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sagittate silvery spots, and there is :i waved row of black dots ex- 

 tending from these to the anal angle of the hind- wing, near which 

 two of them form ocelli with grey irides. 



Guatemala, apparently common in the central valleys. Specimens 

 exist in the British Museum Collection with tne M.S. name of T. Oorita 

 attached to them, which name I have adopted. 



59. — APATUEA THAUMAS. 



(^ . Expans. 2" 3'". Allied to A. Favonii, Latreille (in Humboldt 

 and Bonpland's Obs. Zool., pi. 18, f. 3, 4), and still more closely to 

 A. Elis, Felder (Lep. Nov. Columb., No. 100). It differs from A. 

 Favonii in having, near apex of fore-wing, three white spots instead of 

 an orange patch ; and from A. Mlis, in wanting entirely the tawny- 

 orange belt of the fore-wing. It is of a more slaty -black hue than 

 A. Elis, and the purple silky gloss is much more diffused and richer in 

 hue. The hind-wing, above, scarcely differs from that of A. Elis. 

 Beneath: the hind-wing differs from all the allied species, its costa 

 being short and straight (from the basal dilatation), and its apex is 

 nearly rectangular, the outer margin being quite straight for some 

 distance from the apical angle. The colour of the hind-wing beneath 

 is ochreous-grey, dusted with brown atoms ; the centre of the wing is 

 crossed by an irregular brown streak ; a fainter and more lunuiated 

 streak lies nearer the outer margin. 



Guatemala, interior. 



60. — APATUBA AEGtrS. 



(J . Expans. ST 6'". Ailed to A. Glyton and A. Celtis, of North 

 America. Fore-wing with the costa nearly straight, apex strongly 

 produced and as if truncated, outer border deeply incurved : hind- 

 wing faintly dentate and slightly incurved in the middle of its outer 

 border. Tore-wing, above, with the basal half dark tawny, becoming 

 clearer tawny externally, apical half black, with a strongly curved row 

 of five white spots ; a dusky line and spot lie in the cell. Hind-wing 

 dark tawny, with the nervures, two lines near the outer border, and a 

 strongly curved row of six round spots, blackish-brown. Beneath : 

 pale brownish-grey ; fore-wing with two brown stripes across the cell, 

 and a curved red-brown streak across the wing, marking the inner edge 

 of the pale tawny hue of the upper side ; white spots as above ; the 

 outer border of both wings has a brown line parallel to it, and on the 

 inner side of this a row of dusky lunules. The hind-wing has two 

 brown streaks in the cell, and a flexuous central streak of the same 



