376 Mr. A, G. Butler oit Heteroccrous Lepidoptcni 



Var. columha. 



Sericeous greyish brown, irroratecl with blackish ; 

 secondaries slightly tinted with pale reddish cupreous ; 

 markings almost wholly obliterated, but the discal stripe 

 represented by a series of black dots on the veins ; 

 sometimes three or four black spots beyond the latter, 

 towards the anal angles of all the wings ; under surface 

 paler than in the tj^pical form, the markings mostty 

 obsolete. Expanse of wings, 35 — 36 mm. 



Two females. " Valparaiso, in December." — T. E. 



53. Pharmacis ardescens, n. s. 



Primaries above dull red-brown ; basal third and a 

 broad costal border not reaching the apex white, tinted 

 with pink near' the costal margin; three nearly equi- 

 distant transverse blackish stripes-, the first oblique,, 

 limiting the white basal third, the second straight, 

 crossing the wing immediately bej'ond the cell (at the 

 end of which is a black dot), the third oblique, running 

 to apex, slightly incurved close to the inner margin, 

 double, bounding the external border, which is suffused 

 with blackish at apex and upon the median interspaces, 

 and encloses a series of unequal black-centred ocelloid 

 white spots ; the innermost and outermost stripes are 

 also mottled with black upon the veins ; a series of 

 black marginal dots ; fringe grey ; secondaries pale rosy 

 cupreous, grey at the base and on the costal border, 

 irrorated with grey, and crossed in the middle by a 

 black-dotted grey stripe ; a slightly undulated blackish 

 discal stripe, close to which is a series of black dots 

 upon the veins ; this stripe is bounded outwardly by a 

 subconfluent series of black-dotted white spots ; a mar- 

 ginal series of black spots ; fringe spotted with grey ; 

 body flesh-coloured, minutely and sparsely black- speckled ; 

 under surface white, irrorated with black ; wings with 

 disco-cellular dots and a continuous discal series black ; 

 marginal dots very indistinct ; primaries crossed by a 

 central grey stripe, touching which within the cell is a 

 ratlier large diffused grey nebula ; a trace of a grey 

 stripe, answering to the third stripe of the upper surface. 

 Expanse of wings, 36 mm. 



" Valparaiso, in December."' — T. E. 



