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Show 364 MESSRS. GODMAN AND SALVIN ON [Mar. 19, male passes onto the primary wings. In the present species this band is restricted to the secondaries. 14. PACHYTHONE GIGAS. 2 • Exp. 1*65 in. Black, with a large ovate spot in the apical third of the primaries, another, pointed, at the base of the wing, and extending along the inner margin, but not reaching to the costa, and the secondaries, except the margin, pale yellow ; beneath as above, the margin of the secondaries not extending over the whole of the costa. Hab. Panama (Ribbe). Mus. Dr. O. Staudinger. Obs. In coloration this species resembles the female of Aricoris gelasine, described by Westwood as A. myrtis. The very minute palpi and the short antennse indicate its proper position in the genus Pachythone. It is, however, much larger than any member of the genus hitherto described. 15. CHARIS VELUTINA. d • Exp. 1*15 in. Dark brown above, with darker obsolete bands on the central portion of both wings, arranged more or less concentrically, two subparallel submarginal metallic bands 011 both wings, the inner one on the primaries irregular and interrupted.- beneath rich dark purple with obsolete black spots corresponding in position with the indistinct bands of the upper surface ; a single narrow sub-marginal metallic band much interrupted on the anterior wings; cilia of both wings dark with small white equidistant spots. Hab. Guatemala, Polochic valley (H. Hague). Mus. nostr. Obs. Allied to C. iris, Staudinger ; but the under surface differs in being purple instead of rich indigo-blue. In C. iris the fringe of both wings is pure white ; in the present species it is dark with but few white spots. 16. CHARIS CROCEA. d. Exp. 1*16 in. Above rich orange-red, with dark spots along the costa, outer margin of the primaries, and outer and inner margins of secondaries; those on the outer margin of the primaries almost confluent, and with the marginal row of the secondaries containing the metallic spots characteristic of the genus ; the inner area of the wings devoid of spots : beneath, as above, but the spots of the costa more confluent and those of the outer margin of the secondaries less so; the spots, too, are generally dispersed over the wings. Hab. Veragua, Calobre (Arce). Mus. nostr. Obs. Allied to C. perone, which it resembles as to colour; but the spots above are fewer in number and not so generally distributed. 17. CHARIS HOLOSTICTA. 2 • Exp. 1*08 in. Above lemon-yellow sprinkled with small dark |