48 ARCTIIDjE. 



EPANYCLES, Butler. 

 Epanycles stellifera, n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 10.) 



Primaries black, with green reflections ; a bronze spot at apex (postmedian area sub- 

 hyaline*) ; a submarginal irregular series of white-edged black spots ; white dots are also 

 scattered here and there over the wing, but are most numerous towards the base : secondaries 

 greyish white, subhyaline, with broad diffused grey border. Body black ; lveadand prothorax 

 spotted, tegulre speckled, with white; collar dull red; abdomen blue-shot, with the last four 

 segments metallic green : wings and body below brownish grey : legs spotted with white. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 



Rio Jutahi; taken February 5, 1875 [J. W. H. Trail). 



ANDROCHARTA, Felder. 

 Androcharta diversipennis. (Plate X. fig. 9.) 

 Euchromia (Hippola) diversipennis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ed. i. p. 225. n. 34 (1854). 



Primaries black-brown ; costa and base streaked with scarlet ; a small cuneiform spot in 

 the cell, a trifid pyriform discal spot, and a small subcostal dot above the latter, hyaline 

 white ; two basal dots, and two more at end of cell, metallic green : secondaries snow-white, 

 with brown costal area. Body dark brown ; head, collar, tegular, and sides of abdomen, spotted 

 with green ; base of abdomen spotted in the middle with scarlet, at the sides with sordid 

 white. Primaries below paler than above, basal scarlet streaks and discoidal metallic spots 

 ' ibsolete : secondaries brown, streaked with green at the base ; a white submedian spot across 

 the submedian and internal nervures. Body below dark brown, spotted with green on the 

 borders; anterior trochanters almost wholly white; venter with lateral red spots at the base. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 



Tapajos (Bates). 



Androcharta stretchii. (Plate XVII I. fig. 7.) 

 Androcharta stretchii, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 427. n. 4 (1876). 



<$ . Allied to the preceding species, but larger, with no scarlet spots or streaks on the 

 wings or body : the primaries with an oblique white spot below the cell ; a greenish-blue 

 streak in the cell, and a large bifid spot at the end of it; the secondaries wholly white above; 

 the primaries below with a large ovate white patch filling the lower half of the disk ; the 

 secondaries below with a larger white spot and white fringe. Expanse of wings 1 inch 

 1 1 lines. 



Peru. 



* Possibly due to abrasion. 



