H E S P E 11 I D .E. 



PYRRHOPYGA. IV. 



PYRRHOPYGA SANTHILARIUS. 24, 25. 



Hcspcria Santhiluriiis. LatreUle. End. Method. IX., p. 737. Tauiyris PardaUna 

 Folder Eeise Novara Lep.,pl. 70, /. 5, 6, /;. 507. 



UppERSiDE rufous-bi'own dark at the outer margins. Anterior wing with a large 

 central trifid transparent spot : three subapical spots and three small spots between 

 these and the central spot also transparent. Posterior wing with a central band of 

 dark brown spots. 



Underside dark brown. Anterior wing as above, except that it has an ochreous 

 band near the base and a band of lilac-white beyond the middle parallel to the outer 

 margin. Posterior wing with the basal half pale yellow crossed obliquely by a band 

 of black, the central band of the upperside blue-black bordered outwardly with lilac- 

 white. 



Exp. 2iij inch. Ilab. Brazil. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



PYRRHOPYGA EPIMACHIA. 26, 27. 

 Herrieli. ScJidffer. Prodromus S^/tst., Lep. III., p. 59. 



Upperside rufous. Anterior wing with several pale yellow transparent spots : one 

 large and trifid near the centre, a second ])cyond this bifid, the three usual spots 

 near the apex, and two very minute spots between these and the last described, all 

 bordered with black. Posterior wing with a short band near the base and costal 

 margin ; a central band and the outer margin black. 



Underside. Anterior wing with the spots as ai3ove : the base and a spot on the 

 costal margin ochreous : a band of paler colour beyond the middle, and parallel to the 

 outer margin. Posterior wing orange yellow, crossed by three bands of black, the 

 outer margin broadly brown. 



Exp. 2yV inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Buckley.) 

 In the Collection of W. C. Hewitsou. 



Published Julij Is/, 1873.] 



