On new South-American Buttcrfl es. 21: 
wt 
XVIII.—New South- American Butterflics. 
By W. J. Kaye, I’.1.S. 
Morphide. 
Morpho perseus demarare, subsp. 0. 
3 ¢. Altogether paler than J. perseus metellus. Fore 
wing with a pale ochreous shade beyond middle, not involving 
the first transverse row of ochreous spots (faint in ¢, well 
defined in 2) and scarcely extending beyond vein 2, except 
slightly distally. Inner margin slaty blue basally. Hind 
wing with the whole of the basal halt slaty blue, except for 
some slight ochreous clouding in middle area near costa, 
Hab. umeraras Omai, Essequibo River, 1 ¢ ; Demerara 
River lg. 
Type in Coll. Kaye. 
Erycinide. 
Aynias potaronus, sp. n. 
Collar orange. Fore wing with all the margins broadly 
black, Some blue scaling along inner margin. Basal area 
to beyond middle pale bluish transparent with the veins 
black. A broad black band across discocellulars. A sub- 
apical band composed of three large elliptical white spots 
and a small blue spot at lower extremity. Hind wing with 
costa broadly black. Inner and outer margin narrowly black. 
Central area dusky transparent with a faint bluish tinge. 
Abdomen above blackish ; below orange. 
Expanse 37 mm. 
eS: 
Hab. British Guiana, Tumatumari, July 1907 (C. B. 
Roberts). 
‘Type in Coll. Kaye. 
Nymphidium multochrea, sp. n. 
Fore wing dark brown and orange without any white. 
A very broad costal brown band to well beyond cell containing 
orange blotches, Three of these lie within the cell and a 
fourth lies below the median but touching it on its upper 
edge. A large orange triangular patch occupies a large area 
from inner margin towards apex, and is there coutinued 
15* 
