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fiisco, fasciis catenulatis strigisque marginalibus saturatioribus, singula stigmate discoideo brevi, 

 pone discum fascid catenu'atd insigni in anticis continui ad marginem posticum subflexuosd, in 

 posticis interruptd arcuatd ; strigis marginalibus tribus albis posterior e lineari continud, interio- 

 ribus in anticis undulatis in posticis subflexuosis, quare in his macula subangulata in illis 

 macula oblonga fascias catenulatas marginales constituunt ; ocelli anales duo, exterior e maxirno 

 saturate arcu latissimo rufo inducto et lunula auratd extus pradito, altero oblongo, strigd rufd 

 transversd intus marginato annuloque aurato inter lore ornato ; puncta insuper in regime anali 

 nigra duo, altero ocellulis intermedia altero ad imum angulum analem sito ; punctis nigris albo 

 cinctis in dimidio interiore alarum quinque, duobus costalibus insignioribus, tribus in serie trans- 

 versd subbasilari, ocellulo penultimo obsoletiore. (Exp. alar. unc. 1 — lin. 13.) 

 The female. This species agrees in size and in the markings of the upper surface generally with 

 that last described ; a slight difference is afforded by the interior anal ocellus, which here consists 

 of two narrow, oblong, confluent spots, without rufous lunule, but bounded interiorly by an 

 emarginate white line ; the wedge-shaped marks along the inner border are replaced by a trans- 

 verse series of lunules : underneath the wings are yellowish-gray, with a very faint shade of 

 brown ; in the number and disposition of the markings our species also resembles Lycana Cnejus, 

 but it possesses a distinguishing peculiarity in the brilliancy of the white marginal strigas, and 

 in the greater breadth and deeper shade of the brown bands producing a striking contrast of 

 colours: on the disk of both pair stands a short transverse stigma; behind this follows a broad 

 catenulated band, regular in the fore-wings, with a few inflexions at the inner margin, but inter- 

 rupted and irregularly curved in the hinder wings ; the marginal white strigae, three in number, 

 are strongly pronounced ; the most exterior passes without undulations, in contact with the 

 brown marginal thread, through both pair ; the two anterior strigas are waving in the fore-wings 

 and flexuose in the hinder wings, embracing two series of catenulated bands, composed of oblong 

 spots in the former, and of angular ones in the latter; the posterior margin of the wing is 

 adorned with two anal ocelli ; the largest being placed exterior of the caudal appendage, and the 

 other in the space towards the anal angle ; an obscure black dot stands between them and ano- 

 ther at the extreme angle of the wing ; the exterior ocellus is covered internally by a very broad 

 rufous arc, slightly notched at each side ; a rufous streak is continued to the inner margin, being 

 of a more saturated lint above the interior ocellus ; a small exterior lunule of golden irrorations, 

 adorns the large ocellus, and the small ocellus has on the margin an interrupted golden ring; 

 there are five black spots encircled with white on the anterior portion of the hinder wings ; two 

 of these, of a more saturated tint, stand in contact with the costa, the remaining form a trans- 

 verse basal row, the penultimate spot being rather obsolete. The tails are slender and tiptwith 

 white ; the antennae brown with white rings and tip ; the thorax and body are brown above and 

 gray underneath, the former being covered with a blueish down and the latter annulated with 

 white. 



A careful attention is required in the discrimination of the two species last described ; the most prominent 

 distinctions of the latter are, in the upper surface, the character of the internal anal ocellus, in the lower 

 surface, the breadth, intensity of tint, and general habit of the transverse bands, and particularly the basal 

 sub-ocellate spots of the hinder wings, which are five in number and disposed in a peculiar manner. I have 

 confirmed my views regarding the diversity of this species from the former, founded on the comparison of a 

 single specimen contained in our Museum, by the inspection of Mr. Haworth's collection ; an individual 



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