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Euptychia camerta, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 835 7. 
Papilio hermes, Fab. Ent. Syst. 1. p. 158°. 
Euptychia hermes, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8S. 1874, p. 336 *. 
Papilio sosybius, Fab. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 219°. 
Euptychia sosybius, Butl. P. Z. 8. 1866, p. 474°; Strecker, Butt. N. Am. p. 1497. 
Neonympha fallax, Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. vi. p. 177°. 
Euptychia fallax, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8S. 1874, p. 336°. 
Euptychia maimouné, Butl. Ent. Monthl. Mag. vi. p. 251, t.1. f.4°; Dist. Pr. Ent. Soc. 1876, 
p. xii”. 
Alis supra fuscis: subtus dilutioribus, lineis duabus submarginalibus fuscis ornatis, interiore sinuata, fasciis 
duabus subparallelis, una ultra cellulam, altera intra eam transeuntibus; anticis ocellis quinque submar- 
ginalibus notatis (seepe obsoletis), posticis ocellis sex ornatis, secundo et quinto maximis, et omnibus 
plerumque albo pupillatis. 
Hab. Nortu America, Southern States, Texas ’.—Mexico, Tomasulapam (Hedemann, 
Mus. Vind.), Cordova (Riimeli), Oaxaca (Lenochio); Britiss Honpvuras, Corosal (Roe); 
GuatTeMALA, Duefias (7. D. G. & O. S.), San Geronimo (f. D. G. & O. S., Champion), 
Zapote (Champion), Polochic and Chisoy valleys (Hague), Choctum (f. D. G. & O. S.); 
Honpuras (Mus. Brit.); Nicanacua*, Chontales (Belt, Janson), Costa Rica (v. Pat- 
ten? 49, Gabb™); Panama, Chiriqui (Arcé)—Sovutrn America generally to Brazil. 
With nearly a hundred specimens before us of this species, selected out of several 
times that number, we have vainly endeavoured to separate them into different races, 
for which no lack of names exist ready made for their reception. We have failed, 
however, to see how E. camerta, E. hermes, E. sosybius, E. fallax, and E. maimouné 
can be defined by any trustworthy characters so as to distinguish the one from the 
other. The submarginal spots of the secondaries vary very much ; and though Central- 
American specimens show a tendency to have the outermost but one at each end of the 
row a well-formed and conspicuous ocellus, examples are not wanting where all the 
ocelli are nearly equal, this being the prevalent character of the Guianan and Brazilian 
insects. Other characters are equally fugitive; so that we find it impossible to follow 
Mr. Butler and others in their minute subdivision of this species. 
The name F. camerta, which we adopt, is the oldest, and, resting as it does on 
Cramer’s figure, is, on the whole, the most desirable one to use. 
The species is quite one of the commonest of Huptychie, being found nearly every- 
where throughout Central America, from an elevation of 5000 or 6000 feet to the sea- 
level. 
We have figured two rather extreme forms, one (fig. 6) from the Polochic valley, the 
other (fig. 7) from Choctum. 
