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a species having a wide range and showing throughout a certain amount of variation. 
especially in the width of the band crossing the wings, we feel that we are unable to 
separate it from that insect. A female obtained by Arcé at Bugaba confirms us in 
this view; it has the white band of the primaries extending nearly to the median 
nervure, which is not the case in our most southern specimen. 
Mr. Butler’s figure of C. plesaurina is much too dark throughout. 
We have a specimen of C. linda from Paraguay, which renders it most probable that 
it is to this species that Dr. Burmeister refers under the name of A. laura®. 
7. Chlorippe cyane. (Tab. XXXI. figg. 1, 29.) 
Nymphalis cyane, Latr. in Humb. & Bonpl. Obs. Zool. ii. p. 82, t. 86. f. 3, 4°. 
Chlorippe cyane 2 , Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 49°. 
Apatura lucasii, Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. t. 45. f. 2°; Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8. 1874, 
p. 3424, 
Apatura laurentia, Hew. Ex. Butt., Apatura, f. 5, 6. 
Chlorippe mentas ¢ , Boisd. Lép. Guat. p. 48 °. 
Alis nigro-fuscis, litura aream internam posticarum occupante (interdum in marginem anticarum internum 
extendente) metallico-cyanea, certa luce in viridem mutante, area cyanea crescente ; subtus anticis preter 
apicem fulvis nigro maculatis, apicibus et posticis sordide sericeo ochraceis, lineola transversa sinuata ultra 
cellule finem eunte. 
© alis fuscis, fascia communi in anticis fulva, ad costam bifurcata, in posticis alba cyaneo utrinque tincta, 
lineis submarginalibus obscuris notatis ; subtus mari similis, linea posticarum transversa recta. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hoge, Riimeli); Guatemaa, Polochic valley (Hague) ; 
Costa Rica (Van Patten *), Ivazu (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui and Bugaba 
(Arcé, Champion).—CoLOMBIA!; VENEZUELA; Ecuapor; Peru; Bo.ivia. 
Although Latreille’s figure of this insect is easily recognizable, it is not a good 
representation of it!, All the colours are far too pale. Hewitson, however, faithfully 
depicts it in Doubleday and Westwood’s ‘Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera,’ under the 
name of Apatura lucasii*®. Both these figures have the blue patch confined to the secon- 
daries, and in our series we find that this is the case in all specimens from Ecuador, 
Peru, and Bolivia. In Colombian insects we observe it extending to the inner margin 
of the primaries; and as we get still further north we have this colour encroaching, till 
in Mexico it has become a blue spot of considerable size on the primaries. 
CG. cyane is allied to C. clothilda, but perhaps it is still more closely related to a 
species we have lately received from the Argentine Republic which Dr. Burmeister 
has called Apatura lucasii*. When looked at from in front the blue marking in all 
specimens increases considerably and extends over nearly the whole base of the wing, 
* Chlorippe burmeisteri. 
Apatura lucasti, Burm. Descr. Phys. Rep. Arg. v. p. 182 (nec Doubleday). 
C. cyane affinis, sed area discali secundariorum saturatiore cyanea. [Over. 
