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interspace are much smaller than in Hippalus ; fringes of pri- 

 maries whity-brown, darker at the ends of the nervules ; of 

 secondaries white, except at outer angle; there as in primaries. 



Under side of both wings brown, mottled with dashes about 

 apex of primaries, and crossed by two black bands, and a demi- 

 band on secondaries ; in some examples the disk and base of 

 secondaries is nearly as dark as the bands, and the margin is 

 gray, but usually the contrast is decided between the ground and 

 bands ; the spots of primaries repeated. 



Body above dark brown, beneath thorax gray-brown ; abdo- 

 men same (in some cases light, with a dark ventral line) ; legs 

 yellow-brown ; palpi yellowish, with brown hairs ; antennae black 

 above, luteous beneath ; club black above, yellow beneath ; the tip 

 ferruginous. 



Female. — Expands about 2 inches. Similar to the male. 



From 6 (^ 6 ? . 



Pyrrhopyga Araxes. Hezvitson. Descr. Hesp. 2, No. 3, 

 1867. 



Male. — Expands about 2.1 inches. Upper side brown, dark 

 along both hind margins ; primaries have ten semi-translucent 

 yellow spots ; of these 3 form a curved row on costa near apex, and 

 a 4th is near these on basal side ; 3 make a band on the dis- 

 coidal and upper median interspaces, and 3 on end of cell and 

 interspaces below; secondaries immaculate; fringes alternately 

 black and white. 



Under side of both wings yellow-ochre, except on outer half 

 of primaries and along the hind margin of secondaries ; the spots 

 repeated. 



Body above brown, the rings of abdomen on sides, and the 

 entire under parts yellow ferruginous ; legs and palpi same ; an- 

 tennae black. The club brown on upper side. The rest ferru- 

 ginous. 



Female. — Expands 2.3 inches. Similar to the male in all 

 respects. 



From several (5 ? . I formerly received examples of this 

 species from the Wheeler Expedition, but it has been very rare in 

 collections of North American butterflies. It flies through Mex- 

 ico and South. The yellow under surface is a distinguishing 

 character. 



Amblyscirtes Nanno. 



Female. — Expands 1.3 inch. Upper side brown, thickly 

 dusted with fulvous scales over whole surface ; primaries have 

 three small white sub-apical spots on costa and an oblique line of 

 four small spots, the outermost opposite cell near hind margin, 

 or a little beyond disk ; on secondaries an obscure transverse row 

 of small yellowish spots ; fringes of primaries alternately white 

 and brown, of secondaries white. 



Under side of both wings dark brown, a little dull fulvous on 



