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by black and the yellow margin of the secondaries is very indistinct. 

 The abdomen is also black underneath. 



Expanse 29 mm. 



Hub. Peru. 



Darna inca, sp. nov. 



Male. Primaries above velvety black, shaded with metallic blue 

 at the base and along; the inner margin; a broad orange band crosses 

 the wing from the middle of the costal margin to nearly the inner 

 angle ; underneath as on the upper surface, the inner margin, how- 

 ever, denuded of scales. Secondaries above having the anterior half 

 denuded, greyish, with the male sexual gland ; posterior half black ; 

 along the inner margin bluish ; underneath pale metallic green, the 

 outer margin black. Body metallic blue. 



The female differs in having the secondaries black, and the 

 metallic colour of the inner margins more extended. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



Sab. Peru. 



Flavinia dubia, sp. nov. 



Primaries black, a large yellow space at the base confined within 

 the subcostal and submedian veins ; a large siibapical elongated 

 yellow spot. Secondaries yellow, with all the margins black. 

 Underside the same. Body black ; thorax and abdomen laterally 

 yellow. 



Expanse 34 mm. 



Hah. Corcovado, Rio Janeiro. 



Flavinia darna, sp. nov. 



Very similar to Flavinia dubia, Schaus ; the subapical spot smaller 

 in proportion, and it is easily recognized from that species by its 

 smaller size and white abdomen underneath. 



Expanse 22 mm. 



Sab. Novo Friburgo, Brazil. 



Flavinia janeira, sp. nov. 



Primaries above black, a long yellow spot at the base confined 

 within the median and submedian veins ; a subapical roundish yellow 

 spot; the':extreme apex white. Secondaries yellow with black 

 margins, except the base of the inner and costal margins ; under- 

 neath the same. BoJy black ; collar yellow. Abdomen with a 

 lateral yellow stripe and underneath white. 



Expanse 34 mm. 



Hah. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 



Most nearly allied to Flavinia approximans. Walker, but differs in 

 the white apices of the primaries, and the costal margins of the 

 secondaries, which in F. approximans are broadly black, with a 

 short yellow basal streak. 



Flavinia q,uicua, sp. nov. 



Primaries black ; a basal oblong spot confined within the median 



