210 Mr. Butler's JJcscriptions of 



spots at origin of median nervure, a striole on costa and 

 nine suLniarginal spots on external borde?- : expanse of 

 wings, 3 Indies, 3 lines. 



Ambriz {J. J. Monteiro). B.M. 



Allied to A. Egialea and A. Ochkxt, there were three 

 specimens in Mr. Monteiro's Collection. 



SUB-FAMILY ACE^IN^. Bates. 



GENUS PLANEMA. Uouhhclay. 



2. Planema Epiprotea, n. sp. 



$ . ? Acrcea JEurita, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. 4, Acr. pi. v., 

 iig. 29 (1867). 



Male above smoky red-brown, the nervures dusky ; 

 primaries with the apical half dark brown, a regular 

 oblique dull ochreous fasciole from first subcostal to second 

 median branch, at about one-third distance from the base 

 of wing; secondaries with the outer margin, especially 

 towards apex indistinctly smoky : a number of black spots 

 at base : body, thorax black, white-spotted, abdomen dark 

 brown, yellow spotted : wings below altogether paler and 

 clearer, primaries with a blackish patch at end of cell, up 

 to pale ochreous fasciole ; a black spot near base of costa ; 

 secondaries with about seventeen black spots at base : 

 expanse of wings, 2 inches, 8 lines. 



Female above smoky brown ; primaries with a regular 

 oblique white fasciole from costal nervure to second 

 median branch ; basal area inclining to reddish-brown 

 excepting at centre of inner margin, where there is an ill- 

 defined subcuneiform creamy patch ; secondaries with 

 central area creamy, interrupted by dusky nervures and 

 internervular folds ; base spotted with black ; body, thorax 

 black, white spotted, abdomen dark brown yellow spotted, 

 the margins of the segments white ; wings below paler 

 than above, primaries with a blackish band at end of cell, 

 up to white fasciole ; black costal spot as in the male ; 

 secondaries with the base ochraceous, spotted with black 

 as in the male : expanse of wings, 2 inches, 8 lines. 



(Jaboon (I)u (Via ill I'). B.M. 



