MR. H. W. BATES — CATALOaiTE OE ERTCINID.*. 391 



blackish spots encircled with grey ; oi-ange spot of hind wings nearly 

 obsolete. 



Antennae greyish, ringed with dark brown ; club thick, ovate, black. 



Body and legs dark brown; tibiae and basal joint of tarsi wliitish. 



Resembles in colours Mesene crocostigma, 



Hab. Para. 



Pachythone xanthe. 



d". 1". Fore-wing costa very slightly incurved in the middle. Above 

 saffron-ochreous ; fore wing with the costal border, apical portion, and 

 outer border black; hind wing with a rather narrow black outer border, 

 attenuated in the middle and near the anal angle. The black apical 

 portion of the fore wing has in the middle an oval saffron-coloured 

 spot; the costal border has two triangular projections into the wing- 

 cell. Fringe black. 



Beneath, the same, but paler. 



Head and terminal joint of the palpi dark brown ; face, rest of the 

 palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs yellow. 



Hab. Ega, Upper Amazons. 



Pachythone mimula. 



$ . 1" 3'". Fore wing more elongated, costa incurved in the middle 

 and arched again long before the apex; hind- wing outer border more 

 advanced than the anal angle. Above dark brown ; fore wing with a 

 triangular yellow spot occupying the inner half of the basal portion, 

 and an elongate yellow spot in the middle of the dark apical part. Hind 

 wing with rather more than the basal half yellow, the colour occupying 

 also a rather wide indentation in the dark brown outer border. 



Beneath, the same, but paler. 



Head and thorax brown ; face, thorax, abdomen, and legs yellow. 

 Antennae brown, obscurely spotted; club more slender than in the 

 other species. 



Hab. Santarem, Amazons. 



Charts monogramma. 



cS • 1" 4'". Similar in shape to Ch. Cadmeis (Hewits. Exot. Butt. 

 Charis, f. 1 ) ; fore-wing costa broadly incurved in the middle, sharply 

 arched before the apex, the latter produced and acute. Anal angle 

 of hind wings a little produced, and, as well as the abdominal margin, 

 fringed with long silky hairs. Above dark brown ; both wings crossed 

 by a rufous-tawny line extending from the middle of the fore-wing 

 costa to the middle of the abdominal edge, where it is broader and of 

 an orange tint. Fringe ruddy brown, white near the apex of fore 

 wing. 



Beneath, lighter and more ruddy, tawny line much broader. AntennEe 

 and body dark brown, the former ringed with white. Eyes hairy. 



Hab. On flowers, Santarem, Amazons. 



The species differs from the hairy-eyed section of Charis in no 



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