UNDESCEIBED SPECIES OF DISMORPHINA. 27 



in having the tawny area quadrifid, a fourth division appearing above 

 the base of the second median branch ; and in the entire absence of 

 the subapical series of yellow spots ; the secondaries are slightly 

 more prolonged at apex, and there is a large apical yellow patch on 

 the under surface, larger than in D. amphione. Expanse of wings, 

 65 millim. 



New Granada. ^ . B. M. 



It is possible that this may prove to be a form of D. heroe, 

 but the entire absence of the subapical yellow spots on the 

 primaries gives it a very different aspect. 



DiSMORPHIA RHOMBOIDEA, Sp. n. 



S" . Allied to the preceding. Primaries with the basal three- 

 fifths orange-tawny, excepting a costal trifid patch over the end of the 

 cell, intersected by thick black veins ; two longitudinal black streaks, 

 one discoidal, unequally elongate diamond-shaped ; the other fusiform, 

 and connate with the submedian nerve-edging ; a quadrate black 

 spot on the upper discocellular veinlet ; apical area black-brown ; 

 secondaries nearly as in D. praxinoe, but the tawny interno-median 

 belt broader, and continued with a distinct curve to outer margin, 

 merely edged on both sides with black ; the anal rufous-brown border 

 being also clearer and broader than in V, praxinoe. Under surface 

 differing from that of D. praxinoe in the absence of the subapical 

 series of yellow spots on the primaries, in the large subapical diffused 

 yellow patch on the secondaries ; the upper half of the discoidal cell 

 black ; a black streak on the costal vein terminating in a large oval 

 spot ; a large irregular black quadrate patch crossed by the disco- 

 cellulars ; a small black-brown spot just above the origin of the second 

 median branch, and a larger cordiform spot close to it on the lower 

 median interspace. Expanse of wings, 72 millim. 



'' Nauta " {Degand), ^. B. M. 



It is believed that the specimens received as from Nauta 

 were actually collected in E. Peru. In the Hewitson collection 

 there is a pair of what I take to be a variety of this species, but 

 he has not labelled them with their habitat ; they differ in 

 having the yellow costal spots continued as an oblique band 

 almost to outer margin, leaving an irregular broad black streak 

 from outer margin to above the middle of the second median 

 branch ; the female has the hind wings tawny, with quadri- 

 dentate black apical border and indistinct brownish testaceous 

 anal borders. It is probable that these specimens were collected 

 in Ecuador by Buckley, as most of the butterflies in the fine 

 collection obtained from him by Hewitson were never labelled 

 with even an apology for a locality. Other examples of species 

 in this group, in the Hewitson collection, can only doubtfully be 

 assigned to their proper species for the same reason. 



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