76 RHOPALOCERA. 
The species has now been traced over a wide area, being found in low-lying lands 
almost uninterruptedly from Southern Mexico to Ecuador. We have, however, not 
yet received specimens from any part of the State of Panama; nor have we seen it from 
other districts of Colombia. 
It frequents the same forests as E. ocirrhoe, flying amongst the low herbage of the 
undergrowth. 
We have figured a Guatemalan specimen from the Polochie valley. 
6. Wings either chalky white on the inner area of the wings or brown, the transverse 
lines and spots of the underside showing distinctly above; middle discocellular of 
primaries angular, emitting a strong recurrent nervule at the angle; two subcostal 
branches emitted before the end of the cell. 
8. Euptychia mollina. (Z. westwood, Tab. VIII. figg. 13, 14.) 
Euptychia mollina, Hiibn. Zutr. i. p. 20,*f. 105, 106°. 
Euptychia westwoodi, Butl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 481°, 1867, t. 12. f.3°; Butl. & Druce, P. Z.8. 1874, 
p. 336%. 
Euptychia mollis, Staud. Verh. z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, 1875, p. 105’. 
Alis albescentibus, fasciis duabus transversis fuscis, anticarum costa et area apicali (ocellum includente) eodem 
colore tinctis; posticis linea submarginali obscura ocellisque duobus ornatis, uno ad apicem, altero ad 
angulum analem positis: subtus alis albidis, fasciis sicut supra rubido-fuscis, altera ad basin (in anticis 
obliqua) notatis ; posticis ocellis sex submarginalibus ornatis, secundo et quinto maximis. 
Hab. Muxtco, Oaxaca (Deppe, Mus. Berol.); GuaTEMALA, Pancina, Polochic valley, 
Cubilguitz, Cahabon (Champion), Honpuras (Mus. Brit.*); Nicaraeua, Chontales 
(Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten*); Panama, Chiriqui (Ribde>), Lion Hill (M‘Leannan). 
—VENEZUELA; GUIANA; AMAZONS. 
We have now seen a large number of specimens of this species from various parts of 
its range, which extends from the valley of the Amazons through Guiana, Venezuela, 
and Central America as far north as Southern Mexico. Though specimens vary con- 
siderably from different places, we are unable to group any races in a definite manner, 
the extremes being connected by intermediate forms so completely. It has been pro- 
posed to divide the species into three, the name for the oldest of which is Hiibner’s 
E. mollina, the type of which probably came from Northern Brazil. A Honduras 
example was the type of Mr. Butler's H. westwoodi; and the Chiriqui insect was 
described by Dr. Staudinger as EL. mollis. 
We have seen typical specimens of both of the latter, and have compared them with 
Amazons and Guiana examples. The Central-American butterfly has the cross bands of 
the wings usually rather wider and more rufous in colour; and this difference is espe- 
cially obvious in Nicaraguan insects ; but others are undistinguishable from Amazonian 
specimens, so that a race has not yet been completely formed. &. mollis and E. west- 
woodz seem to us to be almost absolutely alike. 
