4184 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW SPECIES [June 13, 
lunular white mark glossed with pink near the apex; three very in- 
distinct white lunules glossed with pink between the nervules, the 
upper one placed obliquely to the apical lunule ; an indistinct white 
mark just beyond the cell; four distinct white lunules glossed with 
pink, the lowest one geminate, between the nervules, near the hind 
margin, extending from the first discocellular to the anal angle ; 
outer margin and basal portion of anterior margin dull red; cell 
crossed in the centre by four small blue-white spots, the two upper 
ones placed vertically, the lower ones obliquely ; a small blue-white 
spot and an obliquely placed, elongate, elbowed line at the end of 
the cell; base marked by three small cream-coloured spots ; outer 
margin dull orange. Posterior wings rich golden brown, deeper 
beneath ; crossed beyond the middle by a broad white band glossed 
with pink, broader above than below, extending from the anterior 
margin to near the end of the first median nervule, where it turns 
off at an angle towards the inner margin, becoming rufous brown at 
its outer extremity ; an indistinct cloudy band of white scales glossed 
with pink from near the anal angle to the end of the cell; base dull 
rufous, outer margin dull orange; a marginal row of eight white 
lunules, glossed with pink, near it; above them, and contiguous to 
them, a series of blue lunules with rufous centres. Body reddish ; 
palpi white. 
Hab. Mexico. 
This species, which is the most beautiful in the genus, somewhat 
resembles Victorina trayja, Hiibner (Brazil), on its upper surface ; 
on the underside it is nearer to Victorina epaphus, Latreille (South 
America and Mexico)*. 
* Victorina aphrodite differs from the description given by Mr. Bates of 4. 
superba in the following particulars :— 
A. SUPERBA. 
“ Above: both wings crossed by a white belt, much broader on the fore than 
hind wing, and edged with light blue. 
“‘ Beneath light brown; belt same as above; fore wing, outer border has a row 
of brownish-white lunules, not reaching the apex; the hind wing has a similar 
row placed between two lunulated red streaks, both edged on each side with 
dusky.”—Ent. Month. Mag. vol. i. p. 161, sp. 61. 
V. APHRODITE. 
Above: both wings crossed by a white belt, edged with blue; that of the hind 
wing blue below for one-fourth of its length. 
The wings with reddish markings in various parts; there is no mention made 
of any such markings in the description of 4. superba. 
Beneath: hind wing, outer margin reddish; above it a row of white lunules 
reaching the apex, and not similar to those of the upper wing ; and above these 
lunules not a lunulated red streak edged with dusky, but a lunulated blue streak 
with a reddish spot in the centre of each lunule. 
The belt is not the same as above on either of the wings; it is sinuated and 
dentated on the outer edge of the upper wing; and in the hind wing it turns off 
at an angle at the first median nervule, and continues to near the anal angle, 
where it becomes suffused with reddish. 
There is also a broad indistinct dusky band of white scales reaching from near 
the anal angle to the end of the cell, which does not appear to be the case with 
A. superba. 
