HESPERIDiE. 



LEUCOCHITONEA. 



LEUCOCHITONEA LIMAEA. 1, 2. 



L. Limaea, Hewitson. Desc. of 100 Hesperid(S,p. 47. 



Upperside dark brown, with some central black spots : a spot at the end of the 

 cell, two spots between the median nervules, and a transverse band grey. Posterior 

 wing with a spot at the end of the cell and the onter margin, which is broad, grey : 

 the apex and anal angle brown. 



Underside. Anterior wing as above, but paler. Posterior wing, with the apex 

 and two or three small spots above it, brown. 



Exp. \yq inch. Hab. Amazon and Cayenne. 



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



jry first description of this species was made from an example on which the spots were scarcely 

 visible. Few specimens have the grey spots so well defined as that of the plate. 



LEUCOCHITONEA LACAENA. .3. 



Upperside white, with the base of both wings brown. Anterior wing with six 

 central transparent spots : the apex broadly brown, marked by five other small, also 

 transparent, spots, four of which are subapical, and banded \nth dark brown near the 

 outer margin. Posterior wing with ten central transparent spots : crossed before the 

 middle by a band of brown, beyoud the middle by a band of grey tinted with yellow 

 near the anal angle. 



Underside as above, except that it is paler, and has no brown at the base of the 



wmgs. 



Exp. 1^ inch. Hab. Brazil. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



LEUCOCHITOXEA LUCAEIA. 4. 



L. Lucaria, Hewitson. Desc. of 100 HesperidcB , p . .50. 



Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing tinted with lilac-grey : an oblong spot 

 from the middle of the costal margin, and a small spot near the anal angle, yellow. 

 Posterior wing with a band of yellow near the outer margin. 



Underside as above, except that the spot near the anal angle of the anterior 

 wing is larger, and that there is a small spot at the end of the cell of the posterior 

 wing. 



Exp. 1 inch. Hab. Cayenne. 



In the Collection of ^Y. C. Hewitson. 



The female has the spots and the outer half of the posterior wing on the upperside white. 



