Mr. 0. Salvin on a new Species of Butterfly. 165 



of so great importance, when the name bj which an animal is 

 called and the author who gave the name are regarded as more 

 important than the animal itself, its structiu'e, affinities^ or 

 habits. 



XX. — Description of a neio Species of Butterfly of the Genus 

 Paphia. By Osbeet Salvin, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



In a collection of butterflies recently sent by Mr. E. M. Janson 

 from Chontales, Nicaragua, is a single specimen of a very 

 distinct species of the Nymphaline ^t\m'& Paphia^ which ap- 

 pears to be quite new, and which I propose to call 



Paphia Jansoni. 



^ . Exp. 3*6 in. Antennge black ; palpi brown, with their 

 anterior surface lighter ; prothorax, thorax, and abdomen black- 

 ish brown : anterior wings strongly falcated, above very dark 

 brown ; cilia of outer margin, a spot near the apex which runs 

 out to the point of the hook, a second beyond the cell between 

 the upper radial and third costal branch, a third (elongated 

 one) between the radials, a fourth between the second and third 

 median branches, and a fifth between the first and second 

 median branches yellowish drab ; region of the submedian 

 nervure rufescent ; posterior Avings rufous, with the third me- 

 dian branch prolonged into a spatulate projection, anal angle 

 strongly produced ; outer margin, including the emarginations 

 of the wing, very dark brown : under surface ochraceous brown 

 irrorated with darker brown, and more pronomiced transverse 

 bands of the same colour ; there is a series of pale spots near 

 the apex of the anterior wing, and a pale spot about the middle 

 of the subcostal iiervm-e of the posterior wings, which also 

 have other spots near the anal half of the outer margin edged 

 outwardly with black. 



Hah. Chontales, Nicaragua [Janson). 



Obs. This species, so far as its form is concerned, belongs 

 to the group containing Paphia Electra (Westw. & Hew. Gen. 

 Diurn. Lep. p. 319 ; Hew. Ex. Butt. i. t. 46. f. 1, 2) and P. 

 Panariste (Hew. Ex. Butt. i. t. 46. f. 3), being more nearly 

 allied to the former than the latter. The colouring of the 

 upper surface, however, is so entirely distinct that comparison 

 is unnecessary. 



