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As evening came on the tide began to turn, and I found that it 

 would be impossible to reach that part of the river which experience 

 had taught me was uninhabited by mosquitos, so having hauled in along 

 shore and landed what few things were necessary for the night, I lighted 

 my pipe and resigned myself to circumstances ; and as 1 lay thinking 

 upon the prospects of the journey, and meditating on 



" a thousand insect forms, 

 " These hatched, and those resuscitated worms, 

 " New life ordain'd, and brighter scenes to share, 

 "Once prone on earth, now buoyant upon air, 

 •' Whose shape would make them, had they bulk and size, 

 " More hideous foes than fancy can devise ; " 



I fell asleep. 



{To be concUided in our next.) 



NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES FROM GUATEMALA AND PANAMA. 



BY HENRY "WALTEE BATES, F.Z.S. 



(Continued from page 69.J 



34. — MELITiEA PTOLYCA. 



(^ . Expans. 1" 2'", 1" 4'". Wings of the same shape as Melitsea 

 (Eresia) Ardys, (Hewits. Exot. Butt. Eres. f. 35-6): the outer margin 

 of the fore-wing having a deep, nearly semi-circular emargination near 

 the middle, followed, towards the hind angle, by a small dentiform lobe. 

 Dark brown as in M. Ardys, but the spots are all of a tawny hue 

 instead of white, and larger in size ; they are, however, the same in 

 position and in number, except that there are a few additional small 

 spots placed transversely near the base of both wings. The discal 

 stripe of the hind-wing is broader and less macular than in M. Ardys, 

 and the two sub-marginal lines are foi*med of a number of very fine 

 lunules ; but these are indistinct and almost obliterated in some ex- 

 amples. The under-side is almost identical with that of M. Ardys as 

 figured No. 35 in the place quoted. The fringe of the wings is speckled 

 with white in some specimens ; whoUy brown in others. 



Central Valleys of Gruatemala. 



35. — MELITiEA LELEX. 



cJ $ . 1" 5'", 1" 7.'" Closely allied to M. Ardys and M. Ftolyca. 

 The outer margin of the fore-wing is however not deeply einarginated, 

 but has only a broad shallow sinuation, followed by a dentiform pro- 

 minence at the end nearest the anal angle. Dark brown, spots ochreous 

 or tawny ochreous, and much larger than in M. Ptolyca. The base of 

 the hind wing has, besides, a number of transverse orange-tawny spots. 



