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PAVONIA I. 



PAVONIA SELEUCIDA. 



IJpPERSiDE. Male dark brown. Anterior winor with more than the basal half 

 rufous ; crossed by a submarginal undulated band of rufous orange : the outer margin 

 and a curved band near the apex which encloses two black spots rufous : two minute 

 subapical white spots. Posterior wing tinted with purple at the middle, the outer 

 margin rufous. 



Underside rufous brown. Anterior wing marked in the cell by numerous zig-zag 

 black hnes : crossed at the middle and end of the cell l)y rufous-white bands and beyond 

 the cell ])y a black linear band followed on the costal margin by a triangular space 

 undulated with white and Ijelow it by a band of white succeeded by a broad brown 

 band undulated with dark lirown and marked near the costal margin by two black 

 spots crowned with white by a third black spot and by two blind ocelli and bordered 

 outwardly by an undulated band of white : the outer margin rufous traversed by an 

 undulated linear black band, bordered outwardly with paler colour. Posterior wing 

 undulated throughout with dark brown with a broad central dark brown band 

 bordered with white and marked by some irregular black lines and enclosing near 

 the costal margin a large dark brown ocellus with pale rufous border and marked 

 by a lunular white spot and near the anal angle by a large tritid brown spot marked 

 by two ocelli (one small) each marked by white. 



Exp. 5 inch. Ilab. Bolivia. (Buckley.) 



lu the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



A most interesting species connectiug the two gronps of the genus, resembling P. Eurylochus 

 in its form and colouring of the uppcrside, and P. Automedou and .^sacus on the underside. 



Puhlislied January 'isl, 18/7.] 



