PAPILIONID.E.-PIEKIN.E. 



DISMORPIIIA. I. 



I.— DISMOEPHIA CUBANA. $ . Fig. 1. $ . Figs. 2, 3. 



Lcpfali^ Ciihana, Herricli-ScliiifTer, " CoiTespondenz-Blatt des zoologisch- 

 miueralogiscbeu Vereins in Eegensburg," XVI., p. 120 (1802). 



BisiiKirphia Cuhaua, Guudlach, " Coutribucion A ia Eiitoinologia Culjana," 

 p. 81 (1881). 



Lcptallx Spio, var. A. Boisduval, " Species General des Lepidopteres," I., 

 p. 421 (1830). 



Exp. about 2| inches. 



3/nh'. Upperside. Anterior wings black, witli an orange-tawny band 

 running from the base above and below the median nervure, and for more than 

 half the distance between the two lowest median nervulcs ; beyond the middle 

 of the wing an oblique yellow band runs from the costa to below the upper 

 median uervule ; and there is an oblique subapical row of four yellow spots, the 

 second smallest. Posterior wings orangc-tawny, with a rather broad blue-black 

 border, and a black basal streak running through the middle of the cell nearly 

 to its extremity. 



Underside. Anterior wings brown, with the yellow markings as above ; 

 but the orange-tawny band replaced by pale rosy. Hind wings brown, mottled 

 with white, and towards the anal angle with yellowish-green ; a row of buff 

 spots runs below the cell, and curves up to the costa before the tip ; and there 

 are three other spots above, and one at the end of the cell. 



Female. Upperside black ; anterior wings with all the markings yellow ; 

 posterior wings with a broad yellow band running from ibe l)ase on both sides 

 of the median nervure, and above the discoidal nervule nearly to the hind 

 margin. 



Underside as in the male, but all the principal markings are yellow, and 



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