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Descriptions of some new species of ERESIA. 



BY T IJ Y O N R E A K 1 11 T. 



1. Eresia Yorita, nov. sp. 



Male. — Upper side, brownish-black. Fore wing, with a single spot in 

 the cell, a large spot below it cut by the first median nervule, a quadri- 

 partite band from the costal margin beyond the middle, the division 

 upon the costa bisected by a narrow black vein, and a small rectangular 

 spot near the middle of the exterior margin. 



Hind wing crossed between the middle and the base by a broad band, 

 divided by black nervules into seven spots ; all the markings on the 

 upper surface pale rufous white. Fringe white, cut with black. 



Under side more brownish than above; the pale markings of above 

 repeated and enlarged, base and one-third the costa of the primaries 

 and base of the secondaries, bright ferruginous; two sub-basal spots and 

 an oblong streak, rufous white, transversely across the latter, also a sub- 

 marginal row of oblong spots of the same color. Expanse 1.88 inches. 



Antennae black ; thorax and abdomen above black; head and thorax 

 underneath spotted with yellowish-white. 



Hah. — Honduras. (In my Collection.) 



Very closely allied to E. Ezra Hewitson, but differs in the much 

 greater elongation of the wings, the body remaining of the same size. 

 It lacks a rufous-white spot in each cell, there being but one in the fore 

 wing's cell, and none in that of the hind; and also the ferruginous dot 

 near the anal angle; the transverse band in Ezra is centrally situated. 

 in Yorita it is tlirown much before the middle, its outer margin tracing 

 a mesial line. 



Mr. Hewitson does not mention any basal ferruginous markings in 

 Ezra, and which are so eminently characteristic of Yorita. 



2. Eresia Comaela, nov. sp. 



Male. — Upper side black, marked with pale fulvous; a large patch 

 on the inner margin beyond the middle, and obliquely above it two 

 smaller, respectively approaching the outer third of the costa and the 

 middle of the exterior margin. 



A transverse band across the secondaries, very wide upon the costa, 

 and narrowing toward the abdominal margin ; following this, a row of 

 indistinct submarginal lunules; emarginations yellowish-white. Ex- 

 panse 1.38 inches. 



Under side, primaries fulvous towards the base, beyond, two large 

 orange spots, separated by a sinuate black band, running from the 



