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OPSIPHANES. 



OPSIPHANES ORGETORIX. 1, 3. 



0])f:ipliancs Orcjdorh. Ilewifsoii. Enfom. Mon. Marj. T'ol. T'l. j). 177 (1S70). 



UrPERSiDE. Male dark rufous-brown. Anterior wing crossed from the costal 

 margin bej-ond its middle to the anal angle by a curved rufous band, broadest where 

 it crosses the discoidal ncrviu-es : three subapical white spots. Posterior wing with a 

 tuft of hair having its oriu'in in and near the end of the cell : the outer margin broadly 

 rufous. 



Underside rufous beautifully undulated and spotted with dark brown and white. 

 Anterior wing Avith a brown spot near the base, a quadrifid sjjot in the cell liordercd 

 with black, a broad transverse dark brown liand before the middle : the outer 

 margin rufous l)ordercd inwardly with ochreous yellow in arches and traversed 

 by two linear arched bands of black : a subapical oval ocellus with rufous border 

 and for pupil a line of white : some apical wliite spots. Posterior wing with two 

 large rufous ocelli bordered with black: one touching the costal margin at its 

 middle marked by a semicircular white line : the other towards the anal angle marked 

 by a round black spot irrorated with green crowned by a line of white : the outer 

 margin broadly rufous with its imier border zig-zag. 



Female like the male except that it is larger, that the anterior wing is crossed 

 near the middle l)y a nearly straight band of lilac-grey. Posterior wing with the 

 outer margin broadly orange clouded with brown. 



Exp. i 4-i--y ? 4-i"y inch. Hab. Nicaragua. (Chontales.) 



In the Collections of Thomas Belt and W. C. Hewitson. 



I am indebted to Jlr. Belt for this very interesting addition to m}' collection. "Uliilst the male on 

 the upperside scarcely difiers from Berccynthus and Suraiois, the female is altogether different from those 

 of any other species which ue know. 



PuhUshal April Ut, 1S73.] 



