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Show 470 MR. H. G R O S E S M I T H O N [June 17, curving downwards towards the end of the cell; minute white spots on the margins between the veins. Expanse of wings 3| inches. Nearest to xypete, Hew., and gunsape, Butl. 70. EUPH^DRA PRATINAS, Doubl. & Hew. A variety in which the submarginal row of indistinct white spots on the posterior wings is absent. 71. EuPHJEDRA JOHNSTONI, Butl. 72. EUPH-EDRA ELEUS, Drury. 73. EuPH-EDRA RUSPINA, Hew. 74. CYMOTHOE BONNYI, n. sp. Male.- Upperside. Bright tawny brown, darker towards the base, the aual angle, and the outer margin of posterior wings. Anterior wings with the cell crossed by two zigzag lines. On the disk from the second median nervule to the inner margin is a vertical patch of olivaceous-brown scales, the internal edge of which is well defined; between the veins is a submarginal row of small dark brown spots, the lowest being doubly sagittate ; the margin is rather broadly dusted with brown scales, forming indistinct lunules between the veins. Posterior wings crossed rather beyond the middle, from the costal margin to near the anal angle, by a band of dark olivaceous-brown scales, the inner edge of which is sharply defined, but not so externally; a submarginal row of contiguous hastate markings edged externally with bright tawny brown. The basal and anal area, outer margin and abdominal fold are irrorated With dusky brown scales. Underside. Resembles egesta, Cram., except that the dark line which crosses the middle of both wings is very sharply defined, and the curved lines, which in egesta are inside this line, in bonnyi cross and recross it several times on the anterior wings, and on the upper part of posterior wings they are closer and shorter than in egesta. Female. Olive-brown, darker in the middle of anterior wings, and at the base and inner two thirds of posterior wings. On the anterior wings beyond the middle are five sharply triangular brownish-white spots, the uppermost the largest, the third the smallest; situate in a straight line beneath each other between the veins from the subcostal nervules to the lowest median nervule there is a submarginal row of dark brown hastate markings, inside which is another row of brown hastate markings ; the cell is crossed by two zigzag and two rather sinuate lines, and there is a sinuate line at the end of the cell. On posterior wings is a submarginal row of contiguous hastate markings, the two uppermost very broad in the middle. On the underside both wings are crossed beyond the middle by a dark line, inside and based on which are placed the triangular brownish-white markings which are conspicuous on the |