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restricted range, since we have only met with it in Costa-Rican and Chiriqui collections. 
It is closely allied to £. edias of Hewitson, of which it is a darker form. The spots 
on the primaries are smaller, and the black much more intense; the secondaries also 
are more ferruginous. 
The pattern of the wings of E. vulgiformis is repeated in Heliconius formosus, in 
Eresia nigripennis, and in Ithomeis imitatrix, all of which inhabit the same country 
Several species of /thomia and its allies also partake of very much the same style of 
coloration. 
3. Kueides aliphera. 
Cethosia aliphera, Godt. Enc. Méth. ix. p. 246°. 
Colenis aliphera, Hiibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. ii. t. 212. 
Eueides aliphera, Bates, Trans. L. S. xxii. p. 564°. 
Alis fulvis, anticis costa, marginibus, fascia obliqua a cellule fine ad marginem externum eunte alteraque in 
area submediana anguste nigris ; posticis nigro marginatis ramisque margines attingentibus nigris, subtus 
dilutioribus. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Riimeli); Britise Honpuras, Corosal (foe); GUATEMALA, 
forests of Northern Vera Paz, San Gerénimo, Polochic valley, Retalhuleu (Ff. D. G. & 
O. S.), San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt & Janson) ; Costa 
Rica (van Patten), Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui and Calobre (Arcé), Lion-Hill 
station (M‘Leannan).—CotomBia, and South America generally to Braziu1 3, 
A very widely ranging species, and probably one of the most common, as few collections 
made anywhere between Mexico and Brazil are without it. There is a certain amount 
of individual variation in different specimens as to the width of the black margins of 
the wings, and also as to the depth of the fulvous colouring ; but this does not appear 
to have much reference to locality. In shape the present species differs from all others 
of the genus in having the wings narrower, the apex of the primaries more straight 
instead of rounded, and their external margin hollowed out. 
In Guatemala we found it an abundant species in scrubby forest up to an elevation 
of 8000 feet at San Geronimo. 
In the pattern of its wings E. aliphera closely resembles Colenis delila; but it is only 
half the size of that butterfly. C. dedila in its various races is an equally abundant and 
widely distributed species. 
4. Kueides lineata. (Tab. XIX. fig. 2.) 
Eueides lineata, Salv. & Godm. Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, 11. p. 145°; Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8. 
1874, p. 3507. 
E. aliphere similis, sed alis magis ferrugineis et latius nigro notatis, nervulis marginem versus nigris; subtus 
posticis punctis albis marginatis. 
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