166 Mr. 0. Salvin on new Species of Butterflies 



6. Ithomia peruana. 



$ . Exp. 2'40 in. Antennae black, the club yellow ; palpi 

 white, black in front ; head and thorax black ; abdomen black, 

 dusky beneath : anterior wings diaphanous, the margins, ner- 

 vures, and two dark bands, one across the middle and the other 

 at the end of the cell, black ; a small yellowish spot lies close 

 to the costa beyond the cell : posterior wings diaphanous, the 

 apical angle, nervures, and outer margin black ; a yellowish 

 tinge pervades the film near the inner margin : beneath as 

 above, the dark borders of the wings having the inner part 

 red ; basal half of the costa of the posterior wings yellow ; 

 there are three small white spots close to the apical angle of 

 the fore wings, and a row of five close to the outer margin of 

 the hind wings : neuration of the hind wings as in Ith. avella, 

 Hew. ; the pencil of hairs originates from a receptacle formed 

 by the cmwature of the costal and subcostal nervures ; the 

 recm-rent nervule is borne by the lower discocellular ; the 

 upper discocellular is long, and meets the subcostal some way 

 from its extremity at a very obtuse angle. 



Hob. Pozzuzo, East Peru (Pearce). 



Ohs. AUied to Ith. avella, Hew., but differs in the club of the 

 antennas being yellow instead of black, in the costal margin 

 being quite black instead of rufous, and beneath in half of the 

 costal margin of the posterior wings being yellow, and in the 

 origin of the pencil of hairs being black instead of grey in the 

 middle : the posterior wings, too, are tinged with yellow in- 

 stead of being clear hyaline. 



7. Ithomia ])icta. 



? . Exp. 2'15 in. Antennae black, with the club yellow; 

 palpi white, black in front ; head, thorax, and abdomen black, 

 the latter whitish beneath : anterior wings black, less opaque 

 towards the outer half of the wing beyond the cell ; anterior 

 portion of the cell tawny, the end covered with a black patch ; 

 a large yellow spot in the middle ; there are four irregular yel- 

 low spots outside the cell, the uppermost crossing the subcostal 

 and upper radial, and a submarginal row of five yellow spots : 

 posterior wings bordered broadly with black, next to which 

 is placed a tawny band extending over the inner margin, but 

 not to the apical angle ; inside the tawny colouring is a large 

 yellow patch including the whole of the cell and extending 

 beyond it : beneath as above, the base of the costa of the pos- 

 terior wings being tawny ; and the outer marginal black band 

 of each wing includes seven white spots. Neuration of hind 

 wing as in $ Ith. latilla^ Hew. The lower discocellular emits 



