NYMPHAL1D M. 



PREPONA PRIENE. 6. 



Upperside. Male black. Both wings with a large central spot of green-blue. 

 On the anterior wing, triangular, and touching the middle of the inner margin. On the 

 posterior wing quadrate, not touching the costal margin, not forming a continuous 

 band with the spot of the anterior wing. Posterior wing with a row of round black 

 spots parallel to the outer margin, those nearest the anal angle dotted with blue. 



Underside. Both wings grey or rufous ; near the base marked with spots and 

 lines of black. Crossed from the costal margin of the anterior wing (before the middle 

 to the anal angle of the posterior wing by a straight line partly black (slightly broken 

 where the wings meet), bordered on a portion of its inward margin with white. Be- 

 yond the band rufous-brown and grey. Posterior wing irrorated with white, crossed 

 by a band of rufous-brown spots, the two at the anal angle marked with black and 

 blue, all dotted with white. 



Expan. 4i\,-in. Hab. New Granada. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



Like the other blue-handed species of Prepona above, except that it is without the blue spot near 

 the middle of the costal margin, and that the blue band is not common to both wings. < In the underside 

 it is most nearly allied to P. Amphimacbus, but differs from it in the direction of the transverse band as 

 well as in its general colour. 



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