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EUDAMUS. 



EUDAMUS PHERENICE. 1. 



Eudamus PJierenlcc. Jlacifson. Descriptions of Hespcnda, p. 15. 



UrPERSiDE. Female. Antci-ior wing dark brown with eleven transparent 

 spots : four in a broken band at the middle, one outside of these and two small 

 ones before the apical spots which are four and of unequal size. Posterior wing 

 angular, rufous, covered with hair, crossed liy two dark brown bands. 



Underside. Anterior wing as above, except that it is irrorated with lilac scales 

 near the outer margin. Posterior wing with the bands as above, the basal half 

 ochreous, the outer margin broadly brown. 



Male. Like the female except that it has one large central transparent quadrifid 

 spot, that it has no spot on tlic costal margin, and that the spot which in the female 

 is outside of the central band is in the male incorporated with it. 



Exp. 2-1^ inch. Hab. Brazil. 



lu the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



A beautiful species, with a general resemblance to Pyrrhopyija Santhilarius. 



EUDAMUS BRYAXIS. 2, 3. 



Eudamus Bnjaxis. llewitsoii. Desc. of Hcsperidce, p. 11. 



Upperside dark brown : the Ijasc of the anterior wing and nearly the whole of 

 the posterior wing covered with ochreous hair. Anterior wing with nine transparent 

 white spots : four (the first bifid) forming a central band, one outside of these and 

 four before the apex. Posterior wing slightly lobed, dentate, the indentations white. 



Underside brown. Anterior wing as above, except that it has a rufous spot 

 below the apical white spots and a submarginal row of spots of the same colour. 

 Posterior wing with two spots near the base and two transverse irregular bands of 

 dark brown : a submarginal band of brown spots broadly bordered with white. 



Exp. 2^u inch. Hab. Guatemala. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



This bears a considerable resemblance to a tailed species (E. Alcaus) from the same counfr}-. 



EUDAMUS EOUS. 5, 6. 



Eudmmis Eous. Hewitson. Desc. of llesperidce, p. 20. 

 Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing with seven transparent spots : two at 

 the middle, two outside of these and three before the apex : a spot of white near 



Published October \st, 1S73.] 



