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thii"d elongate spot is orange-red, opake. The liind w iiig has a very broad 

 dusky-black margin, but the whole disk and the nervm-es are milky- 

 white. 



The white disk of the hind wing gives thia form a peculiar facies. 

 In this character, as well as in the colours of the fore wing, it re- 

 sembles exactly another Itliomia abundant in its locality, viz. /. 

 Ilerdina, Hewits. The two fly together, and cannot be distinguished 

 when on the wing. Itliomia Ilerdina is closely allied to /. Flora, 



9. L. ArgocMoe, nob. 



cJ. Outline of wings same as the preceding. In colours it is extremely 

 like L. Antherize (Hewits. Exot. Butt. Lept. 12) and i. Fortimata (Lucas, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1854, p. 53. pi. 3), having near the apex of the fore 

 wing a rather broad, oblique, semitransparent white belt ; in all other re- 

 spects it cannot be distinguished from L. 3Ielaiioe. It differs from L. 

 Antherize (a Mexican species) in the nervures which cross the white belt 

 being black instead of white. From L. Fortimata (also a Mexican species) 

 it differs in the widely different direction of the red submarginal stripe of 

 the hind wings beneath. In L. Fortimata the stripe is represented as 

 terminating before the apex of the wing, whereas in L. Argochlo'e, as well 

 as all its allied fomis, it curves round within the apex, and nearly or quite 

 meets a similar red subcostal stripe. 



L. Argochlo'e mimics Ithomia Virginia, Hewits., a species inhabit- 

 ing the same locality, viz. St. Paulo. 



10. L. Lijsinoe, Hewits. 



L. Lysino'e, Hewits. Ex. Butt. Lept. 3, 4. — ^Ega. 



Yar. 1. lb. f 13.— Ega. 



Var. 2. The basal stripe of the fore wing orange-red, opake. The hind 

 wing orange, except the costal margin (which is white in ^, black in $), 

 the apex, a short stripe proceeding therefrom, and a narrow posterior 

 border, which are black. ( $ J ) — Ega. 



Var. 3. Similar to var. 1 ; but the basal sti-ipe of the fore wAwg is also 

 orange-red, and the hiud wing is duskj'- black, leaving a rather narrow 

 orange-rod submarginal stripe. ( $ ) — St. Paulo. 



Var, 4. Similar to the tj-pe ; but the costal and apical spots of the fore 

 wing are coniluent, and the orange submarginal stripe of the hind wing 

 is narrow and abbreviated. ( S ) — St. Paulo, 



The typical form is found only at Ega, where also are found vars. 

 1 & 2 ; vars. 3 «& 4 occurring only at St. Paulo, in company with the 

 more striking inodifications, which 1 have described ahove (sp. 6-9) 

 under separate names. The type does not mimic any species of 

 Ifhoitiia of its locality, but it has a most deceptive resemblance to 



