320 ON RHOPALOCERA FROM DOMINICA. [May 6, 



obtained in the islands of " Antigua, St. Christopher, and Nevis, 

 &c." It has since been traced from Maryland southwards to the 

 Gulf of Mexico and to the Pacific Ocean, throughout the West- 

 Indian islands and Central America, and in South America to the 

 Argentine Republic. 



Stephens's P. bucephalus was based upon specimens said to have 

 been captured near Barnstaple, in Devonshire, but which were sus- 

 pected to have come from North America. The figure represents a 

 male, and not a female as stated by Mr. Strecker. 



P. hala was based by Mr. Butler upon a single female specimen, 

 now in our possession, from Venezuela. This differs in no way from 

 the ordinary type of the female of this exceedingly common species. 

 Mr. Butler is silent as to the sex of his type, nor does he say a word 

 as to the alliances of the insect he describes ! 



27. Pamphila ravola, sp. n. (Plate XXV. figs. 3, 4.) 



Alis Icete saturate ochraceis, anticis margine externo, plaga magna 

 ad unguium apicalem venam medianam attingente et stria super 

 ramos radiales nigris; plaga tumida cellular i ad ramum medianum 

 primum et extra earn penicillo nigro notatis : posticis margine 

 costali et ad angulum analem nigris, margine externo angustissime 

 nigro, ciliis disco concoloribus : subtus fere omnino saturate 

 ochraceis fere unicoloribus , anticis ad marginem externum fusce- 

 scentibus et maculis duabus, una ad cellulce basin, altera ad angu- 

 lum analem fusco-nigris. 

 2 . Anticis, absque plaga tumida et penicillo nigro, omnino fusce- 

 scentioribus ; costce dimidio basali, macula subapicali et fascia 

 mediana margini externo subparallela ochraceis ; posticis fusco 

 latiore marginatis ; subtus sicut in mare sed alis paulo obscuri- 

 oribus : corpore fusco, ochraceo tincto ; palpis sordide albidis, 

 antennis ochraceo terminatis, 

 Hab. Dominica {Angus). 



Obs. P. vitellio (Hiibn.) (Samml. ex. Schm. ii. t. 153) quoad 

 colores affinis sed plaga magna ad angulum anticarum analem 

 diversus. 



We have been unable to find any species at all resembling this 

 either in our own collection or in that of the British Museum. 



Mr. Angas's collection contains a good series of specimens of both 

 sexes. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXV. 



Fig. 1. Anwa dominicana, p. 316. 



2. Proteides angasi, p. 318. 



3. Pamphila ravola, $ , p. 320. 

 4. , ? , p. 320. 



5. Syntomedia angasi, p. 321. 

 ti. Eucereon imriei, p. 322. 



