340 Mr. H. W. Bates on the Nymphalinze 
Genus Papura (Fab.), 
Westwood, in Dbld. & Hewits. Gen. p. 317. 
157. Paphia Eribotes, Fabricius. 
Papilio Eribotes, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 484. 183 (1775). 
Leonida, Cramer, 388 8, F (?) (1782). 
If the figure of Cramer, quoted above, is intended to represent the 
species which passes under the name of Hribotes, Fab., and agrees 
with his description, it is a very bad one; the other figure given on 
the same plate (f. c, p), as being the male of the same species, repre- 
sents, probably, a different one, but it is so bad as to be indeter- 
minable. Godart, from his description, confounds two distinct species 
under the head of NV. Eribotes. The true Hribotes is a common insect 
in the woods of Para. The male (the sex described by Fabr.) is of 
a rusty orange-colour, with the bases of both wings glossy violet- 
blue. The outer margin of this basal colour on the fore wing is 
oblique, and far from being continuous with that of the hind wing 
(as represented in Cramer), and on the hind wing the colour con- 
tinues to near the anal angle. The fore wing has a blackish patch 
on the costa a little beyond the cell, and the costa and apex are 
rather broadly black. The fore wing is falcate, the apex being a 
little produced and pointed, and the outer margin incurved from the 
apex to beyond the middle. The hind edge is deeply excised. 
Q. The female is of a dull slaty-black hue, with the base of the wings 
broadly tinged with light blue; towards the apex of the fore wing there 
is a short, waved costal belt of a dingy-whitish hue. It differs from the 
same sex of the allied species in having the outer margin of the fore wing 
slightly incurved, and in the under surface having several rather distinct 
patches of a blackish hue. 
158. Paphia Porphyrio, n. sp. 
¢. Expanse 2” 6”. Fore wing very moderately falcate, and outer 
border very slightly incurved; hind margin with a deep, semicircular 
emargination: hind wing with a linear or slightly pointed tail. Wings, 
above, rusty brown, with their bases tinged with bluish to an indetermi- 
nate extent; most examples have also an indistinct, oblique, twin costal 
spot, of a bluish colour, towards the apex. Hind wing with a minute 
ocellus at the base of the tail. Beneath, light brownish ferruginous, 
sprinkled with pearly atoms, some of which unite and form an oblique 
stripe from the fore-wing apex, and two shorter transverse ones near the 
middle and hind border of the hind wing. The hind wing, besides the 
ocellus at the base of the tail, has two or three other very minute ocelli. 
Q. Fore wing with the apex acute, but the outer margin not at all 
incurved. Both wings, above, rusty brown, with the base bluish; costal 
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