Exotic Lepidoptera. 23 



heloio with a white band in the frontwings running 

 obliquely inwards to the anal angle ; expanse of wings, 3 

 inches, 8 lines. 



Inhabits — ? Coll. Kaden. in Coll. Druce. 



This species, excepting in the double blue band of the 

 hindwings, and the different directions of the lines upon 

 the undersurface, is more like the female of A. Fhiloctetes 

 than the true male of that species. 



GENUS STEROMA. Westivood. 

 Steroma Zihia, sp. nov. 



Forma omnino >S'. Beycc; alte supra fuscee, margine externo 

 nigrescente : posticee area antemarginali rufescente ; angulo 

 ani albo-atomoso : corpus fuscum. 



Ala3 anticfe subtus fuscae area anali pallidiore, margine 

 externo nigrescente stria flavo-atomosa subapicali ; costa 

 flavo fuscoque variegata ; posticai nigro, fusco ferrugineoque 

 variegatse ; area apicali ochracea, maculis duabus apical ibus 

 ferrugineis : puncto subapicali, aliisque A'elut in S. Bcga 

 costalibus argenteis : maculis duabus submarginalibus nigris 

 a squamis argenteis circumdatis : corj^us cinereo-fuscum : 

 exp. alar. unc. 1, lin. 8. 



Altogether of tlie shape of S. Bega : wings above brown, 

 with blackish outer margin ; hindwings with the subniar- 

 ginal area reddish ; the anal angle white-scaled : body 

 brown. 



Frontwings below brown, the anal area paler, the outer 

 margin blackish, a subapical yellow-scaled streak ; the 

 costa varied with yellow and brown ; hindwings varied with 

 black, brown and I'erruginous ; the apical area ochraceous, 

 with two apical ferruginous spots ; a subapical silver spot 

 and other costal ones as in S. Bega ; two submarginal black 

 spots surrounded by silver scales : body grey brown : 

 expanse of wings, 1 inch, 8 lines. 



Inhabits Venezuela. Coll. Kaden. in Coll. Druce. 



Allied to S. Bega, l)ut very different in the pattern of 

 the undersurface. 



