220 EUPTYCHIA. By H. Weymer. 



ntfirirn. E. iiiarica iStgr. i. I. (49 e). The wings are tliiiily scaled, above brown witli dark violet-blue reflec- 



tion, which gradually shades into the broad brown distal margin. The bands and eye-spots of the under 

 surface show through above. Beneath light violet with bluish gloss. The forewing with 3, the hinilwing with 

 i^ broad brown transverse bands, the distal formiaag an angle on the median of the hindwing and an acute angle 

 distad before the inner margin. Forewing with one, hindwing with 3 ocelli, all black with yellow and broMii 

 rings and white pupils, the posterior eye-spot bi-pupilled. Betweeir the eye-spots of the hindwing the yellow- 

 brown, oval spots with silvery pupils as in the allied species, marica is easy to distijiguish from the latter by 

 having the two larger ocelli in cellules 2 and 5 of equal size. From Pebas on the Amazon in Peru. 



herse. E. liersc ('/■. (= herseis Godt.) (49 e). Above dull violet with blue reflection. Forewing with brown 



costal anil distal margins, the latter twice as broad as the former, with 2 straight median stripes, 3 marginal 

 lines and a roiuid broA\n spot before the apex. Dn tlie hin.dwing the first median stripe is straight, the 2nd 

 forms on the median a sharp, distally directed tooth. Before the anal angle a large black eye-spot with yellow 

 ring and at the apex 2 smaller, obscure eye-spots. Beneath the ground-colour is light violet-grey, the trans- 

 verse stripes yellow-brown.. Forewing with one eye-spot, hindwing with 3, the first very small, the last large, 

 all black with red-yellow and brown rings, all (also the one on the forewing) with double white pupils. Between 

 the eye-sjDots in cellules 3 and 4 two red-yellow spots with silvery centres. From Suriiram, Para, Merida (Vene- 

 zuela) and Villavicencia (East t'olombia [Fas.sl]). 



caU'irhJorh. E. calUchloris Btlr. Similar to herse. Above brown. The wings at the base transparent, violet. The 



third band on the forewing nearer to the margin, the first on the hiirdwing indistinct, the others strongly angled, 

 the anal eye-spot large and black, with yellow ring, the others indistinct. The under surface is accord- 

 ing to Butler's figure lilac, according to his description whitish, the bands of the forewing as above. On the 

 hijidwing the basal area is filled iip with browai to the first traiasverse band, the 2nd band forms an acute angle 

 distad. The yellow rings round the eye-spots are very broad, ijiterrupting the brown bordering, and forming 

 a contijuu)us yellow band on which are placed in cellules 2 and 5 rouird black spots with silvery double jnipil 

 and in cellules 3 anil 4 silvery streaks. The eye-spot in cellule 2 is larger, that in cellule 5 smaller. The still 

 smaller eye-sjjot m cellule 6. whicli is likewise black and has a donble silver pupil, is isolated and placed in a yel- 

 low and brown ring. Froni Ega (on the Amazon). 



Tolumnia Group. 



On the upper.side of the forewing in the (Jo is plafi-d at the hinchuarijin of the cell a narrow stripe of scent -scales 

 ailjoinintc the stalk of the ineflian and ciin.si.stiug of hair-like .scales. 



tfilnitinia. E. tolumtiia Cr. (49 f). Above dark brown, the posterior half of the hindwing with bright blue gloss. 



The stripe of scent-scales of the ,$(^ along the median of the forewing is distinct. On the vnider surface the 

 ground-colour is more yellowish between the transverse stripes and only the distal half of the hindwing is liglit 

 bluish violet. The eye-spots have silvery pupils, those of the last larger eye-sp_ot are doiible and produced length- 

 wise. From Surinam, the Lower Amazon and Bahia. 



calhtiriiia. E. catharliia Stgy. Forewing brown, in the ,^o with a narrow stripe of hair-shaped black-brown scales 



along the median, otherwise without markings. Hindwing almost entirely blue, only the costal margiir broadly, 

 the distal and inner margins narrowly brown. On the under surface the basal half of the forewiirg and the anterior 

 part of the hindw ing are brown-grey, the distal margin of both wmgs and the inner margui of the hindwing light 

 blue. Forewing with 3 jiarrow brown transverse stripes, hiiuiwing with 2 which diverge posteriorly. Before the 

 inner margin of the hindwing the outer stripe forms an angle. Forewing with 1, hindwing with 2 small eye- 

 spots at the apex and a large one in cellule 2, between them the 2 yellow ellipses with silver dots as in tolumnia. 

 3(i mm. From Jurimaguas in the Upper Amazon district. 



hcirllfioiiii. E. hewitsonii Btlr. (= polla Mdschl.) (49 e). A small but beautiful species. Brown, the scent-scale 



stripe of the J somewhat darker. The distal margm with blue reflection, the inn.er margin bright glossy blue. 

 Hindwing at the base whitish, distally with blue reflection. Both wings with white friiages. Vein la on the 

 o hindwing somewhat thickened in the middle. Forewing beneath lilac, with 3 red-brown ti'ansverse stripes. 

 2 straight marginal lines aird an eye-spot before the apex. Hindwing at the base lilac, distally blue with 2 trans- 

 verse stripes, 2 eye-spots at the apex and a very large anal ocellus; between the eye-spots 2 brownish yellow 

 ellipses with silvery blue centres. From the Lower Amazon (Para). Butler mentions a form from the Upper 

 Amazon (Ega, noAV Teffe) without naming it : it differs in having the ground-colour above and beneath 

 more greenish, polla MdsrliL. from Siirinam, I regard as likewise a hewitsonii, as the figure and description 

 almost entirely agree with this. The only difference in the figure consists in the absence of the elliptical spots 

 on the hindwing. But in the text Moschler mentions these as present, so that this may be only an. error in the 

 figure. The 2nd difference that I find is in the marginal lines on the underside of the forewing. These 

 are straight m hewitsonii, Moschler describes the inner of these lines as finely dentate. According to the figure 

 which he gives of his polla, however, both are straight. Hence I can ojily regard polla as a synonym of hewitsonii. 



