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Show 644 MR. H. DRUCE ON THE GENUS PAPHIA. [Julie 19, lorna, with the grey-green margin not half the width. On the underside this species is a very different-looking insect, it is dark brown thickly irrorated with black, the anterior wing is crossed by a pale brown band from the apex to the middle of the inner margin; the posterior wing crossed in the middle by a row of four pale brown spots, the first close to the costal margin, the second in the middle, and the third and fourth close to the anal angle. Exp. 2f inches. Hab. Bolivia (Buckley). Mus. Hewitson. I am much inclined to think that this species will prove to be an extreme form of the last described, but for the present I think it better to give it a name. 62. P. GRANDIS 2 , "• sp. (Plate LXII. fig. 5.) _ Upperside black; anterior wing, from the base to the middle, bright silvery blue, two small blue spots near the apex, the first close to the costal margin, the second below nearer the outer margin ; posterior wing silvery blue from the base to beyond the middle, the tails with a few greyish scales. Underside bright ochreous yellow irrorated with white and brown scales ; anterior wing, a dark brown band in the middle cell, and several dark spots between the end of the cell and the outer margin, which is whitish at the anal angle, and a sub-marginal row of minute white spots ; posterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a waved indistinct silvery white line, a dark brown spot in the cell, and a submarginal row of white spots, the first two minute, the next three large, with black centres, the others minute, the tail dark brown. Exp. 3^ inches. Hab- ?- Mus. Staudinger. A very fine species; the underside is more easily figured than described. It is allied to P. proserpina. 63. P. OFFA, n. sp. (Plate LXIII. fig. 2.) Upperside brownish black, from the base to the middle of all the wings pale blue ; anterior wing crossed nearly to the outer margin by a band of pale blue; posterior wing with a submarginal row of minute white spots, the tail greyish. Underside bright reddish brown, thickly irrorated with white scales. Exp. 2f inches. Hab. Ecuador Mus. Hewitson. A fine species allied to P. grandis. 64. P. CLUVIA, Hopff. Stett. ent. Zeit. vol. xxxiv. p. 354 (1874) Hab. E. Peru. I have not seen this species. 65. P. CATINKA, n. sp. (Plate LXIII. fig. 3.) «,iS;PeKideLblalk: &,te\10r wi"S from the base t0 beyond the middle bluish white, darkest at the base, a white band nearlv |