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" Agrias Hewitsonius. 



" S. Size of A. PlialcidoD (Hewits. Ex, B.) Above. Black. Fore wing having 

 at the base a large orange-coloured spot, rounded on its outer edge ; followed by a 

 broad belt of dark blue, extending from the costa to very near the hind marsrin : 

 ertged externally by a belt of six pale greenish lunules. Near the apex is a short belt 

 of three dusky white lunules. Hind wings with a large subtriangular spot on the disk, 

 occupying about half the surface, of the same blue colour as the fore wing. 



" Beneath. Fore wing has an orange-coloured spot similar to the one on the upper 

 side ; the apex is of a pale greenish gray ; the intermediate part of a dull black. 

 Hind wing: the base to nearly the middle orange, the outer edge of the patch deeply 

 sinuated in tlie middle. Rest of the wing pale greenish gray ; a submarginal line, a 

 central strongly curved macular belt, interrupted at the first median nervule; two 

 short ones across the disk, and two spots in the middle of the cell, black. Between 

 the central and submarginal belts is a row of seven large, equal, black ocelli, having 

 white pupils (double in the anal one) and shining blue irides. Body above rufous- 

 brown. Antennae black. The female is considerably larger and less brilliant in 

 colour, having also less blue colour on the disk of the hind wing. 



" I took four specimens of this distinct species, at Ega, one male and three 

 females. It is a very bold and rapid flyer, similar to the Preponaj and the Apalurae of 

 the old world. It is attracted, as well as one of the following species, by the sugary 

 sap exuding from certain trees in the forest, where I have seen it feeding amongst a 

 group of Incas and Cetoniadae. 



"AgBIAS PERtCLES. 



" ^. Very similar in size and outline to A. Phalcidon. The hind wing, both 

 above and beneath, oflFers not the slightest difference; the fore wing differs as 

 follows: — Above. Fore wing black: the basal portion, to about two-thirds the 

 length, occupied by a large spot of a beautiful scarlet colour inclining to orange. 

 This is followed by an oblique belt of five elongated spots of a metallic-green colour, 

 edged on the inner sides with brilliant dark blue. Towards the apex is a narrow belt 

 composed of four small cream-coloured spots. 



" T took one individual only of this species, in company with A. Phalcidon, 

 at Villa Nova, in 1854. The specimen has travelled with me from place to place on 

 the Upper Amazons for five years. I have considered it hitherto only an extraordinary 

 variety of A. Phalcidon, but on further experience of the singular way in which spe- 

 cies of this genus and of Catagramma differ from each other, I now prefer to consider 

 it distinct. A. Phalcidon was not uncommon at Villa Nova, although I saw not a 

 trace of it at any other locality. It flies high, and I never saw it descend towards the 

 ground. It settled on leaves of trees about fifteen to twenty feet fiom the ground, in 

 the broad alleys of the glorious forest at that locality, and could only be captured by 

 attaching a long pole to the bag-net. 



"Agrias Sardanapalus. 

 " (?. In size and shape of wings very similar to A. Claudius, of Rio Janeiro. 

 The under surface. of the wings does not diff'er in any way from that species: above, 



