176 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, '02 



Four New Species of Butterflies From South America. 

 By Levi W. Mengel, Reading, Pa. 



(See Plate VIII) 



Anatole modesta sp. nov. — Upper surface of fore wings generally white 

 and variable shades of brown. The costal edge is very light brown, ter- 

 minating half-way to the apex ; broadest at the base. A patch of the 

 same color, edged with white toward the exterior margin, appears 

 three-quarters the distance to the apex. A row of spots, a shade darker, 

 extends along the exterior margin, almost to the inner angle. The 

 exterior edge is tipped at several places with white. A silver gray col- 

 oration appears at the base of the wing and extends along the interior 

 margin half-way to the angle. A row of small, well marked light brown 

 spots, white in color, extends across the the wing just within the marginal 

 light brown spots from the costa to the interior margin. All the white 

 and light brown markings are surrounded with very dark brown, except 

 at the interior margin, where the white marks reach the edge and spread 

 toward the angle. The same colors prevail on the posterior wings, with 

 the white predominating. From the base a dark brown band extends half- 

 way to the apex. Towards the base and adjoining the dark band the same 

 silvery gray color as in the fore wing appears, spreading toward the 

 inner margin, but fading to white. The white extends two-thirds across 

 the wing from the anterior margin to the inner margin. The remaining 

 portion of the wing is dark brown, darkest at the angle and fading toward 

 the anal angle to very light[brown. White and light brown spots are scat- 

 tered through the dark marginal bands. Wings emarginate, tipped here 

 and there with white. Undersides in both sexes, tawny and white. The 

 dark brown and lighter color being replaced with tawny. Abdomen and 

 thorax very dark above ; white underneath. Markings of the female very 

 much like male. The brown and light colors being replaced by a gray- 

 black, almost uniform. There are but very few pale brown spots. Tiie 

 white band is more decided in the female. Female is one-eighth inch 

 larger than the male. 



Expanse, one and three-eighths inch. 



Habitat. — Sapucay, Paraguay. 



Apodemia ocbracea sp. nov. — General colors, black and ochreous yel- 

 low, marked with white spots. Uppersides, base of fore wings uniformly 

 ochreous ; the color extending one-third along the anterior margin to 

 the apex and half-way to the inner angle, along the inner margin. A 

 black patch somewhat (luadrangular in shape almost surrounded by 

 ochreous is observed on the anterior margin. A well marked white spot 

 appears in the black patch. A broad band of the ochreous color reaches 

 almost from the anterior margin to the color of the base with a single 

 white spot close to the margin. The inner edge of this band forms the 



