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II. Descriptions of six new Species of Callidryas. By A. 

 G. BuTLEE, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



[Bead 3rd January, 1870.] 

 X. Callidryas virgo, sp. nov. 



S . Alee supra flavissimas, lis C. Cipridis similliniEe at 

 majores et plerumque pallidiores ; caudis alarum posti- 

 carum magis elongatis : subtus pallidiores^ fasciis tenui- 

 oribus : corpus, capite fusco, thorace cinereo, flavo-piloso, 

 abdomine flavo. 



Exp. alar. unc. 3, lin. 2. 



? . Alae supra roseo-albae, macula permagna disco- 

 cellulari, apice punctisque venas terminantibus nigro- 

 fuscis; subtus albidae minime virescentes, fusco-roratee, 

 marginibus minime ocbraceis: anticae macula superna 

 disco-cellulari rosea, serieque discali biangulata macula- 

 rum octo argentearum extus roseo-cinctarum; posticse 

 maculis duabus inaequalibus disco-cellularibus argenteis 

 roseo-cinctis ; maculis septem in serie irregulariter 

 arcuata inter venas positis, argenteis roseo extrorsum 

 limitatis : venis nigro-acuminatis et in marginem argen- 

 teo circumdatis, linea subbasali, puncto apud basin sub- 

 costali, maculaque basali roseis. 



Exp. alar. unc. 3. 



c?, ? Mexico (Coll. Saunders): ? Mountains of 

 Oaxaca (E. Side); San Geronimo (Vera Paz) ; (J (? id.) 

 Apolobamba (3 specimens. Coll. Salvin) . 



Chiefly differs from 0. Cipris in its greater size, longer 

 tails, and paler colouring ; the female is white (not yellow 

 as in C. Cipris *) and has a larger brown spot on the front 

 wings, &c. 



2. Callidryas irrigata, sp. nov. 



c? . Alae supra roseo-ochraceae ; anticae macula disco-cel- 

 lulari a vena inferiore interrupta, alteraque apicali fuscis : 

 posticae margine externo in venas roseo-rorato : corpus 

 thorace nigro cinereo-piloso, abdomine flavescente : sub- 

 tus fundo ochraceo ferrugineo irrorato: anticas fascia 

 lata biangulata discali interrupta diffuse argentea, macula 



* The female of C. Cipris is the insect described and figured in Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 458, pi. xxvi. fig. 6, under the name of C. hracteolata. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1870. — PART I. (MARCH.) 



