102 Prof. J. 0. Westwood on 



Expans. alar, antic, unc. 4|. 



Habitat Rio Topo, Ecuador (Buckley) . In Muss. Drace 

 et Hewitson. 



The fore-wings are elongate-triangular, with the apical 

 margin slightly emarginate, the incisures towards the 

 inner angle narrowly white. They are of a black-brown 

 colour, with a large, nearly semicircular, patch of luteous 

 white in the middle of the hinder margin, extending 

 nearly to the first branch of the median vein. The 

 hind-wings are deeply incised along the outer margin, 

 the middle point being somewhat the most prominent; 

 the incisures white; there is a large transverse, oval, 

 blood-red patch, irrorated with black scales, extending 

 inward from the anal angle, composed of three patches 

 separated by the veins, the one at the anal angle being 

 widely divided into two portions, and the next also 

 divided by a thinner transverse dark line into two por- 

 tions, whilst the innermost spot is roundly oval and 

 entire. 



On the underside, the spot on the inner margin of the 

 fore- wings is smaller than above, and the red spots of the 

 upper side reappear, the larger ones irrorated above with 

 white scales, and supplemented by a row of four submar- 

 ginal red spots, extending to the outer angle. 



The collar above is obscurely marked with two fulvous 

 spots, and the head with four white ones : the underside 

 of the thorax is also marked with fulvous-red spots on 

 each side. 



In the males of P. AncMsiades, the fore- wings are 

 more falcate at the tip, and the few pale scales (when pre- 

 sent) are placed near the posterior angle of the fore- 

 wings; in the hind- wings, the red patch is larger and 

 oval, the portion between the first and second branches 

 of the median vein being entire, and the two external 

 portions bipartite. 



In the females of P. AncMsiades, the pale patch in the 

 fore-wings is larger, more oval in shape, and does not 

 extend between the postmedian vein and the inner mar- 

 gin of the wing. 



P. Evander, Godt. {Idceus, Fab.) has the pale apical half 

 of the fore-wings, suddenly separated from the dark base 

 and the red spots of the hind-wings, both in the males 

 and females, as strongly marked as in P. Anchisiades ; 

 the fore-wings in the female being destitute of the pale 

 discoidal spot. 



