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by the very prominent median spiracles on the basal segment of 

 the abdomen. In my specimen the striolae at the base of the 

 third abdominal segment are transverse ; hind femora tipj)ed 

 with black, stigma fuscous, with the inner angle flavo-testaceous ; 

 antennae 37-jointed. 



SOME NEW RHOPALOCERA FROM BRAZIL COLLECTED 

 BY E. H. W. WICKHAM, ESQ. 



By N. D. Rilky. 



[Published by permission of the Trustees of tlae British Museum.] 



Through the kindness of the Rev. A. P. Wickham I have 

 recently been able to examine a large collection of Rhopalocera, 

 made by his son between May and December, 1913, on the Madeira 

 and Purus Rivers and some of their tributaries. The collection was 

 especially rich in Ithomiinae, this subfamily including the bulk of 

 the new forms here recorded. Mr. Wickham has generously 

 presented all the types to the Museum and a large selection 

 from the remainder of the collection. 



Nymphalid.e : Ithomiin^. 



1. Melinaa hicetas brunnea, ssp. nov. 



$ . Differs from typical M. hicetas, Godm. & Salv., in the darker 

 brown of both wings above and below ; in the fore wing above, in 

 the considerable restriction of the postcellular transverse brown band 

 and in having a tawny yellow spot in the anal angle, below, in the 

 breaking-up of the black markings in the apical half of the wing by 

 considerable brown scaling ; in the hind wing, above, by the absence 

 of the submarginal band of black spots and the restriction of the 

 median band to a suboval smoky patch between veins 4 and 5, the 

 usual black spot between veins 5 and 6 being present and almost 

 joined to the broad black costal band which extends from it to the 

 base. The hind wing shows rather more traces of the median black 

 band below than above. 



Bocca de Acre, Upper Purus, December, 1913. 



2. Melin<ea hicetas purusana, ssp. nov. 



(^ $ . Similar in pattern to M. hicetas hrunnea but with the 

 ground-colour deep chocolate brown, black mai'kings more extended, 

 the subapical spots, postcellular transverse band and anal spot of fore 

 wing all pure yellow. The hind-wing median band of black spots 

 complete but not very broad. Markings below as above, but a con- 

 siderable brownish suffusion in the black markings of apical half of 

 fore wing. 



Allianca, Canutama, Rio Purus, September, 1913 ,- also from 

 Sebastopol, Labrea, Rio Purus, October, and Abuna, Upper 

 Madeira, October. 



