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daries -with discoapical area, from costa to near anal angle, dark brown, subhyaline internally ; 

 discoidal cell whitish subhyaline : abdominal area broadly rose-red ; top of head, centre of 

 collar, and prothorax, creamy yellow ; remainder of thorax brown. Abdomen rose-red, pos- 

 terior segments transversely banded with black ; antenna} dark brown. Wings below sepia- 

 brown, primaries showing the darker transverse streaks indistinctly; secondaries with rosy 

 area as above. Head black; pectus dark brown; coxae rose-red; venter brown, paler at tin- 

 base. Expanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines. 

 Ecuador (Buckley) . 



ANAXITA, Walker. 

 Anaxita sannionis. (Plate XVIII. fig. 6.) 

 Anaxita sannionis, Butler, Ann. $■ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xii. p. 228. n. 33 (1873). 



Primaries above with the basal half ochraceous, varied with crimson ; apical half crimson ; 

 the nervures and internervular folds black, the nervures enclosed in black-edged greyish 

 streaks; a band of the same character crossing the basal third of the wing, a second just 

 before the end of the cell, a third from the middle of the median nervure to inner margin ; a 

 spot of the same at the base of costal area : secondaries rosy crimson ; the apex, outer margin, 

 a triangular patch at anal angle, and the nervures from the median upwards (excepting at 

 base) dark brown. Body crimson; collar and teguke golden yellow, brown-edged ; abdomen 

 with blackish brown dorsal line ; anus and venter blackish, with three yellow spots on each 

 side ; legs and antennae brown. Wings below nearly as above : primaries with the streaks 

 and bands brown ; a black costal spot on the first two bands ; basal area rosy : secondaries 

 with a yellow subcostal litura. Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 lines. 



Huasampilla, Peru (Whitely). 



EUCYANE, Hiibner. 

 Eucyane diana. (Plate XIX. fig. G.) 

 Eucyane diana, Butler, Ann. fy Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xvi. p. 174. n. 4 (1875). 



General pattern and coloration of E. uranicola. Wings black, with the base metallic blue- 

 green ; apical fringe white : primaries crossed by an oblique white band, cut by the black 

 nervures, and edged internally upon the costal area by a carmine spot : secondaries with a 

 trifid postmedian oblique white streak, united above to a carmine spot; anal fringe white. 

 Body above metallic blue-green : wings below as above : pectus green ; legs black-brown, 

 longitudinally striped with white ; venter green at the base and margins, blackish at the sides, 

 crimson in the centre, with the hinder edges of the segments white. Expanse of wings 

 2 inches 3 lines. 



Ega (Bates). 



