ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN LEPIDOPTERA, 179 



at once reminds one of Hewifcson's figure of " lolaus " isceus^ Hewit- 

 son,* which name stands for the species, but the underside differs 

 considerably, as it has a very large ochreous area at the anal angle of 

 the hindwing, which area in C, culta is reduced to two small spots. 



I am indebted to the Eev. Walter A. Hamilton for the gift of five 

 males and one female of this interesting little species. 



Genus CREON, nov. 

 Male, Forewing, triangular, broad ; costa arched at base, straight 

 in the middle, deflected posteriorly at the apex ; apex acute -, outer 

 marghi strongly convex ; inner angle rather acute ; inner margin 

 much bowed posteriorly in the middle, to the edge of this bowed 

 portion are attached two pencils of hairs, the interior one is narrow, 

 long, deep black, directed obliquely outwardly, under and forwards, and 

 extends a little beyond the submedian fold ; the exterior one is broad, 

 short, and pale ochreous ; costal nervure ending opposite to the apex 

 of the discoidal cell ; first subcostal nervule arising nearer to the apex 

 of the cell than to the base of the wing, well separated from the costal 

 nervure ; second subcostal arising twice as far from the upper disco- 

 cellular as from the first subcostal nervule i third subcostal short, 

 arising much nearer to the apex of the wing than to the apex of the 

 cell ; subcostal nervure ending at the apex of the wing ; upper disco- 

 cellular nervide (this is actually the base of the upper discoidal nervule) 

 stout, rather long, strongly outwardly oblique ; middle disco-cellular 

 very slightly concave, upright ; lower disco-cellular straight, in the 

 same straight line with and rather longer than the middle disco- 

 cellular j second median nervule arising well beforeLthe lower end of 

 the cell ; first median arising nearer the lower end of the cell than to 

 the base of the wing, arising about twice as far from the second as the 

 second does from the third ; submedian nervure slightly sinuous. 

 Hindwing, costa greatly arched at base, thence to apex forming a very 

 obtuse angle, the two sides forming this angle of nearly equal length, 

 each side almost straight ; apex well rounded ; outer margin at first 

 slightly concave, produced from the apex of the second median nervule 

 to the anal lobe ; tails two, short, the anterior one from the termina- 

 tion of the first median nervule rather longer than the posterior one 



* 111. Diurn, Lep., Lycanidce, p. -14, n, 15, pi, xix, figfj. 13; 14, maU (1866). 



