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EPIPHILE. 
EPIPHILE EPIMENES. 1, 2. 
UprersipE. Male black, glossed, from the base to beyond the middle, with bril- 
hant silvery blue. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by a macular rufous band, 
changing, as the light changes, to a most beautiful pink. Crossed near the apex by 
three spots, two of them rufous, the other (the middle one) white. Posterior wing 
with the apex rufous. 
Unpersipr. Anterior wing dark brown, the base and the band (which is as 
above) rufous ; near the apex there is a rufous eye-like spot inclosing a spot of white 
and one of black. The apex grey or red-brown. ‘'T'wo spots near the outer margin 
and one beyond the end of the cell light blue. Posterior wing red-brown, clouded 
from the costal margin (which is marked by a silvery triangular spot) to the middle 
with darker brown. Beyond the middle there are four eye-like spots in pairs, those 
nearest the anal angle very indistinct. 
Expan. 2345 in. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
The blue upon the wings of this species is not surpassed by any of the Morphos. It passes over 
the rufous band and changes it, in a bright light, to a most exquisite pink. 
EPIPHILE EPICASTE. 3, 4. 
Uprrrsipr. Male black. The centre of the wings (especially the posterior) 
glossed with purple. Both wings crossed by a band of orange commencing in the cell 
of the anterior wing and ending near the middle of the outer margin of the posterior 
wing. Anterior wing from the base to the said band (above the median nervure) 
orange, marked by three black spots. Crossed obliquely beyond the middle from 
the costal margin to near the anal angle (where it ends in a round spot) by a sinuated 
band of orange. A spot of orange on the costal margin near the apex, and below it a 
spot of white. 
Unprrsipe. Anterior wing as above, but lighter. The base without the black 
spots. The apex red-brown, with both the spots near it white, and a third spot below 
them black marked by a minute spot of light blue. Posterior wing clouded with 
red-brown and grey, with the usual silvery spot on the costal margin. Beyond the 
middle four indistinct eye-like spots in pairs; near the margin some triangular and 
- lunular spots of brown. 
Expan. 23% in. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
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