S A T Y R I D iE. 



PRONOPHILA V. 



PRONOPHILA PRAXITHEA. 2S, 29. 



Pro)i02)lnIa Prad'itliea, Ilewifson. Tirms. Ent. Soc. p. 157, 1S70. 



Upperside. Male, dark brown. Outer margin dentate, slightly on the anterior 

 wing, strongly on the posterior wing. Anterior wing crossed from beyond the middle 

 of the costal margin to the anal angle by a very broad band of orange, widest at the 

 middle, slightly dentate on both sides. Posterior wing with an orange spot at the 

 apex. 



Underside as above, except that the anterior Aving has the costal margin marked 

 with lines of white ; that it is undulated near the apex with lilac, and marked with 

 three minute white spots : that the posterior wing is undulated near the costal margin 

 from its middle to the apex with rufous-brown and lilac-white, and marked with three 

 minute white spots; that it is crossed beyond the middle by an irregular band 

 undulated with brown and white, and that it is slightly and indistinctly undulated 

 between this band and the outer margin, and near the inner margin, with paler colour. 



Exp. 2itj hich. Hab. Ecuador. (St. Rosario, Villagoraes.) 



lu the Colleotiou of W. C. Hewitson. 



PRONOPHILA ALUSANA. 30, 31. 



P. Alusana, Hcwitson. Equatorial Lppidoptera, p. 34. 



Upperside. Male, dark brown, the outer margins dentated. Anterior wiug 

 ci'ossed at the middle by a broad iiTegular band of orange. Posterior wing crossed 

 beyond the middle by a similar band of orange, broken near the apex where a 

 portion of it forms a triangular spot. 



Underside as above, except that the anterior wing is ochreous near the apex, 

 which is crossed by a band of four minute white spots : that the posterior wing is 

 crossed before the middle by an angular broken band of white : that the apical spot 

 (which is much larger, and luidulated with brown) is united with the Ijand, which is 

 also slightly undulated with broAvn, and that the space between the band and the 

 outer margin is undulated with ochreous-yellow, and has three triangular spots of 

 lilac- white, each marked by a minute white spot. 



Exp. 2"!^ inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Alusana, Buckley.) 



In the Collections of W. C. Hewitson and W. W. Saunders. 

 Nearly allied to P. Philotera of Hesvitsoii. 



Published April 1st, 1871.] 



