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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 Godman, F.L.S. &c. 



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 Ithomia 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. Callitcera pyropina. 



S . 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 



