8 Mr. Butler's Descriptions of 



femigineisqiie nigro marginatis ; anticse fascia velut supra 

 flava maculis quatuor submarginalibus aliisque margin- 

 alibus flavidis ; maculis duabus subapicalibus niveis fusco 

 cinctis : posticse macula superna media uivea, altera minora 

 costali, liuea interrupta discali fusca ; maculis sex vix 

 lunatis submarginalibus violaceo-albis; margine nigrescente 

 ciliis albis : corpus cinerascens. 



Wings above blackish, with black submarginal bands ; 



Frontwings with an oblique irregular orange band. 



Hindiuings with a large snowy spot and a second smaller 

 costal one : body and antennae black. 



Wings below fulvous, the basal area crossed alter- 

 nately by violet and ferruginous bands separated by black 

 lines. 



Frontwings with oblique band as above but paler, four 

 yellow submarginal spots uniting this band mth the costa 

 and several ill-defined marginal spots ; two snowy subapical 

 spots margined mth brown. 



Hindwings with white spots as above, an interrupted 

 brown discal band, six somewhat lunate whitish violaceous 

 submarginal spots ; the margin blackish with the fringe 

 white ; the body ashy : expands 2 inches, 2 lines. 



Bogota. Coll. Kaden. in Coll. Druce. 



This species comes into the Irmina group and is nearly 

 allied to several described species ; it seems however to be 

 distinct from them all. 



GENUS APATURA. Fabricius. 



1. A2mtiira Lucasii. Westwood. 



5. Alee supra fuscse, fascia media fulva, posticarum 

 introrsum albicante, maculisque tribus anticis subapicalibus 

 albis ; lineis nonnullis discoideis fasciisque duabus lunul- 

 aribus submarginalibus nigris ; margine anali posticarum 

 fulvescente linea subanali cserulescente fasciolaque 

 virescente ; corpus nigrescens, antennis nigris. 



Alee subtus fere velut in mare linea autem posticarum 

 media subrecta : exp. alar. unc. 2, lin. 5. 



Habitat — ? Coll. Kaden. in Coll. Druce. 



2. Apatura Laurentia. Godart. 



?. Alse supra fuscse, fascia media fulva, posticarum 

 dimidio anali fuscescente punctumque nigrum extrorsum 

 exhibente, introrsum apud costam albicante, maculisque 

 tribus anticis subapicalibus magnis albis ; lineis nonnullis 



