MYSCELIA.—EPIPHILE. 238 
M. pattenia takes the place of M. ethusa in Guatemala and Costa Rica; but it is a 
very scarce species in both countries, three specimens being all that have come under 
our notice. Its chief and obvious difference from M. ethusa consists in the spots in the 
anterior wings beyond the cell being white instead of blue, the stripes alone being of 
the latter colour. The single specimen obtained by us was probably from the neigh- 
bourhood of San Gerdnimo, as that received from Mr. Hague was captured in the 
lower part of the same valley. 
The type from Costa Rica was the only specimen in Van Patten’s collection, and, 
being a male, cannot be the opposite sex of M. cyananthe, as suggested by Messrs. 
Butler and Druce}. 
6. Myscelia cyananthe. 
Myscelia cyananthe, Feld. Reise d. Nov. Lep. p. 408, t. 58. f. 6, 7°. 
M. ethuse quoque affinis, sed alis multo magis nigricantibus fasciis alarum ceruleis abbreviatis et anticis 
maculis albis nullis primo visu distinguenda. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Oaxaca (Deppe). 
A single specimen in the late Dr. Kaden’s collection formed the subject of 
Dr. Felder’s description and figure of this fine species; but many years previously the 
indefatigable collector Deppe had sent three specimens from Oaxaca to the Berlin 
Museum. There are three examples also in the British Museum and one in the 
Vienna Museum; but the species is evidently a scarce one. MM. cyananthe is remarkable 
for the prevalence of the intense black on the upper wings. The blue marks which 
characterize both it and its allies are reduced to a few spots near the apex of the 
primaries and three streaks near the base, white spots being wholly absent. The 
secondaries have two broad bands and the outer margin blue, the rest of the wings 
being black. 
Note.—Boisduval, in his ‘ Lépidoptéres de Guatemala,’ includes a species, possibly of 
this genus, from Nicaragua, as “Cybdelis lycopsis, Klug.” This is apparently a manu- 
script name, and we have no clue to what species it refers. 
EPIPHILE. 
_Epiphile, Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 224 (1849). 
Epiphile contains fourteen species now known to us, which are spread over the 
Neotropical Region, to the exclusion of Guiana and the Amazons valley, from Mexico 
to South Brazil. The focus of the genus is Colombia and Venezuela, where seven 
species are known to occur. Two species are found in South Brazil, and two in Bolivia 
and Peru, whilst five occur within our limits, only one of which (£. eriopis) is also an 
inhabitant of Colombia. 
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