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NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES FROM GUATEMALA AND PANAMA. 
BY U. W. BATES, F.Z.S. 
(SUPPLEMENT.) 
(Continued from page 88.) 
100. — Eresia poecilina. 
? . Exp. 2" G'". Very Bimilar to E. Ithomio'ides, Hewits. (Exot. 
Butt. Eres. f. 20). Wings broader; dark brown, fore-wing with an 
oclireous-yellow spot within the end of the cell, and a large number of 
similar spots arranged in rows beyond the cell ; a row of six spots 
(separated only by the dusky nervures) extends from the middle of the 
costa, and two spots lie below the median nervure, two parallel rows 
lie parallel to the outer border, but not extending to the apex, where 
there is a single row of three spots. Hind-wing dark brown, with the 
disc and abdominal border occupied by a large rounded orange-tawny 
spot ; a row of yellow sub-marginal spots, and three spots lying more 
inward, near the apex. Beneath : the same, except that the hind- wing 
has the base of the costa ochreous, and has no yellow spots, except the 
sub-marginal row. Anteunge pale ochreous, base black. Abdomen tawny. 
Veragua. 
101. — Melit^a nigrella. 
Exp. 1" 3'". ^ . Wings elongate, fore-wing pointed at the apex, 
with the outer margin gently and regularly curved outwards, from the 
apex to the hind-angle. Hind-wing anal angle not passing the apex of 
the abdomen. Wings above : sooty-brown, with three or four pale 
brown spots on the disk of the fore- wing ; hind-wing with a pale brown 
belt across the disc. Beneath: fore-wing brown, with a few dusky 
lines ; darker in the middle ; a large triangular spot in middle of hind- 
margin, and two near the apex, pallid. Hind- wing light brown, darker 
towards middle of outer margin, crossed by a number of short flexuous 
darker streaks, and having a row of black dots parallel to the outer 
margin. 
Guatemala ; central valleys. A small, obscure species, quite dis- 
tinct from any previously described. 
102. — Melit^a atronia. 
Exp. 1" 6'". ? . Wings broad, dark brown, crossed near the 
base of fore-wing with flexuous bars of blackish-brown ; hind- wing with 
a sub-marginal row of short, curved, pale brown lines. Eore-wing with 
the apex truncate, and deeply incurved in the middle of the outer 
margin : hind-wing with a distinct emargination at the apex, and outer 
