EUPTYCHIA. 



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clusively American. The species are of rather small size, with 

 hairy eyes, and rounded and slightly dentated wings, and 

 are brown in colour (rarely blue or white), with longitudinal 

 dusky lines, and a sub-marginal row of eyes, these markings 

 being much less conspicuous on the upper surface. The 

 nervures of the fore-wings are much thickened at the base; 

 and the cells of the wings are rather long and broad. Taygetis, 

 Hiibner, is an allied Tropical American genus, containing 

 much larger species, in which the wing cells are shorter and 

 narrower. 



Although Euptychia is most numerous in the Tropics, yet 

 several species inhabit the United States, and their meta- 

 morphoses have been described by American authors. 



EUPTYCHIA BRIXIUS. 

 (Plate XXXV., Fig. 4.) 



Satyrus brixius, Godart, Enc. Me'th., ix., p. 490, no. 42 



(1823). 



As this species is but little known, and our figure is not 

 taken from the type specimen, I think it best to insert Godart's 

 diagnosis, and a condensed translation of his original descrip- 

 tion. 



"Sat. alis integris, teneris, ccerulescentibus, strigis utrinque 

 sex fuscis, posticarum quarta subtus ocellis quinque bipu- 

 pillatis." 



This Butterfly measures about an inch and a half across the 

 wings. The upper side is of a bluish-ashy, with six transverse 

 rays, and a double marginal line, of a brownish-black. 



On the under side the pattern of the upper surface is repro- 

 duced, but the ground-colour is lighter, and the fourth ray of 

 the hind-wings is marked with five eyes, of which the first, the 

 second, and the last are surrounded with a whitish iris ; the 



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