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Show 1893.] SPECIES O E LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 291 outer margin bordered with black. Underside very similar to the upperside. Head, antennae, palpi, and thorax black ; abdomen greyish blue ; legs black. Expanse 2 inches. Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus. B.). LAURON PADUA, sp. n. (Plate XIX. fig. 16.) Primaries brownish black, with a large central whitish hyaline space in the middle of the wing; the veins black; the costal margin and a wide submarginal band, which extends from the costal margin to the anal angle, brownish yellow. Secondaries whitish hyaline; the outer margin bordered with black, with a rather wide brownish-yellow line extending from the apex to the anal angle. Underside the same as above. Head, antennae, palpi, thorax, and abdomen black; abdomen with two bluish-white lines extending from the base to the anus; the underside of the abdomen white, with a black line down the middle; the legs black. Expanse 2 inches. Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus. B.). A beautiful species, very distinct from any other known to m e ; it has a great resemblance to Ithomia corena, Hew., from the Amazons and Ecuador. LAURON BATESI, sp. n. (Plate XIX. fig. 15.) Male. Primaries black, with two white spots, one at the end of the cell, and a round one below ; the costal margin streaked with yellow at the base ; a wide submarginal orange-yellow band crosses the wing from the costal margin to the anal angle. Secondaries whitish hyaline ; the outer margin broadly banded with black, and with a narrow orange-yellow line extending from the apex to the anal angle. Underside the same as above. Head, antennae, palpi, thorax, and underside of the abdomen white ; legs black. Expanse If inch. Hab. Amazons, Sao Paulo (Bates, Mus. B.). A fine species, allied to L. padua, Druce. LAURON (?) CHARIATA, sp. n. (Plate XIX. fig. 14.) Male. Primaries whitish hyaline, the costal margin, the apical portion of the wing, and the anal angle chrome-yellow; the inner margin and inner and outer margins of the chrome-yellow edged with dark brown, the veins on the hyaline part of the wing black. Secondaries hyaline white, edged with chrome-yellow from the apex to the anal angle ; the costal margin dark brown ; the fringes of both wings brown. Underside as above. The head, antennae, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs black. Abdomen on the upperside with two white lines extending from the base to the anus ; the underside white ; tegulae chrome-yellow. Expanse \\ inch. Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley, Mus.B.). A small species, not closely allied to any other known to me. |
