TAPILIOXID.E. PIEniN.^. DISMORPHIA. 15 



XIY.— DISMOEPHIA ELA. $ . FiCxS. 12, 13. 



Lt-ptaJI.'^ Ela, Hewitson, " Equatorial Lepidoptera," V., p. 82 (1877). 



Exp. 2^ inches. 



3/ah:. Upperside. Dark l)rown. Anterior wings crossed l)y three bands 

 of pale yellow — one from the base to the middle of the wing ; one beyond the 

 middle, ol)lique ; the third near the apex, whiter than the others ; the inner 

 margin also yellow. Posterior wings yellow, the costal margin bluish-iridescent 

 wiiite ; the outer margin (which has a short irrorated yellow band near the 

 anal angle) dark brown. 



UxnERSiDE blackish, with a row of white submarginal streaks between the 

 nervures. Anterior wings with yellow markings as above, but the inner 

 marginal area is Iduish-iridescent white. Posterior wings with a yellow band 

 commencing on the costa, extending nearly to the white submarginal streaks, 

 and then curving round to the inner margin above the anal angle ; within it, 

 but not touching it at any point, is a long yellow band running from the base. 



Body black above, and yellow beneath ; antennae ringed with white. 



Hab. Jima, Ecuador (Buckley). 



lu the Hewitson Collection (British Museum, Natural History), auJ in Mr. Grose-Smith's 

 Collection. 



'• Very near to L. Pinilveih, Linn. (= Eumelia, Cramer.), but of much greater exixmse ; the 

 fore wing narrower, and of different form" (Hewitson). 



