New South American Butterflies. 675 
colour 1 mm. in width. Fringes chequered with yellowish. An- 
tennae black above greyish below; club orange-yellow below. 
Palpi deep orange-yellow above, greyish below. Head, thorax and 
abdomen black above and covered with deep orange-yellow hair. 
Underside of thorax and abdomen greyish, legs yellowish. Length 
of fore-wing 19 mm. 
© similar to the 3. 
Type from Quenche, 8. Peru, 14,000 feet, January 1910. 
A series of both sexes. In Collection Adams, British 
Museum. 109 4,3 29, with same locality and date. 
Pyrameis huntera altissima, subsp. nov. 
This is a mountain form allied to the forms rubra, Stgr., and 
braziliensis, Moore. The two apical dots are white as in typical 
huntera. Agrees with rubia and braziliensis in the greater amount 
of black and the markings being more red than yellowish. On 
the underside the markings are white and not tinged with yellow; 
the marginal line on the hind-wing underside is continuous as in 
typical huntera. 
A series from Agualani, 8.E. Peru, 9000 feet, July and 
August 1905. Limbani, 8.E. Peru, 9500 feet, April and 
May 1904. One specimen from Bafios, Rio Pastaza, 
E. Ecuador, 6100 feet, January 1911. 
Eresia neptoides, sp. nov. 
Allied to letitia, Hew. Readily distinguished by the dark powder- 
ing of the spots and especially by the straight marginal line on the 
hind-wing. Ground-colour brownish-black. 
3. Upperside of fore-wing with white markings powdered with 
brown as follows: A streak in the cell from the base to the apex 
and nearly filling it. A triangular spot beyond the cell formed of 
three streaks, the larger behind vein 8 and the smaller behind 5. 
Beyond this an oval apical spot, its distal two-thirds obscured by 
the ground-colour, its lower edge white. An apical marginal row 
of 5 spots in 2-6, the upper three small, the fourth obsolete, the 
fifth larger, white and well defined. A median quadrate patch in 
cellule 2, not filling the base of the cellule, the upper part touching 
the cell and extending into 3, and as a slight dusting below 2. A 
rounded spot in 2 distally of the large one and nearer to it than to 
the margin, its lower and outer edge partly invaded by the ground- 
colour. A spot below it in lc and touching the large spot at vein 2. 
Base faintly red-brown. Hind-wing with a white discal band 
