12 PAPILIONID.E. — PIEEIN.^5. — DISMORPHIA. 



X.— DISMOEPHIA CEETxlCEA. ? . Figs. 4, 5. 



Exp. 1-/2 inclies. 



Female. Upperside creamy white, slightly yellower on the posterior wings. 

 Anterior wings with a broad deep black border, which terminates in a roiinded 

 projection inwards jnst above the hinder angle. 



Underside. Anterior wings as above, but the costa yellowish, and the 

 band bordered outside at the tip and along the hind margin with the same 

 colour. Posterior wings buff-yellow, with two brown bands, the upper band 

 running obliquely from the base below the subcostal nervure, being slightly 

 bifid at the fork of the subcostal nervules, to the costa before the tip ; the 

 lower one nearly straight, but not extending either to the hind or inner margin. 



Head and thorax black, prothorax and front femora yellow ; abdomen 

 yellowish-white ; antennfe very narrowly ringed with white. 



Hab. Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



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

 Allied to D. Merrcnaria, Felder. 



XL— DISMORPHIA PRAXIDICE. i . Figs. 6, 7. 



Lcptalis l^mxidicr, Hewitson, " Transactions of the Entomological Society 

 of London" (1870), p. 153. 



Exp. 2^(j inches. 



A/<tli'. Upperside. Dark lilac-blue. Anterior wing crossed from the 

 middle of the inner margin to beyond the middle of the wing by a broad semi- 

 transparent brownish band, divided by the median nervules into four parts : two 

 white spots, one bifid [thus Hewitson; l)ut lioth are cut by the subcostal 

 nervules in the specimen here figured, which appears to be the type] at the 

 middle of the costal margin, and three similar spots, one bifid, before the apex. 

 Posterior wings crossed from near the middle of the inner margin to the outer 

 margin below the apex by a band and spot of white, the band divided into four 

 parts by the nervures. On the costa is a long buff patch. 



Underside. Blue-pearly-grey, clouded with darker colour. Anterior wings, 

 with the white spots as above, but less distinct, a large buff patch on the inner 

 margin, running upwards obliquely over the disc and the lower part of the cell, 

 except at the base, the outer margin from the lowest subcostal nervule to the 



