elongate, linear. Above : white with a greenish-grey tint, fore-wing 

 with a narrow costal border, a broader outer border, a streak across the 

 middle of the cell, and a belt from costa across end of cell to outer 

 border, black ; hind-wing with a moderately narrow black outer border, 

 which, near the tail, has three white sub-lunular spots, followed by black 

 lunules enclosing grey streaks, and preceded near anal angle by a crimson 

 streak ; tail black, edged on the inner side with white. Beneath : glossy 

 or pearly white, outer black border of fore-wing narrow, hind wing 

 crossed by a black line which passes one end of cell, touches the crimson 

 anal streak, and remounts half-way up the abdominal border. Antenna? 

 black, body greenish-white, with a dorsal and two lateral black stripes. 

 Guatemala, interior Valleys. This magnificent species is not closely- 

 allied to any known sjjecies ; it belongs to the Protesilam group. 



9. — LEPTALIS TIBC40. 



<J. Expans. 2" 8'". Fore-wing elongate, its broadest part being 

 across the middle, costa arched, aj)ex obtuse, outer margin in middle 

 moderately incurved. Hind-wing a little longer than broad, shorter than 

 fore wing, apex rounded. Above: fore-wing black, a sub -triangular spot 

 on hind margin, a broadish regular belt from costa across bases of dis- 

 coidal nervures, reaching second median nervule, and two sub-apical 

 spotf-i, white ; hind-wing dusky black, costal half glossy grey (except 

 base), and a short discoidal streak covering the middle part of the course 

 of the median nervure white. Beneath : fore-wing shiny grey, basal 

 part of costa and a belt beyond the middle dusky ; hind-wing greyish, 

 irrorated with pale brownish, and having numerous large whitish spots, 

 several of which join to form a stinpe extending from near the apex to 

 the middle of abdominal border. Antennae and body, above, black. 



$. Fore-wing elongate, its broadest part being near its apex; 

 costa arched and suddenly dipping just before the apex ; the latter appears 

 continuous with the outer margin, which forms a pointed lobe near its 

 middle deceptively resembling the true apex, the outer margin is then 

 slightly incurved to the hind angle. Hind-wing ovate, apex broadly 

 rounded. Above : black, fore- wing with a belt crossing the basis of the 

 discoidal nervures and indented on its inner edge, and three sub-apical 

 spots, white ; hind-wing with the costa and disk white, rest dusky black. 

 Beneath : fore-wing same as above, except that the apex is white, irrorated 

 with reddish brown, hind-wing pale reddish brown, irrorated with grey, 

 and having a few shiny white spots, some of which form a short vitta 

 near the middle. 



Guatemala. Belongs to the Gritonicdia group. 



