SATY RIDiE. 



I D I O M O R P II U S. 



IDIOMORPHUS ITALUS. 1, 2, 3. 



Uppekside. Male brown, tinted with lilac towards the apex of the anterior 

 wing; a patch of hair before the middle between the median and sub-median nervules. 

 Posterior wing with the anal angle produced, a tuft of hair covering a remarkable 

 spot of peculiar pale brown scales at the end of the discoidal cell. 



Underside. Rufous, paler towards the margin. Both wings crossed before 

 and at the middle by a transverse common band of brown, both with an indistinct 

 undulated rufous line near the outer margin ; the outer margin and fringe brown. 

 Anterior wing with three rufous bands within the cell, with two ocelli, posterior wing 

 with six, the second and third minute : all with a white pupil and orange iris. 



Female like the male, except that it is paler and that the anterior wing is 

 crossed beyond the middle by an oblique broad band of white marked by an obscure 

 ocellus. 



Exp. i 2-1% $ 2^. Ilab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



