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found within our borders, whereof one (E. @sacus) is peculiar to Mexico and Guate- 
mala; the others (Z. bubocula and E. wardi) just enter South America, being found in 
the Colombian State of Oaxaca. 
a. Outer margin of secondary wings distinctly angulated. 
1. Eryphanis wardi. (Tab. XIII. figg. 1, 2.) 
Eryphanis wardi, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 58". 
Pavonia automedon, Bates, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 249? (nec Cramer). 
Caligo automedon, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8S. 1874, p. 339° (nec Cramer). 
Alis supra brunneo-fuscis, area anticarum interna et plaga magna in dimidio externo posticarum violaceo-cyaneo 
tinctis; anticis linea obsoleta submarginali fulva ad apicem bifida et punctis albis subapicalibus costam 
versus notatis; posticis area anali nigro induta; subtus sordide brunneis nigro irroratis, stria communi 
nigra a costa media anticarum ad angulum analem posticarum ducta; alis intus albicantioribus, extus area 
haud irrorata sed lineis variis valde sinuatis notatis et in posticis ocellis duobus ornatis, uno costam attin- 
gente, altero extra cellulam ; hac area in anticis linea sinuata ultra cellulam terminata; linea altera latiore 
submarginali quam margo magis sinuata, inter ramos radiales ocellos duos aut tres includente, duabus lineis 
submarginalibus quoque notatis; anticarum cellula tota lineis variis distinctis scripta. 
mare major, fascia anticarum submarginali paginw superioris multo magis distincta et area discoidali distali 
ochraceo suffusa, posticis nigro late marginatis area interna ceruleo leviter tincta. 
Hab. Nicaracua}, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten?); Panama, Chiriqui, 
Veraguas (Arcé), Lion-Hill station (M‘Leannan ?).—Co.omBIa. 
This is a slightly modified northern race of E. automedon of Guiana and the Amazons 
valley. From this it differs in being rather larger, in the violet colour of the primaries 
being of a rather more rosy tint, and in having an indistinct submarginal stripe, bifid 
towards the apical angle, and enclosing two more or less distinct black spots; beneath 
it is paler and of a reddish brown, mottled and marked after the pattern of E. auto- 
medon. The females are paler on the upperside and of a more ochraceous colour. In 
the series before us there is a slight variation in the rosy tint of the primaries of 
different specimens. This species was described by Boisduval, who says that it is found 
in collections sent from Guatemala and Nicaragua. We ourselves have never seen it 
from further north than the latter country, and are inclined to doubt whether it extends 
its range into Guatemala, as it has never been sent in the numerous and large collections 
we have received from there. We trace it as far south as Colombia. In Ecuador, 
Guiana, and southward its place is taken by a smaller species, with wings of purer 
blue, the true £. automedon of Cramer, and in Brazil by EZ. amphimedon, Feld. We 
have figured a male from Nicaragua. 
6. Outer margin of secondaries rounded. 
2. Eryphanis zsacus. 
Caligo esacus, H.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. ff. 3, 4. 
Eryphanis esacus, Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 58. 
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