FAMILY CASTNIID^, 



FLATE Mil. 



CKNUS CASTXIA. Fahnclu^. 

 C'dstnia Diod, sp. noc. figs. 1, 2. 



$ , ? Al;c anticic supra fuscvo ; fascia postmodia (lilFusa ohliijiia (iclnacco- 

 I'lisca piinctoquo ante apiconi aurautiaco ; puncto discoidali, tril)iis in serie 

 triauyulari postinodiis ot duabus subanalibus, inaHj[ualibus, ovalibus, fiavo- 

 argenteis ; postictc caTuloir piirpiiroo-tinctjB ; fascia decrcsccntc inariiinali 

 aurantiaca, introrsuin iiigro late liiuitata ; ciliis niirvis ; corpus fuscuni. 



Al;e subtiis rufo-fuscis ; anticte area basal! ])iirpur(H) viridique certo situ 

 micantc, area apicali, apice oxcepto, ocbrea, maculis quatuor oblonyis decre- 

 scent ibus nig'ris ante apicem positis, una rufescente in serie eadem discali ; 

 maculis subanalibus supernis ocbreo-albis ; posticas fascia media nebulosa 

 juacidisque quinqu{> lunularibus, distinctis, feri'ugineis : corpus fuscuni : exp. 

 alar. 6 vine. 2, lin. 1 1 ; ? unc. circ. 3 liu. 3. 



Chontales. {Janson). Coll. B.M. 



This beautiful Caaftiia is somcwliat like a species iigured on one of the uneoloureil provisional 

 plates for the fourth part of the Lepidoptera of the Xovara Voyage, as " C. Tricolor," but the 

 (liflerences, in the frontwings especially, between the t\vo'speci<5s, seem to justify their separation. 



FAMILY AllCTIID^. 



GENUS I'ERICOnS. llalmcr. 

 1. Fevicopis lynita, fig. .3. 

 Pericopis Ig-nita, Bidler, Cat. Eabr. Diurn. Le])id., ]). 291 (18G9). 

 Afiiius F. Nas'iccc (F. Ferspic/ia, Walker), dilli'rt alls supra fascia media 

 Mava late disrupta, macula sub-triangulari interior*^ ilava, punctis 3 — 4 ad 

 costaui basalibus coccineis ; exp. alar. uuc. 2, li)i. U. 

 'lajjajos. fFatesJ B.M. 



2. Fericopis J((u.sonis, sj). iiok. Jigs, .j, 5. 



\hv antictc fuscte, area apicali dilutiore ; plaga peruiagna ])one lucdiiim 

 fusco-albida, fasciain fuscani includcnte ; jjosticu' nigra', macula suljapicali 

 lactea ; i)laga subanali quadrata coccinea : cor[)Us I'uscum. Abt subtus I'usca^ 

 obscurai ; auticae fascia media lactea ; postic:e vclut supra ; anilr.c puncto basali 

 coccineo ; exp. alar. unc. 2, lin. 10. 



Choutales. (U. 31. Janson.) Coll. B. :M. 



AUicil to /-*. 'I'nrhiihi from ^'enezueIa. but very distLuit. 



