﻿ERYCINIDiE. 
  11. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  PHELES. 
  Herr 
  Schaff. 
  

  

  I.— 
  PHELES 
  EUFOTINCTA. 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  I'heles 
  Eiifotiucta, 
  Bates, 
  " 
  Journ. 
  Linn. 
  Soc," 
  Vol. 
  IX., 
  p. 
  379 
  (18G7). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  IJ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  " 
  Same 
  shape 
  and 
  size 
  as 
  P. 
  Heliconides, 
  Herr 
  Schaff. 
  Black; 
  basal 
  

   half 
  of 
  fore 
  wing 
  with 
  three 
  elongate 
  hyaline 
  spots, 
  and 
  apical 
  part 
  with 
  five 
  

   shorter 
  and 
  similar 
  spots, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  portion 
  orange-coloured 
  and 
  

   opake. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  only 
  black, 
  the 
  rest 
  being 
  hyaline, 
  

   divided 
  by 
  the 
  black 
  nervures 
  ; 
  an 
  orange 
  stripe 
  extends 
  along 
  the 
  costa 
  and 
  on 
  

   the 
  inner 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  borders, 
  interrupted 
  by 
  the 
  black 
  nervures. 
  Body, 
  

   legs 
  and 
  antennae 
  black." 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Ega, 
  Amazons 
  (Bates) 
  and 
  Ecuador 
  (Buckley). 
  

  

  lu 
  Mr. 
  Grose-Smith's 
  Collectiou. 
  

  

  n.— 
  PHELES 
  RUFULA. 
  Figs. 
  3, 
  4. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  I5 
  inches. 
  

  

  Upperside 
  differs 
  from 
  rheles 
  Eiifutinda 
  in 
  the 
  apex, 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  

   being 
  more 
  broadly 
  dark 
  brown 
  and 
  the 
  orange 
  band 
  narrower 
  and 
  ceasing 
  on 
  

   the 
  lowest 
  median 
  nervule 
  instead 
  of 
  extending 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  outer 
  angle 
  and 
  

   inner 
  margin 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  orange 
  stripe 
  as 
  in 
  1'. 
  

   Ilufotbutd, 
  but 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  small 
  orange 
  spot 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  dark 
  

   marginal 
  border 
  above 
  the 
  upper 
  median 
  nervule. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  as 
  above. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  two 
  short 
  

   basal 
  orange 
  streaks, 
  and 
  the 
  orange 
  spot 
  as 
  on 
  the 
  upperside, 
  followed 
  between 
  

   the 
  veins 
  by 
  three 
  other 
  indistinct 
  and 
  minute 
  orange 
  spots. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Ecuador 
  (Buckley). 
  

  

  In 
  Mr. 
  Grose-Smith's 
  Collection. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  III., 
  JULY, 
  1902. 
  3 
  T 
  

  

  