10 METAMORPHOSES OF BRAZILIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Pupa. Full-fed, 14th April, 1880. 



When full-fed the caterpillar wanders away from the 

 food-plant, and seeks a convenient spot, such as tjie coping 

 of a wall or other protected situation, where it suspends itself 

 by the tail and undergoes pupation. 



fa, Upper side. Full-fed, 15th Ap., 1880.) , 

 I^^QO I Imago, 2nd May, 1880/ ^^'* 



']b, Under. side, Full-fed, 14th Ap., 1880. 

 Imago, 30th April, 1880. 



16 days. 



This beautiful butterfly is very common ; in fact, it is one 

 of the commonest about San Paulo. It emerges from the 

 chrysalis sixteen days after the caterpillar is full-fed. 



Genus Pyrameis. Hiibner. 

 LXXI. — Pyrameis Braziliensis, n. sp. 



Pyrameis Braziliensis, n. sp. : — Forewing with the basal area golden - 

 brown, from thence to the apex purplish-black ; obliquely across the disc is 

 a series of bright red spots, two of which are in the middle of the cell, and 

 form an irregular-shaped letter S, the ends of which are very broad, and the 

 outer end tipped with white at its external angle ; two small conjoined spots 

 are beyond lower end of the cell, followed by a quadrate spot centred with a 

 white dot ; below these is a larger oblique quadrate spot, followed by a small 

 spot near the posterior angle ; beyond the end of the cell is a transverse 

 white streak crossed by black veins, and near the apex is a transverse series 

 of four small spots, the upper and lower of which are white, the two 

 middle ones being minute and bluish-white ; beyond these is a submarginal 

 lunular line, the upper end of which is purplish-white and the lower end 

 pale brown, ffindwing with a purphsh-black basal mark, a discal cen- 

 trally-angled band and a distinct submarginal lunular band, these bands 

 enclosing two ocellated spots and an intermediate black dot; along the 

 extreme outer margin is a row of black angular spots. Cilia alternated 

 with white. Body golden-brown. Expanse 2 to 2^ inches. 



[Note. — Pyrameis Myrinna, a very distinct species from the above, 

 was also collected by Mr. Dukinfield Jones in the same locality as 

 P. Braziliensis, but its metamorphoses not having been worked out, the 

 specimens remain in his private collection.— F. Moore.] 



