338 ^h: A. G. Butler on new Species of 
XLIV. — Pescripti'ons of new Species of Lepidoptera from 
Central America. By AkTUUK GaudineK BlJTLlCR, F.L.S., 
F.Z.S., c^c. 
AVe received .some time since a species of Morjiho, wliieli I 
have been unable to identify Avitli any form liitlierto cliarac- 
terized. It is a veiy distinct and beautiful species, resembling 
on the upperside, as also in the outline of the wings, M. Mon- 
tezuma ami allies ; on the underside, however, it more nearly 
a])proachcs M. Xeoptolemns. As I believe this species to be 
quite new, I characterize it as follows : — 
Morpho 2^olyhaptus^ n. sp. 
Above very like M. Montezuma: wings greenish blue, 
with a moderately broad black outer border : primaries with 
basicostal area dusky ; a white spot above end of cell ; black 
border widest upon costa, wdiich is also black as far as the 
white spot ; an oblique elongate subcostal white spot at inner 
third of external black border, also two ajn'cal suhmarginal 
series of xoliite points^ the inner series of four, the outer of 
three points ; fringe spotted with white at extremity of inter- 
nervular folds : secondaries with the outer black border rather 
narrower than in primaries ; fringe with two wdiite spots 
between each undulation ; two dull red liturai at anal angle ; 
abdominal area grey, palest at base : body dull brown ; head, 
collar, and pterygodes black ; the external margin of the pal})i 
and two dots between the eyes red, two spots on the collar 
creamy yellow, a spot on each of the pterygodes greyish white ; 
antennaj black. \Yings below^ deep chocolate-brown, varied 
with pale .shining green bands, large red-zoned ocelli, and buff 
and scarlet submarginal bands : general pattern as in M. Neo- 
ptolemtis, from which it differs as follows : — primaries with 
the costal greeni.sh streak red at base ; no longitudinal green 
streaks in the cell, but two well-defined transverse streaks — 
the first irregular, oblique, reddi.sh at its lower extremity, the 
second crossing the middle of the cell in a straight line ; 
two indistinct, irregular, olilique, subterminal discoidal lines ; 
streaks bounding the lower margin of the cell and the bases of 
the median branches, rose-coloured instead of green ; in-egular 
postmedian green band distinct, and nearly equal in width 
from subcostal nervure to the middle of intenio-median inter- 
space, where it terminates near the external angle in two ro.sy 
spots ; an oval oblique subcostal s})ot above the uppermost 
ocellus ; ocelli with naiTOwer deep orange-red zones ; sub- 
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marginal white spots wider apart, eonnectcd by distinct black 
daslics, the ground-colour between them bright buff; secon- 
daries with a crimson streak near the base ami three on abdo- 
minal area, also a crimson streak along tiie lower half of 
the abdominal margin ; irregular green streaks on basal area 
broader and more distinct; intermediate subraar<'inal lunu- 
111. ' . . . 
lated streak crimson, excepting at the interruptions on the 
nervures, where it is grey ; ocelli larger, with deep orange- 
red zones. 
Expanse of wings 5 inches 3 lines. 
Hob. Costa Rica {Grab). Type, B.M. 
In a collection of insects recently presented to the British 
Museum by Osbert Salvin, Esq., I have found the following 
beautiful new species of lleterocerous Lepidoptera ; — 
Family Arctiidae. 
Subfamily Cuauidbin.^'^. 
Genus Belemnia. 
Belemnia Jovis, n. sp. 
General character of B. eryx, but much larger and more 
brilliant in colouring, the rosy spot on primaries replaced by a 
larger deep-carmine spot ; the aljdomen alcove entirely ])right 
metallic green, with a central longitudinal bi'own streak ; in 
B. erijx the hinder segments are purple in the male, and the 
female probably has a yellow instead of a rosy spot in pri- 
maries ; on the underside the green streaks and spots are 
much more brilliant than in B. eryx^ and the carmine spot 
as above. 
Expanse of wings 2 inches to 2 inches 1 line. 
Hah. Veragua {Salvin) ^ Honduras {Miller). Type, B.M. 
The example from Honduras was previously the only repre- 
sentative of this species in the collection, and was considered 
to be the female of B. eryx ; now, however, we have a fine 
series, owing to the generosity of Mr. Salvin, and there can 
be no doubt of its entire distinctness. It is most like B. in- 
aurata of Sulzer (nee Cramer) , but differs in the uniform green 
colour of the abdomen in both sexes. B. inaurata of Cramer 
may be named B. Crameri. 
* 1 find by a careful study of the structural characters of this group, 
and more especially of the neuration of the wings, that they cannot be 
separated from the Arctlidae. 
3 10 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Species of 
Subfamily P£rtcopiin.e. 
Genus Pekicoi'IS. 
Pericopis Lucretia^ w. sp. 
? . Allied to P. zerhina^ but broader and shorter in the 
wing ; the bands in primaries less obli([UC and more diffused ; 
the spot crossing tlic discoidal cell narrowed into a streak, 
and continued across the wing to the snbmedian nervure ; the 
submarginal series of reddish ochreous lunulated spots smaller, 
eight in number, and therefore forming a continuous scries ; 
the discoccllular black line interrupted ; abdomen more orange 
in tint ; primaries below with all the markings well defined, 
the median nervure and its branches blackened ; secondaries 
with the veins blackened, the costal area (excepting at base) 
dark brown ; the outer margin wdth a broad dark brown border; 
the submarginal ochreous spots seven in number, and very 
small ; a broad black longitudinal ventral streak on the 
abdomen. 
Expanse of wings 2 inches 10 lines. 
Uah. Vcragua (Salvin). Type, B.M. 
The position of this S])ecies will be between P. leonina and 
P. zerhina. 
Family Melameridae. 
Genus JosiA. 
Josia cruciatay n. sp. 
Primaries black, w4th a broad orange-yellow streak from 
base to centre of outer margin ; secondaries with the costa 
and external areas broadly black, a broad central orange-yellow 
belt from inner margin to apex ; inner margin orange : body 
black above, head and thorax spotted with orange, metathorax 
orange ; abdomen witli a creamy Avhite, narrow lateral line : 
trochanters, proximal extremity of tibiie and tarsi of first pair 
of legs, Avhole of hind pair of legs, creamy white ; venter 
creamy white ; body below otherwise black ; wings with the 
orange bands broader, otherwise as above. 
Expanse of wangs 1 inch 3 to 5 lines. 
Ilab. Veragua {Salvin). Type, B.M. 
Nearly allied to the Josia fiilvia of Walker and to J. ligata^ 
but easily distinguished from both by the whitish lateral line 
and more distinctly white venter of the abdomen ; it also 
differs from the Josia fulviu of Walker (nee Linn.) in the 
greater width of the orange bands, and from both in the 
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absence of an orange costal margin to the primaries. The 
Phalania fulvia of Clerck's ' Iconcs ' is a Chrysauge closely 
allied to my C. Umhata. 
Family Lithosiidae. 
Genus KusciNo. 
liuscinu latifasciatusj w. sp. 
Closely allied to R. menea^ but rather smaller, with tiie 
ochreous bands of primaries, basal area of secondaries, and 
body deeper in colour, the bands of primaries broader, tlie 
external black area of secondaries slightly narrower. 
Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 to 8 lines. 
Hah. Veragua [Sahin). Three specimens, B.M. 
Evidently a local form of R. menea. 
Family Larentiidae. 
Genus SCORDYLIA. 
Scoi'dylia Salviui, n. sp. 
Wings above saffron-yellow, the apices broadly black ; 
primaries with the outer margin, including the apical area, 
from centre of costa to submediau ncrvure broadly (but 
decreasingly) black, the inner edge of the black area irregu- 
larly zigzag, internal margin at external angle narrowly black, 
three basicostal red-brown dots : a small quadrate costal yellow 
spot at centre of black apical area ; two or three apical whitish 
dots on the fringe ; secondaries with the apical black area tri- 
undulated internally ; an irregular narrow external black 
border from apical area to anal angle : body wliity brown : 
primaries below with the basal half of costa whity brown, 
crossed by black and red-brown liturai ; apex red-brown ; the 
costal spot and a diffused patch at apex whity brown ; secon- 
daries whity brown, freckled with red-brown ; apical area 
red-brown, varied with grey and wliity brown ; otherwise as 
above. 
Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 
Hah. Yeragua (ISalvin). Two examples, B.M. 
S. Salvini is most nearly allied to S. perfectaria^ but is 
larger, has the black area of primaries mucli narrower towards 
external angle, and a yelloAV costal spot upon it ; the apical 
area of secondaries is also broader, and the under sui-fiice of 
all the wings (excepting at apex of primaries) much deeper 
ill colour. 
Ann. cf- Mag. X. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xv. 24 
342 1 >r. I"' ran/ F^ritw on a in-to 
ViwnWy Tortricidas. 
Genus Attf.uia. 
Atten'a ricnlnrts^ n. sp. 
Nearly allied Xo A.rolcanica] rather more goklen in colour- 
ing, the black costal area of primaries broader, and the ex- 
ternal border narrower ; the transverse creamy-white streaks 
of costal area longer, and not united to one another at their 
lower extremities ; the branching a])ical external streaks more 
transverse ; five black s])ots within the lower half of the cell, 
one or two on the disk near the external margin, and some- 
times several along the inner margin ; secondaries with three 
disconnected marginal black spots at apex, and five along tiie 
external margin : below as above. 
Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 
Hah. A^eragua {Sale in). Two specimens, B.M. 
This species evidently takes the place of the New-Granadan 
A. volcanica at Veragua ; it is a very beautiful insect. 
Amongst the other Lepidoptera presented to the collection 
by Mr. Salvin, I may mention the very beautiful Charidea 
arrofjans of Walker, Flovinia h'ta, and Simena hictifera, of 
Avhich we previously only possessed the types (of C. arrogans 
four examples, and of the other two species a good series) ; 
also two examples of Tosiomorpha longivitta^ Felder, which 
was not previously in the collection, but only differs in its 
superior size from Walker's Josia penetrata. 
XLV. — Tylenchus millefolii, n. sp., a new Gall-producing 
AiigtiiUuUde. By Dr. Franz Low *. 
On the lowest leaves of the common milfoil {Achillea mille- 
folium^ Linn.), which usually form a small turf, from spring 
to autumn we find small gall-like inflations, 3-4 millims. in 
length, which are generally seated upon the midrib, less fre- 
quently at the base of the pinna^, but always in the neigh- 
Ijourhood of the apex of the leaf. These inflations, which 
show no means of entrance or exit any where, are covered 
externally by the epidermis of the leaf, and are at first just 
as green as the rest of the leaf and equally hairy. The walls 
• Translated by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., from the 'Verhandlunjren dcr 
k.-k. zoologisch-Hotanischen (tcsi'llf^rliaft in Wicn,' Band xxiv. (1874), 
pp. 17-24.