Diurnal Lepidoptera. 167 
Pyrrhopyga Crida. 
Upper and underside: blue-black. The head and anus 
scarlet; the antenne black. Anterior wing crossed trans- 
versely at the middle, from the sub-costal nervure to near 
the anal angle, by a narrow, trifid, transparent, glossy 
white band. 
Exp. 2 inches. 
Hab.—Nicaragua (Chontales). In the collection of 
Thomas Belt. 
Pyrrhopyga eximia. 
Upperside. Anterior wing dark green-brown, with a 
spot in the cell, and an oblique, continuous, very trans- 
parent, and highly polished white band, beyond the mid- 
dle, nearly parallel to the outer margin, extending from 
the costal margin to the submedian nervure, and divided 
into seven parts by the nervures. Posterior wing pale 
yellow, tinted with orange towards the base ; the base, a 
central transverse band, the nervures, and the inner and 
outer margins dark brown. 
Underside: as above, except that there is a subcostal 
ochreous band on the anterior wing, and that the brown 
on the outer margin of the posterior wing is much nar- 
rower. 
Exp. 2 inches. 
Hab.—Venezuela (Géring). In the collection of W. 
C. Hewitson. 
