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tegulse ; the thorax smooth and shining behind the scutellum ; the 

 legs with very short black pubescence ; the wings fiisco -hyaline. Ab- 

 domen nearly naked, shining, incurved, and very acute at the apex, 

 the margins of the segments thinly fringed with black pubescence. 

 Hab. Oajaca (Mexico). In the British Museum Collection. 



2. Apathus insularis. 



A. hirsutus, ater; thorace flavescente, fascia nigra; abdominis apice acu- 

 minato inflexo, lateribus pube flava vestitis. 



Female. Length 9 lines. Black, shining and pubescent ; a tuft on 

 the vertex and another in front of the anterior stemma, yellow ; the 

 pubescence on the thorax above and beneath the wings yellow, a 

 band of black pubescence between the wings, or sometimes only a 

 space in the middle with black pubescence ; the wings fusco-hyaline ; 

 the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-piceous ; the basal joint of the pos- 

 terior tarsi ferruginous within. Abdomen incurved, very smooth and 

 shining, with more or less of bright yellow pubescence at the sides of 

 the third and two following segments. 



Hab. Vancouver's Island. Dr. Lyall. In the Museum Collection. 



XII. — Descriptions of new Diurnal Lepidoptera. By W. C. Hewitson. 



Eueides. 



1. Eueides Eanes, n. s. (Plate X. fig. 1.) 



Upperside (Male) black. Anterior wing with lines and triangular 

 spots of orange at the base, crossed beyond the middle by an irregular 

 transverse band of yellow divided by the nervures. Posterior wing with a 

 bine of orange at the base, forming the centre of, but not connected ivith, six 

 diverging lines of the same colour (one of which is wider than the others 

 and traversed by a black line) which pass betiveen the nervures to within 

 a short distance of the outer margin. 



Underside as above, except that it is lighter, that there is but one ray 

 of orange at the base of the anterior wing, and that the posterior wing 

 has the base of the costal margin orange and a band of minute white 

 spots near the outer margin. 



Exp. 2 T 6 ^ inch. 

 Hab. Peru. In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



2. Eueides Edias, n. s. (Plate X. fig. 2.) 



Upperside (Male) dark brown. Anterior wing with ten indistinct 

 rufous spots: one from the base imtil it touches the second placed 

 within the median nervules, four near the middle at angles with each 

 other, and three not far from the apex. The inner margin orange. 



