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underside the creamy yellow patch a very little larger posteriorly, and the fuscous 

 cloud in the centre of the hindwing more distinct. 



A series of both sexes from Western Ecuador: Chimbo, lOoO ft. (W. F. H. 

 Rosenberg), and Jaruma. 



IT. Actinote stratonice meridana subsp. nov. 



(J. Orange area of iijjper.iide reaching clo.se to base, extending also below M- 

 farther basad than tlie point of origin of this vein, but usually interrnpted at this 

 point by a black spot ; the light area reaching base on underside, being reddish 

 orange at base in and below cell ; proximal half of hindwing streaked with reddish 

 orange, distal half almost without streaks. 



?. Median patch of forewing above creamy buff, shaded with dark ferrnginous 

 proximally, the streak situated below M- interrupted by an oblique brownish black 

 bar which is constricted in centre and does not extend forward across M'. 



Four i S and two ? ? from Venezuela: Merida. 



IS. Actinote stratonice marthae subsp. nov. 



(?. Like the preceding, but there is a broad oblique black bar from cell or 



M^ to hindmargin. Underside of hindwing almost evenly streaked with reddish 



orange. 



?. The broad black oblicpie bar which invades the light-coloured area of the 

 forewing extends from hindmurgin across M- to cell. 



Two 6S and four ? ? from Onaca, Sta. Marta, 22U0 ft., September— October 

 1901 (Charles Engelke). 



19. Actinote adoxa sp. nov. 



<?. Similar to ,1. stratonice acipha Hew. (1801). Outer margin of forewing 

 more rounded ; upperside with a feebler blue sheen ; the light-coloured patch 

 salmon-colour, extending close to base and being posteriorly bordered by the 

 submedian vein SM-, its distal edge somewhat diffuse, costal edge quite black also 

 in front of black discocellular spot, which is joined to the black edge; the spots 

 of the salmon patch situated outside the black discocellular spot small, diffuse. 



On underside the salmon patch larger than above, the black disc>)celliil ir 



spot situated within the patch. Hindwing streaked with salmon, the stre.iks ia 



and before coll broader than the black streaks which separate them from each other. 



One 6 from Bogota (Mr. Child). 



21 ». Actinote callianthe alia snbsp. nov. 



(J. The salmon ])atch on iipperside of forewing reduced to a baud, of which 

 the oblique inner border crosses cell at point of origin of M-, the black basal area 

 having the same strong blue gloss as the hindwing. On underside the patch 

 nearly reaches the base, but is proximally shaded with, and invaded by, black, and 

 is also of a deeper red tint than iu .1. c. callianthe Feld. (11SG2). 



One cJ from Merida (Briceuo). 



21. Actinote callianthe rufa subsp. nov. 



S. The blue sheen of the upperside less glossy than in ^1. c. callianthe Feld. 

 (1802), no distinct blue sheen at outside of patch of forewing ; this jiatch rufous red, 



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