and a new genus of Diurnal Lejndoptera. 435 



4. Papilio polt/sticfus, n. sp. 

 $ , 2 P. Protadamas, var. b, G. R. Gray. 



^Vings above dark brown, primaries slightly and 

 secondaries vividly shot with glittering sap-green ; pri- 

 maries with a straight discal series of increasing, small, 

 diffused, greenish-grey, lunate spots, larger and more dis- 

 tinct in the female; secondaries with a slightly arched 

 discal series of nearly equal oval greenish-grey spots, 

 scarcely visible in the male, but well defined in the female ; 

 a disco-submarginal series of greenish-grey angulated 

 strioles ; fringes white : body above dark brown, dorsal 

 region of the abdomen in male pale yellow ; collar spotted 

 wdth dirty ochraceous ; primaries below with basal half 

 black-brown, apical half and outer margin pale brown ; 

 four conspicuous, submarginal, pale-yellowish spots near 

 external angle ; secondaries shining brown, darker on disc ; 

 seven submarginal waved red streaks, surrounded with 

 blackish, and shot with lilacine : body dai'k brown ; thorax 

 and anal segment spotted with golden yellow ; venter 

 spotted Avith Avhite : expanse $ 4 inches, 1 line ; $ 4 

 inches. 



Hah. — S. Brazil {Coll. Di'uce); Rio Grande and Es- 

 pirito Santo. B. M. 



This species is clearly distinct fifom P. Protodamas. 



Fam. HESPERID^E. 



Genus Cartstus, Hubner. 

 Carystns placens, n. sp. 



^ Primaries above blackish-brown, the base streaked 

 with tawny; seven hyaline spots placed exactly as in 

 C. Antoninus; secondaries tawny, the costa and outer 

 margin dark brown; thorax densely covered with greenish- 

 grey scales, abdomen tawny: Avings below rich dark 

 brown, the basal half of costal area of primaries and the 

 basal two-fifths of secondaries cream-coloured ; primaries 

 with a large grey bifid spot and a minute costal striole at 

 apex ; hyaline spots as above ; secondaries with intcrno- 

 median area yellow, gradually deepening m colour Iro.n 

 base to anal angle, where it becomes red-brown ; palpi and 

 thorax cream colour, venter tawny: expanse 2 inches, 

 2 lines. 



ITah. — Bogota. 



Allied to C. Antoninus and C. phcenice. 



