242 RHOPALOCERA. 
lilacino-ceeruleis ; subtus anticis ochraceis, fascia transversa fusca ultra cellulam ; posticis fuscis ad costam 
ochracescentibus. 
Femina alis obscure fuscis litura obliqua per cellule finem maculisque ad apicem flavis, posticis lineis duabus 
submarginalibus quoque flavis, subtus anticarum apicibus et posticis fusco-griseis, his medialiter leete 
rufo-brunneo ornatis. 
Hab. Muxico, Potrero (Hedemann}), Cordova (Riimeli & Hoge), Oaxaca (Fenochio) ; 
British Honpuras, Rio Hondo (Blancancaux); GuaTEMALA, Panan, Cubilguitz, Pantaleon, 
Las Mercedes (Champion), Pacific slope (F. D. G. & 0. 8.), Polochic valley (Hague); 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica, Cache, Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui, 
Bugaba (Champion), Calobre (Areé).—CoLoMBIA. 
This species is very closely allied to the Brazilian E. penthia, from which the male 
differs in having the inner of the two tawny spots of the primaries rounder in form and 
placed wholly outside the cell; the spot, of the same colour, near the base of the 
secondaries is also rather more restricted longitudinally. The females of these two 
species are almost identical in colour; the transverse yellow band of the primaries in 
Central-American examples is perhaps a little narrower. Both #. estte and EL. penthia 
have a near ally in £. numilia (Cr.); and the males of the two last named are perhaps 
not to be distinguished from one another. ‘The female of EL. numilia, however, has the 
whole of the inner area uf the secondaries brick-red, with a submarginal row of black 
spots outside the cell. 
The closer affinity of L. estte to the Brazilian EL. penthia than to the Guianan and 
Amazonian £. numilia is another of the many instances of the relationship subsisting 
between Central-American and Brazilian forms, of which we have already had several. 
i, esite was first described by Rudolf Felder from Lieut. Hedemann’s specimens 
captured at Potrero in Mexico’, where it would appear, from the number of specimens 
sent us by Herr Hoge and by Rumeli, to be not uncommon. In Guatemala it enjoys a 
wide range in the hotter parts of both sides of the country. It is doubtless also an 
inhabitant of low-lying forests throughout the rest of its range. 
It is probably to this species Boisduval refers (Lép. Guat. p. 41) under the name 
E. numilia. 
3. Epicalia nyctimus. 
Epicalia nyctimus, Westw. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 257*; Hew. Ex. Butt. Epicalia, t. 2. £.5,67; Butl, 
& Druce, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 847°; Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 41°. 
Epicalia sclacia, Godm. & Salv. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 123 (nec Hew.)’. 
Alis supra brunneo-nigris, fascia communi lata fulva ab anticarum apice ad medium marginis posticarum 
interni; subtus rufo marmoratis, marginibus externis fere rufo immaculatis, anticis fascia fulva sicut in 
pagina superiore sed apicem haud intrante. 
Femina femine LE. chromidis supra similis sed minor, subtus fasciis pagine superioris bene indicatis, posticis 
griseo et rufo marmoratis, plaga magna unicolori fusca ad angulum apicalem. 
Hab. Mexico* (Deppe), Cordova (Riimeli), Oaxaca (Fenochio); GuatemaLa, central 
