New Rhojpalocera. 3 



Frontwings below pale brown banded and striated with 

 black streaks, an irregiilar interrupted white disco-cellular 

 fasciole and a white discal band corresponding to that of 

 the upper surface and terminating in two large oval black 

 ocelli with white pupiLs and fulvous irides. 



Hindioings white, the outer margin ashy and partially- 

 enclosing six squamose fulvous spots ; three large ferru- 

 ginous ocelli pupillated with white and with yeUow and 

 black irides placed in the form of a triangle just above the 

 centre of the Aving ; the entire wing excepting a narrow 

 space round each oceUus more or less streaked with black, 

 basal area densely streaked : hody brown, thorax varied 

 with whitish at the sides, palpi with white medial line 

 above and below, antennae black ; expands 4 inches, 4 

 lines. 



Para. Coll. Kaden. in Coll. Druce. 



Allied to D. Creusa, from which it may be at once 

 distinguished by the broad creamy band of the posterior 

 wings and the narrower band of the anterior wings. 



GENUS CALIGO. Hubner. 



. Caligo Hemichroa, sj). nov. 



$. Alse supra fuscse purpureseque, puncto anticis 

 apicali geminato albo maculaque posticis suabnali fulva ; 

 subtus fuscse, brunneo aureo nigroque variegatse. 



Frontwings above with the basal area reddish brown, the 

 apical area deep purple, the costa and outer margin pale 

 brown ; a bifid white costal spot near the apex. 



Hindioings basal area brown covered with long hairs, 

 apical area deep purple, the outer margin pale brown ; 

 abdominal margin greyish brown with a smaU subanal 

 fulvous spot. 



Wings Mow nearly as in C. Automedon but longer, 

 more conspicuously coloured, and with both wings crossed 

 near the base by a straight dull golden band: expands 

 4 inches, 2 lines. 



Inhabits Minas Geraes. Coll. Druce. 



This beautiful species comes nearest to C. Automedon, it 

 is however very distinct from that species. 



SUB-FAMILY MOEPHIN^. 



Includes the genera Morpho, Chrome, Drusilla, Disco- 

 pliora, Amathusia, Bia, and comes between the Brassolinae 

 and Nymplialince. 



