NYMPHALINAE: 1MIYCI0DE8 BATESII. 



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owtor two-thirds of the -wiiii;-, its iiiiR-r i)or(lcr folloAviiii^ tlie outer mars^iii of tlie inner 

 mesial band of the upper surface i.s a band darker and more fulvous than the base, its 

 outer margin ill-defined, supplanted by black next the upper niarj^in, where its outer 

 border reaches the base of the last subcostal nervule and below, in the lower median 

 and medio-submcdian interspaces and sometimes to a less extent in the upper median 

 interspace, bordered exteriorly by large, blackisli lunules which reach half way to the 

 outer border; there is a submarginal series of connected, arcuate, fulvo-ferruginons 

 lines, distant half an interspace's width from the outer margin; and as far again from 

 the margin similar ones in the lowest subcostal and subcosto-mcdian interspaces, 

 sometimes obsolete. Fringe dirty white, the apical half except to a narrow extent in 

 the middle of the interspaces ])rownish fuscous. i/zHfZioiHY/s almost uniform in color, 

 enlivened only by fulvous lines and dots; the short arcuate marks of the base of the 

 wing appear narrowly and faintly beneath witli delicate, fulvous tints; the middle of 

 the wing is crossed by a slender and faint, irregular, crenulate stripe of fulvous, 

 darkest and broadest next the costal margin ; it starts from about the middle of the 

 outer tAvo-thirds of the costal margin, crosses to the middle of the basal four-fifths of 

 the upper subcostal nervule in a slight curve ojjening baseAvards ; from here in nearly a 

 straight line sometimes crenulate, the curves opening outward, to the middle of the 

 basal four-fifths of the upper median nervule; it crosses the median Interspaces by 

 curves a little further removed from the outer border and opening toward it; in the 

 medio-submedian interspace it is a little nearer the outer border again and crenulate, 

 the curves opening baseward, the curve nearest the inner border followed cnitwardly 

 by another; midway between this mesial stripe and the submarginal, crenulate line 

 is ail arcuate or bent series of fulvous dots, the central ones becoming darker and 

 sometimes nearly black, one in each of tlie interspaces which open on the outer 

 border, that in the medio-submedian interspace slightly approaching tlie border; there 

 is a submarginal crenulate line about one-third an interspace's Avidth from the outer 

 margin, that in the upper median interspace folloAved inwardly by a rather large, pale, 

 sometimes Avhitish lunule; this is often edged interiorly Avith a fulvous line, but quite 

 as often the outer border, as far as the dots and from the loAver median nervule to the 

 middle of the loAver subcostal interspace, is AA-ashed Avith a paler or deeper fulvous 

 tint; fringe pale, more or less infuscated, especially on the upper half of the Aving, 

 and next the tips of the nervules. 



Abdomen above black, poAvdered Avith fulvous scales along the sides and toAvartI 

 the extremity ; beneath Avhite ; the apical elongated scales fulvous. Clasp of the 

 abdominal appendages of the male (34 : 9) tapering pretty regularly from base to tip, 

 as viewed from the side, rather compr.essed, especially in the apical half, the whole of 

 Avhich is bent or curves downiAvard ; interior spine a little stouter than in P. tharos. 



In conversation Avith Dr. Boisduval of Paris, he expressed to me the opinion that this 

 Avas the species from Cayenne, Avhich he had been accustomed to consider the 

 morpheus of Ilerbst and the cocyta of Cramer. 



Comparisons. The distinction between the upper surface of this spe- 

 cies and that of the darker females of P. tharos is not very great ; the 

 intramesial bands in the present species are, hoAvever, lieavier, and the 

 brighter colors slightly paler. Beneath, and especially on the hind AA-ings, 

 P. batesii can better be compared with the paler, less discolored males of 



