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ASTHENIA PODALIRIARIA. 
towards the posterior margin), and the third close to 
the outer margin : the apex of the wings is marked 
by a large blackish patch. In the hind wings the 
three bars are also continued across the surface, meet- 
ing at the anal angle ; the first straight, the second 
angulated over the tail, and the third forming an 
arch over the base of the tail, which has two black 
spots, the outer one with an external orange stripe ; 
the tail slender and curved. The antenn® are black. 
Expansion of the wings one inch and three-quar- 
ters. 
This species is from Rio Janeiro, the specimen 
figured being in the collection of the Rev. F. W. 
Hope. 
The following also belong to this genus : — 
A. machaonaria Light cream colour ; upper wings with 
three uninterrupted brown bars, the outermost midway 
between the middle of the wing and the exterior mar- 
gin ; the apex with two small oblique brown stripes: 
under wings traversed by two brown bars, recurved to 
the internal margin, and having a narrow waved lino 
between them ; tail angular and acute, with two pear- 
shaped black spots, surmounted by a short waved 
brown bar. Expansion of the wings two inches. — 
Guerin, Icon, des Insecles, pi, 90, fig. 1, 
A. geminia. — Cream colour, nearly white ; upper wings 
with three transverse brown bars, the second not reach- 
ing to the posterior edge, and the third, which is placed 
close to the margin, not extending to the apex ; the 
latter unspotted ; costa marked with short black lines. 
The first and outer bar of the upper wings arc continued 
across the under pair, meeting at the anal angle ; the 
external one margined with black, and the tail itself 
