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until the margin is reached. This curved portion of the band is 

 narrower and bright vermilion in colour. Nearly midway be- 

 tween the white band and the exterior margin is a very faint line- 

 like whitish-brown wavy band, about the length of the broader 

 band, and in the indentations of the exterior margin are three 

 white specks. There is also a wavy vermilion band crossing the 

 base of the tail from the outer margin, in a direction nearly 

 parallel to the. internal margin of the tail, until it reaches the 

 internal margin of the wing, just before which it runs up and joins 

 the vermilion portion of the broader band by an angular projec- 

 tion. The tail is tipped with a small white patch, and there are 

 three white specks in the indentations of its inner margin ; below 

 very nearly as above. Head, body, antennae and legs black. 



Expansion of wings \-^^ inch. 



From Peru. 



In my own Collection. 



This female, somewhat resembling E. Jurgensenii from Mexico 

 in colour, but very different in its markings and much smaller in 

 size. It is, I expect, a female of one of the species in the section 

 Melibcea. 



Erycina OcoUo, W. W. Saunders. (PI. X. figs. 6 and 7.) 



The head, antennas and body are black. The palpi short, 

 scarcely projecting beyond the front of the head. The anterior 

 wings are large and full ; the exterior margin curved outwards ; 

 above black, with a bioad bright orange band passing in a slanting 

 direction, from about the centre of the anterior margin to the 

 exterior margin near the anal angle, and with an ill-defined narrow 

 yellowish -brown band running about midway between the apex of 

 the wing and the orange band, and nearly parallel with the latter; 

 below the colouring is as above, except that the apical band is 

 white, crossed with black nervures. The posterior wings are full 

 and rather short, terminated by a sharp-pointed rather long very 

 diverging tail. They are black, with a central yellow band broken 

 in the middle, wide at its commencement near the centre of the 

 anterior margin, and terminating at the apex of the abdomen. 

 Behind the yellow band is an angular row of spots between it and 

 the apex of the wing ; those near the outer margin yellow and 

 parallel w^th the margin ; the remainder white, running parallel 

 with the apex of the wing. A broad bright patch of blue, crossed 

 with black nervures, occupies the surface of the wing between 



