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a. Internal area of upper surface of wings chalky white; apex of primaries of male 
slightly falcate ; middle discocellular of primaries angular, and emitting a recurrent 
nervule; two subcostal branches emitted before the end of the cell. 
1. Euptychia ocirrhoe. 
Papilio ocirrhoe, Fabr. Gen. Ins. p. 260°; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 96°; Bates, P. Z. 8S. 1863, p. 249°. 
Euptychia ocirrhoe, Butl. P. Z. 8. 1866, p. 459*; Cat. Fabr. Diurn. Lep. p. 11°; Butl. & Druce, 
P. Z.8. 1874, p. 335°. 
3 alis cretaceo-albis, lineis pagine inferioris vix apparentibus; anticarum costa et apice fuscis; posticis 
linea duplici submarginali fusca notatis: subtus alis fuscis, fasciis duabus albis et altera ad basin notatis, 
lineis duabus submarginalibus (interna valde sinuata); ocellis tribus in area anticarum apicali, et quinque 
posticarum submarginalibus (secundo et quinto maximis et albo pupillatis). 
© mari similis, sed anticis haud falcatis et posticis plerumque late fusco marginatis. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli), Oaxaca (Deppe, Mus. Berol.); British Honpuras, 
Corosal (Roe); Guatemata, Yzabal and Retalhuleu (Ff. D. G. & O. S.), Zapote (Champion); 
Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Van Patten®); Panama, Chiriqui 
and Calobre (Arcé), Lion Hill (A Leannan?).—Soutu America to Brazil. 
This is a lowland species of very wide range, being found everywhere in forests from 
Southern Mexico and Guatemala to South-eastern Brazil, spreading over the valley of 
the Amazons, Venezuela, and Guiana (the origin of the Fabrician type!°). The species 
seems subject to slight variation; but we have not been able to detect any constant 
difference between specimens from the most distant localities. The variety from the 
Polochic valley indicated by Mr. Butler+ as 1a, appears to belong to the next species. 
The specimens we took at Yzabal (one of which we have described) were fiying in the 
low brushwood of the forest near the town. 
2. Huptychia metaleuca. (Tab. VIII. figg. 1, 2.) 
Neonympha metaleuca, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 63°. 
Euptychia ocirrhoe, var. a, Butl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 459°. 
Euptychia butleri, Dist. Pr. Ent. Soc. 1876, p. xii*; Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiii. p. 116%. 
E. ocirrhow affinis, subtus fascia alaruam communi alba unica nec duplici distinguenda. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli); Britis Honpuras, Corosal (foe); GuatTematal, 
Chisoy and Polochic valleys, Chiacam, Cahabon (Hague), Pancina (Champion), Yzabal, 
forests of NorthernVera Paz (F. D. G. & O. S.); Nicaraeva, Chontales (Janson); Costa 
Rica (Gabé?), Cache (Rogers).—Ecuabor. 
This butterfly was for some time confused with its near ally £. ocirrhoe, of which 
Mr. Butler considered it a variety 2. It was described by Dr. Boisduval in 18701, and a 
few years afterwards by Mr. Distant’, whose names were placed together by Mr. Butler 
in his last revision of the genus Euptychia*. 
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