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Show 1866.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS HYPNA. 209 Alar anticar unco apicali valdeproducto ; posticar margine apicali ante caudam valde excavato, caudis late spathatis. Exp. alar. unc. 3£. Hab. Brazil (B. M. and Coll. F. Walker). 4. HYPNA VELOX, sp. n. (PL XXIII. fig. 5.) Alar valde elongatar, costis pene dircctis; anticar margine postico valde obliquo; posticar caudis robusiis. Exp. alar. unc. 3|. Hab. Veragua, Central America (Coll. O. Salvin). This insect differs from the common one figured by Hiibner in having the costa of the wings much less arched, the hind margin of the fore wings much more oblique, all the wings Y V or" a n m c n longer in proportion to the breadth (which in both species is nearly 1 i inch from the anal angle to the centre of the costa), and the tails of the hind wings much more robust. Section 3. Alar parvar; anticar fascia ante venam submedianam terminata ; posticar rufo-fuscar, cauda media obtuse spathata, cauda anali ob-tusa, brevi. 5. HYPNA RUFESCENS, sp. n. (PI. XXIII. fig. 6.) Hypna clytemnestra (var.), Westw. Doubl. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. pi. 49. f. 1; Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat. (Papillons), p. 157. f. 272. Alar anticar fuscar, basi viridescentes, fascia lata fulva maculisque subapicalibus fulvis; apice obtuso, raro uncato : posticar ru-fescentes, margine postico fusco; macula subapicali fulva; margine anali punctis tribus inter venas positis, lineaque nigra undata submarginato. Alar subtus sicut in reliquis speciebus. Exp. alar. unc. 2-|. Hab. Venezuela. B.M. Var. Apice anticarum uncato. B.M. 6. HYPNA ELONGATA, sp. n. (PI. XXIII. fig. 7.) Alar elongatar; anticar costa paulo convexa, apice acuto ; posticar margine postico de cauda media utrinque obliquo : alar subtus pallide viridescentes, maculis sicut in reliquis speciebus. Exp. alar. unc. 3\. Hab. Santa Martha (Bogota). B.M. Var. Alar subtus rufescentes. Exp. alar. unc. 3. Hab. Santa Martha (Coll. O. Salvin). 'N0te.-This variety appears to be a dwarfed specimen, the hind wings not being exactly balanced. It may possibly prove to be the other sex of the British Museum specimen, but the latter has, un- |
