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the outer margin being slightly arched outwardly. Fore-wing, with 

 the outer half blackish brown, crossed by two tawny-ochreous belts, 

 the first deeply indented in the middle, the second narrow and sub- 

 apical: basal portion of the wing, together with the whole of the 

 hind- wing (except its outer limb), dark reddish-tawny, with a large 

 basal patch of a glossy, tender mauve-blue colour : outer limb of hind- 

 wing tawny brown, with a sub-marginal lunated streak brownish-black. 

 Beneath : fore-wing, with the basal half, tawny yellow, the apical half 

 brownish-black, apex and outer margin brownish-tawny ; the first belt 

 of same form and colour as on the upper surface, the second blended 

 with the pale hue of the apex. A little beyond the apex of the cell is 

 a broad and short streak of metallic blue; preceding the pale apex is a 

 thinner streak, and along the outer border a sub-marginal line of the 

 same hue. Hind-wing reddish-brown, minutely dusted throughout 

 with greyish and dark brown ; across the middle of the wing run two 

 thin and crooked dark brown lines, margined with a paler line ; the 

 outer one of these is accompanied by a thin, shining, lead-coloured 

 streak, and the outer margin has a sub-marginal line of the same colour, 

 between which and the median streak is a row of minute black ocelli, 

 margined outwardly with shining leaden spots : in the middle of the 

 costa is a pale triangular spot, similar to that which is so distinguishing 

 a character of the species of EpipMle. Palpi long and thick, terminal 

 joint somewhat drooping. Antennae with elongate club, shaft ringed 

 with whitish ; bases of the costal and median nervures of the fore- 

 wing swollen. Eyes naked. 



Guatemala. This handsome insect partakes of the characters of 

 many genera. The swollen bases of the fore-wdng nervures connect it 

 with Eunica; the style of coloration with Mpiphile ; the colours of 

 the hinder surface of the hind-wing are those of certain species of 

 JSpicalia (^E.Ethnsa and E. cyaniris); the leaden lines showing, however, 

 a resemblance to Nica. Its neuratiou is that of Temenis, but it will, 

 probably, form the type of a distinct genus. ^ 



48. — AGEEONIA GLAUCONOME. 



^. Expans. 3". Closely allied to Ageronia ferentina. General 

 colour of the upper surface of the wings, pale, dusty, greenish-grey. 

 There are no whitish spots in the cell, or between the bases of the 

 median branches of the fore- wing, but the outer half of the wing is 

 occupied by a large chalky-white patch, varied by the row of ocelli, 

 (the fourth from the costa alone being encircled with black, the rest 

 consisting of pale grey rings), and the gray outer border which has 



