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veral white s^Dots before the apex, terinen brownish. Underside pale yellow, with the usual P/tv/c/or/e.s-pat- 

 tern somewhat obsolete. 



Ph. diallus Godm. a. Salv. (90 a), from Guatemala, has nearly the same shape as fuhnplaga. Upper sur- diallns. 

 face blackish-fuscous, with few yellowish marks in the middle of forewing and at the outer margin of hindwing. 

 Under surface: Forewing greyi.sh brown, with yellowish terminal spots, hindwing yellowish-grey, with the usual 

 Phi/riodes markings. 



Ph. chromis Godm. a. Snlv. is possibly only a form of diallus, from which it d(jes not differ at all in q , chromis. 

 whereas the V li<i« tlie spots on the forewing paler than typical diallus. Panama. 



Ph. cassiopea Godm. a. Salv. (!l(i a) has the upper surface blackish brown, with blurred yellowish ca.ssiopea. 

 markings. Huidwings with a yellow submarginal line and an incomplete row of black, yellow margined 

 ocelli. Underneath the forewuigs are greyish-brown, with yellowish spots at termen, the hindwings yellowish- 

 grey, marked with brown. Costa Rica. — obscurata Fldr. (1)0 a), from Mexico, the typical form, the type of obscurata. 

 which was lent by Dr. K. Jordan, is rather snuiller, the white subapical dots are absent, and the underside is 

 paler and m(3re devoid of markings. 



Ph. fulviplaga Bflr. (i)0 a), from Co.sta Rica and Chiriqui is distinguished l)y the unusually broad wings. fulviplcKja. 

 Upper surface black-brown, with a more or less extensive subapical blotch of brownish-yellow and several 

 similar spots at the termen. The forewings are blackish-brown beneath, with the same brown-yellow subapical 

 spot and yellow termen as above. Underside of hindwings mottled with brown and reddish on a yellowish 

 ground. 



Ph. niveonotis Btlr. u. Dnici (iio a.), from Costa Rica resembles drusinilhi, but has the markings of the nivconotis. 

 upper sui'face very feel)ly yellowish, almost white, and the ground-colour of the underside whitish. 



Ph. drusinilla Stgr. i. 1. (!»(» a), from Argentina, has the upper surface blackish fuscous.'^with a large drushiilld. 

 yellow discal spot and 2 small subapical spots on the forewings, and a yellow median band on the hindwings. 

 Under surface dirty yellow, with broadly blackish costal margin and black subapical band on the forewings, and 

 the markings of the hindwings brownish as usual, hut almost obsolete. 



Ph. subconcolor spec. nov. (90 b), from Arizona, has mimcrous obsolete yellowish-l>rown spots on subconcolor. 

 brownish-black ground. Underneath the basal area of the forewings dirty yellow ish. with black stripes, the outer 

 area marked as above. Underside of hindwings reddish-white along costa, in the jjosterior half brownish- 

 grey, with brown markings, particularly a large spot near costa and a smaller one in the middle. 



ph. ptolyca Bates (9() b), from Guatemala and Venezuela has the markings of the upper surface broader piolyca 

 than in tii'iiuiiia. varying from darker to lighter. Under surface marked with fuscous on whitish or yellowish 

 ground. 



Ph. faustus 6Vk/w;. a. Salv. Very much like ptolyca. but the spots on the forewings are different; The faustus. 

 lower of the two central ones larger, almost round; two others before the apex, the lower of which minute, 

 the upper elongate. Median ba.nd of hindwings coherent, the submarginal Ijand obsolete. Panama: Chiriqui. 



Pll. phlegias Godm. a. Salv. (9(t b as jilaty taenia), likewise resendjles ptolijci, but has the outer maigin phlegias. 

 niore deeply excavated, the spots larger, brillant rufous, on the hindwings a brillant ochrcous yellow median 

 band, growing broader towards the apex, tapering towards tlu' inner margin. Honduras. 



Ph. drusilla Fldr., from Venezuela and Colombia, resembles orthia above, but has the forewings even drn.^iilla. 

 more profusely spotted with yellow, and on the hindwings 2 yellow submarginal lines. Under surface more 

 richly marked, but with the terminal eye-spots on the hindwings only just indicated. $ above marked with 

 pale yellow, alrao.st white. — Whether albofascia nov. form. (90 b), from Guatemala, of which we figure the $, albofascia. 

 is a form of dru.silla or a species of its own, cannot be decided, until further material is available. It lacks 

 on the hindwings the median band which is only indicated by a pale, obsolete line; forewings with a broad 

 white fascia extending to beyond the 1. median. Under surface jialcr than that of dru.silla 9> otherwise 

 hardly different. 



Ph. tulcis Bates (= punctata Edw.) (90 b. c), from Guatemala, Panama and the southern United <«fcis. 

 States, is distinguished by the sexes greatly differing in size, the J being very much smaller than the 2. Up- 

 perside likewise blackish fuscous, with ])ale yellow markings, especially a very prominent median band on 

 the hindwings. Underneath both wings with yellowish base. 



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