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the hind wings is yellowish or grayish, without sharply- 

 defined markings. Others have very long wings, and closely 

 resemble small Heliconii, or Eueides, being marked with 

 black and tawny in a similar manner. Others are black, with 

 white spots on the fore wings, and a broad white band on the 

 hind wings. P. Castilla is black, with a red transverse bar 

 across the middle of the (ore wings ; and P. Leucodesina, 

 which is common at Trinidad, is brown, with the greater part 

 of the wings occupied by a broad transverse while band, 

 interrupted below the costa. The short-winged species are 

 mostly rather smaller than an average Melitcea; but the 

 long-winged species are larger, and occasionally exceed two 

 inches in expanse. 



Microtia Elva, from Central America, is a small black 

 butterfly, about an inch iu expanse, with a tawny band 

 running from the anal angle of the hind wings to the middle 

 of the fore wings; beyond it is a transverse tawny blotch of 

 the same colour. Gnathotriche exclamationis, from Venezuela, 

 resembles an Archonias [Pieri)i(B) in appearance : it is a 

 black butterfly, with a row of oblong yellow spots across all 

 the wings, and a yellow basal streak on the fore wings, 

 followed by a spot. It expands about an inch and a 

 quarter. 



The South American genus, Chlosyne, contains black 

 species, expanding about two inches. The fore wings are 

 more or less spotted with white, and the hind wings have 

 generally a large red or yellow blotch at the base. The hind 

 wings are rounded and scalloped, and the fore wings slightly 

 concave. 



Anemeca Ehrenbe/yii, from Mexico, expands about two 

 inches. The wings are rounded and entire, and are smoky 

 brown, with yellowish fringes; the nervures of the hind 

 wings and of the hind margin of the fore wings are broadly 

 yellowish beneath, and slightly so on the upper side also. 



In my next paper I shall proceed to consider the genera 

 allied to Vanessa; but in all succeeding articles I shall deal 

 entirely with exotic insects, as 1 have done in the present 

 chapter, noticing European species only so far as may be 

 necessary to elucidate the others ; and referring those who 

 wish for information on European species, whether British or 

 not, to my work on ' European Butterflies and Moths,' now 

 in course of publication. 



