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Show 152 MESSRS. GODMAN AND SALVIN ON [Feb. 18, back of the head, and one on the thorax beneath ; the outer margin of secondaries narrowly red. Hab. Bolivia (Buckley). Obs. Differs from T. hyyieia and all its allies in having a red nuchal patch. PYRRHOPYGA ^ERATA. (Hate XIV. fig. 3.) Exp. 3 in. Body greenish black, abdomen with six rufous bands on either side : wings bronzy-green ; secondaries rather darker, with a discocellular and three adjoining spots rufous. Beneath, both wings bronzy green, three spots forming a patch in the middle of the secondaries rufous. Hab. Pueblo Viejo, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Simons). Obs. Apparently allied to T. hygieia, but differing considerably both in colour and markings. W e have but a single specimen of this fine species, one of Mr. Simons's recent discoveries. PYRRHOPYGA RUFIPECTUS. Exp. 2*5 in. Body greenish black, head and palpi black, a rufous patch on the thorax beneath ; wings as in T. hygieia. Hab. Ecuador, Rio Topo (Buckley). Obs. Differs from T. hygieia in having black palpi and a rufous patch on the thorax beneath. PYRRHOPYGA VARIEGATICEPS. Exp. 2*4 in. Body black, head between the eyes with three indistinct white bars, wings rich metallic blue, darker on the secondaries towards the outer margin and anal angle. Cilia of the outer margin of secondaries red. Hab. Costa Rica (Rogers). Obs. Allied to T. hygieia (Feld. Reise Nov. Lepid. iii. p. 506, t. 70. f. 1 ); differing in the white markings of the head ; the palpi are black instead of red, and the red outer margin of the secondaries narrower. PYRRHOPYGA MINTHE. (Plate XIV. fig. 4.) Exp. 2*6 in. Allied to T. pityusa, Hew. (Exot Butt. Pvrrh. ii. f. 11); but differs in the proximal band of the primaries being obsolete and the apical spot being wholly absent; the dark line which crosses the secondaries from the middle of the costa in the direction of the anal angle is much narrower in the present species. Hab. Rio Topo, Ecuador (Buckley). PYRRHOPYGA EUPHEME. (Plate XIV. fig. 5.) Exp. 2*4 in. Wirtgs black ; primaries crossed through the middle from the subcostal to the submedian nervures by a reddish yellow band ; in the apex is an oval yellow trifid spot, between which and the the band is a similar bifid spot; the secondaries are considerably produced at the anal angle, and are crossed by two obsolete bluish |