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preparations are open to the examination either of Prof. King 
or of any other naturalist interested in the question, on the 
simple condition that the results of such examination shall be 
made public in a form satisfactory to myself. I do not require 
that these results shall accord with my own; I only ask that 
simple facts of observation shall not be twisted into conformity 
with preconceived theories, and that, where accordance exists, 
it shall be freely admitted. 
I remain, Gentlemen, 
Your obedient Servant, 
WILLIAM B. CARPENTER. 
XIV.—On some new Species of Diurnal Lepidoptera from 
South America. By OsBert SALvIN, M.A., F.L.S., &c., 
and F. Du Cane GopMAN, F.L.S. &ce. 
HAVING recently acquired several interesting collections from 
the eastern valleys of the Andes of Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador, 
we hasten to publish descriptions of some of the most promi- 
nent of the species which appear to us to be undescribed. To 
these we have added others which have been recently sent to 
us from several parts of Central America and Mexico. It is 
not our intention to leave these species, of which we now 
merely give isolated descriptions, in this “‘ unprotected” state; 
but as time shall enable us to work out the more difficult groups, 
we purpose giving a more detailed account of all the species 
contained in these collections, and a complete record of all the 
localities where the species were obtained. Besides the species 
here described, these collections contain others which we have 
little doubt are new to science, especially such as belong to the 
genus Jthomia and its allies; but as these groups require a 
more careful study than we have as yet been able to bestow 
upon them, we leave them for the present. 
1. Callitera pyropina. 
3g. Exp. 2°85. Diaphanous, nervures brown ; posterior wings 
with an evanescent band between the end of the cell and the 
anterior angle, and the whole of the outer margin diaphanous 
brown, broad at the posterior angle, where it encloses three 
round spots, between each of which and the margin is a narrow 
transverse streak; this portion of the wing is clothed, the 
transparent film with dark pink-coloured scales, the diaphanous 
brown portion with violet-coloured scales: between the radial 
nervures and close to the extremity of the wing is an ocellus 
of very dark blue scales, surrounded by the diaphanous 
