86 HENRY SKINNER, M. D. 



Two new species of Rutterflies. 



BY HENRY SKINNER, M. D. 



Anartia Dominica uov. sp. 



The male expands two inches and the female two and three-eighths 

 inches. The male is of a seal-brown color and near the inner angle 

 of the superiors has an ocellus consisting of a black spot surrounded 

 by a brownish orange the same color as in A. lytrea Godt. Just 

 below this on the inferior margin is a small dash of the same color. 

 There is a row of five marginal spots also of brownish orange ; run- 

 ning across the wing from the centre of the costa is a white band 

 about one-eighth of an inch wide which reaches almost to the ocellus 

 at the inner angle. This white band is irrorate or slightly dusted 

 with brown, and the margins are not as clearly defined as in A. lytrea. 

 The veins, which are brown, run through it. There is a transverse 

 black line crossing the wing from the costa to the first vein above 

 the anterior margin. Inside of this toward the base are two black 

 annulations the width of the discoidal cell ; where the costa joins 

 the thorax is a small semicircular black line. 



The antennae, palpi, eyes, thorax and abdomen are all of the same 

 color which is identical with the ground color of the wings. The 

 inferior wings are the same color as the superior, or perhaps a shade 

 lighter. Extending across the centre of the wing and filling five 

 nerve spaces is a white band similar to the one on the superiors. 

 There is a submarginal black line and a marginal row of six brownish 

 orange crescents and a small black anal spot surrounded with the 

 same brownish orange. The inferior wings are emarginate and not 

 tailed. The female is two or three shades lighter in color than the 

 male, and has three or four faint brownish orange spots between the 

 white band and the transverse line on the inferiors. The underside 

 does not diflfer much from the upper. 



The species has the same general appearance as lytrea, but differs 

 from it materially. As compared with lytrea. it is larger, es[)ecia]ly 

 the female, lighter in color, and the white band is irrorate, while in 

 lytrea it is more clearly defined and of a dead white color. The in- 

 ferior wings lack the small pointed tail found in lytrea. The ocellus 

 on the superiors is larger, and on the inferiors smaller than in lytrea; 

 the one on the superiors has no red dash under it in lytrea. The 



