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PRONOPHILA. III. 



PEONOPHILA PHALAESIA. 13, 14. 

 Pronopliila Prosymna $ Hewiison, Trans. Ent. Soc. Zrd Series, Vol. I. PI. 5, 



Fiffs. 35, 30, p. 15. 



Upperside. Male, dark brown, with the base broadly rufous. Anterior 

 wing crossed near and parallel to the outer margin by a broad band of carmine 

 tinted with orange near the costal margin. Posterior wing with three carmine 

 spots near its apex. 



Underside. Anterior wing as above, except that it is paler, and has a triangular 

 lilac-grev spot near the apex. Posterior wing lilac-grey, rufous near the base; 

 crossed at the middle by a broad triangular band of dark rufous-brown : the outer 

 margin (except the apex and a spot near the anal angle) broadly rufous-brown, 

 marked by four or more spots (three of which are larger than the rest) of ]3ale 

 yellow. 



Exp. 2-^ inch. Hab. Ecuador. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hevfitson. 



I am very glad to be able at the same time to figure ila, species from a fresh specimen and to 

 correct an error. When I published the paper on Pronophila, 1 came too hastily to the conclusion, 

 misled by the close resemblance of the undersides, that this was the male of P. Prosymna of the 

 Exotic Butterflies, Vol. 11, PI. 40, f. ?,, 4. I now find that my e.xamples of the species there figured 

 are all males, and that throughout my collection of the genus, females are very scarce. I find also, 

 that the butterflies which weie figured by me as the sexes of P. Praeneste are all males, and I am 

 thankful to iMr. Butler for pointing out my error. I have placed them here as I think they ought to 

 stand. I shall for the future trust less to the eye, and more to the microscope. 



PEONOPHILA PHANAEAEA. 15. 



Upperside, uniform dark brown : the fringe spotted with white. 



Understde. Anterior wing dark brown with two rufous spots, one M'ithin the 

 cell, the other beyond the middle : the apex and outer margin undulated with grey, 

 crossed by a band of four minute white spots. Posterior wing dark brown, 

 undulated with rufous-brown to the middle : marked beyond the middle by rufous- 

 brown spots undulated with dark brown. A silvery- white spot between the first 

 and second median nervules and near the outer margin. 



Exp. r2-/o inch. Hab. Ecuador. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



Much like P. Pauyasis, of which it is probably the female. 



