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the primaries is broadly black, interrupted near the costa by a sub- 
triangular spot of bright fulvous, which is followed toward the mar- 
gin by an oval spot of pure white. The under-sides of both wings 
are pale gray, shading on the posterior margin of the primaries into 
a warm fulvous. The wings are profusely mottled with minute 
striations of a rich brown tint, which are compressed into a dark 
band extending across the cell of the primaries and continued as a 
curved band just beyond the cell upon the secondaries. A similar 
band crosses the primaries just before the outer third. The white 
apical spot of the upper surface of the primaries faintly reappears 
upon the lower surface. The two large spots found on the under- 
surface of the secondaries of the male are conspicuous on the un- 
der-surface of the secondaries pf the female. There are no traces 
of any others of the series of submarginal spots in the female 
specimen before me, though in a larger series of specimens they 
might be found. Expanse of wings : $ 70 mm., 9 75 mm. 
Described from $ and 3 9 9 in Coll. Holland. 
At first sight the feipales of this species suggest its identity with 
velutina, Feld., the coloration of the upper surface resembling that 
of Felder’s species. The male shows some points of resemblance 
on the under surface to M. Gnophodes , Butl., the costal area of the 
secondaries being light and comparatively free from maculations, 
and the spots and striae being arranged somewhat as in that species. 
Genus Bletogona, Feld. 
16. B. Mycalesis , Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. in, p. 465, PI. lxviii, 
figs. 6, 7, 9 ! ! F. Erebia , Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xxi, p. 
7, PI. i, fig. 1, <? . 
Felder in the Novara Reise describes as the male, what is, as I 
am able to positively affirm from the material before me, the female 
of this remarkable butterfly. Both his description and his figure 
closely agree with the female in my possession. The male is a 
very different insect in general appearance, and has been well fig- 
ured and described by Snellen in Vol. xxi of the Tijdschrift voor 
Entomologie. Mr. Doherty assures me most emphatically that 
there is no doubt that the tawny female is the female of the darx 
males he sends me. 
The female is undoubtedly a mimic. In the general color of the 
upper surface it resembles Melanitis velutina 9 ? Melanitis liyle- 
coetes , 9 , Clerome Chitone , Mycalesis Dinon and Messaras Mceon- 
