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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



bands, comparatively with No. 37, are narrow, and wholly without any black marginal thread ; 

 the bands in the fore wings are seven in number, besides an obsolete angular basal spot, the 

 third and fourth are abbreviated converging approximate or confluent behind the disk; in the 

 hinder wino-s the third is dimidial regularly transverse and without any tendency to the second 

 marginal band: in the character of the fourth and fifth band this species agrees with the former 

 while both differ decidedly from the following. 



Amblypodia Syama, No. 39, agrees in the upper surface with our last species : underneath the 

 wings are sulphureous-yellow and marked with bands of a black colour, while the intermediate 

 argentine strigaj are partially interrupted ; in the fore wings the third and fourth bands are 

 parallel; the third is dimidial deeply indented on each side in the middle; the fourth is greatly 

 abbreviated; the fifth is complete, someivhat distended in the middle and then tapering to a point, 

 having a general tendency to the inner apical angle ; at the base is a short longitudinal litura ; the 

 hinder wings have four bands ; the third, from the posterior margin, is dimidial, the fourth forms 

 a sudden curve in the anal region and then ascends along the whole course of the inner margin, until 

 it terminates at the thorax; interior of this are three oblong marks, individually ornamented with 

 a silvery dot, disposed in a regularly transverse series, and finally at the base, a triangular spot, 

 touching the thorax. 



In ail these species the "wings of the male are adorned with a violet varying tint, spreading over the whole 

 surface of the hinder pair, but confined to the anal area of the fore wings. Underneath the transverse 

 bands are marked in all, with a continued or interrupted medial silvery striga. The two posterior bands art 

 always regularly parallel with the margin. In the distribution of the other bands, the third and fourth, in 

 the fore wings, present in each species a decided difference : and the minor modifications peculiar to each 

 are detailed in the Latin description. The abdomen, in all these species, is marked with distinct 3'ellow 

 bands ; the tails are long, slender, orange at their union with the anal angle, brown or black in the middle, 

 and white at the extremity. The brown antennce have a ferruginous tip, and very minute, close, dusky 

 bands on their filiform portion. These three species further resemble each other in the orange-coloured 

 termination of the anal angle, which is separated above from the adjoining portion of the surface, by a 

 regularly oblique boundary, but is gradually diffused, and of a brighter tint underneath, while both surfaces 

 are marked with two ocellate spots of intense black, the interior being round and lunular, slightly diversified 

 in the different species, and adorned by a short streak or arc of silvery irrorations, the exterior one, between 

 the tails, oblong, transverse, and surmounted at the inner edge, by a large oblong shining group of metallic 

 dots. 



40. Amblypodia Rochana. Aim supra maris nigra, anticce plagd oblongd, postica plagd ambitui 

 ala subconformi ad basin profundi emarginatd secundum aspectum cyaned vel saturate thalas- 

 sino micante .- subtus badice, postica saturatiores in puniceum vergentes, ared anali anticarum 

 dilutiore posticarum cand; anticce ad basin lined attenuatd—, tunc in disco stigmate brevi—, pone, 

 medium fascia arcuatd ex macidis minutis cuneatis intermedia sagittatd introrsum longissime cus- 

 pidati et intra marginem strigd lunularum—, postica arcu humerali plagdque maximd basilar, 

 ■irregulariter oblongd, costam versus dilatiore rotundatd, ext&s profundi sinuatd intus appendiculo 

 lineari ad unguium rectum divergente aucld—, tunc strigd totam paginam arcuatim excurrenlc 

 ad costam e maculd oblongd oriundd, in disco notis cuneatis efformatd et versus marginem 

 interiorem bifidd—, postice denique strigd duplici maculas oblongas includente omnibus niUdi- 



niveis .- 



