434 SCHAUS: NEW TROPICAIv butterfues 



ENTOMOLOGY. — Descriptions of two new species of butterflies 

 from tropical America.'^ W. Schaus, U. S. National Museum. 



Recently the National Museum has received two new butter- 

 flies, from the tropics of the new world, which are of more than 

 usual interest. It is desirable that names for these be made 

 available and for this reason the following descriptions are pre- 

 sented. 



Anaea suprema Schaus. sp. nov. 



Fore wings arched and falcate, the outer margin deeply incurved. 

 Hind wings with the outer margin rounded, the anal angle slightly 

 produced. 



Ma/^.— Palpi and head reddish brown irrorated with white. Collar 

 and thorax olive-brown. Wings black faintly tinged with deep blue. 

 Fore wings: a scarlet fascia from base, filling the basal fourth of costa 

 and the basal third of inner margin, narrowing towards apex, its an- 

 terior edge following below subcostal to near termen, its hind edge some- 

 what dentate, especially between veins 5 and 8; the apex and terminal 

 line reddish brown; a black streak on discocellular. Hind wings with 

 the outer margin rather broadly reddish brown. Wings below dark 

 reddish brown glossed with iridescent lilacine and mottled with yel- 

 lowish striae. Fore wings: a transverse dark shade in cell, and a sim- 

 ilar smaller shade on discocellular; a postmedial fuscous shade, vertical 

 to vein 5, outcurved to vein 3, vertical to vein 2 and inbent to inner 

 margin; an ochreous line from apex joining the postmedial at vein 4 

 and edging it to inner margin ; an oblique dark shade on costa beyond 

 postmedial. Hind wings: a dark transverse shade in cell; a dark 

 median streak below costa, and a fine line on discocellular; an irregular 

 postmedial fuscous line; a fuscous line from costa before apex to inner 

 margin just above anal angle. 



Female. — Wings black. Fore wings with the fascia broader and 

 shorter, orange-red, crossed by a thick black line on discocellular, end- 

 ing somewhat beyond, followed by a large irregular and elongated 

 deep yellow spot between veins 5 and 7; a similar upright spot from 

 vein 2 to above vein 3, and a streak above submedian; marginal tri- 

 angular orange-red spots, their base resting on a terminal reddish brown 

 line. Hind wings with large postmedial deep yellow spots not reaching 

 inner margin, the black beyond them forming triangular spots, their 

 apices touching black marginal spots and enclosing large subterminal 

 brownish yellow diamond -shaped spots; a terminal reddish brown 

 line. Wings below to postmedial line maroon striated with yellow, 

 beyond postmedial ochreous-yellow striated with maroon; the spots 

 and lines as in male, but better defined; fore wings with a darker tri- 

 angular space before apex; an incurved subterminal maroon shade from 



* Received July 21, 1920. 



