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between it and the base, two black spots below it, and a longer 

 band outside of it, also black, crossed by a sub-marginal band 

 of white. Posterior wing irrorate with white, a discal black 

 spot marked by two minute white spots, crossed obliquely in 

 the middle, from margin to margin, by a band of black; a 

 very indistinct sub-marginal brown band. 



Exp. — iy7^ inch. 



Most nearly allied to M. fneeda, Hew., In the colouring of 

 the upper side. 



This is a rare and little-known species from Ecuador, which 

 has not been figured before, and as the pamphlet in which it is 

 described is very scarce, we have thought it well to reprint the 

 original notice of the insect as it stands. M. meeda^ with which 

 Hewitson compares it, is a Brazilian species. 



GENUS EURYBIA. 



Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 17 (1816); Latreille, Enc. 



Meth. ix. p. 458 (1823); Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. 



p. 416 (1851); Godman and Salvin, Biol. Centr.-Amer. 



Lepid. Rhop. i. p. 374 (18S5); Schatz and Rober, Exot. 



Schmett. ii. p. 237 (1892). 

 The species belonging to this genus are among the largest of 

 the Lemo?iiince, measuring two or two and a half inches across 

 the wings, which are brown, more or less spotted with white, 

 on the fore-wings at least, and witli more or less reddish sub- 

 marginal markings on the hind-wings, enclosing one or two 

 rows of black spots. In other species the fore-wings have a 

 large black eye in the middle, with a blue pupil, and a reddish 

 outer ring, and the hind-\vings are more or less of a rich blue. 

 The wings are broad, the fore-wings not much longer than the 

 hind-wings, and the latter are rounded. The Brazilian E. 

 Carolina, Godart, differs in shape frorn the others, the fore- 



