me. n. w. bates — catalogue of ertcinid^. 383 



Dysmathia Portia. 



c?. 1" 6'". Fore wing triangular ; costa arched only near the apex, the 

 latter acute, outer border nearly straight; hind-wing outer border 

 and anal angle rounded. Above dull brown, varied with pale slaty 

 blue I a submarginal row of black spots encircled with slaty blue on 

 both wings ; disk of wings with a large number of black spots between 

 the nervures. 



Beneath pale brown, with the black spots and marks smaller and less 

 distinct. 



Body brown. Antennae pale rufous brown, spotted above with darker 

 brown. 



Hab. Para. 



Dysmathia costalis. 



S • 1" 6'". Fore-wing costa very strongly arched in the middle, apex 

 obtuse; hind wing with anal angle prominent, obtuse. Above pale 

 ashy brown, rufous towards the outer margins, fringe brown. Fore 

 wing with three blackish streaks aci'oss the cell, and three between 

 the median and submedian nervures ; beyond the cell is a line of 

 blackish lunules commencing on the costa and crossing the wing, 

 strongly bent outwards, to the first branch of the median ; nearer the 

 outer margin is a more or less indistinct submarginal dark-brown 

 sti-eak. Hind wing crossed by six dark-brown lines, the fourth of 

 which is bent and interrupted. 



Beneath light bluish grey, crossed by lines similar to those above, but 

 with the addition of a submarginal row of rounded spots on both 

 wings. 



Antennae ashy white, ringed with brown. 



Hab. Ega. 



Zeonia sylphina. 



6. 1" 10'". Closely allied to Z. Xanthippe, G. R. Gray (Griffith's An. 

 King. Ins. vol. ii. pi. 102. f. 1). Tail of the hind wings and anal lobe 

 much shorter. Above black; a broadish diaphanous belt crosses 

 both wings at a short distance from the base, and is crossed on the 

 fore wing by the black median nervure and the beginning of its first 

 branch and by the postmedian nervure, and on the hind wing by the 

 costal and median nervures ; the margins of the diaphanous belt are 

 quite straight. There is also a broad triangular diaphanous area on the 

 apical half of the fore wing, crossed by six nervures, and a submai'ginal 

 spot of the same near the apex of the hind wing, crossed by two nervures. 

 The hind wing has a crimson streak commencing at the base, extend- 

 ing along the abdominal edge, bending long before reaching the anal 

 angle, and terminating at the median nervure. The black anal portion 

 has a flexuous stripe of silvery blue. The anal lobe is short and broad, 

 tipped with white. The tail is only 4 lines long, and tipped with 

 white. 



Beneath, the same. 



Hab. Interior of Ecuador. 



