190 Mr. H. W. Bates on the Nymphaline 
examples in the much narrower border, which is sometimes entirely 
wanting on the hind wings, and in the fore wings does not show the 
characteristic sinuation near the apex. It may be, therefore, that 
both the Guatemala insect (which we will call local var. Guate- 
malena) and our M. fragilis are local modifications of Liriope ; but 
it seems hardly likely that nearly the same variety would be pro- 
duced in two widely distant localities. 
10. Melitea Amazonica, n. sp. 
3 9. Expanse 1” 8’. In size and general colour the same as M. 
Liriope ; differs chiefly in wanting the subapical oblique dark-brown stripe 
of the fore wings, and in the first subcostal branch of the same wings being 
emitted after the end of the cell. Fore wing above orange-tawny, with a 
very broad outer border of a blackish-brown hue, broken on its inner edge 
by traces of orange-tawny lunules, which are more or less distinct accord- 
ing to the individuals. The costal border is tawny brown, broken in two 
places by spots of the ground-colour of the wing, and emitting a number 
of thin wavy brown lines, some of which near the base traverse the breadth 
of the wing. Hind wing above orange-tawny, with a blackish-brown outer 
border of the same breadth as that of the fore wing, and having a row of 
thin orange-tawny lunules in its middle. The borderis preceded by arow 
of small dark spots, which are each surmounted by a dusky circumflex : 
the base of the wing traversed by a number of thin wavy brown lines. 
Beneath: all wings of the same pale hue as in M. Liriope. The basal 
halves are traversed by thin waves of a darker tawny shade, exterior to 
the last of which is a row of spots, and near the outer margin a lunulated 
line. What distinguishes M. Amazonica, in the colour of the underside, 
is the absence of large pale spots near the apex of the fore wing; all the 
thin lines and spots crossing the wing uninterruptedly from the costa to 
the hind margin. First branch of the subcostal nervure of the fore wing 
emitted at a distance from the end of the cell. 
This species is distinguished from M. Ziriope and all other known 
Melitee by the peculiarity mentioned in the neuration of the wings; it 
is common and generally distributed throughout the Amazons region 
in the same situations as its congeners. 
Genus Eresta, Doubleday. 
The Hresie: are true forest-dwellers. They do not, however, differ 
much in any essential character from the Melitee, which, as all Euro- 
pean entomologists well know, inhabit only meadows or open, heathy, 
and flowery places. The Melitew of Tropical America, which differ 
a little in the shape of the palpi and in length of wing from the 
northern members of the genus, form the connecting link between 
the two genera; so that the Hreste may be looked upon as forest 
