320 ON RHOPALOCERA FROM OOMINICA. [May 6, 



obtained in the islands of "Antigua, St. Christopher, and Nevis, 

 &c." It has since been traced from Maryland southwards to the 

 Gulf of Mexico and to the Pacific Ocean, throughout the West- 

 Indian islands and Central America, and in South America to the 

 Argentine Republic. 



Stephens's P. bucephalus was based upon specimens said to have 

 been captured near Barnstaple, in Devonshire, but which were sus- 

 pected to have come from North America. The figure represents a 

 male, and not a female as stated by Mr. Strecker. 



P. hala was based by Mr. Butler upon a single female specimen, 

 now in our possession, from Venezuela. This differs in no way from 

 the ordinary type of the female of this exceedingly common species. 

 Mr. Butler is silent as to the sex of his type, nor does he say a word 

 as to the alliances of the insect he describes ! 



27. Pamphila ravola, sp. n. (Plate XXV. figs. 3, 4.) 



Alls Icete saturate ochraceis, anticis margine externa, plaga magna 

 ad unguium apicalem venam medianam attingente et stria super 

 ramos radiates nigris; plaga tumida cellulari ad ramum medianum 

 primum et extra earn penicillo nigra notatis : posticis margine 

 costali et ad unguium analem nigris, margine externa angustissime 

 nigra, ciliis disca concoloribus : suhtus fere amjiina saturate 

 ochraceis fere unicolaribus , anticis ad marginem externum fusce- 

 scentibus et maculis duabus, una ad cellulce basin, altera ad ungu- 

 ium analem fusco-nigris. 

 2 . Anticis, absque plaga tumida et penicillo nigra, amnino fusee- 

 sceniioribus ; costce dimidia basali, macula subapicali et fascia 

 mediana margini externa subparallela achraceis ; pasticis fusco 

 latiare marginalis ; subtus sicut in mare sed alis paula obscuri- 

 oribus : corpore fusco, ochraceo tincta ; palpis sardide albidis, 

 antennis ochraceo terminatis. 

 Hub. Dominica {Angus). 



Obs. P. vitellio (Hiibn.) (Samml. ex. Schm. ii. t. 153) quoad 

 colores affiuis sed plaga magna ad angulum anticarum analem 

 diveisus. 



We have been unable to find any species at all resembling this 

 either in our own collection or in that of the British Museum. 



Mr. Angas's collection contains a good series of specimens of both 

 sexes. 



DESCEIPTION OP PLATE XXV. 



Fig. 1. Anaa dominicana,Y>- 316. 



2. Froteides angasi, p. 318. 



3. Pamphila ravola, $ , p. 320. 

 4. , ? , p. 320. 



6. Syntomedia angasi, p. 321. 

 (i. Eucereon imriei, p. 322. 



