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This handsome species may at once be distinguished from 

 E. cmlestts ^ by its superior size and the curious scaly 

 whitish patch on the inner margin of the anterior wings on 

 the upperside ; below it chiefly differs in the redder colour of 

 the transverse bands and the small size of the ocelli. It is the 

 tenth described species of a little group of nearly allied and 

 very beautiful forms, E. Brixiola (which belongs to this sec- 

 tion) being possibly identical with E. Brixius. 



Genus Lethe, Hiibner. 

 Lethe Alberta^ n. sp. 



S . AI0O supra olivaceo-fuscae : anticse area apicali abrupte dilutiore : 

 posticse ocellis quatuor magnis nigris ca^eis ferrugineo iridatis ; 

 margine externo nigrescente ; linea^valde indistincta submarginali 

 fiisca : corpus cinereo-fuscum. 



Alse subtus castaneo-fusea? ; area apicali pallidiore ; linea media 

 nigra extus griseo marginata ; altera discali aream basalem limi- 

 tante, in posticis angulata : anticse margine roseo tincto ; linea 

 submarginali nigra ; area discali introrsum rosea, extrorsum 

 fusca ; apice caerulescente ; ocellis sex discalibus nigris, flavo 

 cinctis, roseo zonatis : posticae margine externo virescente ; linea 

 submarginali nigra ; area discali introrsum ocbraceo -fusca, ex- 

 trorsum castanca nigrescente; ocellis septem in serie irregulari, 

 quinto maximo, nigris, flavo cinctis, viridi pallide zonatis. 



Exp. alar. unc. 2, lin. 11. 



Hob. Benares. Exeter Memorial Museum. 



This pretty but sombre species was lent me by Mr. W. S. M. 

 D' Urban. It is allied to L. Samioy dtstans, &c. 



Family Erycinidse, Swainson. 



Subfamily Ebycinin^, Bates. 



Ernests Clearista, n. sp. 



Emesis? Clearista, Doubl. MS. in List Lep. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 9 (1847). 



2 . Alee anticse rufo-fuscse vel brunneae ; plaga magna interna tri- 

 angulari alba, introrsum angulata, extrorsum undata; maculis 

 duabus discoideis ; lineola discoceUulari et altera discali nigris ; 

 ciliis nigris albo variis : posticffi albae, margine apicali brunneo ; 

 ciliis albis, nigro variis : corpus thorace brunneo, abdomine albo. 



Alee subtus pallidiores ; pnnctis submarginalibus nigro-fuscis, albo 

 cinctis : posticse serie punctorum fuscorura orbiculari media : 

 corpus album. 



Exp. alar. unc. 2, lin. 1. 



Ilab. Honduras {Dyson), B.M. 



Allied to no other species, and somewhat resembling the 

 species of Nymphidium in the character of its markings. 



