collected in Chili. 345 



The following two species must, I think, be distinct, 

 though associated with P. pnecisaria in the collection ; 

 the grey bands on the under surface of the primaries are 

 absent from both of them, though very conspicuous in 

 P. pnecisaria ; from one another they differ in pattern on 

 the upper surface, and that in a very marked degree. 



9. Perusia ruhripicta, n. s. 



(? , 2 . Primaries above deep gamboge-yellow, irro- 

 rated with red, most densely on the basal and external 

 thirds, which are bounded by ill-defined lines of the same 

 red colour converging towards the inner margin ; a 

 minute grey dot at the end of the cell ; male with the 

 costa near apex flecked with grey ; female with an 

 almost pyriform lilac-bordered grey subapical costal 

 spot ; secondaries sericeous-white, with sulphur-yellow 

 fringe ; internal margin slightly rosy, with white fringe ; 

 thorax gamboge-j^ellow, with a central red spot ; head 

 white ; abdomen pearly white ; under surface shining 

 creamy white ; costal and apical areas of wings yellow ; 

 a short diffused oblique red apical dash on the primaries, 

 male with the costal margin blackish at apex. Expanse 

 of wings, 25 mm. 



(? , Var. ? ignescens. 



The primaries above shining reddish golden-yellow, 

 mottled with grey; fringe, costal margin, and base of 

 inner margin gamboge-yellow ; antennae dull yellowish ; 

 head and thorax yellow ; a reddish spot at the base of 

 each tegula, and a triangular patch of the same over the 

 centre of the metathorax and base of abdomen, the latter 

 flesh-tinted ; discoidal area of primaries on the under 

 side mottled with grey, and slightly tinted with rose- 

 colour. Expanse of wings, 23 mm. 



I feel some doubt as to the identity of this form with 

 P. ruhripicta ; but there is only one example of it in the 

 collection, so it seems safer for the present to regard it 

 as a remarkable variety ; there are also two males of 

 what I should think are undoubted varieties of P. ruhri- 

 picta, but which differ from the typical form in having 

 the basal and external areas much less densely irrorated 

 or mottled with red (the external area being in fact 

 almost wholly yellow), and in the limiting lines of these 

 areas being spotted here and there with grey, the outer 



