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Body deep brown above and below, some blue or 

 green scales on the collar, front, and shoulders, and 

 arranged in bands on the posterior segments of the 

 abdomen. Palpi greenish white. Antennse dark brown. 

 Hind wings produced a little at the anal angle. 



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199. Erycides Amyntas, Fab. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches. 



Upper surface dark brown, almost black, with a 

 strong purple reflection. A little beyond the middle 

 of the cell of the fore wings is a white hyaline bar 

 extending across the cell, emarginate externally. Below 

 this, and a little farther out, in the second median inter- 

 space, is a similar but larger subquadrangular spot, and 

 in the first median interspace is another, more oblong 

 in shape. The first two of these three spots represent 

 two of the four spots which form the median oblique 

 band of Eudamus Tityrus and allied species. There 

 is near the apex an oblique row of three anteapical 

 small spots, subquadrate in form, the first the smallest. 

 Hind wings without spots. Fringes fuscous, those of 

 the fore wings darkest ; the anal angle somewhat pro- 

 duced. 



The under side has the spots of the upper surface of 

 the fore wings repeated. The surface along the costa, a 

 broad apical portion and the external margin of the fore 

 wings, and all of the hind wings, except two bands of 

 spots and the anal angle, rich purple, not very dark ; 

 all the rest of the surface is dark brown. The dark 

 brown portion consists of two transverse bands, marking 

 nearly the division of the wing into thirds, and a broad 



