PAriLIOXID^. — PIERIX.1:. — DISMORPHIA. 



orange -tawiiy bands yellow, and rather more extended ; the inner margin is 

 lined with white at the base. Posterior wings orange-tawny, the subcostal 

 nervnre broadly black towards the base ; costa yellowish, hind margin black, 

 the dark colour running inwards along the nervures ; but towards the anal 

 angle the tawny colour of the wing becomes browner, and is only narrowly 

 edged with black. 



Underside as in the male, but on the posterior wings the dark markings 

 are more extended, and on the dark hind margin are several clusters of white 

 and yellow speckles, hardly aggregated into spots. 

 Hab. "Nanta" (probably Eastern Peru). 



The male is iu the Hewitsou Collection (British Museum) -vcitliout name ; and the female 

 is in the General Collection of the Museum. 



Allied to D. Bigcrejjans, Butler, from New Grenada, but with more extended orange-tawnv 

 markintrs. 



YIL— DISMOEPHIA ^'ELLA. i. Fig. 0. i. Fios. 7, 8. 



Dismorphia KclUi, Butler, MS. 



Exp. 2 inches. 



3/ah\ Upperside. Anterior wings blackish, with a tawny band running 

 from the base nearly to the end of the cell, and the base of the wing between 

 the cell and the inner margin more narrowly tawny. Beyond the level of the 

 cell are several subhyaline spots ; an irregular one on the costa, divided into 

 three by the nervures : two on the inner margin ; a short transverse band ; and 

 two spots near the hind margin. Posterior wings bluish-grey above the middle 

 of the cell, and tawny below, with a blackish border ; and a black transverse band 

 at two-thirds of their width. 



Underside nearly as above, but on the anterior wings the lower two-thirds 

 are bluish-white, and the posterior wings are tawny, bordered with brown ; and 

 with a brown band running through the upper part of the cell, and curving 

 back beyond and below it to the base. On the dark border is a row of white 

 submarginal spots ; and there is a larger white spot in the fork of the subcostal 

 nervure. 



Head and thorax black, spotted with white, especially beneath ; abdomen 

 light brown. 



Female. Upperside. Anterior wings tawny, with the costa, inner margin, 

 and apical half Ijlack. Beyond the tawny portion of the wing are a tritid 



