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silver, witli indistinct crimson longitudinal lines; the outer portion 

 of the wing black-brown, with the marking on the margin as above, 

 and a series of short golden yellow, very fine oblique lines, running 

 from the crimson margin of the band into the black ground. Body 

 above dark-brown, below and legs dull white. 



From Bogota. In the British Museum. 



Expansion of wings l-j^^ inch. 



This is a very distinct species, very unlike any other, is the 

 largest yet described, and, at the same time, the most beautiful 

 in its markings. 



4. Erateina Uneata, W. VV. S. ? . (PI. XVI. figs. 1, la.) 



Head black, with the orbits of the eyes white. Thorax dark- 

 brown, with the shoulders red-brown. Anterior wings above 

 black-brown, with a straight transverse yellowish-white band from 

 the middle of the anterior margin to a point a little within the 

 outer margin, near the anal angle, and gradually narrowing as it 

 approaches this point ; also having a white narrow, line running 

 parallel to and a little within the inner margin ; below rich crimson- 

 brown, with a white band, as on the upper side, and another, 

 orange-coloured, nearly midway between that and the outer margin, 

 but much narrower, and crossing from the anterior margin to the 

 inner angle, and liaving at the base of the wing a series of yellow 

 lines on the nervures. Posterior wings rather broad and slightly 

 produced into a broad rounded tail ; above black-brown, with 

 a large orange-red, inverted, lunate patch near the apex, touching 

 the inner margin and extending nearly across the wing, and run- 

 ning up towards the hinder angle of the anterior wing, and having 

 the basal portion of the wing with the nervures yellowish-white, 

 and fi\e v\hite spots on the fringe of the outer margin and apex; 

 below bright crimson-brown, with the outer margin broadly 

 edged with dark crimson-brown, and fringed with black and vyhite 

 in broad patches, having on the dark margin a narrow yellow 

 curved line parallel with the inner margin of tail and outer margin, 

 inside of which is a band of the groimd colour, then a narrow 

 band of yellow ; beyond which the nervures are bright yellow. 

 Body above dark-brown, with the segments of the abdomen mar- 

 ■lined wiih yellow; body beneath and legs yellowish-white. 



Ex()ansion of wing? 1 ^^^ inch. 



Bogota. In the collection of the British Museum, and W. W. 

 Saunders. 



A very distinct species, with the crimson spot in the posterior 



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