Entomological Society. 6943 



"Agrias Pericles. 



" $ . Very similar in size and outline to A. Phalcidon. The hind wing, both 

 above and beneath, offers not the slightest difierence ; the fore wing differs as 

 follows: — Above. Fore wing black: the basal portion, to about two-thirds the 

 length, occupied by a large spot of a beautiful scarlet colour inclining to orange. 

 This is followed by an oblique belt of five elongated spots of a metallic-green colour, 

 edged on the inner sides with brilliant dark blue. Towards the apex is a narrow belt 

 composed of four small cream-coloured spots. 



" I took one individual only of this species, in company with A. Phalcidon, 

 at Villa Nova, in 1854. The specimen has travelled with me from place to place on 

 the Upper Amazons for five years, I have considered it hitherto only an extraordinary 

 variety of A. Phalcidon, but on further experience of the singular way in which spe- 

 cies of this genus and of Catagramma dififer from each other, I now prefer to consider 

 it distinct. A. Phalcidon was not uncommon at Villa Nova, although I saw not a 

 trace of it at any other locality. It flies high, and I never saw it descend towards the 

 ground. It settled on leaves of trees about fifteen to twenty feet from the ground, in 

 the broad alleys of the glorious forest at that locality, and could only be captured by 

 attaching a long pole to the bag-net. 



'Agrias Sardanapalus. 



" (3^. In size and shape of wings very similar to A. Claudius, of Rio Janeiro. 

 The under surface of the wings does not differ in any way from that species: above, 

 the colouration is very different. Fore wing black ; the basal portion having a large 

 triangular spot (occupying about three-fourths the surface of the wing) of a rich car- 

 mine colour, glossed with cobalt-blue, in certain lights. This is followed by a belt of 

 the most beautiful blue colour, leaving only the apex and a narrow outer margin 

 black, the former of which has a short belt of three large indistinct pale spots. 

 Hind wing has the base and the margins narrowly black ; the disk entirely of the 

 same rich blue as the belt across the fore wing. 



" I took two of this very richly coloured species, one at Ega and one at St. 

 Paulo : one of them is in the collection of Mr. W. C. Hewitson and one in my 

 own. I saw only four individuals during four years' residence and travel on the 

 Upper Amazons. 



" Side RONE Mars. 



" $ . Considerably less in size than S. Ide. The fore wing has the apex more 

 more falcate than in that species ; the outer margin much more strongly rounded, 

 leaving the hinder angle indistinct; the hind wing also is shorter. 



" Above. Deep black, with two clear white spots near the apex. A large oblique 

 belt of carmine crosses the wing from the costal edge to near the hind angle ; its cos- 

 tal part dilated towards the extreme base of the wing. Hind wing black Two con- 

 spicuous rounded red spots near the middle of the costal edge. Anal lobe gray. 



^'- Baneath. The base and apex of both wings are of a rich rufous-brown. The 

 , discal portion is glossy brownish gray, irrorated nearly throughout with rufous-brown. 

 The hind wing has a broad belt across the middle, of a shining ash-colour, spotless. 

 The apex of the fore wing has a belt of white and lilac-coloured spots. 



