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DESCRIPTION'S OF FOUR NEW SPECIES OF FEONOIUIILA. 

 by "w. c. hewitsox, f.l.s. 



Pro'Opiiila Oesedice. 



Upper-side red-brown. Both wiugs with a rufous spot iu tlie cell, both crossed 

 beyond the middle by two macular bands of rufous spots, small and indistinct on 

 the anterior wing, large on the posterior wing. Anterior wing acute at the apex. 

 Posterior wing with some small rufous spots on the outer margin. 



Under-side. Anterior wing rufous, with a large, pale brown spot at the apex, 

 and other rufous spots between the median uervures, all traversed by a series of 

 four black spots, three of which are marked by very indistinct white spots. Posterior 

 wing pale brown, crossed before the middle by a broad band of red-brown, followed 

 by a series of five red-brown, eye-like spots, each marked by a minute white spot ; a 

 submarginal, zig-zag, red-brown line. Exp. 2^*^ inch. 



Sab. : Ecuador (Buckley). 



Yery different iu form from any otlicr species, but most nearly 

 allied to P. Fro2:)i/Jea: 



This and the three following species are in my own collection. 



PnOXOPniLA PELINiEA. 



Upper-side black-bro^\Ti. Both wings slightly dentate. Anterior wing with a 

 quadrifid subapical white spot. 



Under-side rufous-brown. Anterior wing as above, except that there are two 

 rufous spots, one in the cell, and the other between the second and third branches of 

 the median ncrvure, and that the apical spot is larger and irrorated with brown. 

 Posterior wing undulated throughout with paler colour, and irrorated with white. 

 A small wliite spot near the costal margin before its middle, and two similar spots 

 below the middle. A minute white spot towards the anal angle. Exp. 22 inch. 



Hub. : Bolivia (Buckley). 



PeONOPHILA. PALiEPOLIS. 



Upper-side dark rufous-brown. Both wings slightly dentate. Anterior wing 

 crossed beyond the middle from the costal margin, where it is divided into two 

 minute parts to the second branch of the niedian nervure, by a hcxafid band of white. 



Under-side dark brown. Anterior wing as above, except that there is a sub- 

 apical grey spot. Posterior wing irrorated with grey, a spot of white on the middle 

 of the costal margin, crossed beyond the middle by a broad grey band, broken below 

 the apex, traversed by a series of minute white spots, and bordered inwardly by a 

 zig-zag black line. E.\p. 2./^ inch. 



Hub. : Bolivia (liuckloy). 



PltONOPUILA PaLAUES. 



upper-side dark bluek-brown. Anterior wing crossed by a broad band of white, 



