234 RHOPALOCERA. 
The genus seems to be divisible into two sections, according as the sexes are approxi- 
mately alike or widely different. 
The subcostal nervure in Epiphile emits two branches before the end of the cell; the 
upper discocellular is very short, the chord of the middle discocellular nearly at right 
angles to the subcostal, the chord of the lower at a small obtuse angle to it, the lower 
discocellular meeting the median nervure close to the origin of the second branch, as in 
Eunica. The costal margin of the secondaries is slightly concave in the middle. The 
front legs of the male are hairy; coxa> 4 femur-+trochanter ; tibia=femur; tarsus 
(single-jointed) a little<tibia. Middle and posterior legs slightly spined, claws short 
and much curved. The eyes are hairy. The palpi slightly hairy, the terminal joint 
(shorter in the male than in the female) long, nearly as long in the female as the 
middle joint, but neither of them swollen. Antenne 37-jointed, the terminal 12 
forming a moderate club. The secondary male sexual organs have a tegumen with a 
long hooked central spine; the harpagones are very feeble, narrow, and without hooks 
or spines, but hairy towards the distal end. 
a. Sexes approximately alike in coloration. 
1. Epiphile adrasta. 
Epiphile adrasta, Hew. Ex. Butt. Epiphile, t. 2. ff. 9-11'; Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 346”; 
Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 40°. 
Alis nigris purpureo tinctis, fasciis duabus obliquis transeuntibus flavido-fulvis, una omnino in anticis extra 
cellulam a costa ad angulum analem ducta, altera, basin anticarum versus, a costa ad medium marginis 
posticarum externi: subtus anticis ut supra ocello ad angulum apicalem; posticis rufescente fusco 
variegatis, macula triangulari in costee medio flava et serie ocellorum indistincte notata margini externo 
parallela. 
Femina mare distinguenda fascia anticarum externa flavido-albida et alis omnibus ad basin fulvis fascia interna 
vix apparente, anticis puncto albo apicali notatis. 
Hab. Mexico} (Sallé®), Cordova (Riimeli, Hoge), Oaxaca (Fenochio); GuaTEMALa, 
Yzabal, Motagua valley (/. D. G. & 0. 8.), Polochic valley (Hague), El Tumbador 
(Champion), San Gerénimo (Hague, Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Costa 
Rica (Van Patten®), Cache (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba (Arcé, Champion), Volcan de 
Chiriqui, 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 
A common species throughout Central America, from Southern Mexico to Panama, 
and probably the commonest of the genus. It is very constant in its markings; in 
some male specimens, however, we notice a small white spot in the apex of the 
primaries, and in some, but not in all, the apex itself is tawny. In its vertical range 
E. adrasta reaches to about 3000 feet, being found at all lower elevations down to the 
sea-level. It flies in the scrubby vegetation rather than in thick forest. 
Hewitson first described the species from Mexican specimens, adopting for the species 
a manuscript name of Boisduval’s !, who applied it to examples collected by M. Sallé 3, 
