188 Mr. H. W. Bates on the Nymphaline 
throughout Brazil, and as far north as the Southern States of 
Northern America, including the West India Islands. 
Genus Evproreta, Doubleday. 
This genus of Fritillaries forms the nearest approach that Tropical 
America offers to the beautiful Argynnis group, so rich in species 
and abundant in individuals im the northern temperate zone in both 
hemispheres. It differs from Argynmnis in the pulvillus between the 
tarsal claws being inconspicuous instead of largely developed, and in 
the claws themselves being long and straight, instead of short and 
curved as in Argynnis. In neuration also it differs much from 
Argynnis proper (Lathonia, Paphia, &c.), but approximates closely 
to the section Brenthis (Euphrosyne, Dia, &c.). In fact the species, 
both in neuration and style of colouring of the underside of hind 
wings, show a decided affinity to a section of the group Brenthis 
which is peculiar to the extreme south of South America, where a 
little isolated colony, as it were, of Argynnes is located in Chili and 
the Falkland Islands. 
7. Euptoieta Hegesia, Cram. 209 &. F. 
Abundant in open grassy tracts of country, or campos, in the 
middle part of the Lower Amazons, both on the north and south 
sides of the river; flying slowly, and settling on flowering leguminous 
shrubs and other plants; never seen in the forests. The species 
has a wide range, being found in South Brazil, and throughout 
Guiana, as far north as Guatemala, where it occurs in company with 
the closely allied Huptoieta Claudia, without showing transition 
forms. Further north, in North America and in the West India 
Islands, Claudia alone is found. 
Genus Metirmxa, Auct. 
8. Melitea Liriope, Cramer, 1 ¢. D. 
A common insect in open, weedy, and shrubby places near towns ; 
flying in a sailing manner over low bushes. The Amazonian examples 
agree pretty closely with the figure of Cramer, which was made from 
a Surinam specimen. The species is found throughout Brazil to Rio 
Grande, in 30° south latitude ; in this southern part of its range it 
recedes considerably from the Guiano-Amazonian form, becoming 
clearer in colour, with the dark-brown border and the oblique belt 
of fore wings narrower, darker, and more clearly defined (Acrea 
Claudina, Esch., Kotzebue’s Reise, pl. vii. f. 18 a, 6; Arg. flavia, 
Godt. Ene. Méth. ix. 818.66). Westward, towards the bottom of the 
