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through a whitish cloud ; the interno-basal area black 

 varied ; three whitish-brown lunular patches (bounding the 

 basal area below the cell, margined internally with black ; 

 three discal ocelli as usual ; a submarginal black band, 

 bounded within by about seven semicircular ocliraceous 

 patches ; a marginal ferruginous band interrupted ])y a 

 central black line : hindwings with the basal area squarely 

 banded with wliitish -brown ; three subanal ocelli, and two 

 placed obliquely below the costa, all brown, blue speckled 

 with fidvous irides surrounded with black and zoned with 

 brownish ; a sulunarginal brown streak, bounded internally 

 with white, externally with ferruginous ; the margin black 

 interrupted by a central whitish line : expanse of wings, 

 6 inches, 4 lines. 



New Granada. Coll. Druce. 



M. Jutui'iia is a beautifully distinct species of the Heciiba 

 group ; it may be at once distinguished from its allies by 

 the acutely pointed apex of the anterior Avings, the tricau- 

 date anal margin, and deeply scalloped apical margin of the 

 posterior wings, and the almost white colour pervading 

 nearly the whole of the upper surface. 



SUB-FAMILY NYMPHALIN^. Bates. 



GENUS ADOLIAS. Boisduval. 

 Adolias Laverna, sp. nov. 



S- Aflfinis A. Salice et A. Ramadm* ; alae supra fuscse cha- 

 racteribus consuetis basalibus nigris : fascia lunulari a venis 

 interrupta albida ; linea lunulari fusca fasciae hujus medium 

 transerrante ; area externa paululum pallidiore ; postica; 

 area externa introrsum violacea, extrorsum pallide fusca, 

 ad apicem albicante ; lineolis septem hastatis discalibus 

 nigris ; margine fusco : corpus nigro-fuscum : alse subtus 

 ochrere ; lineis supernis nigris ; fascia discali communi 

 hastato-lunulari roseo-albida, fusco utrinque limitata ; pos- 

 ticte area abdominal! virescente : corpus albicans : exp. 

 alar. unc. 2, lin. 2. 



9. Omnino velut in Tanaecia Pulasara coloratae. 



Allied to A. Salia and A. Ramada : -wings above brown, 

 with the usual ,black basal characters ; a lunular wdiitish 

 band interrupted by the nervures ; a lunular brown line 

 * The female of A. Ramada is the A. Surjas of Vollenhoven. 



