SATYRID.E. PEDALIUDES. 



VI.— PEDALIODES PRAXIA. i . Figs. <), 10. 



Pronophila Praxia, Hewitson, " Equatorial Lepidoptera,"' p. ',11 (1877). 



Exp. '1\ inches. 



Male. Upperside dark brown, regularly dentated, with a slightly darker 

 marginal band ; anterior wings with a curved reddish band, divided into spots 

 by the nervures, running from the costa to the submedian nervure ; it is 

 continued on the posterior wings by a short, narrow, angulated stripe a little 

 beyond the cell. 



Underside. Anterior wings irrorated with grey, a large red subtriangular 

 spot before the end of the cell, the red band marked with white on the costa, 

 and much broader than above towards the inner margin. Posterior wings daij^ 

 brown, irrorated with white, the costa marked with ])ure white dots, the largest 

 of which about the middle, commences an irregular stripe, formed of ochreous 

 blotches irrorated with rufous, one continuous with the white spot, and the other 

 beyond the cell, connected by a nearly obsolete reddish line ; these markings 

 correspond to the short red stripe of the upper side. 



Hab. Jima, Ecuador (Buckley). 



In the Hewitson Collection (British Museum) and in that of Mr. H. Grose Smith. 



\'Oh. II.. OCTOBER, 1893. 



