280 RHOPALOCERA. 
1. Victorina stelenes. 
Papilio stelenes, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 218°; Clerck, Ic. Ins. t. 85. f. 2%. 
Victorina steneles, Bates, Journ. Ent. ii. p. 320°; Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 345°; Strecker, 
Butt. N. Am. p. 142°. 
Metamorpha stelenes, Aurivillius, Kongl. Sv. Vet. Ak. Handl. xix. no. 5. p. 37°. 
Alis fuscis, maculis magnis glauco-viridibus semihyalinis ornatis, anticis seriebus tribus positis, una sub venam 
medianam cellulam intrante, secunda ultra cellulam, tertia subapicali, maculis duabus quoque ad angulum 
analem, posticis fascia lata subbasali et serie extra eam (e maculis septem composita) submarginali ; subtus 
omnino albicante glaucis area inter maculas extus et intus rufo marginatis, cellule anticarum fine linea 
sinuosa alba nigro marginata ornata. 
@ mari similis at paulo major. 
Hab. Norva America, S.W. Texas ®.—Mexico, Oaxaca (Fenochio), Cordova (Riimelt), 
Valladolid in Yucatan (Gawmer); Britisa Honpuras, Corosal (Roe); GuaTEMALA, San 
Gerénimo, Polochic and Motagua valleys, Pacific slopes (Ff. D. G. & O. S.), Purula, 
San Isidro (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson); Costa Rica (Van Patten *) ; 
Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), Veraguas (Arcé)—Soutna America, Colombia to South 
Brazil 3. 
Victorina stelenes is found everywhere throughout the lowlands of Tropical America, 
in Guatemala not extending to a greater altitude than 3000 or 4000 feet. In its colour 
and general markings it resembles Metamorpha dido, though the difference in the shape 
of the wings renders it easily distinguished*. In all northern specimens we notice that 
besides the light green spot within the cell of the primaries, there is a second beyond 
it which is absent in South-American examples. In specimens from Panama it only 
occasionally appears as a very small spot, and this is likewise the case in Antillean 
insects, hence we attach but little value to the character. 
Mr. Bates speaks of this species as frequenting open sunny places, such as deserted 
plantations and the borders of woods; which agrees with our observations. 
AMPHIRENE. 
Amphirene, Doubleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 86 (1844); Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. t. 33. 
f. 2 (1850). 
This genus seems only to have been indicated by name by Doubleday, who adopted 
a manuscript title of Boisduval’s in one of the British-Museum Catalogues, and also 
used it on a plate illustrating A. epaphus in the ‘Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera.’ 
Prof. Westwood, however, when describing these insects did not discover sufficient 
difference to separate A. epaphus from Victorina stelenes, and placed them both with 
A. trayja in Victorina. 
We now, for reasons given below, place A. epaphus, A. trayja, and A. superba 
together in Amphirene, leaving V. stelenes alone in Victorina. 
* It will be noticed that we use Hiibner’s name Metamorpha in a different sense from Dr. Aurivillius. Our 
application of it dates from December 1881 (antea, p. 166), that of Dr. Aurivillius from the following year. 
