358 Mr. Druce's JDescrijjtioiis of 



SUB-FAMILY VI. ACE^IN^.. Bates. 

 GENUS ACRiEA. 

 Acrcca Naur a, n. sp. 



Upperside brownish black, a briglit red line in the cell 

 of the anterior wing near the base, which is speckled with 

 a few red scales. Underside anterior wing brownish black, 

 lightest at the apex and the outer margin, the basal half of 

 the cell bright red. Posterior wing brownish, darkish in 

 the middle, the base and the cell very pale brown, almost 

 white, the nervules and lines between them all black. 

 Exp. If inch. 



Hab. Merida, Venezuela {Goering). Mus. Druce. 



Quite unlike any species with which I am acquainted. 



SUB-FAMILY VIII. NYMPHALINtE. Bates. 



GENUS PERISAMA. 



Perisama Goeringi, n. sp. 



Upperside black, anterior wing with a narrow band of 

 golden green from the base to the middle, where it joins an 

 indistinct band crossing the wing to the inner margin, an 

 oblique golden green spot near to and beyond the middle 

 of the costal margin, and a pale blue line near the apex. 

 Posterior wing with a narrow broken submarginal band of 

 bluish grey commencing at the anal angle, and not quite 

 reaching the apex, the fringe alternately black and white. 

 Underside, anterior wing blackish brown from the base to 

 the end of the cell and the apex ochraceous, a short band 

 beyond the middle of the costal margin white, terminating 

 wath a blue spot and a blue line above the middle of the 

 costal margin. Posterior wing ochraceous yellow crossed 

 at the middle by a waved black l)antl liroadest at the costal 

 margin, an indistinct sulnuar^inal waved band and a row 

 of small spots crossing the M'ing Ijeyund the middle black. 

 Exp. 2 inch. 



Hab. Merida Venezuela (Goering). 



A very distinct species. 



