ERYCINID^ LIMNAS. 



LIMNAS VOLUSIA. 4. 



Upperside dark browu. Anterior wing with an indistinct band of lighter brown 

 transversely across beyond the middle. Posterior wing with a band of crimson on the 

 outer margin. 



Underside as above, except that the posterior wing has a single crimson spot upon 

 the costal margin near the base. 



Espan. Ij^ in. Hab. Rio de Janeiro. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



LLAINAS VITULA. 5. 



Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing with a large triangular basal spot of orange — 

 one side of which reaches from the base to near the anal angle — and a narrow transverse 

 white band beyond the middle. Posterior wing with a large oblong central spot of 

 orange. 

 » Underside lighter ; the central spot of the posterior wing yellow at its lower end. 



Expan. 1^ in. Hab. River Amazon. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



This species very nearly resembles Themone Pais, Westwood, figured in Plate 72 of the " Genera 

 of Diurnal Lepidoptera." It is one of the many beautiful things for which we are indebted to the 

 enthusiasm of Mr. Bates and Mr. Wallace, whose perseverance in their pursuit has nearly doubled the 

 species of Erycinidae in our Collections. 



Mr. Bates, in some notes with which he has favoured me, in writing of this — the most exquisite 

 and varied family of Butterflies — says : " The Erycinidte are exceedingly numerous in species in the 

 shades of these equatorial forests ; some of the species are numerous in individuals, and form the greater 

 part of the Diurnal Lepidoptera that one meets with in a ramble through the forest pathways, but the 

 greater number are very local, and many species are so exceedingly rare that after months of assiduous 

 search only a single specimen rewards one's labour." 



LIMNAS THYATIRA. 6. 



Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing with the inner margin, a large quadrate 

 spot which proceeds from the base and reaches beyond the middle (its lower edge deeply 

 sinuated), and an oblique band across the apex, orange. Posterior wing with a large 

 central triangular spot of orange (one side of which is formed by the inner margin), and 

 a submargiual row of small round white spots. 



Underside as above, except that the submarginal spots are more distinct. 



Expan. 1-^ in. Hab. River Amazon. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



