Exotic Lepidoptera. 23 



heloio with a white band in the frontwings running 

 obliquely inwards to the anal angle ; expanse of wings, 3 

 inches, 8 lines. 



Inhabits — ? Coll. Kaden. in Coll. Druce. 



This species, excepting in the double blue band of the 

 liindwingo, and the different directions of the lines upon 

 the undersurface, is more like the female of A. Philodetes 

 than the true male of that species. 



GENUS STEROMA. Westwood. 

 Steroma Zibia, sp. nov. 



Forma omnino aS". Begce; al« supra fuscse, margine externo 

 nigrescente : posticne area autemarginali rufescente ; angulo 

 ani albo-atomoso : corpus fuscum. 



Alffi antictB sulitus fuscffi area anali pallidiore, margine 

 externo nigrescente stria tiavo-atomosa subapicali ; costa 

 flavo fuscoque variegata ; posticre nigro, fusco ferrugineoque 

 variegatse; area apicali ochracea, maculis duabus ajDicalibus 

 ferrugineis : puncto subapicali, aliisque velut in S. Bega 

 costalibus argenteis : maculis duabus submarginalibus nigTis 

 a squamis argenteis circumdatis : corpns cinereo-fuscum : 

 exp. alar. unc. 1, lin. 8. 



Altogether of the shape of ^S'. Bega : toings above brown, 

 Avith blackish outer margin ; Mndwings \\'\W\ the submar- 

 ginal area reddish ; the anal angle white-scaled : body 

 brown. 



Frontwings below brown, the anal area paler, the outer 

 margin blackish, a subapical yellow-scaled streak ; the 

 costa varied with }'ellow and brown ; hindvings varied with 

 black, brown and ferruginous ; the apical area ochraceous, 

 with two apical ferruginous spots ; a subapical silver spot 

 and other costal ones as in S. Bega ; two sulimarginal black 

 spots surrounded by silver scales : body grey brown : 

 expanse of wings, 1 inch, 8 lines. 



Inhabits Venezuela. Coll. Kaden. in Coll. Druce. 



Allied to >S'. Bega, but very different in the pattern of 

 the undersurface. 



