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PRONOPHILA. VI. 



PRONOPHILA PALADES. 36, 39. 



Upperside. Male, red-brown, the outer margins broadly dark brown. Ante- 

 rior wing with a rufous spot on the costal margin near the apex, and a submarginal 

 series of five or six rufous spots, each marked with a dark-brown spot. Posterior wing 

 with a double series of six rufous spots, in each some of the spots of the upper 

 series connected with those below them. 



Underside. Anterior wing as above, except that the apex is grey. Posterior 

 wing tailed, grey clouded and undulated with dark brown : crossed at the middle by a 

 broad angular band, dark brown from the costal margin to the middle, grey from the 

 middle to the inner margin, bordered inwardly with dark brown, outwardly with white. 

 A submarginal series of dark-browu spots, four of which are marked with white. 



Exp. 3 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Galgalan, Buckley.) 



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



This does not differ sufficiently from P. Circe of Felder to make it specifically distinct. I have 

 been misled by its unusual brilliancy of colouring. 



PRONOPHILA PERSEPOLIS. 38, 42. 

 Upperside. ]\Ialc, dark brown with the base red-brown ending in an acute 

 point of paler colour near the middle of the anterior wing. Anterior wing with a 

 broad irregular submarginal rufous band, broken in the middle and marked with 

 three dark -brown spots. Posterior wing with an imperfect broad rufous band marked 

 with large black spots. 



Underside. Anterior wing as above, except that it is paler and that there are 

 spots of grey on the costal and outer margins near the apex. Posterior wing tailed, 

 rufous-grey clouded and undulated with dark brown : crossed from the middle of the 

 costal margin to the middle of the wing by a broad dark-brown l)and : crossed below 

 the middle, between the median nervules to the inner margin, by a narrow band of 

 bi'own : a submarginal series of dark-brown spots some of which are marked with 

 white. 



Exp. 2^^ inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Galgalan, Buckley.) 

 In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



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Ptiblished 1st April, 1872.] 



