EUNICA. By Dr. ^■ Skitz. 487 



E. anna Cr. The forewings rather pointy, the basal half in the ,3 with a brigiit blue refleetiun and miiiii. 

 in the ^ dull-brown spots in the apical area, 3 of them pass by in a row in an oblique direction behind tlie cell, 

 coming together before the apex and forming an oblique stain. Beneath the scheme of markings in the distal 

 area of the hinclwings resembles that of brunnea (99 f), but the streaks are thicker and in the proximal part there 

 is a large dark four-cornered spot at the middle of the costa and a thick dark comma-like streak under it. Cim- 

 siderably smaller than brunnen, the eyes of the under surface of the hindwings, however, similar. 



E. sophonisba Cr. (100 A d). ,^ black with magnificent blue band at the margin of the hindwings, which ■ini,ii,nii.-<h,i. 

 laps over on the anal part of the forewings; $ of a steel-green gloss with white oblitpie band of the forewino-s. 

 Much more characteristic, however, is the under surface; light or metal-blue, with very complicated black 

 markings; peculiar is an ochreous ray through the centre of the hindwings, which looks as if faded or like 

 an artificial change of colour. In typical (Guiana-) specimens the blue of the hindwings runs in the q from the 

 margin jiroximally till over the centre and is therefore very broad; in the $ the white oblique band at its proxi- 

 mal margin above the lower cell-angle projects proximally in the sliape of a bow, and in both the sexes the 

 ground-colour of the under surface is quite light bluish-grey. — In agele fonii. nov. (100 A e) (= sophonisba "(/'■'''. 

 Stgr.), from the Upper Amazon (Humaj'ta, Icjuitos) and Colombia, the blue band of the hindwings of the (J 

 occupies scarcely more than ';, of the hindwing, tiie oblique band of the $ runs more pointy, the white protu- 

 berance at the cell-end is diminished, the ground-colour of the under surface e.specially in the q nuich darker, 

 bluish-green, the ray in the hindwings brown instead of yellow (sophoiiisbe, as it says in the table, is a mis- 

 print). 



E. chlorochroa Salv. (100 A e). On the under surface this species is almost exactly like sojihoiiishu. but rhlomrJo-nd. 

 above the distal half of the hindwings is not blue in the q, but steel-green, and this colour has a bright whi- 

 tish-grey gloss in the sun. North-Eastern Peru. 



E. mira Godm. and Salv. (100 A e). On the under surface of the hindwings the basal brown here likew'ise inh-a. 

 continues, like a thick ray, through the bluish-green hindwing towards the margin, but does not quite reach it. 

 The upper surface of the (unknown) (J is certainly black with a broad metallic margin of the hindwings; the 9 

 has .steel-green, black-spotted forewings with white subapical band, and dark hindwings. The species is only 

 known to me from the figures in the Biologia Centrali-Americana, of which I give a copy. Panama. 



E. norica Heic. (lOOBa). Forewings under the apex geniculated, upper surface black, the hindwings nm-ifK. 

 with a broad blue reflection in the distal area. The under surface with very bright violet-brown and brownish- 

 black markings is at once to be noticed from the figure. The $ has on its brown upper surface a white obliciue ^ ^ 

 band which is widely discontinued behind the cell. Typical norica come from Chanchamayo in Peru; a smaller 

 form with more reddish-hued under suiface comes from Bolivia (Oroya), seems to be more of a mountainous 

 form and was separated as occia Fruhst. (100 B a). The species is apparently comilion where it occurs. orda. 



E. mygdonia Godf. (lOOAc). This rather large Eunica, occurring in great numbers in some years mni/diniin. 

 near Rio de Jancizd and then frecpiently seen on the C'orcovado, the Tijuca, at the foot of the Orgel Moun- 

 tains, coming even into the gardens of Sa. Thcreza, as far as Botafogo and into the Botanical Garden, in order 

 to disappear almost entirely for years, has a unicolorous dark upper surface with 5 quite effaced little spots 

 in the distal area of the forewing. It has a characteristic under surface which is easily seen from the figure 

 and only varies in the tinge of the colouring. The $ has a white oblique band on the forewing and 2 little 

 subapical spots. If Godman and Salvin have correctly construed this species (against which there are many 

 arguments), annn Btlr. and Dru-. would coincide with it and the range would be very great reaching from Gua- 

 temala to Ecuador in the west und Southern Brazil in the east. 



E. augusta Bat. (100 A f). ^ above black, the basal half of the forewings with a magnificent bright (Kuinstn. 

 metallic-blue reflection the intensity of which in sunshine reaches up to that of many a Morpho. Before the 

 apex of the forewing a white oblique band which is double as broad in the $ as in the J, the upper surface 

 of the wings being here, however, steel-green almost as far as the margin. The species is at once recognizable 

 by the dentated margin of the wings which is otherwise only noticed in caelina, and by the bark-like marked 

 under surface of the wings. Typical augnsla originate from Central America and are not rare there. The figure 

 in Staudinc;er's Exotic Day-Butterflies is the narrow-banded Colombia-form going in the north as far as 

 Costa Rica. The fringes are white-speckled. — olympias FIdr. (100 A f) has less blue on the forewing and the tjli/iiipi"-'^- 

 white oblicpie band is missing alt-Qgether in the ^. The under surface is almost exactly as in iragiisfa. but the 

 hindwings are less deeply dentatecband the fringes not so bright white-speckled. Likewise Colombia. 



E. caelina Godf. ( lOO B b). Hindwings above and beneath almost exactly as in the preceding, also so ra<lhi<i. 

 deeply dentated; but the forewings more ultramarine blue than cyan-blue, upjier surface with 3 separated 

 white subapical spots, beneath there runs through the forewing from the costal centre towards the anal angle, 

 a broad wiiite oblique band strongly covered with brown in the 1^. Southern Brazil. — alycia Fruhst., founded iil/jrin. 

 upon 1 (J and which has not been lying before me, from the Upper Amazon, is said to be considei-ably larger, 

 the forewings much lighter violet, the hindwings lighter brown, the white clots on the forewings more diffuse, 

 under surface of hindwings with more white markings. Local and not common. 



E. caresa He/r. (100 B b, d). \'ery nearly the largest species of the genus; the forewings below the mrrsa. 



