264 Mr. W. W. Saunders on the 



beyond the band black-brown, with four crimson spots fn the 

 siniiations of the outer margin and a minute crimson spot on the 

 inner margin, just above the termination of tlie crimson band ; 

 below silvery-white at the base, ftiintly streaked longitudinally 

 with red-brown, beyond which is a crimson band, corresponding 

 with the band on the upperside, which is here reduced to a mere 

 red line, having on its outer margin a series of minute yellow 

 streaks running into the dark reddish-brown ground beyond, on 

 which are three long white spots on the outer margin and two 

 smaller ones of the same colour on the inner margin. Abdomen 

 dark brown above, with the underside and legs white. 



Expansion of wings l^^^y inch. 



In the collection of VV. W. Saunders. Bogota. 



This is very similar in markings to lanthc of Doub., and 

 chiefly differs in the broad and obtusely pointed posterior wings. 

 I have only seen the female, and in the differences alluded to it 

 is readily distinguished from the female o( lanthe. 



3. Erateina Regina, W. W. S. ? . (PI. XV. figs. 3, Sa.) 



Head, antennae and thorax dark reddish-brown. Anterior wings 

 above bright rust colour, gradually shaded to dark red-brown at 

 the base, and on the exterior margin, the fringe of which is 

 mottled with black and white; below red-brown, crossed with 

 a rather broad nearly straight silvery white band a little beyond 

 the middle, and an obsolete whitish transverse band between that 

 and the apex, and having the basal portion beyond the silvery 

 band suff'used with whitish-prey, all but a broad triangular patch 

 adjoining the band, the apex of which is towards the posterior 

 margin. Posterior wings broad and terminating with a sharply- 

 pointed diverging tail ; a'jove with a silver band, crossing the wing 

 in a slanting direction from the middle of the anterior margin to a 

 point on the interior margin about two-thirds its length from the 

 base, the band being crossed \vit!i black veins and sinuate an- 

 teriorily, and having the basal portion beyond the band black- grey, 

 and the portion in front of the band velvet-like black, margined with 

 red- brown towards the band, and having on the outer margin two 

 silver lunate spots and the tail fringed with the same colour, and 

 two spots, one at the base of the tail, and the other just below 

 the termination of the silver band also silvery-white ; below with 

 a broad silver band corresponding with the one on the upper 

 surface, but curved upwards on the inner margin, edged with 

 purplish-crimson, and with the basal portion beyond the band dull 



