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daries witli discoapical area^ from costa to near anal angle^ dark brown, subhyaline internally ; 
discoidal cell wliitisli subhyaline : abdominal area broadly rose-red ; top of head, centre of 
collar, and prothorax, creamy yellow ; remainder of thorax brown. Abdomen rose-red, pos- 
terior segments transversely banded with black ; antennte dark brown. Wings below sepia- 
brown, primaries showing the darker transverse streaks indistinctly ; secondaries with rosy 
area as above. Head black ; pectus dark brown ; coxae rose-red ; venter brown, paler at the 
base. Expanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines. 
Ecuador {Buckley/). 
ANAXITA, TValker. 
Anaxita sannionis. (Plate XVIII. fig. 6.) 
Anaxita sannionis, Butler, Ann. 6f Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xii. p. 228. n. 33 (1873). 
Primaries above with the basal half ochraceous, varied with crimson ; apical half crimson ; 
the nervures and internervular folds black, the nervures enclosed in black-edged greyish 
streaks; a band of the same character crossing the basal third of the wing, a second just 
before the end of the cell, a third from the middle of the median nervure to inner margin ; a 
spot of the same at the base of costal area : secondaries rosy ci'imson ; the apex, outer margin, 
a triangular patch at anal angle, and the nervures from the median upwards (excepting at 
base) dark brown. Body crimson ; collar and tegulse golden yellow, brown-edged ; abdomen 
with blackish brown dorsal line ; anus and venter blackish, with three yellow spots on each 
side ; legs and antennae brown. Wings below nearly as above : primaries with the streaks 
and bands brown ; a black costal spot on the first two bands ; basal area rosy : secondaries 
with a yellow subcostal litura. Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 lines. 
Huasampilla, Peru {Whitely). 
EUCYANE, Hiibner. 
Eucyane diana. (Plate XIX. fig. 6.) 
Eucyane diana, Butler, Ann. ^' Mar/. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xvi. p. 174. n. 4 (1875). 
Grcneral pattern and coloration of E. uranicola. Wings black, with the base metallic blue- 
green ; apical fringe white : primaries crossed by an oblique white band, cut by the black 
nervures, and edged internally upon the costal area by a carmine spot : secondaries with a 
trifid postmedian oblique white streak, united above to a carmine spot; anal fringe white. 
Body above metallic blue-green : wings below as above : pectvis green ; legs black-brown^ 
longitudinally striped with white ; venter green at the base and margins, blackish at the sides, 
crimson in the centre, with the hinder edges of the segments white. Expanse of wings 
2 inches 3 lines. 
Ega {Bates). 
