costal, apical and hind-marginal areas blackish, ee ree of the — 
wing much paler brown than the basal area, ‘especially along | 
inner margin, and bearing numerous fine dark strie in the 
distal portions of areas 1b to 4: a large quadrate light grey 
patch occupies the area between the hyaline spot in area 3 
and the costa, but does not extend distally beyond the minute 
pair of hyaline spots just above and beyond the end of the cell ; 
a similar much smaller diffuse, rather oval-shaped patch midway 
between this and the apex. Hind wing: Basal three-fourths 
black, the outer edge very irregular but in general direction 
straight, not conforming to the contour of the hind margin, 
and traversed by four narrow, very wavy light grey-brown 
lines at equal intervals, the basal one very indistinct, mainly 
apparent towards costa, the second fairly well defined, the 
third least well defined towards the costa, the last the most — 
irregular but well marked, all conforming in general direction . 
with the contour of the hind margin; the distal fourth light 
grey with numerous faint darker transverse short strie ; ante- 
ciliary line interrupted at the veins and forming a series of 
narrow internervular lunules; fringes as above. 
Head, thorax and palpi above dark grey, body and antennze 
dark brown, the latter darker distally, the club reddish. Palpi 
below creamy white, thorax, legs and abdomen greyish white, — 
antenne rather lighter than above. 
?. Considerably larger than the male, the wings more 
ample and rounded, the pair of subapical hyaline spots on 
fore wing supplemented by a further two, all four being in 
line, the hyaline markings in the cell almost indiscernible 
above ; ; otherwise as in the. male. 
Length of fore wing: 9,23 mm.; 2, 27 mm. 
B.M. Type No. Rh. 150 3, 151 ?. Both from Chapada, 
Matto Grosso, Brazil (H. H. Smith). 
Paratypes 1 ¢, 1 @ from same locality in B.M.; 2 2, 
(March 18th, 1829), 192 (February 25th, 1829), 1? (March 25th, 
1829), Porto Nacionale, Tocantins River, Brazil (Burchell), in 
Hope Department, Oxford University Museum. 
The only point in which the species seems to show much 
variation is in the size of the hyaline spots on the fore wing; 
some of these may even be entirely absent, as is not unusual 
with such markings. 
Thracides verecundus, sp. nov. 
3. Upper-side, both wings; Greenish brown, more particu- 
larly towards base, with numerous hyaline markings. Fore 
wing: Hyaline spots nine in number: an oblong one in cell 
slightly before origin of vein 3, a straight row of three small, 
squarish spots forming a subapical bar, and five in a straight ie 
line from area 1b to 5, that in area 1b square, not sees 
