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DESCEIPTIONS OF SIX NEW BUTTERFLIES. 

 BT THE LATE W. C. HEWITSON, F.L.8. 



[I have been asked to publisli tlie following descriptions of new 

 species, whicli were found among Mr. Hewitson's papers after his 

 death, and the types of which are in his collection. — W. F. Kiebt, 

 Dublin : Septemler lltli, 1878.] 



EuEEMA Charon. 



Upper-side : male, dark brown, paler towards tlie outer margins. Anterior wing 

 with two white spots beyond the middle of the costal margin, the spot nearest the 

 apex bifid. Posterior wing with one triangular tail, and a sub-marginal series of 

 black spots. 



Underside : red-brown, variegated with paler spots. Eoth wings crossed at the 

 middle by a band of dark brown. Anterior wing with two yellow spots in the cell, 

 one at the base triangular, marked by a brown spot, the other at the end, marked by 

 an eye-like brown spot ; a yellow spot on the costal margin beyond the middle, 

 marked by a rufous sjDot, the apex rufous-orange, crossed by three brown spots. A 

 sub-marginal scries of lilac spots. Posterior wing with six yellow spots from the 

 base to the middle of the costal margin, and a rufous eye-like spot, some rufous 

 spots towards the inner margin, a sub-marginal series of indistinct ocelli, and some 

 lunular blue spots between the tail and anal angle. Exp. 2 inches. 



Sah. : Ecuador (Buckley). 



Leucochitonea Lath^a. 

 jllis supra rufo-fuscis fasciis duahus transversis, marginibusque 

 exterioribus fuscis. Anticis macula aira discali i^unciis duobus alhis 

 notatis. Fosticis infra cceruleis. 



Upper-side : rufous-brown. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by two 

 bands of brown, both with the outer margin dark brown, and the fringe broadly 

 brown. Anterior wing with the base dark brown. A large, oval, black discal spot 

 (as in Mesosemia), marked by two minute white spots, and bordered with rufous : a 

 brown band below it to the sub-median nervure. Posterior wing with the base and 

 a band below it dark brown. 



Under-side : anterior wing as above, but paler, with the base slightly tinted with 

 blue. Posterior wing pale blue to the second transverse band, and marked by some 

 indistinct grey spots in the place of the fu-st band. Exp. l^i inch. 



Sab. : Bolivia (Buckley). 



Leucochitonea Ltec^a. 



Alis supra fuscis, margiiwm exteriorem versus rufs, fasciis duahus 



