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Type :- 



Stibomorpiia decorata, sp. n. 



Wings above smoty-brown ; primaries with basal half (excepting the costal and 

 interno-median areas) inclining to tawny ; an indefinite, irregularly sinuated, post- 

 I median transverse line, limiting the tawny basal area, and bordered externally by a 

 ! narrow, irregidar, interrupted, and externally diffused, bright ta-miy edging ; a sub- 

 apical blind black spot ; outer margin broadly blackish brown ; fringe whitey-brown, 

 spotted with dark brown : secondaries, basal area clothed with tawny hairs ; three 

 or four semicircular bright tawny spots, forminga straight siib-marginal band ; outer 

 margin and fringe as in primaries : body reddish-brown. 



Wings below beautifully variegated ; primaries orange-tawny, the costal apex 

 and a macidar post-median streak (bounding the transverse line mentioned above) 

 bright creamy-ochreous ; centre of costa and external angle dusky ; a large bipu- 

 pillated sub-apical ocellus, with ochreoua iris ; a sub-marginal dusky brown line ; 

 margin, excepting at external angle, silvery-white, edged internally with blackish ; 

 fringe as above : secondaries bright creamy-oclu'eous ; the abdominal area lilacine- 

 grey, becoming greenish at base ; a broad, central, oblique, ii-regidarly zig-zag band, 

 brown, speckled with bright ochi-eous, its external margin deeply and irregularly ex- 

 cised and edged with silvery-white, bounded externally by a brown nebula, enclosing 

 five ocelloid spots, the second to fourth complete, black, white-pupilled, and with 

 oclu-eous irides ; a sub-marginal irregular brown band, irrorated with grey and 

 ochrcous scales, and edged internally with black ; outer margin silvery-white ; 

 fringe as above : body dii-ty whitish. Expanse of wings, 2 inches. 



Sab. : high mountains of Santiago (captured by E. C. Reed, Esq.). 



Mr. E-eed took three examples of this well-marked and charming 

 form, and I have to thank him for giving me permission to describe 

 it, and for presenting me with a specimen of it. 



British Museum : 



January, 1874. 



DESCEIPTIONS OF FOUE NEW AEEICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 

 by w. c. hewitson, f.l.s. 



Neptis Nicomedes. 



Upper-side : $ . Dark brown. Both wings crossed at the middle by a broad 

 band of white (oblique on the anterior wing, transverse on the posterior), followed 

 by a band of indistinct grey spots, and by three sub-marginal linear bands of white ; 

 the inner band (which is most distinct on the anterior wing) broken into spots. 

 Anterior wing with two white spots within the cell — one near the base minute, the 

 other lunular ; a bifid white spot on the middle of the mner margin. 



Underside : as above, except that it is paler, and that the posterior wing has 

 the base of the costal margin broadly white, and a linear white spot below it. 



Exp. Ifo inch. • Hub. : Angola (Eogers). 



Very distinct from any other species. 



