42 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW EXOTIC BUTTERFLIES. [Jan. 23, 



between the nervures. Body, thorax, and antennae pale reddish 

 brown ; abdomen dark brown. 



Underside — wings as above. Body — thorax white ; legs and ab- 

 domen ochreous ; antennae pale brown. 



Expanse of wings 2 J inches. 



Hab. Cayenne. 



6. Het^era harpalyce, sp. n.* (PI. III. fig. 6.) 



Upperside — front wings as in the preceding species. Hind wings, 

 lower half richly glossed with purple ; a large ocellus as in H. pel- 

 lucida ; a similar smaller ocellus near the outer margin between the 

 second and first median branches ; two small circular white spots 

 between the two ocelli ; other markings as in H. pellucida. 



Underside — front wings as above. Hind wings as above, but with- 

 out the purple gloss. Body wanting, probably the same as' in the 

 preceding species. 



Expanse of wings 2| inches. 



Hab. Upper Amazons ? 



This species is allied to H. esmeralda, Doubleday, but differs from 

 it in the greater extent of the purple gloss in the hind wings, the 

 unbroken submarginal band, an additional ocellus, and its greater 

 size. It is also allied to H. philis, Cramer, wrongly placed as a 

 synonym of H. aurora, Feld., under its old name of H. andromeda f. 



The species figured by Cramer (iv. pi. 387, f. E) as H. philis is 

 quite distinct from H. pireta, Cramer, pi. 315. f. A ; it has a violet, 

 not a carmine, suffusion on the hind wings ; and the colouring in 

 H. philis is confined to the centre of the disk, instead of covering 

 nearly the whole of the lower portion of the wing. 



If these differences existed merely in Cramer's figures, pis. 315 

 & 387, they might be attributed to colour-blindness or carelessness; 

 but as the same differences are found in the descriptions {pireta — 

 " la tache rouge") (philis — " une tache luisante couleur de violet "), 

 there can be no more doubt that the two insects are distinct. 



Note. — It appears to me that the insect heretofore in our collec- 

 tions under the name of H. andromeda (PI. III. fig. 9), although 

 not the species intended by Fabricius (Drury, iii. pi. 38. f. 3), should 

 not be named in collections H. aurora, Felder (Pi. III. figs. 7, 8), 

 although it may be identical with H. pireta, Cramer. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE III. 



Fig. 1 . Apatura lavinia, p. 39. 



2. Corades cybele, p. 40. 



3. Dozdalma emilia, p. 40. 



4. Debis Isabella, p. 41. 



Fig. 5. Hetatra pellucida, p. 41. 



6. harpalyce, p. 42. 



7, 8. aurora, p. 42. 



9, andromeda, p. 42. 



* 



Possibly the other sex of H. pellucida. 

 t Vide Bates on New Sp. Butterf. from Guatemala and Panama, Ent. Month. 

 Mag. i. p. 180, 1865. 



