HESPERID^E. PYRRHOPYGA. 



PYRRHOPYGA EXIMIA. 12. 



Pyrrliopygu Eximia, Heiuitson. Trnns. Enf. Soc. p. 167, 1S71. 



Upperside. Anterior wing dark green-brown, with a spot in the cell, and an oblique, 

 continuous, transparent and highly polished white band beyond the middle, nearly 

 parallel to the outer margin, extending from the subcostal margin near the apex, to the 

 middle of the sulMuedian nervure, and divided into seven parts by the nervures. 

 Posterior wing pale yellow tinted with orange towards the base : the base, a central 

 transverse band, the nervures, and the inner and outer margins, dark brown. 



Underside as above, except that there is a subcostal ochreous band on the 

 anterior wing, and that the brown on the outer margin of the posterior wing is much 

 narrower. 



Exp. :2 inch. Hab. Venezuela. 



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



PYRRHOPYGA ZEREDA. 13. 



Pifrrhojjyga Zereda, Hewitson. Trans. Ent. Soc. 'ird Scr. Vol. II.]). 4S4. 



Upperside blue-black tinted with green on the anterior wing. Both wings 

 bordered with orange, broad and dentated inwardly on the posterior wing. 



Underside as above, except that the femora of all ihe legs are j^artly orange. 



Exp. 2-i2jj inch. Hab. Mexico. 



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



I believed that P. Hijriieia of Felder was identical with my P. Zereda, until I received a series 

 of his species from Mr. Buckley. P. Zereda has the fringe of all the wings orange, P. Hygieia of the 

 posterior wing only. P. Zereda has all the femora partly orange ; P. Hi/gieia is not so decorated. 



PYRRHOPYGA CRIDA. 14. 



Egrrhopyga Crida, Hewitson. Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 167, 1871. 



Upperside blue-black : the head and anus scarlet. Anterior wing crossed trans- 

 versely at the middle, from the subcostal nervure to near the anal angle, by a narrow, 

 trifid, transparent, glossy white band. 



Exp. 2-,% inch. Hab. Nicaragua. (Chontales.) 



In the Collections of Thomas Belt and W. C. Hewitson. 



PYRRHOPYGA SPATIOSA. 15. 



Pyrrhopyga Spatiosa, Hewitson. Equal. Lep. p). 69, 1S70. 



Upperside. Body covered with rufous hair. Abdomen dark brown belted 

 with grey-white. Wings blue-black. Anterior wing with a triangidar rufous spot of 

 hair at the base ; crossed by three transparent white spots : the tirst and largest (a 

 band) at the middle tripartite, the second bipartite, the third subapical (which has 

 near it three minute white spots), tripartite. Posterior wing rufous, with the costal 

 and outer margins broadly black. 



Underside blue-black. Anterior wing with the three transparent spots as above. 

 Posterior wing with two small scarlet spots near the base. 



Exp. ;i inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.) 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



This, the largest known species, has also been taken in Nicaragua by Jlr. Belt. Several species 

 collected by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador, and by Mr. Belt in Nicaragua, are identical. 



