Volume I Part 25 (2/2)

Wings black; anterior above with a central reddish band, and two white basal dots beneath; posterior beneath grey and cinereous; base black with an obsolete white line; margin black.

The marginal fringe of the lower wings in this species has a few white dots between the nerves, and the upper surface is sprinkled or powdered in the middle with blueish-green atoms; on the under surface of the anterior wings the lower part of the band is orange, the upper bright rufous; and within the black margin of the posterior wings is a large blueish spot, and two or three whitish dots on the sides of the thorax. It seems nearest allied to _Hesp. Celsus_ of Fabricius, which is only slightly described from Mr.

Jones's unpublished drawings.

TAMYRIS Laonome._--lower figure._

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

_T. alis utrinque similibus, concoloribus fuscis, margine communi aurantiacis; capite anoque rubris._

Wings in both s.e.xes alike, uniform brown, with a common margin of orange; head and tail red.

The under surface of this insect (a female) perfectly resembles the upper: it will approach near to _Hesp. Amiatus_ of Fabricius, which no doubt belongs to this genus.

For both these interesting insects, not to be found in Fabricius, I am indebted to the liberality of my friend Professor Klug, Director of the Royal Museum at Berlin: no note accompanied them, I therefore conclude they are undescribed, and probably inhabiting South America.

Pl. 62

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PSITTACUS discolor.

_Red-shouldered Parakeet._

GENERIC CHARACTER.--See Pl. 1.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

_P. viridis; fronte, mento, tegminibus inferioribus, macula cervicali, lateribus et scapularibus coccineis; humeris puniceis; vertice, tegminibus exterioribus remigibusque violaceis; rectricibus fulvo marginatis._

P. Green; front, chin, under wing-covers, and spots in the neck, flanks and scapulars crimson; shoulders dark-red; crown, external wing-covers, and lateral tail-feathers violet-blue; quills blueish-black margined with yellow.

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