618 Mr. W. C. Hewitson's Descrvptions of Lepidoptera. 



groups which are represented on the one hand by P. V'ictorinus 

 of Doubleday, and on the orther by P, Coristheus of Boisdiival. 

 It is very nearly allied to P. Corcebus, a species lately described by 

 Dr. Felder, from Venezuela, 



Morpho Alexandra. 



Alis nitidissimis, argenteo-purpureoque casruleis, marginibus 

 fuscis ; subtus anticis ocellis quatuor, posticis ocellis sex 

 (tertio minuto cceco). 



TJpperside. Male. — Brilliant silvery-blue ; purple near the outer 

 margins, which are brown and narrow, with lunules between the 

 nervures ; the ocelli of the underside slightly seen. 



Underside rufous- or lilac-white clouded with rufous-brown, 

 the nervures and three sub-marginal lines brown. Anterior wing 

 with the cell rufous-brown, crossed midway by a band of white, 

 the disco-cellular nervures marked by a band of brown ; crossed 

 beyond the middle by four black ocelli, the pupils white, large, the 

 iris rufous, margined with black ; followed by three transverse 

 bands ; the first, near the ocelli, zig-zag, rufous-brown ; the se- 

 cond darker brown ; the third, and the space between it and the 

 outer margins, rufous-brown. Posterior wing with the base and 

 a band within the cell rufous-brown, the end of the cell darker 

 brown ; the wing crossed at the middle by a broad unequal band 

 of silvery-white, deeply sinuated on both sides and broadly mar- 

 gined with rufous-brown, and marked with six ocelli, smaller than 

 those of the anterior wing, five of them black, with pupils of white 

 and rufous — iris bordered with black ; the first ocellus (near the 

 costal margin), the fourth, fifth and sixth of nearly equal size ; the 

 second smaller, indistinct ; the third minute, blind ; the first sub- 

 marginal transverse band formed of circular arches, the other two, 

 near the margin and each other, together with the dentations of 

 the margin, dark brown. 



Exp. 6| inches. 



This very splendid new Morpho is the property of Mr. G. G. 

 Labrey, of Bowdon, near Manchester, who has generously given 

 me free access to his extensive collection. In form and in size it 

 is most nearly allied to Morpho Anaxibia, but with the colour of 

 Morpho Cytheris, changing to pink, and near the outer margins to 

 brilliant ultramarine-blue. 



