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Show 1877.] MR. H. DRUCE ON THE GENUS PAPHIA. 645 crossing the wing from the costal margin to the outer margin ; posterior wing with the basal half bluish white. Underside brown, palest on the outer half of the anterior wing, thickly irrorated with brown scales. Exp. 2f inches. Hab. 1 Mus. Hewitson. A very distinct species, quite unlike any other with which I am acquainted. 66. P. MORTA, n. sp. Upperside brownish black, the basal half of all the wings bright blue; on the upperside this species very closely resembles P. off a without the submarginal row of spots on the posterior wing. The underside is very different; it is pale greenish brown irrorated near the base of the anterior wing with a few white scales, both wings crossed beyond the middle from the apex to the abdominal margin by a waved band of pale ochreous colour. Exp. 2\ inches. Hab. Corosal, Honduras (Roe). Mus. S. & G. 67. P. VICTORIA, n. sp. (Plate LXIII. figs. 4, 5.) Upperside (male)-anterior wing black, from the base to the middle blue, two blue spots close to the apex ; posterior wing glossy blue-black. Underside light olive-brown thickly irrorated with white scales. Female the same as the male, but larger, with the outer margin and the tails of the posterior wing greyish. Exp. cS 2\, 2 H inches. Hab. Rio (J. Youds). Mus. S. & G. 68. P. CHJERONEA, Feld. (Nymph, ci) Wien. ent. Mon. v. p. 110 (1861) ; Reise Nov. Lep. iii. t. 60. f. 1 (1867). Hab. New Granada (Felder and Birchell). Mus. S. & G., D. This fine species is peculiar to N e w Granada. It does not vary in any way. 69. P. PROSERPINA, Salv. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. iv. p. 181 (1869). P.pedile, Druce, Cist. Ent. vol. i. p. 287 (1874). Hab. Valley of the Polochic, Guatemala (Hague). Mus. S. & G. Costa Rica ( Van Patten). Mus. D. One of the largest described species of Paphia. 70. P. INDIGOTICA cS, Salv. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. iv. p. 180 (1869). P. zelica 2 > Salv- A r m * N a t* Hist* ser* 4* vo1*iv* P* 1 8 0 (18o"9). Hab. Costa Rica, <$ (Van Patten); Chiriqui, cS (Arce); Veragua, cS 2 (Arce) ; Panama, S (Boucard). Mus. S. & G., D. This species is allied to P. chceronea, Feld., but quite distinct. I have little doubt that the specimen named P. zelica by Mr. Salvin is the |