collected by W. J. Burckell in Brazil. 181 



Col. Prain informs me that no specimen of this Malva 

 exists in Burchell's Herbarium at Kew. 

 Bz. 22. 3. 29. ? = 661. Porto Real (Nacionale). 

 24. 3. 29. <$ = 662. Porto Re£l. Manga. 



Westwood's list agrees, except that it also includes 663. 



This form is unrepresented in the British Museum and 

 Godman-Salvin Collection. It may be regarded as a northern 

 subspecies of G. apicalis, Stdgr., described as a South 

 Brazilian insect. 



Gystineura apicalis, Stdgr., n. subsp. burchelli. 



Female (no. 661). Central ground-colour white, surrounded 

 by fuscous-brown margins ; some dull orange in apical area 

 of fore wing. Fore wing : from base towards apex a broad 

 costal fuscous border covering discoidal cell ; beyond end of 

 cell a white kidney-shaped spot, succeeded by apical fuscous 

 patch, which itself encloses diffused dull orange in the centre ; 

 from the fourth subcostal nervule and in the centre of the 

 orange patch a series of four internervular spots of fuscous 

 ground-colour, with white centres increasing in size towards 

 the last. Central portion of wing occupied by triangular patch 

 of white, widening from third median nervule to inner margin. 

 Two irregular, oblong, faint, white spots in discoidal cell 

 running into ground-colour, with very slight trace of a third 

 over the junction of the two. Hind margin with a border of 

 rather darker fuscous, slightly serrated on inner side. Cilia 

 white between nervules. Hind wing : subcostal band of 

 fore wing continued across base of hind wing, succeeded by 

 central patch of white. Hind-marginal band of fuscous rather 

 broader than in fore wing ; the actual margin marked by a 

 darker line, preceded by an interrupted faint whitish line, 

 both following the serration of the wing. From centre of 

 inner margin to costa beyond middle a narrow, nearly 

 straight, fuscous band, which almost loses itself in the white 

 central patch at the second subcostal nervule, but continues 

 again, indistinctly and slightly narrower, from the first sub- 

 costal nervule. Cilia as in fore wing. 



Underside dull orange and white. Fore wing : same band 

 from base towards apex as on upperside, dull orange instead 

 of fuscous, marked by similar (but better defined) irregular 

 white spots, and succeeded by rather larger kidney-shaped 

 white spot, which is enclosed in the apical orange patch. A 

 row of five white spots from costa between nervules to 

 second median nervule, their central portion white as on 

 upper surface, but better defined. Hind margin marked by 



