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X. Descriptions of Uventy-tivo new species of Equatorial 

 Lepidoptera. By W. C. Hewitson, F.L.S. 



[Eead 2iid May, 1870.] 



I HAVE recently described in a separate publication, 

 entitled " Equatorial Lepidoptera collected by Mr. 

 Buckley," the new species of butterflies brought home 

 by that gentleman from Ecuador. Before Mr. Buckley 

 left Guayaquil, on his return to England, he sent out as 

 a collector a native boy, who had been his faithful 

 attendant in his travels. This boy, Manuel Villagomes, 

 has proved himself an apt scholar, and has sent us a very 

 fine collection of butterflies, in beautiful condition, and 

 containing, as will be seen by the following descriptions, 

 many new species, some of peculiar interest, from their 

 strange form and colour, others from their size, usually 

 surpassing the same species brought by Mr. Buckley. 

 Mr. Villagomes went, as Mr. Buckley did, from Gua- 

 yaquil to Riobamba, whence he proceeded to Guala- 

 quisa, his head quarters, crossing the high mountain 

 range of St. Rosario, where the several species of 

 Pronophila were taken. These, and Mesosemice, some of 

 which are very beautiful, furnish the largest number of 

 new species. The collection contains, besides those 

 here described, species of great rarity ; Papilio Epenetus, 

 until now unique in the collection of Mr. Saunders; 

 several specimens, male and female, of the very rare 

 LeptaUs Orise; a second example o^ Erycina formosissima ; 

 and the remarkable Taygetis alhinotata, hitherto only in 

 the collection of the British Museum. 



Lep talis Praxidice. 



Male. Upperside. Dark lilac-blue. Anterior wing* 

 crossed from the middle of the inner margin to beyond 

 the middle of the wing by a broad semi-transparent band 

 of brown, divided by the median nervures into four 

 parts : two white spots (one bifid) at the middle of the 

 costal margin, and three similar spots (one bifid) before 

 the apex. Posterior wing crossed from near the middle 

 of the inner margin to the outer margin near the apex 

 by a band and spot of white, the band divided into four 

 parts by the nervures, the spot near the apex. 



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