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AVings, uppersiile. Forewing rather broader than in gannasciis, differently 



marked : sulihasal band liroad, almost extended to the very base of the wing, 

 touching the basal dot at SM-, the interspace between this dot and the band and 

 nervure M scarcely larger than the dot itself; the band is preceded before M 

 by a detached patch, which stands a little more distal and is edged all round with 

 greyish white ; the patch does not reach the costal margin ; the grey scaling ou 

 the disc mostly divided up into 3 to 5 series of narrow luuules ; discal spot 

 M' — M- smaller than in <ja)iti(isci(s, subapical patch nmch larger, lieing of the same 

 size as in eurystltenes ; vein K' brown ; distal marginal area much more extended 



olive-brown than in gannascas. Hindwing also broader than in gannascus : 



median band 3i to 4 mm. broad, not obviously dentate upon the veins ; discal band 

 merged together with the postdiscal one, being separated from it only in front ; this 

 disco-postdiscal band — resembling the letter Y — is not dentate, the veins not being 

 black as in the specimens oi ycumascits with broad bands ; the intersjiace between 

 this baud and the dark edge of the wing tawny olive, becoming rosy red at costal 

 margin. 



I'mlerside. Forewing : the red colour of the basal area merges on the disc 



gradually into the brown or ochraceous colour of the outer area of the wing, while 

 in gaitiinscus the red area is more or less sharj)ly defined discally ; subbasal band 

 nearer the base than in gannascus, discal brown patch M' — M^ small, grey outer 

 marginal area much wider than in ganiutscxs, including a broad burnt umber-brown 



band. Hindwing obviimsly shaded with grey, a discal and a postdiscal continuous 



line of red Innules, the outer one indistinct in c? and followed by an ill-defined 

 grey line. 



S. Sexual armature as in qannascus, but tenth sternite less sinuate ; the 

 patch of modified scales on the clasper is brown, exce])t the most dorsal ))ortion, 

 which is yellow. 



Length of forewing : c?, 50 mm. ; ¥ , 70 mm. 



I'readth of forewing : <?, 21 mm. ; S , 26 mm. 



Hub. Uosta Uica to Ecuador. 



In theTring Jlnscuui 1 c^, 2 ? ¥ from Costa Rica (Underwood ; M. de Matlian) ; 

 t\ |ie S . 



In coll. riiarh's Oberthiir 1 S fn}m Balsapampa, Ecuador (M. de Mathan) ; 

 ;ds(i in coll. Druce ; in coll. Staudinger from Chirii|ni ; in the Oxford Museum from 

 Nicaragua. 



14.'). Amplypterus palmeri. 



Amhiih/x f/iiiiiiKiiis, Walker {ii<,ii .StoU, IT'.IO), Li"! l.rji. Iiix. lijf. viii. p. 121. n. 2 (ISofi) (partim ; 



Rio do Jan.). 

 ♦.l/,J/«////'yOT/,„r'/7B()isrluvaI, Spe,-. Gi'ii. hep. IIH. i. p. 181. n. 1. t. 4. f. ?> {$) (lH7o) (Brazil ; — 



coli. Charles Oberlhiir) ; Butl., Tram. Zool. fin,: Lnml. ix. p. G,30 (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. Lcp. Ilel. 



i. p. 077. n. .'ill (1H'.I2) ; Eiinniiigli., Irh xii. p. 111!, n. 21 (IHO'.i) (Rio tie Jan.). 

 *AmhiiUjx niarii'iKalii Butler, I'l-or. Zoo}. Sur. Loud. p. 10(1875) (Rio de Jan. ;— Mus. Brit.) ; id., 



7'/v„/K. Zool. Sor. Loml. ix. p. .581. n. 17 (1877); Kirby, l.r. p. 077. n. 41 (18'.I2). 



J?. Forewing above with a straight or feebly curved line from ujiper angle 

 of cell to inner margin, wliich it reaches a little beyond basal fourth. Hindwing 

 with a broad blackisli brown distal border. Size of the olive-green markings 

 variable. Sexual armature not essentially different from that of gannascus, tiio 

 Hubmesial ridge of the harpi' rather higher, the tenth sternite almost truncate, very 



