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NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES FROM GUATEMALA AND PANAMA, 

 COLLECTED BY OS BERT SALVIN AND F. DU CANE GODMAN, ESQS. 



BT HENRY WALTER BATES, E.Z.S. 



During tlieir recent tour iu Central America, Messrs. Salvin and 

 Godman obtained, without giving especial attention to Entomology 

 (their enquiries being directed chiefly to Ornithology, Erpetology, and 

 Ichthyology), no less than 425 species of Diurnal Lepidoptera. A large 

 proportion of these are new to science, and it has been thought advis- 

 able to make them known at once, leaving for another occasion the 

 publication of a detailed account of the whole, with notes on habits, 

 geographical ranges, and variation. The collection, which forms a fine 

 illustration of the Lepidopterous fauna of these countries, now remains 

 iu the hands of Mr. Salvin, who has kindly presented me with the first 

 set of duplicates, and entrusted to me the task of drawing up the 

 following descriptions. 



1. — PAPILIO BELESIS. 



Expans. 3" 6"'. Costa of fore-wing strongly arched, apex 

 obtusely rounded, outer margin slightly incurved. Black, sinuses edged 

 with white, hind wing with a sub-marginal row of six quadrate crimson 

 spots. Beneath, hind- wing with four basal spots and a streak along 

 the abdominal edge crimson, fore Aving spotless. 



Central A'^alleys of Guatemala. Belongs to the llus group, and 

 differs from P. Branchus (Doubleday) only in the spotless fore-wings, 

 and in the row of crimson spots of hind-wings being of a square shape 

 and lying near the margin, instead of elongated and extending to the 

 cell. The species stands in the British Museum under the M.S. name 

 of P. Belesis, G. R. Gray, which I have adopted. 



2. PAPILIO CHBYSODAMAS. 



(J. Expans. 3" 11'". Eore-wing shorter and costa more arched, 

 and hind-wing outer margin more rounded than in the allied species (P, 

 Laodamas, P. Belus, etc.) Green-bronzed fuscous. Fore-wing, above, 

 with a row of three or four whitish lunules near the hind angle ; sinuses 

 near hind angle bordered with yellowish white. Hind-wing, above, dark 



June, 1864. 



