114 Mr. E. Doubleday's Description 



posterior wings above of a fuscous brown, nnore or less tinged 

 with fawn colour, especially towards the base of the wings, the 

 colour varying with the direction of the light. The anterior 

 wings are crossed about the middle by a flexuous white band, 

 commencing below the subcostal nervure, and terminating slightly 

 before the anal angle. The posterior wings are crossed by a sub- 

 marginal band of a dull cinnabar colour, narrow, almost pointed at its 

 commencement near the outer angle, broad at its termination on the 

 inner margin above the anal angle ; sending off two short branches to 

 the outer margin. Outer margin cinnabar-coloured. The under 

 surface of the anterior wings has the base of a dull cinnabar colour, 

 striped longitudinally with white, the cell is crossed by a slightly 

 silvery white band, and the discocellular nervule is marked by a 

 short band of the same colour ; the band of the upper surface is 

 represented by a similiar band, extending however to the costa, 

 and to the inner margin, of a paler colour at both its origin and 

 termination, than on the disc ; and bordered externally with black. 

 Between this band and the outer margin is a pale ash-coloured 

 line bordered externally with black, the inner margin towards the 

 base is broadly silvery ash-coloured. Posterior wings of the male 

 having the inner margin reflexed at the base, forming a semioval 

 fold, partially covering the disc of the wing ; this fold externally 

 is of a cinnabar brown, delicately edged with silvery white, marked 

 near the base with silvery spots, and within its margin by a delicate 

 silvery white line; internally it is lined with silky hairs. Imme- 

 diately beyond this fold the wing is of a dull cinnabar colour; 

 marked irregularly with white, beyond which are two transverse 

 bands, the first of an ashy white, the second of a cinnabar colour, 

 beyond these bands the wings are of a cinnabar brown clouded, 

 with the outer margin marked with dull white spots, and the 

 outer angle with a dash of the same colour. The female differs 

 from the male in wanting the fold, and having the base streaked 

 alternately with cinnabar and whitish. Legs ash-coloured. Ab- 

 domen fawn-coloured, ringed with white. 



Sp. 2. Er. lanlhe. 

 Er. Alis anticis cervinis, costae basi cinnabarina, posticis basi 

 subcinnabarinis, tunc rufo-aurantiacis, fascia submarginali ex- 

 terne dentata nigra. 

 Exp. alar. 1 unc. 7 lin. vel 40 mill. 

 Hab. Venezuela. (Tab. XII. fig. 3, 4.) 



Head black, orbits of the eyes white. Palpi striped with white. 

 Antennae black. Thorax greyish fawn-coloured. Anterior wings 



