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Mr. Champion has sent us several paired specimens taken together ; so that the sexes 
of this species are satisfactorily determined. 
2. Epiphile eriopis. 
Epiphile eriopis, Hew. Ex. Butt. Epiphile, t. 1. ff. 5, 6°. 
Alis nigris, anticis fascia obliqua ultra cellulam et apice ipso albis, fascia lata communi a basi anticarum ad 
medium marginis posticarum externi transeunte fulva; subtus anticis fere ut supra, apice fulvescente 
ocello indistincto notato, posticis rufescente brunneo marmoratis area anali pallidiore, macula triangulari 
argenteo-fulva ad medium marginis externi. 
Femina adhuc ignota. 
Hab. Nicaraaua, Chontales (Belt).—Cotomsral. 
Colombia is the country whence this species has hitherto been procured, and where 
Hewitson’s types were obtained!. Belt’s collection, however, contained a single 
example showing the northern extension of the species into our region. 
E. eriopis is a beautiful species, having no near allies, but belonging apparently to 
the same group as £. adrasta and E. chrysites (Latr.) &c. 
b. Sexes widely divergent in coloration. 
3. Epiphile grandis. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 5,6 ¢,7 2.) 
Epiphile grandis, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 76°; Lep, Ex. p. 152, t. 54. f 4°; Butl. & Druce, P. ZS. 
1874, p. 347°. 
Alis nigris violaceo saturate suffusis, fascia obliqua ad apicem et altera interiore ultra cellulam anticarum ad 
. marginem externum posticarum extendente fuscis; anticis costa ad basin et litura intra eam margineque 
posticarum externo rufis; subtus fere ut in £. adrasta sed coloribus omnibus saturatioribus. 
Fomina alis fuscis, anticis ad apicem obscurioribus et punctis tribus notatis fascia lata obliqua ultra cellulam 
fulva, posticis margine apicali ejusdem coloris; subtus fere ut supra, sed alis dilutioribus, posticis rufo-fusco 
marmoratis. 
Hab. Guatemata, Purula (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten **). 
This name was founded on a single female specimen contained in Van Patten’s 
collection, and was subsequently figured by Mr. Butler. Quite recently Mr. Champion 
has sent us from Purula, in Guatemala, a male of a large and beautiful species 
previously unknown to us, but which we now feel confident is the male of the Costa- 
Rican insect. 
Single specimens only having occurred in the large collections of Dr. Van Patten 
and Mr. Champion shows, we think, how scarce this fine insect must be. The male 
. resembles no other species of the genus with which are acquainted ; but the female, as 
Mr. Butler remarks, is not unlike that sex of E. orea, but is of course much larger. 
4. Epiphile plutonia. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 8,9 ¢,10 2.) 
Epiphile plutonia, Bates, Ent. Monthl. Mag. i. p. 118 - 
Alis nigro-fuscis, anticis fascia obliqua ultra cellulam fulva, macula cellulari transversa ejusdem coloris, puncto 
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