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tween the third subcostal and first discoidal nervules. The base of the 

 wings powdered with bright metallic blue atoms; cilia white at the ex- 

 terior margins of the interspaces. 



Posterior wings black, with four bright scarlet patches in cells two 

 to five, that in cell two broadly lunate, those in cells three and four 

 quadrate with the outer margins lunated, that in cell three being the 

 largest, the fourth being much smaller than the others, being simply 

 linear ; a minute spot in cell four just above the scarlet patch, consist- 

 ing of a few bright greenish-blue scales ; the base of the wings very 

 sparsely powdered with bluish atoms j cilia white, and not extending 

 round the tails. 



Under side, anterior wings fuliginous, with a green band somewhat 

 less brilliant, broader, more diffused and not so sharply defined, and 

 nearer the base than the one above; a white dash extending from the 

 lower disco-cellular nervule near its junction with the second discoidal 

 nervule. passing obliquely through the terminal portion of the discoidal 

 cell to the costa. 



Posterior wings color of primaries, with the scarlet patches not as 

 brilliant as above, occupying marginal spaces one to seven, those in two, 

 three and four being bordered with white on the interior margin, the 

 marginal interspaces terminating in white lunes. Abdomen black ; 

 base of the palpi, sides of prothorax and trochanters scarlet, a row of 

 spots of the same color on the sides of the abdominal segments, the 

 anus surrounded with a tuft of short scarlet hairs. Expands 4 inches. 



The male differs from the female in having the median band some- 

 what smaller, the three apical spots larger and more distinct, and the 

 margins of the white dash on the under side more nearly parallel. 

 The abdominal cavity luteous. fringed with hairs of the same color. 

 Expands 3i inches. 



Bab.— Cuba. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila.) 



Two specimens from the original collection of Prof. Felipe Poey, 

 of Havana, which collection was purchased and presented to the Society 

 by the late lamented Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, thus placing the Society 

 in possession of probably the most complete collection of Cuban Le- 

 pidoptera extant. 



I take great pleasure in dedicating this distinct and elegant species 

 to my kind friend Mr. Augustus R. Grote, of New York. 



