80 Mr. A. G. Butler on the 



across the disc ; post-discoidal area crossed by copper-red 

 veins ; a subapical spot, a small spot on tlie disc, and the 

 centre of internal area ochraceous; base whitish; secondaries 

 olivaceous towards the base ; anal angle reddish ; outer 

 border and two converging waved discal lines purple ; base 

 and basal three-fifths of abdominal area whitish ; frons 

 pale reddish, crest dark red, collar yellow, thorax pinky- 

 whitish, tegulffi greyish ; abdomen whitish, cloiided with 

 feiTuginous and grey ; primaries below fuliginous brown, 

 Avitli the costal margin tawny; subapical area dusky; two 

 undulated purplish-black discal lines, the inner one not 

 extending below the second median branch ; internal 

 border whitish ; secondaries reddish flesh-colour, with a 

 Avhite-speckled blackish internal streak ; two undulated 

 ]iurplish-black discal lines, the inner one elbowed towards 

 the costa, the outer one convex ; body below pale red : 

 expanse 1 inch 6 lines. 



Kio Jurua, 6th November, 1874. 



Genus DiRPHiA, Huhner. 



151. Dirphia javarina, n. sp. 



Wings above pale pinky-brown ; primaries with a broad 

 central chocolate-brown belt, three times as wide on the 

 costal as on the inner margin and whitish bordered, its 

 inner edge oblique and waved, its outer edge straight; 

 basal area suffused Avith chocolate-brown, the base itself 

 blackish and bounded externally by an oblique whitish 

 line ; a slightly irregular discal brown band, which 

 becomes abruptly wider above the upper radial ; apex 

 ochreous, difRised ; fringe chocolate-brown ; secondaries 

 reddish towards the base ; external area pink, regularly 

 limited internally and enclosing a regular arched belt 

 of the ground colour ; fringe red-brown ; thorax deep 

 chocolate-brown, blackish ; abdomen tawny, deep red at 

 the sides, crossed at the base by tAVO black belts; Avings 

 beloAV paler than above, the costal areas red-broAvn ; two 

 discal belts; a]iices ochraceous ; discal belts of primaries 

 parallel, slightly sinuated ; the inner belt of secondaries 

 straight, the outer one arched and parallel to the outer 

 margin ; body beloAA- deep chocolate-brown, anus reddish : 

 expanse 5 inches 4 lines. 



On board the Guajara, Rio Javar}^, 2nd December, 

 1874. 



Allied to D. avia and D. concohr. 



