of the Amazon Valley. 195 
Like most of the typical Nymphaline, the males in the great majority 
of the species differ greatly in colours and in habits from the females ; 
being adorned with glossy blue and violet hues on a black ground, 
whilst their partners are dull brown with white spots; and leaving 
their females in the woods to resort with crowds of their fellows to 
sport in the sunshine, or imbibe moisture from the margins of streams 
and muddy places. 
19. EHunica Phasis. (Pl. IX. fig. 3). 
E. Phasis, Feld. Faun. Lep. R. Negro Sup. no. 85. 
Found sparingly in the interior of the country ; on the banks of 
the Tapajos, and on the Upper Amazons and Rio Negro. The male 
in this species wears the plain livery of the females of the genus. 
20. EHunica Anna, Cramer, 218 a. B. 
Ega, Upper Amazons; rare. The species was confounded by Godart 
(whose error has been copied by subsequent authors) with P. Maia of 
Fabricius. The Fabrician species, as I have had an opportunity of 
ascertaining by the examination of the standard example in the 
Banksian collection, is quite different, and appears to be the 2 of 
a South-Brazilian Hunica recently figured by Herrich-Schiiffer as 
Cybd. Neris. The description given by Fabricius of the underside 
of the hind wing is very clear, and not at all applicable to P. Anna 
of Cramer. 
21. Eunica Malvina, nu. sp. (Pl. IX. fig. 2, 2 a.) 
3. Expanse 2" 10’. Size and general appearance of EZ. Anna and E. 
Careta; differs in colours and in the shape of the palpi, which are short 
and closely applied to the forehead. Above: fore wing very slightly fal- 
eate, brown, with the basal half dull-slaty black, this colour extending 
along the costa to three-fourths the length of the wing, and not marked 
with a quadrate pale-brown spot as in Z. Anna. Hind wing not pro- 
longed at the anal angle, brown. Beneath: fore wing greyish, with the 
discal half dark brown, crossed by a belt of three pale spots; another 
shorter macular belt lies on the outer edge of the dark-brown patch, and 
is bordered by four black ocelli, with bluish pupils, exterior to which is 
a curved dark-brown streak. Hind wing purplish grey, with three white 
patches, two on the costa and one (more elongate) on the disk; there are 
three ocelli, the apical one of which is bipupillated, and shows the com- 
mencement of a fourth ocellus on its lower edge, the pupils being black, 
with blue central points; there are also the following reddish-brown 
marks !—a streak near the base, extending from the costa to the subcostal 
nervure ; a large triangular spot in the middle of the costa, which is con- 
tinued as a strongly waved line across the wing to the abdominal nervure ; 
