PAPILIONIDiE. PIERIN.E. — DISMORPHIA. 



bluisli-white spots at the tip. Posterior wings rcddisb-brown, the cell bordered 

 above and below with black, and entirely surrounded l)y a bluish-white band 

 divided into spots by the nervures, interrupted by a square black blotch above 

 the end of the cell and broadest externally, where it is shaded with brown ; the 

 nervures are black, and the pale band is edged below with black ; towards the 

 apex are three more bluish-white spots. 



Body black, head spotted with bluish-white above, and. as well as the 

 thorax, largely varied with white beneath. 



Female. Upperside smoky brown, with the pale markings more extended 

 than in the male, and of a bluish subhyaline grey. On the posterior wings the 

 yellow blotch is absent, and the subhyaline markings form a continuous band 

 round the cell, as on the undersurface of the male. 



Underside nearly as in the male, but the brown and red markings are 

 paler, the only distinctly black markings being the band, lilling tlie ujiper part 

 of the cell on the posterior wings. 



Hab. Chiquinda, Ecuador (Buckley). 



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



Differs from B. Bhetes, Hewitson, from Coloniliia, by its larger and narrower anterior 

 wings, and in the smaller size of the outer row of white spots, as well as, to some extent, in 

 pattern and coloration. Hewitsou figured D. Shetes from a specimen which he received 

 under that name from Boisduval ; and afterwards placed a specimen of the present species in 

 his own Collection under that name. 



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