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tlic hindwing exhibits a beautiful (Imible-eyespot before the apex ami from the oosta there runs a sliort 

 terior and a long posterior brown marginal spot to the interior of the -Hiug. Above the blue reflectioji is 

 especially bright in the distal half of the hindwings. From the Amazon, Iquitos, Tapajoz and so on. 



E. malvina Bates (100 Ac). Largei' than the preceding, upper surface brown, witlioui distinct i c- nHihina. 

 flection, the spots on the forewing.s only noticealiie as large dull stains. Easily to be recognized by tlie under 

 surface of the hindwings which is of a light grey marked with beautiful brown dciitated lines and has before 

 the apex a beautiful double-eyespot encircled by yellow, wliicli is followed by -1 or 3 smaller ones towards the 

 anal angle. Southern Ontral America and South America as far as Ecuador and the Amazon. The ^ is 

 traher similar to the ,^, the distal part of the forew^ings of a darker colour. Nowhere common. 



E. brunnea 8alv. (99 f). Pretty large, above similar to a cantlis ( 100 B b). dark Ijiowii, aj)cx r.nd an iinnun;,. 

 indistinct oblic[ue liand beyond the cell silky lighter Ijrown. Basal part of the wings with a dull violet reflec- 

 tion. Markings of the under surface of the hindwings: dark brown hues on a lighter l)rown ground. Before the 

 apex a beautiful double-eyespot with a metallic blm' nucleus, above the n iddle median vein a smaller, below 

 it a larger ring-eye. In the subcostal area 2 comma-like stieaks. one more at the closing of the cell, and 

 about 2 — 3 mm before the margin a submarginal line. Bolivia and Peru. 



E. nioninia. There are 4 forms of l)utterflies, obviously neaily allied, but quite easily (list inguisjiable. 

 So far there are 3 names existing foi' them: nionitmi, iiiodesta, pusiJla. As all the de^ciiptions are so inexact 

 that they are adaptable to all the 3 name-;, and as the only figure {monirna with(JpAMEE) is. according to God- 

 man and Salvik, ,, everything else but good", the names have now been assigned to one form, now to the othci', 

 and often even — at least partially ■ — united (I)yar, Godman and Salvin). I should like to distinguisli now 

 the following forms, the appearance of which is to be established by the figures of the four, monima Cr. imniniKi. 

 (= myrto Godt.) (100 A b) I take to be the smaller- form from Cuba, which was several times wrongly deno- 

 minated pusilla (this latter form does not occur at all in Cuba). It is nearly entirely witlujut any reflection, 

 the spots more or less dull, and the sam.e specimens as are found in Cuba, also fly in Florida, Mexico and 

 Yucatan. — habanae fomi.. nov. (100 Ac) likewise flies in Cuba, but is probably a season-form of monima, for IkiIkhkic. 

 a whole series lies before me without transitions. It is always larger, the blue reflection considerably stronger 

 and the under surface brighter though not differently marked. — modesta Bates (100 A b) may then be called modrsiii. 

 the form flying from Guatemala to Colombia. The (^rj have a strong blue reflection, but are without spots 

 on the upper sui'face; size like monima; $ below rather brightly marked. — pusilla Bates (100 A b) might be the imsilhi. 

 tiny butterfly which in some districts where modesta is missing, seems to rejjlace it. It has hardly the size t)f 

 a Lycaena icarus and no reflection; by far the smallest Eunica. The figured sjiecimen comes from the Colom- 

 bian Province of St. Marta and may be especially small ; but Godman and Salvin mention jmsilla from Pa- 

 nama which is not very distant, whereas the genuine pusilla is presumably absent in Cuba. 



E. macris Godt. (100 Ad) immediately recognizable by the dusty yellowish-grey colour- of the upper- imurls. 

 surface. In typical macris the apex of the forewing is mostly black with a number of white spots, the hind- 

 wings have, in front of the irregularly dentated submarginal band, generally a i-ow of 4 — 5 dark dots cor- 

 responding to the pupils of the ocelli on the very rrruch white-mixed under .surface of the hindwings. Occurs 

 in Central and Southern Brazil (Bahia, Espiritu Santo); near Rio de Janeiro, however, the species does not 

 occur. Further to the south it frequently reappears in Paraguay, the (^ ftyi'ig there in two forms: one not to 

 be separated from the northerrr form from the Anrazoii valley having a dark white-spotted apex of the forewing 

 and a uniformly dusty -grey ground-colour of the under surface of the hindwings; and a second one with a 

 drab apex of the forewing, little contrasting to the discus, -with dots partly overshadowed in brown; with this 

 form we might coimect the name ab. aeschrion Frvhst. (100 Ad), brrt the ground-colour of the forew ings is lusiiu-hn,. 

 just as often lighter as darker than that of typical macris. This foi-m nearly always lacks the row of dark dots 

 on the upper surface of the hindwings. — heraclitus Poey (100 Ad) is the Cuban form: it is coloured the licraiiiius. 

 most brightest of all, the forewings below the apex the most strongly angled, the dots orr the hindwings large 

 and distinct, the upiJei- surface of the wirrgs also often marked irr the discus with dark dentate-lines. Between 

 this arrd typical macris stands phasis Fldr. reaching from Colomliia to the south of the Amazon; according to plidsis. 

 Felder it has the nrore strongly angled nrargin of the for-ewings of the Cuban forrrr, as well as its size, but the 

 colour-irrg of the Southerrr Braziliarrs. — On the whole, large ser-ies show that both the ground-colour and the 

 grey or black apex va,vy a great deal in the same district arrd the denominations much rather signify aberratiorrs 

 than being names of special races. 



E. margarita Godt. (lOOAd). At orrce noticeable by the ))t'ar-l-gr-ey ground-colour. The hindwings iniin/dri/a. 

 exhibit black marginal-chains, the forewings a white oblique baird and in the black apical part thr-ec white 

 little spots. A southerrr animal. Typical margarita are conrnrorr irr the nrost southern parts of Brazil, arrd the 

 specinren described first seems to come froirr Porto-Alegre ; in specirrrerrs from there, the apical baird of the 

 forewings is strarrgulated on the rrrediarr. If one travels only some horrr-s to the north, to Sao Leopoldo, one already 

 firrds preponderantly specimens in which the distal mar-gin of the silver-grey basal area penetrates like an im- 

 nrense triangular tooth into the white band of the forewing, not orrly like a snrall ])oirrt as showrr in the figure. 



