NYMPHALID.E — PREPONA. 



PREPONA PRyENESTE. 7, 8. 



Upperside. Male dark brown, glossed with purple, chiefly on the posterior 

 wing. Both wings crossed by a submarginal band of scarlet ; in distinct spots on 

 the anterior wing, divided by the nervures only on the posterior wing. Anterior wing 

 crossed by a broad longitudinal band of scarlet, commencing at the base, and pro- 

 ceeding until it joins one of the submarginal spots. 



Underside red brown, with spots and bands of darker colour. Anterior wing 

 with a bifid spot and band within the cell, the end of the cell, both sides of a greyish 

 spot (which crosses the wing beyond the middle from the costal margin to the median 

 nervnre), and two lines between the second and third median nervures, all red-brown. 

 The inner margin, and two spots between the first and second median nervules 

 purple-brown. Posterior wing with two spots near the base, two a little beyond 

 them, two in the cell, the boundary of the cell, a curved transverse band before 

 the middle, and a row of spots near the outer margin, all red-brown. Two spots 

 of white before the middle, and an eye-like spot near the anal angle bordered with 

 black above, its centre black, dotted with white. The wing beyond the middle, 

 thickly irrorated with white. 



Expan. 4^0 in. Hab. New Granada. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitsou. 



This beautiful butterfly, for which I am much indebted to the kindness of Mrs. Mark, bears con- 

 siderable resemblance to P. Deiphile. Besides the singular baud of the anterior wing, this species 

 differs from it in the much rounder form of the posterior wing. 



