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Habitat : Brazil.* 



This variety closely resembles the preceding on the upper-side, but 

 tlie metallic colouring is much more bluish, and the base of the wings 

 is not suffused with brown, the inner margins of tlie hind-wings are 

 greyish instead of dark brown, and the entire insect is smaller and 

 more elegantly formed. 



MoKPHO Htacinthus — M. Montezuma, var. (??). 



(^ . Upper-side. Fore-wings as in M. Montezuma. 



Hind-wings with larger and much longer sub-marginal red spots. 



Under-side. Differs from M. Montezumahx beingmuch more reddish, 

 with the outer margin much paler, the sub-marginal lines not nearly so 

 lunulate, forming only about half the number of lunules, and all the 

 other lines much more angular ; the central ocellus of each triplet 

 larger than the outer ones. 



Female differs from male in having the upper-side only blue to 

 just beyond the middle of the wing, a second row of white spots on 

 the fore-wings, and the white spots at the end of the cell extended to 

 the second sub-costal nervule. 



Habitat : Honduras. 



The wings of this insect are much shorter than those of M. Mon- 

 tezuma, and though it may very likely be only a local variety of that 

 insect, I think, taking into account the other differences mentioned 

 above, that, according to our modern ideas of species in this beautiful 

 genus, it is very doubtful whether it should not be considered as 

 distinct. t 

 Zoological Department, British Museum. 



Capture of LimnepMlus striola, a Triclwpterous insect new to Britain. — On the 

 7th of October last, I captured near Bowdon, Cheshire, two males of a LimnepMlus, 

 which have been examined by Mr. McLachlan and pronounced to bo L. striola of 

 Kolenati and Brauer. He states that the species is widely distributed on the con- 

 tinent. They wore in company mth AnahoUa nervosa, and but for their mottled ap- 

 pearance and smaller size, might have been mistaken, while alive, for examples of 

 that common insect. This mottled colom'ing I am further informed is not a rule, 

 the species being very variable, sometimes spotless with a trace only of the pteros- 

 tigtna. — B. Cookk, 49, Ardwick Place, Manchester, 15th January, 1866. 



* We have two specimens in the National Collection of what is probably another form of this 

 vaiiety, but of a much more greenish tint above, witli a large brown spot at the end of the fore-wing cell 

 as in M. I'elcidcK, and a darker colouring below ; the up|)ermo8t ocellus in the hind-wings is also four 

 times the size of the other ocelli. — A. Q.B. 



t I have described the above insects, not to make the study of this genus more difficult, but on the 

 contrary, as I have myself found it exceedingly liard to determine to wbicli of the many and closely 

 allied species these varieties belonged, I thought by settling the question at once, to save all future 

 labourers in this work both time and trouble.— A. G. B. 



