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above fawn-coloured, the base of the costa and the median ner- 

 vule cinnabar-coloured. Posterior wings cinnabar-coloured at the 

 base, the inner margin and the base furnished with some long 

 fawn-coloured hairs, the middle crossed by a broad band of a 

 reddish orange, narrowed near the costa ; beyond this is a broad, 

 black, submarginal band, reaching from the outer to the inner 

 angle, sending out two short branches to the outer margin, and a 

 broad one to the tail ; the outer margin cinnabar-coloured, inner 

 margin marked with a round black dot at the anal angle. The 

 under surface of the anterior wings is white at the base, marked 

 with three or four cinnabar-coloured vittse. The costa is yellow- 

 ish ; the disc is crossed by a cinnabar-coloured band, becoming 

 narrower towards the inner margin, marked at the end of the cell 

 with a short white vitta ; this band is followed by a white one, 

 extending from the costa to the anal angle ; beyond this band the 

 wings are of a cinnabar brown, freckled with ashy white, and 

 crossed by a band of the same colour. The posterior wings have 

 the under surface white from the base beyond the middle, more 

 or less marked with narrow cinnabar-coloured lines, then follows 

 a rufous orange band, bordered externally near the outer angle 

 with greyish ash colour, and beyond this with black ; the remain- 

 der of the wings is of a deep cinnabar hue, the outer margin with 

 three white lunules, separated by two black dots ; the tip and 

 inner side of the tail each with a white dot, separated by a black 

 one, another white spot at the termination of the orange band, and 

 above this a black one. Legs greyish. Abdomen ash-coloured, 

 ringed with white. 



This species is easily known from the preceding by the want of 

 the flexuous white band of the anterior, and the cinnabar-coloured 

 base of the posterior wing. The specimen figured Tab. XII. fig. 4, 

 I have considered only a variety of this species, but it possibly is 

 distinct from it. Above it has two slight transverse reddish bands, 

 beyond the middle of the anterior wings, which approximate as 

 they approach the anal angle, less red on the median nervure, and 

 a slight tinge of red on the sub-median ; the posterior wings have 

 a black dash on the anterior margin, and more black at the anal 

 angle than in the true Er. lanthe. Below, the base of both wings 

 is more distinctly marked with cinnabar-brown vittae. If distinct, 

 I propose for it the name of Er. Iphis. 



Sp. 3. Er. Jtdia. 

 Er. Alis anticis fnscis, basi corvinis, fascia transversa media, 



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