DRUCINA.—MORPHO. 113 
2. Drucina championi, sp. n. 
Alis fusco-nigris, anticis acutis et paulo falcatis, maculis quingue aut sex submarginalibus ochraceis notatis, 
posticis elongatis sensim dentatis et maculis sex submarginalibus pulchre cyaneis ornatis, macula anali 
minima, duabus proximis maximis ; subtus fusco-nigris, anticarum apicibus grisescentibus et fusco varie- 
gatis, anticis serie submarginali ocellorum albescentium notatis, posticis grisescentibus fusco irroratis, vena 
mediana late nigerrima, maculis duabus costalibus et altera majore a cellule fine ad marginem internum, 
ocellis submarginalibus obsoletis quoque notatis. Exp. cir. 4 poll. 
Hab. Guatemaa, Cerro Zunil (Champion). 
A recent collection of Mr. Champion’s contained several specimens of this beautiful 
species, which he obtained in the humid forests which clothe the southern slopes of 
the Cerro de Zunil at an elevation of from 5000 to 6000 feet above the sea. 
Its relationship to Drucina leonata is evident from the elongated pointed primaries 
and the general character of the markings beneath. The remarkable blue spots of the 
secondaries above, however, are in strong contrast with the fulvous patch of those wings 
in D. leonata ; and the greater elongation of the secondaries is also very evident. The 
blue spots recall similar marks on the secondaries of Antirrhea philopemen and its allies ; 
but with this genus D. championi has of course no close affinity. 
We gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity of naming this fine species after 
Mr. Champion, its discoverer, whose successful industry has added vastly to our know- 
ledge of the insect fauna of Guatemala. We hope to figure it in a supplementary 
Plate. 
Subfam. MVORPHINA*. 
MORPHO. 
Morpho, Fabricius, Ill. Mag. vi. p. 280 (1807); Westw. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 337. 
The genus Morpho is strictly confined to the warmer parts of the Neotropical Region, 
* The position of this group of Butterflies has long been a matter of doubt. Prof. Westwood, in the ‘ Genera 
of Diurnal Lepidoptera,’ admitted a family Morphide, dividing it into two sections. Mr. Bates subsequently 
did away with the Morphide as a family altogether, and placed Prof. Westwood’s second section as a subfamily 
Brassoline of the large family Nymphalide. This arrangement has been very generally adopted. The genus 
Morpho, however, and its allies he placed with the Nymphaline, an assignment of them which has not been 
so favourably received. On the whole, and notwithstanding the cell of the secondary wings being open, we 
think that these Butterflies have associated characters of sufficient number and value to allow them to stand as 
a separate subfamily Morphine, which may be placed next the Satyrine, and followed by the Brassolinze—not 
that any particular alliance is indicated thereby, but solely from the necessity of a linear arrangement. The 
Morphine seem to come, in fact, between the Satyrine and the Nymphalinw. The arguments respecting the 
position of the genus Morpho and its allies are well given by Prof. Westwood in the ‘Genera of Diurnal 
Lepidoptera,’ and in a paper “On the Oriental Species related to Morpho” (Trans. Ent. Soc. new ser. iv. 
p. 158 e¢ seqq.), and also by Mr. Bates in the ‘Journal of Entomology’ (ii. p. 177). As we do not propose, 
in a faunistic work like this, to go at large into questions of classification, we simply refer to these works as 
giving the most recent discussions of the subject. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Rhopal., Vol. L., June 1881. Q 
