ERYCINID^. 



NECYRIA AND ESTHEMOPSIS. 



NECYRIA IN G ARETHA. 8, 9. 



Upperside. Female, dark brown. Both wings crossed by a submarginal series 

 of green spots, each spot traversed longitudinally by a hastate white spot. 



Underside as above except that the submarginal spots are altogether white and 

 much more distinct than on the upperside, and that the posterior wing has a large 

 triangular scarlet spot at the middle of its inner margin : the fringe narrow, 

 white. 



Exp. 2yo inch. Hab. Nicaragua. (Chontales, Belt.) 



Ill the CoUectiou of Thomas Belt. 



NECYRIA VETULONIA. 10, 11. 



Upperside. Female, blue-black. Both wings with a submarginal series of 

 pyramidal green-blue spots, each spot marked at its base with white except near the 

 apex of the anterior Aving where they are traversed by a white line : the fringe of the 

 posterior wing broadly white, divided by black at the end of the nervures. 



Underside as above except that the submarginal spots are all white, more 

 distinct and hastate, that the anterior wing has two scarlet spots near the base, and 

 that the posterior wing has also two scarlet spots, one at the middle of the costal 

 margin, the other at the middle of the inner margin. 



Exp. 2 inches. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.) 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



ESTHEMOPSIS SERICINA. 1, 2. 



Esthemopsis Sericina, Bates. Trans. Ent. Soc. ^rd Ser. Vol. V. jy. 544. 

 Var. E. Colaxes, Hetvitsoii. Erjiiat. Lej). p. 54. 



Upperside. Male, blue-black. Anterior wing with a short hue of pale blue 



Published 1st July, 1872.] 



