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Show 640 MR. H. DRUCE ON THE GENUS PAPHIA. [June 19, 39. PAPHIA FLORITA, n. sp. (Plate LXI. fig. 4.) Upperside brownish blue, brightest at the base of all the wings; anterior wing, the apical half blackish with two small blue spots near the costal margin. Underside pale brown irrorated with brown and white scales ; anterior wing crossed from the apex to the middle of the inner margin by an ill-defined white line ; posterior wing darkest from the base to beyond the middle, with a submarginal row of six indistinct white spots. Exp. If inch. Hab. Chanchamayo (Thamm). Mus. Staudinger. This species is close to P. morvus, but much smaller. It may be the Peruvian form of that species. 40. P. GLAUCE, Feld. (Nymph, g.) Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 119 (1862). Paphia glauce, Bates, Journ. Ent. ii. p. 342, t. 13*. f. 2 (1865). Hab. St. Paulo (Bates), E. Peru (Whitely), Santarem (H. Smith). Mus. S. & G., D. A well-marked species allied to P. xenocles, but varies to some extent in colour, some specimens being more blue than others, also in the size of the spots near the anal angle of the anterior wing. The female is quite a different-looking insect, and has not been described. The upperside is dark brown with the base of all the wings violet-blue ; the anterior wing has four white spots, the first beyond the middle on the costal margin, the second and third (which is minute) near the apex, and one below near the middle; posterior wing with a submarginal row of six or seven white spots, black on their outer margin. Underside, like the male, but much paler in colour. 41. P. GLAUCONE, Feld. (Nymph, g.). Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 119 (1862). Hab. St. Paulo (Bates) ; Aguano, Ecuador (Simson). Mus. S. & G., D. This species is still rare, and appears to be intermediate between P. xenocles and glauce. 42. P. CICLA, Moschl. (Ancea ci) Verh. z.-b. G. Wien, vol. xxvi. p. 319, t. 3. f. 10(1876). I have not seen this species, and do not feel sure I have put it in its right place. 43. P. HEDEMANNI, Feld. (Nymph, hi). Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 1869, p. 473. Hab. Potrero, Mexico (Hedemann). Mus*. Vindob. I have not seen this species, and cannot make it out from the description. 44. P. ALBERTA, Druce, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 234, pl. xviii. f. 6. Hab. E. Peru. Mus. D. I have only seen one specimen of this curious species; it is best |