164 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



which are very similar to each other, are black, with a white 

 blotch on the fore-wings, and a broad scarlet band, more or 

 less broken into spots, on the hind-wings, the under surface 

 of which is paler, and marked with red spots at the base, and 

 greenish-yellow spots on the hind-margin. The red band is 

 present, but paler. 



The allied genus Catasticta^ Butler, differs little in structure, 

 but has the second branch of the sub-costal nervure emitted 

 from the end of the cell. The fore-wings are more pointed 

 than in Archonias, the hind-margin being often slightly con- 

 cave instead of curved, and the wings are more distinctly 

 dentated. The Butterflies differ very much in appearance, 

 however, being black, banded and spotted with white, yellow, 

 buff, or some other pale colour. 



GENUS PEKEUTE. 



Pereute^ Herrich-Schaffer, Corresp. Blatt. Regensb. xxi. pp. 

 105, 138 (1867); Butler, Cist. Ent. i. pp. 34, 40 (1870); 

 Schatz, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 63 (1886). 



Antennae long, terminating in a flattened club ; wings ample, 

 rounded, with the sub-costal nervure only three-branched, the 

 lower disco-cellular nervule angulated. 



The species are black, varied with bluish-grey, and spotted 

 with red or yellow. They inhabit various parts of South 

 America, and I have figured a species from New Granada, 

 which is closely allied to the type of the genus. 



PEREUTE LEUCODROSIME. 



(Plate LV. Fig. i.) 

 Euterpe leucodrosime, Kollar, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



Math. Nat. Cl. i. p. 35 8 > P 1 - 44, figs. 3, 4 (1850), 

 Euterpe c<zsarea> Lucas, Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 194. 



