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Wings above blackish brown, the male covered with a beautiful saturated cupreous gloss slightly 

 varying to purple ; the anterior pair immaculate in both sexes, the posterior with the anal 

 extremity black separated by a regularly transverse boundary, in the male marked with two 

 white spots, one large, lunulate and marginal, the other oblong, narrow, and exactly opposed to 

 the exterior one at the inner boundary of the anal region ; in the female a broad snow-white 

 band separates the anal from the middle region : it consists of thi-ee oblong spots, of which the 

 exterior one is narrow and passes obliquely towards the margin ; a very large lunule of the same 

 colour occupies at the margin the extreme space between the tails : underneath the wings are 

 white with a grayish shade covered with a slight lustre ; the anterior pair have the exterior and 

 posterior borders ferruginous, the tint being faint and diffuse interiorly but more intense in 

 contact with the margin ; a very delicate discoidal line, a complete undulated striga behind the 

 disk composed of interrupted lineolffi, and a very obsolete row of spots within the posterior 

 margin are of the same colour ; the hinder wings have beyond the disk a very delicate black 

 striga composed at the costal extremity of interrupted lunules, and in the anal region of 

 arcuated marks disposed in regular succession ; then follows a delicate interrupted streak passing 

 in a curve over the entire surface of the wing, and exteriorly of this, just within the margin in 

 the costal extremity, a macular series of four oblong obsolete brown spots followed by five 

 diversified spots of an intense black tint pervading the anal region ; the extreme ones on each 

 side being linear, the next adjoining interiorly lai-ge, angular, subocellated, one of them being 

 situated in the marginal series near the notch, the other on the anal appendage ; the fifth, 

 which is oblong and somewhat removed from the margin, occupies the medial space of the anal 

 region ; these spots are all covered along their inner edge by marks corresponding to their 

 individual form of greenish silvery atoms, forming by their union an undulated streak passing 

 along the inner boundary of the anal region. The body above and underneath agrees in colour 

 with the adjoining portion of the wings; the kgs are white with distant white bands, but the 

 tarsi are closely banded ; the antenna are brown, with a faint grayish crenulation along the 

 inner groove ; the eyes are edged with white, and the palpi underneath are also white; the tails 

 are white with a black medial streak. Besides the distinctions already enumerated, the male is 

 marked above by a short white line at the extreme inner margin near the base, indicating the 

 interior attachment of a small brush-like appendage. 



We have two male and four female specimens of this species, which was first made public in the 

 Encyclopldie. The authors of that work were acquainted with one sex only, which, agreeably to the 

 preceding details, was the female ; the distinguishing characters of the male are now, for the first time, 

 given. 



Genus LOXURA. 



Mykina. mm. Latr. et Godt. 



Character. ^, ,. > hactenus latent. 

 Chrysalis J 



Imago : Antennce breves, strictae, sensim incrassatse, capitulo apice acuto basin versus baud ma- 

 nifeste distincto, sulco interiore longitudinali obsolete crenulato, articulis exterioribus setis 

 minutis cinctis. 



Palpi longissimi, stricti, compressi, graciles, parum divergentes, antennarum longitudinis dimidiam 

 partem aequanles ; articulo basilari brevi capiti adnato, villis brevibus sericeis obtecto ; articulo 



secundo 



