PAPILIONID.-E. — PIEPJN.?:. — DISMOEPHIA. 13 



inner margin broadly grey. Posterior wings with two large yellow spots at the 

 base, and some irroration of the same colour on the subcostal nervure : the 

 white band as above, but indistinct and suffused ; and four large suffused 

 white spots (one in the cell) between it and the middle of the costal margin, 

 and another subcostal spot half way between this and the base. 



Body black above, whitish below. Lower orbits white, and antenna; spotted 

 with white. 



Hab. Granadillas, Ecuador (Villagomes). 



lu the Hewltson Culleetiou (British Museum, Natural History, S. Kensington), and iu 

 Mr. Grose-Smith's Collection. 



Hewitson sulisequeutly regarded this species as synonymous with his Lepfalh Tero"! ; 

 but apart from imjiortant eolour-ditferences, the anterior wings of Diamorjjhia Ten-sa are dis- 

 tinctly pointed, while those of D. Pmxidice are rounded. 



XII.— DISMOEPHIA HIPPOTAS. <J . Figs. 8, 9. 



Lcptdlis II I'lipotds, Hewitson, "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," XII., 

 p. 10 (1875). 



Exp. 2~^^ inches. 



J/iiU'. Upperside black. Anterior wings with a snuxU sjjot before he 

 middle ; a band of three spots, two of which are bifid, and the lowest is sur- 

 mounted by a small dot ; and a subapical band of three spots, all white. 

 Posterior wings with a buff patch on the costa, edged below with iridescent 

 white, and a white central band, ending in a detached subtriangular spot near 

 the hind margin. 



Underside lilac-grey, irrorated with Ijrown. Anterior wings with the 

 outer row of spots as above, but suffused ; a large white patch on the inner 

 margin, bordered outside by the first row of spots, and above by a band filling 

 the remainder of the cell, which, like the spots just mentioned, which form a 

 continuous band, is brilliantly iridescent. Posterior wings with about twelve 

 more or less distinct white spots, the central ones forming a curved band ; the 

 others are a large subcostal one nearer the Ijase, and a small one below it, on 

 the upper discocellular nervule ; and a large spot between the end of the cell and 

 the hind margin. Towards the base of the hind wings are two large yellow 



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