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ad apicem albo; posticis area discali lete cyanea: subtus alis rufescentioribus anticarum apicibus et 
posticis fusco marmoratis, macula triangulari argenteo-flavida ad coste medium notatis. 
Femina alis brunneis, apicibus obscurioribus et puncto albo notatis, fascia lata obliqua ultra cellulam et angulo 
posticarum apicali fulvis; subtus alis ochraceo rufescentibus fusco marmoratis, fasciz anticarum fulve 
marginibus nigricantibus, macula posticarum costali sicut in mare. 
Hab. Guaremata, Polochic valley (F. D. G. & O. 8.1), Purula, Paraiso (Champion). 
This species is at present only known to us from Guatemala, where, however, though 
very few specimens have come to us, it is pretty widely distributed. Mr. Bates, when 
describing this species, compared it with E. epicaste of Hewitson; but it is in fact a 
northern race of the Brazilian EZ. orea, and the still more northern £. zbdis, a fourth 
race being E. plusios, the insect next described. From £. iblis, E. plutonia differs in 
having a white spot in the apex of the primaries instead of a tawny band of contiguous 
spots. The innermost tawny band consists of a discocellular spot, which is not continued 
onwards towards the anal angle as in the allied species. 
The female agrees exactly with Hewitson’s representation of that sex of H. orea, the 
cross band of the primaries being narrower than in the females of either the next 
species or of L. ibis. 
The type being in bad condition, we have figured a male specimen from Purula, and 
a female from Paraiso, both captured by Mr. Champion. 
5. Epiphile plusios, sp. n. 
E. plutonie valde similis, sed fascia anticis ultra cellulam obliqua angustiore et fascia altera per cellulam ad 
angulum analem extensa notatis; posticis colore czruleo forsan magis nitente. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Cache and Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé). 
This is the race of E. orea found in Costa Rica and Panama. It has a white apical 
spot on the primaries as in Z. plutonia; but the interior tawny band is much the same 
as in E. iblis. The blue patch of the secondaries is perhaps a little lighter than in any 
of the allied forms. The female has the tawny band of the primaries intermediate in 
width between that of E. plutonia and #. iblis. We have only seen three specimens 
of this form, one of each sex from Costa Rica, and a male from the Volcan de 
Chiriqui. 
Note.—Besides the above species, Boisduval includes in his ‘ Lépidoptéres de Guate- 
mala’ two Colombian species of Epiphile as occurring within our limits, viz. E. chrysites 
(Latr.) and E. epicaste, Hew. Both are said to have been obtained in Nicaragua; but 
we have no evidence confirming this extension of their range. 
