NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 87 



Feb. 25th. 

 The President, Dpv. Hays, in the Chair. 



Twenty-six members present. 



The deaths of the foUowing gentlemen were announced : INIarcel 

 de Serres, Tobias Wagner, and Gen. Geo. A. McCall. 



The following gentlemen were elected members : Stephen Morris, 

 Thos. T. Tasker, Jr., Stephen P. M. Tasker, Henry G. Morris, Jas. 

 E. Caldwell and C. Newlin Peiree. 



On favorable report of the Committee, the following paper was 

 ordered to be published : 



Descriptions of soma new species of Diurnal LEPIDOPTERA. 



Series III. 



BY TPvYON KEAKIRT. 



.Ol. Lyc.ena jiakina, nov. sp. 



Male. Upper surface lustrous violet blue, edged with a narrow black line ; 

 usually towards the anal angle there are two rounded black spots ; these are, 

 however, sometimes obsolete ; fringe white ; expanse "rf — 1 inch. 



Underneath soiled white ; fore wings' costa, brown ; from the base, five 

 transverse bands extend across the wing from the costa to the inner margin ; 

 the fourth and fifth are sometimes interrupted on the second median veinlet ; 

 a sixth runs down from the costa to the same nervule, and a seventh and 

 narrower one reaches only the third nervule ; following these there is a sub- 

 marginal row of connected lunalse, enclosing oblong darker brown dashes 

 between themselves and the margin. 



Upper half of secondaries traversed by numerous brown lines, commonly 

 six in number, always interrupted in different points, and dilated and com- 

 pressed irregularly ; then there is a soiled white submesial band ; and then 

 the series of luuulse, dashes and spots as on the fore wings, rarely confluent ; 

 the two spots nearest the anal angle are jet black, irrorated with shining 

 green atoms ; and ringed with ochreous-yellow. 



Body black above, clothed with bluish hairs, whitish beneath ; antennse 

 black with whitish annulations. 



Female. Upper surface white, glossed with violet blue at tlie base ; costa 

 of both wings and outer margin of the primaries broadly brown ; the white 

 area of the fore-wings is traversed by three maculate brown belts ; one sub- 

 basal, the second mesial, the third subapical and merging into the brown 

 border. 



Across the disc of the secondaries are several brown rays, and a submargi- 

 nal lunulate brown line encloses a marginal series of large rounded brown 

 spots, of which the second from the anal angle is always the largest and 

 deep brown or black. 



Underneath marked as in the inaJe, but with much less intensity ; the lower 

 portions of the transverse bands of the fore wings are frequently obsolete ; on 

 both wings they are narrower and less compact, thus increasing the white 

 spaces ; the submarginal lunulas and spots, as in the males, wanting some- 

 times the oehreous yellow rings. Expanse '87 — 1'05 inches. 



jE?a6. — Orizaba, Mexico. (Coll. Tryon Reakirt.) 



" Mexico, near Vera Cruz." Wm. H. Edwards. 



Allied to Lijccena Cassius, Cram. 



.52. GoXILOBA DOLORES, HOV. Sp. 



Upper surface clear brown, with olive brown hairs below the median ner- 

 vure of the primaries towards the base, and over the basal half of the secon- 



1868.] 



