1 8 LLOYD^S NATURAL HISTCRV. 



The male is dark brown on the upper side, with the anal 

 angle of the hind-wings broadly white. 



The under side is pale brown, darker towards the margins. 

 All the wings are crossed by three brown bands. The fore- 

 wings have also a sub-marginal brown band, marked with a 

 black spot in the middle. The hind-wings have a sub-marginal 

 row of black spots marked with white, of which the third spot 

 from the tip is the largest. 



The insect measures rather less than an inch and a quarter 

 across the wings. It was brought from Ecuador by the late 

 Mr. Buckley, some years ago, but has not been figured before. 

 Mr. Hewitson compared it with a species which he had pre- 

 viously described from the Amazons, under the name of E. 

 eiiryone, but which has no white on the upper side of the 

 wings, and with E. phadica (Boisduval), from Cayenne and the 

 Amazons, which, however, has black sub-marginal semi-ocellated 

 spots on the under side, almost like a Etiptychia. 



The smaller genera of this Sub-family are very easy to 

 recognise. 



Perophthahna tenera, Westwood, is an inconspicuous little 

 Butterfly, which measures about an inch across the wings, and 

 is common throughout South and Central Amcr'ca. It much 

 resembles a small Mesosemia^ to which genus both Westwood 

 and Hewitson referred it. It is of a light reddish-brown colour, 

 with a large black eye in the middle of the fore-wings in a yel- 

 lowish ring, and bi-pupillated with white. The northern speci- 

 mens have a white band across the fore-wings, which is nearly 

 obsolete in Brazilian specimens ; and the hind-wings are more 

 or less ochraceous, or banded with ochraceous, above. It is a 

 gregarious insect, congregating in sunny openings in the forest, 

 and resting on the upper side of the leaves. 



Hades noctula^ Westwood, is common in cocoa plantations 

 in Central America and Venezuela, settling on the under side 



