PAPILIONID^.-PIERINiE. 



DISMORPHIA. III. 



IX.— DISMORPHIA PEOSERPINA. $ . Figs. 1, 2. ? . Fig. 3. 



Exp. about If inches. 



Male. Upperside. Anterior wings brown, with a broad oblique primrose- 

 colouretl spot crossing the end of the cell, from just below the costa, to below 

 the middle median nervule ; between it and the hind margin is an irregular 

 primrose-coloured spot, and the middle part of the inner margin is also bordered 

 with primrose-colour below the submedian nervure. Posterior wings primrose- 

 coloured, with a large ashy space on the costa, the base dusted with black, 

 and a broad brown border, shading into ashy at the apex of the wing, where it 

 ceases. 



Underside primrose-coloured, anterior wings with a large yellowish-grey 

 space on the inner margin, bordered above and outside with iridescent white ; 

 towards the hinder angle is a blackish jxitch. Posterior wings also pale yellow, 

 but paler in the middle than on the borders. 



Body black above, but clothed with white hair beneath ; antenna? ringed 

 with white. 



Female. Upperside similar to the male, but the posterior wings more 

 yellow, and wanting the ashy space on the costa. Posterior wings primrose- 

 coloured, dusted with black in and below the cell towards the base, and with 

 a broad black band curving round the wings from the costa to the inner margin. 



Underside resembles the male, but the oblique primrose-coloured spot 

 which crosses the upper part of the middle of the anterior wings is surrounded, 

 except on the costal side, by a broad greyish-black area, which extends nearly 

 to the inner margin, and the posterior wings are irregularly flecked with dusky 

 markings and minute spots, except in the lower part of the cell, and a longitu- 

 dinal space beneath it. 



Hab. Roraima. 



In the Collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. 



Allied to D. Core, Felder, from Venezuela, and B. Othoe, Hewitson, from New Granada. 



