384f ME. H. W. BATES — CATALOGUE OE ERTCIKIDiE. 



SiSEME XANTHOGRAMMA. 



c? . 1" 6'". Same shape as S. Pallas, Latr. (Humb. & Bonpl. Zool. 

 pi. 24. f. 7, 8). Dififers in the wings being lightish brown, crossed by 

 a saiFron-coloured belt, as in S. Aristoteles, Latr. (1. c. f. 5, 6). Above 

 light brown, the outer portions lineated with blackish, both wings 

 crossed before the middle by an ochreous-saffron-coloured belt, widen- 

 ing from the fore-wing costa to the junction of the wings, and narrow- 

 ing again towards the hind-wing anal angle, which it does not reach. 

 The belt is bordered with black, and is succeeded near the anal angle 

 by a triangular tawny-orange spot. The fringe is blackish, on the 

 hind wing spotted with white. The hind wing is obtusely angular, 

 but not produced into a caudiform lobe. 



Beneath, same pattern, but much paler ; differs greatly from S. Aristoteles, 

 which has the outer half of the wings beneath darker, traversed by a 

 light-brown belt. 



Hab. Tarapoto, East Peru {Dr. Spruce). 



SiSEME SpRUCEI. 



S . 1" 6'", Hind wing neither lobed nor angulated, feebly scalloped, 

 with white fringe in the sinuses. Above dark olive-brown ; both wings 

 crossed by two pale brown stripes, one across the middle and the 

 second midway between the middle and the apex. Hind wing with 

 a row of three crimson spots near the anal angle. 



Beneath, the same, except that the belts are whitish and the whole basal 

 area of both wings is ashy white. 



Hab. Valleys west of Chimborazo, alt. 3000 ft. {Dr. Spruce). 



SiSEME CAUDALIS. 



(5.1" 6'". Closely resembles in colours S. Pallas. Differs in the 

 hind wing being elongated near the anal angle, and forming a distinct 

 caudal lobe. Above black ; both wings ci-ossed before the middle by 

 a broadish belt of pure white, narrow near costa of fore wing ; outer 

 portion of wings grey in the middle, traversed by black lines. Hind 

 wing with a large transverse red spot at the anal border. Margins of 

 the caudal lobe spotted with white. 



Beneath, the same, but a little paler. 



Hab. Moyobamba, Peru {M. de Gand.). 



Erycina miniola. 



S . 2". Closely allied to E. Meliboeus, F. {Pyretus, Cram.), — having, 

 like that species, a white spot above near the base of the costa of the 

 hind wing. Differs in the fore wing being conspicuously broader near 

 the apex, and in the hind wing being greatly elongated, forming a 

 caudal lobe as long as that of Diorhina Periander, Cram. {Laonome, 

 Bdv.). Fringe of fore wing, as well as of hind wing, varied with 

 white. Crimson belt twice the width of that in E. Meliboeus; the 

 red anal stripe also much longer, and with angulated edges. 



Hab. Ega. 



