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a pale yellow spot near the inner margin. Posterior wing 

 prodnced at the anal angle ; two pale yellow spots before the 

 middle, and a short ochreous band beyond the middle. 



Underside. Anterior wing as above, except that there is a 

 white spot Avhere the wings meet. Posterior wing crossed 

 obliqnely at the middle by a band of white; the costal margin 

 irrorated with lilac ; the inner margin white. 



Exp. l-j% inch. 



Nearest to E. Phoeaice. 



Eudamus Halesius. 



Alis fiiscis : auticis basi virescente fascia media sexpartita hyalina 

 alba piinctoque siibapicali albis : posticis virescentibus margiue 

 postico fusco ; his infra griseis puncto basali fasoiisque duabus 

 nigris. 



Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing with the base 

 gi-een-blue : crossed at the middle by a sexpartite irregular 

 band of transparent white spots, marked near the apex by a 

 minute transparent white spot : a white spot on the fringe near 

 the anal angle. Posterior wing dull green-blue, protruded at 

 the anal angle ; the margins dark brown, the fringe marked 

 by three white spots. 



Underside. Anterior wing as above, except that there is a 

 subapical band of grey, and that the white band is extended 

 to the anal angle. Posterior wing grey, with a spot at the 

 base, a band of three spots before the middle (the middle spot 

 minute), a band of two spots below these and the anal angle 

 black. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



Uab. Cayenne. 



Belongs to the Naxos group. 



Pterygospidea simida. 



Alis utriiHiue fuscis : anticis punctis iiovem hyalinis albis, quatuor in 

 medio, quinque sub apiceni positis : posticis tinibria auruntiaca : 

 posticis subtus punctis decern fiilvis. 



Upperside dark brown. Antennai white. Anterior win"- 

 with several transparent spots — four near the middle (two of 

 which are large and two minute, one outside of and one below 

 the larger spots), and tive near the apex (three near the costal 

 margin and two below them). Posterior wing with the fringe 

 orange-yellow. 



Underside as above, except that the posterior wing has 



