210 ASTHENIA PODALIRIARIA. 



towards the posterior margin), and the third close to 

 the outer margin : the apex of the wings is marked 

 by a large blackish patch. In the hind wings the 

 three bars are also continued across the surface, meet- 

 ing at the anal angle ; the first straight, the second 

 angulated over the tail, and the third forming an 

 arch over the base of the tail, which has two black 

 spots, the outer one with an external orange stripe ; 

 the tail slender and curved. The antennas are black. 

 Expansion of the wings one inch and three-quar- 

 ters. 



This species is from Rio Janeiro, the specimen 

 figured being in the collection of the Rev. F. W. 

 Hope. 



The following also belong to this genus : — 



A. machaonaria.— Light cream colour ; upper wings with 

 three uninterrupted brown bars, the outermost midway 

 between the middle of the wing and the exterior mar- 

 gin ; the apex with two small oblique brown stripes : 

 under wings traversed by two brown bars, recurved to 

 the internal margin, and having a narrow waved line 

 between them ; tail angular and acute, with two pear- 

 shaped black spots, surmounted by a short waved 

 brown bar. Expansion of the wings two inches* — 

 Guerin, Icon, des lnsectes, pi. 90, fig. 1. 



A. geminia.— Cream colour, nearly white ; upper wings 

 with three transverse brown bars, the second not reach- 

 ing to the posterior edge, and the third, which is placed 

 close to the margin, not extending to the apex ; the 

 latter unspotted ; costa marked with short black lines. 

 The first and outer bar of the upper wings are continued 

 across the under pair, meeting at the anal angle ; the 

 external one margined with black, and the tail itself 



