N£"W SPECIES OF THE GENUS EUPTYCHTA. 



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Descriptions of new Species. 



EUPTYCHIA ANACLETA, n. Sp. PI. XIL fig. 4. 



Wings semitransparent, pale brown, becoming more opaque towards tlie 

 outer margin, with two parallel regular central dusky bands; an ill- 

 defined discal nebula ; one ill-defined dusky subapical blind ocellus in 

 primaries and five increasing blind ocelli in secondaries, the fifth 

 largest, better-defined, and blackish ; primaries with a dusky submar- 

 ginal difi^used band, secondaries with two undulated submarginal lines, 

 distinctly separate towards anal angle, but coalescing towards apex; 

 abdominal area of female whitish : body grey, head brown : wings 

 below very pale grey, nearly white, crossed by three bands, the two 

 nearest to the base red-brown, the third broader, red-brown on secon- 

 daries, more or less ochreous on primaries (entirely so in the male) ; 

 two irregularly undulated submarginal blackish lines, terminating at 

 anal angle of secondaries in two irregular orange liturse ; primaries 

 with a large subapical black ocellus, with blue pupil and testa- 

 ceous iris ; below it two small ill-defined ocelli ; a large diflfused discal 

 ochreous patch ; subapical area dusky; a grey marginal line ; secon- 

 daries with five ocelli, the fifth large, the first, second, and fifth black, 

 with blue pupils and stramineous irides, the third and fourth dusky, 

 with silvery pupils and pale testaceous irides ; a dusky nebula round 

 the ocelli : body below whitish : expanse of wings S I inch 4 lines, 

 5 1 inch b lines. 

 * The species described by Felder, and here enumerated, will remain unknown 

 to science until either proper descriptions are published, or the types can be ex- 

 amined. 



