are variable in the position of the eye-spots 

 of the hindwing. In many cases these, instead of being in a curve convex out- 

 wards, are placed in a straight line; but in the ? to which I give the name 

 ab. orbata, there are only two spots — the uj)per one, rather larger than the 

 average, in the usual j)lace between veins G and 7, but nearer the outer margin, 

 and the second between 4 and 0, but cjuite close to the carved metallic line ; 

 while below it, between 3 and 4, and still closer to the line, are a few metallic 

 scales (more strongly marked in one wing than the other), representing the usual 

 lowest spot. Again, in the ordinary form tlie three spots are placed on the 

 inner edge of a curved greyish band, which passes into chrome yellow before 

 the metallic line; in the aberration this grey belt is more external, and is 

 bounded by the metallic, line. Moreover, this metallic line in ty])ical examples, 

 after curving round at costa, ends, still as a line, on vein close before the upper 

 sj)ot ; in the aljerration the line ends at the costa, and an isolated round patch 

 of metallic scales lies at the base of the interval between (i and 7 ; lastly, 

 instead of the reddish cell-sjjot (which is often very obscure), this ? has a 

 distinct pale yellow spot. Taken along with onlinary SS in .S(']iteml>er l'.M)4 by 

 Mr. G. 0<kcndeu. 



7.S. Ophthalmophora curvilinea spec. nov. 



Forcwiity : lilac grey, crossed by two curved pale lines; the inner at one- 

 fourth, the outer at two-thirds, outcurved between subcostal vein and submedian 



