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Lyropieryx Apollonia, Westwood. ? . (PI, XI. fig. 19.) 



The anterior wings are full and much rounded on tlie outer 

 margin ; above blark, except two or three minute crimson spots 

 near the base, and a broad band of brownish-white line-like 

 markings taking the direction of the nerves of the wing on the 

 outer margin ; below, black towards the base, near which are four 

 crimson rounded spots ; the remainder of the wing traversed by 

 brownisli-white lines in the direction of the nervures ; fringe 

 black. Posterior wings above black at the base, near which are 

 two or three minute crimson spots, and on the exterior margin a 

 broad crimson band, into which the black colour of the base runs 

 in many pointed radiating lines in the direction of the nervures ; 

 below black, with ten unequal sized crimson rounded spots on the 

 basal half, the other portion being pale crimson, traversed in the 

 direction of the nervures with black lines, proceeding from tlie 

 black colour of the base of the wing ; fringe white. Head, an- 

 tennae, body and legs black, except the abdomen, which is short 

 and stout and spotted with crimson on the sides near the apex. 



Expansion of the wings 2^ inches. 



From the Amazon region. 



In the Collection of the British Museum. 



The foregoing description is that of a female, which, looking to 

 the crimson spotting of the base of the wings and the band of 

 line-like markings of the anterior wings, I believe to be the $ of 

 L. ApoUonia, Westwood, the male of whicli is in the National Col- 

 lection, and was well figured in the " Genera of Diurnal Lepi- 

 doptera," pi. 72, fig. 1. 



Lyropieryx Lyra, W. VV. Saunders. 



The anterior wings are sharply pointed ; above velvety black, 

 with a broad band on the outer margin of about seventeen bluish- 

 white line-like markings running in the direction of the nervures, 

 the band being at the apex of the wing one-third the length of the 

 anterior margin, and gradually narrowing as it approaches the 

 posterior angle, and having its inner margin somewiint curved 

 outwards ; fringe black ; below brownish-black, with five small 

 crimson spots placed near each other towards the base, and the 

 remainder of the wing covered with white radiating lines, taking 

 the direction of the nervures and gradually increasing in width as 

 they approach the outer margin. Posterior wings with the anal 

 angle elongated into a well-defined projection ; above velvety 



