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Show 1893.] SPECIES O E LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 285 METASTATIA OSSA, sp. n. Sexes alike. Primaries hyaline, the veins black. Costal apex, outer and inner margin, and a wide band crossing the wing about the middle black, with a rich blue gloss. Secondaries hyaline ; the apex and outer margin black, glossed with dark blue. Underside as above, but without the blue gloss. Antennae, palpi, and legs black ; the head, thorax, and abdomen deep blue; the underside of the abdomen greyish white. Expanse \\ inch. Hab. Colombia, interior (Wheeler, Mus. B.). A very beautiful species, allied to M. pampa, Druce. METASTATIA CHELIDON, sp. n. (Plate XIX. fig. 3.) Primaries black, with a rather wide hyaline band crossing the wing beyond the middle; the costal margin, the outer edge of the white band, and the inner margin bright dark blue; the apex tipped with white. Secondaries hyaline; the costal apex, outer and inner margins bright dark blue. Underside similar to the upperside, but browner in colour and with the base of both wings shot with blue. Antennae, palpi, and legs black; head, thorax, and abdomen dark blue ; tegulae black, edged with blue ; abdomen with a white line down the middle; underside of the abdomen white, with a black line down the middle. Expanse If inch. Hab. Colombia, interior; Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus. B.). A beautiful species, not closely allied to any known to me. METASTATIA (?) PALES, sp. n. (Plate XIX. fig. 4.) Male. Primaries black, shot with blue at the base, a short streak close to the base, a wide band crossing the wing about the middle from near the costal margin to the anal angle, which it does not quite reach, and a small, apical, oval spot all hyaline. Secondaries hyaline; the costal apex and outer margin bhie-black; the veins black. Underside : both wings very similar to the upperside, but without any blue gloss. Head, antennae, and thorax black. Abdomen dark blue ; the anal segment edged with white; a white line on each side of the abdomen and one down the middle; the underside of the abdomen white, of the head and front of the thorax orange-yellow ; legs black, white on the upperside. Female very similar to the male, but has the hyaline markings on the primaries rather larger. Expanse, d $ , 11 inch. Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus. B.). A very distinct species, not closely allied to any other known to me. EUCYANE, Hiibn. EUCYANE POLIANA, Sp. n. Female. Primaries deep black, crossed beyond the middle from PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1893, No. X X . 20 |