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carum internum, altera per cellulas transeunte ; anticis ocello unico apicali notatis, posticis ocellis quinque 
serie submarginali ornatis, primo et quarto maximis, tertio quarto confluente. 
© mari similis, sed area anticarum interna cum posticis fere omnino cyaneo tinctis. 
Hab. Nicaracva, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Van Patten®), Trazu (Rogers); 
Panama, Veraguas (Arcé), Lion Hill (‘Leannan).—Sovtn America to the ‘Amazons 
valley; Gurana tl. 
This is a common South-American butterfly, occurring in numbers in collections from 
Guiana. It is also abundant on the Isthmus of Panama and thence northwards to 
Nicaragua. These do not differ from Guiana specimens, whence Cramer’s types were 
procured. 
Messrs. Butler and Druce? follow Mr. Kirby in using Fabricius’s name LE. arnea for 
this species; and they may be right in so doing. But as Fabricius, in his later works, 
considered EK. fea of Cramer to be probably the same as his £. arnca, the association 
of the latter name with £. ebusa is at least doubtful. We therefore adopt Cramer’s title 
as more certain, and therefore preferable, one too that has been until recently almost 
universally used. 
27. Huptychia sericeella. (Tab. VIII. figg. 20, 21.) 
Euptychia sericeella, Bates, Ent. Monthl. Mag. i. p. 202'; Butl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 489%. 
© E. ebuse similis, sed anticis cyano magis diffuso, ocellis posticarum subtus minoribus et linea transversa 
interna angustiore differt. 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Hedemann, Mus. Vindob.); Guatemata, forests of Northern 
Vera Paz, Choctum (0. 8. & f. D. G.1). 
It is quite possible that this insect, when more is known of it, will prove to be 
inseparable from E. ebusa. It is certainly not intermediate, as Mr. Butler suggests ?, 
between that species and E. cluwena (Drury). Though Mr. Bates states that he described 
a male, the fact of both wings being suffused with blue shows, we think, that it was 
really a female specimen he had before him. This supposition is confirmed by our 
specimen, marked as the type, being a female and not a male. ‘Though we have seen a 
male specimen in the Vienna Museum, we were not able to examine it with sufficient 
care to say how it differs from the same sex of L. ebusa, so that specimens of this sex 
still remain to be compared; and it is more than probable, judging from analogy, that 
the chief distinction between FE. sericeella and EL. ebusa, relied upon by Mr. Bates when 
describing the former, will disappear when the male sex is examined. Besides the 
greater amount of blue on the wings, females only differ from that sex in HL. ebusa by 
the ocelli being smaller, and the inner of the two transverse bands beneath being 
narrower, both unimportant characters. The species is quite rare in Guatemala: we 
took a specimen in the forests of Vera Paz, north of Coban, at an elevation of about 
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