14 PAriLIONID.lD. riEr.IN.E. DISMOEI IIIA. 



s[)ots ; and all tbc si)acc Ijordering the white baud of spots and the outlying 

 spots is iiTorated with yellow as well as with brown. 



Body black, abdomen whitish below ; antennas narrowly ringed. 



Fciiiidr. UrPERsiDE brownish-grey. On the anterior wings the spots below 

 the median nervure and Ix'tween the two lowest median nervules are larger and 

 more elongate. On the posterior wings the spots in the white central band are 

 narrower and the outermost is much longer ; above this band are two indistinct 

 grey spots, one inside, the other outside, the end of the cell. On the imderside 

 the posterior wings are flecked at t!ie base and in the middle with numerous 

 yellow markings more or less minute. 

 Hab. Ecuador (Buckley). 



The Male is in the Hewitsou Collection (British Museum, Natural History, S. Kensington), 

 and the Female in the Collection of Mr. Grose-Smith. 

 Allied to D. Praxidice. 



XIII.— DISMOEPIIIA ACUTIPENNLS. $ . Figs. 10, 11. 



DisDKirpltia Acutijiciuiis, Butler, MS. 



Exp. If inches. 



J/alc. Upperside creamy-white, all the wings produced to a point at the 

 ai)ex. Anterior wings with the apex black, marked with an oblong creamy spot. 

 The inner edge is irregular, and the border ends in a point below the middle 

 median nervule. Posterior wings with the hind margin narrowly bordered 

 with black for a short distance below the apex, and shading into yellow on the 

 disc below the cell. 



Underside. Anterior wings white, with the apex and costa yellow. 

 Posterior wings yellow, with two longitudinal brownish stripes, the first 

 angulated obliquely upwards at the fork of the stxbcostal, but ceasing at the 

 costal nervure ; the other running from opposite the middle of the inner 

 margin towards the apex, but not extending to either. 



Head and thorax blackish above ; head yellow beneath ; thorax orange ; 

 abdomen white above and below. 



Hab. Trinidad (Hart). 



In the Collection of the British Museum (Natural Historv). 



Allied to D. Lina, Herbst, but with a subnpical spot ou the anterior Avings, and the 

 jjosterior wings yellower and less strongly tipped with black. 



