Butterflies collected in Chil. 455 
which is black, with yellow iris, and usually two but 
sometimes only one white pupil; outer border bounded 
internally by a zigzag black line; fringe spotted with 
pale buff; secondaries with the basal half chocolate- 
brown, bounded externally by an oblique irregularly 
angulated pale yellow line ; dise yellowish, striated with 
red-brown, a small reddish brown costal nebula, and a 
small unipupillate black ocellus on the second median 
interspace ; outer border almost entirely dark brown, and 
limited internally by an irregularly zigzag black-brown 
line; fringe tipped with pale brown; pectus black ; 
legs and venter pale brown; expanse of wings, 1 inch 
6 lines. 
?. Larger than the male, paler and redder, the disc 
of all the wings above ferruginous; primaries with a 
well-defined blind blackish subapical ocellus ; disc below 
paler than in the male; the edge of the basal half of 
secondaries white instead of yellow, and twice as broad 
as in the male; the ocellus wanting; expanse of wings, 
1 inch 7 lines. 
‘Local at Valparaiso ; in December and beginning of 
January, 1880, among ‘coligne.’”—T’. EL. 
This species, on the under surface, has much the 
aspect of Canonympha dorus. 
18. Neomenas fractifascia, n.s. (Pl. XXI., fig. 3). 
3g. Above fuliginous-brown ; primaries with a reddish 
tawny nebula, partly within and partly below the cell, 
cut by the first median branch ; a large black blind sub- 
apical ocellus, partly enclosed in an abbreviated tawny 
discal band, divided by the nervures, and terminating at 
the first median branch ; secondaries with an abbreviated 
discal band, clouded with brown below the second median 
branch, and only extending upwards to the radial 
nervure, enclosing a small blackish spot on the second 
median interspace ; base of wings clothed as usual with 
golden brown hairs; body blackish; primaries below 
tawny, the dise occupied by a broad paler belt, enclosing 
a large black subapical spot with a small white pupil ; 
outer border brown, excepting at the apex, which is 
tawny; secondaries testaceous varied with white; the 
interno-basal area broadly blackish, its inferior portion 
confluent with a broad oblique blackish-edged smoky 
