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My. a. G. Rutlcr on new Species of 



XXIX. — On some neio Species of Butterflies from Tropi- 

 cal America. By Arthur Gardiner Butler, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., &c. 



Tiii: following species arc chiefly interesting additions to our 

 knowledge *of the llhopalocerous fauna of Veragua, the An- 

 tirrh(V(( and Daptonura being most valualile, on account of 

 the limited number of species in both genera hitherto recorded. 



Family Nymphalidae. 



Subfamily Satysinje, Bates. 



Genus Antirrh^ea, Westwood. 



1. Antii'rhcea tomasiaj n. sp. 



Allied ioA. miltiades; primaries above more like -4. phila- 

 retes, the transverse discal bar being indistinct ; secondaries 

 darker in the male, rather paler in the female, with one small 

 subapical white dot, no other markings ; fringe sordid, not 

 bright yelloAv as in A. miltiades: wings below almost as in 

 A. 2Jlnla)'etes, hut richer in colour; the central band broader 

 and more strongly angulated in secondaries than in any known 

 species ; its external whitish marginal bar much narrower, 

 scarcely indicated from the eosta of secondaries to the third 

 median branch, but wide and continuous from the first branch 

 to the anal angle ; the ocelliferous patch on median inter- 

 spaces chiefly differing from that of A. jyhilopoemeyi in conse- 

 quence of the encroachment of the angular outer edge of the 

 central band ; external border tinted with tawny. 



Ex])anse of wings, (^S inches 9 lines, ? 4 inches 3 lines. 



Hah. Bugaba, Veragua. Type, coll. H. Druce. 



Subfamily Ntmphalinm, Bates. 



Genus Paphia, Fabricius. 



2. Paphia Ada, n. sp.* 



Wings above blue-black, with brighter blue gloss at base ; 

 primaries with a pale greenish-blue maculated band (composed 

 of seven spots), angulated near apex, running from the third 

 fifth of the subcostal nervure to the end of the submcdian ; 

 secondai'ies with the costal area black-brown ; abdominal area 

 pale rosy brown, clothed along submedian nervure and towards 

 anal angle with long dark brown hairs : body above greenish 

 black : wings below very similar to P. maris, but without the 

 tail, chocolate-brown, sericeous, hatched and banded with dull 



