NY Vise Ele Nee) A. 
ERESIA VIII. 
ERESIA ALSINA. 62, 63. 
Eresia Alsina, Hewitson. Trans. Hut. Soc. p. 33, 1869. 
UprrrstpE. Female, dark brown. Anterior wing with a broad rufous-orange 
band from the base : crossed obliquely by three bands, the first of which (the longest) 
before the middle is divided into four by the nervures, the second beyond the middle 
divided into five, the third near the apex trifid: and besides these a submarginal band 
of five spots, all orange-yellow. Posterior wing with the costal and outer margins 
broadly dark brown ; a submarginal band of seven orange-yellow spots. 
UNDERSIDE as above. 
Male like the female, except that the bands of the anterior wing are produced 
until they reach and absorb the submarginal spots. 
Exp. 2445 imches. Hab. Nicaragua. (Chontales, Belt.) 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
Most nearly allied to #. Phillyra. 
ERESIA PELONIA. 64, 65, 66, 67. 
$ Lresia Pelonia, Hewitson. Kzxot. Butts. Vol. I. Plate 30, fig. 3. 
@ Eresia Ithomiola. Salvin. Annals, & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th Ser. Vol. IV. p. 171. 
Uprrrsipr. Male, rufous-orange. Anterior wing, from the base to near the 
middle (except the costal margin, a band on the median nervure, and the nervures, 
which are dark brown) rufous-orange: crossed at the middle by a band of yellow, 
divided above the median nervure into five parts, and below it into one large oval spot : 
a spot within this touching the red of the base, a spot beyond it, and a submarginal 
series of five spots, all yellow. Posterior wing with a band on the costal margin from 
the base to beyond the middle, a band at the middle divided into five spots, and the 
outer margin which is undulated on its inner border and traversed by a series of 
yellow spots, all dark brown. 
Female (fig. 66), dark brown. Anterior wing rufous-orange from the base to 
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Published October 1st, 1870. ] 
