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the forewings have before the apical third not three separated white spots, but a broad white obhque band 

 proximally bordered witli bhie reflection. Colombia, Amazon. — The name oreandra Fruhst. denotes Peruvian on-andra. 

 specimens in which the blue reflection is more brightly and decoratively prominent tlian in the northern affinities. 



E. clytia Heio. (100 B e). Compared with the preceding, plainly coloured and with hardly any decora- rli/i'in. 

 tions. cT above dark-brown with uniform violet reflection, $ brown with 5 white spots standing in 2 oblique 

 rows. Under surface of hindwings plain ashy grey, the dentate-lines and eye-rings formed of plain dark streaks. 

 Peru, Rio ^Madeira and Upper Amazon. 



E. veronica Bates (100 Be) likewise from tlie Amazon, lia-s tlie same size and about the same colours nronii-n. 

 as rh/ti(i, but the markings of the hindwings being beneath unicolorous yellowish ash-grey are still more reduced. 



E. violetta Stgr. (100 B d). As the description of this species by the author refers to the figure, spoci- i-inlHin. 

 mens corresponding exactly to it are, however, not lying before me, I bring a copy of 8taudixger's figure 

 which is said to be painted according to 2 not quite sound ^^ and, therefore, may be inexact. The $ is not 

 described. Pebas. — Maybe it is only a form of viola Bates also originating from Pebas, which would tlius form rUilu. 

 the type of the name; although the latter has a more reddish-coloured under sin-face, and red markings, yet 

 the design of both is the same. On the upper surface of viola the small light s])ots in the apical area are covered 

 up with dark, or missing altogether, aiul the bluish-violet reflection is less; these differences also occur in 

 clijtia and veronica and are only individual there. Teffe, Pebas. 



E. eurota. (J above black with blue reflection of magnificent splendour, extending in a broad band 

 along the costal margin of the forewings and reaching, in the shape of a glossy oval, proximally convex, from 

 the margin of the hindwings as far as almost to the cell-end. The $ is dark-brown with a white oblicpie band 

 of the forewing and often white jii'eapical spots in addition. The under surface of the hindwings is compara- 

 tively very plainly marked: a submarginal cucullated line, a median line tiu'ning almost rectangularly round 

 the cell, between both above one double eye-ring and below it 2 or 3 single ones. The range is very great so 

 that numerous sub-forms have been distinguished which, however, were mixed up several times. • — The 

 mo.st southern is eupheniia Godf. (= dolores Prittn'., alcmene Boenningh.) from Southern Brazil, which chiefly cuphcniid. 

 distinguishes itself by the very dark, almost black under surface of the hindwings. Espiritu Santo and Rio 

 de Janeiro, in the alpine districts. — eurota Or. (100 B e) from Surinam to Colombia, is lighter and somewhat ciirt>l,i. 

 smaller, but the blue iridescent stripes of the upper surface are broader and more lu.strous, especially those 

 on tlie hindwing. — flora Fldr. is the race occurring from the Upper Amazon as far as up to Peru. The blue of //cm. 

 the hindwings in the (J does not reach cpiite to the margin, and in the $ there are yet 2 small subapical 

 sjjots behind the white oblique band. The animals vary exceedingly, and from the Chanchamayo there 

 are lighter and darker specimens lying before me, more or less blue decorated; those with a lighter under 

 surface have been branched off as a form of the UjDper Amazon, myrthis Fruhst. — theophania Fruhst. is smaller myrthh. 

 than flora, in the ^ the bands are more subdued, more violet, those on the hindwing broader. Under surface "■"/"«'"«• 

 reddish instead of brown or grey with light spots in the distal area of the forewing. A $ is mentioned having 

 the white band of the forewings dissolved into 3 spots what may be constant for this form the habitat of 

 which is on the Middle Amazon (Manaos). 



E. alcmena. This magnificent .species has in the ^ above a blue costal-marginal stripe, which is some- 

 times continued even at the di.stal margin, and a blue marginal band of the hindwings; the $ brown with a white 

 oblique band of the forewing. Chara-cteristic is the under surface. Here there is, near the base in the cell and 

 above it, a velvet-brown spot; near the costal margin, behind tlie middle of the wings, a large eye-sjjot, encircled 

 by yellow and with two pupils; (j)roxiraally) before this 2 arch-like stripes touching each other, the lower one 

 lying on the transverse vein ; from this lower one a brown shadowy outline runs rectangularly to the inner margin 

 and beyond this line there is an eye-spot, to which sometimes another small accessory eye-spot adheres. 

 Before the hindwing-margin a dark shadowy outline. Furthermore the alcmena-^ is distinguished by the place, 

 where the first median vein branches off from the median principal vein (near the base of the forewing), sho- 

 wing also on the under surface a blue iridescent sjjot. alcmena DM. and Hew. (lOOBe, f) flies from Mexico nlcuinia. 

 to Panama. Here the blue stripe of the costal margin is at the cell-end somewhat overpowdered by the dark 

 ground-colour and thereby strangulated or even interrupted; it ends in a thick wedge before the ajjex without 

 extending any further along the margin. — • amata Druce from Costa Rica resembles in the male sex pretty atiKild. 

 much the typical alcmena, the $ I do not know. In the (^(^ — ■ certainly also in the $ ■ — the eye-rings on the 

 under surface are (according to Deuce) smaller, above the blue is considerably more abundant and more violet. 

 • — • pomona Fldr. (100 Bf) which may be a species of its own (there are, however, transitions of it to alcmena pomona. 

 lying before me, from the Chiriqui), shows the blue costal-marginal stripe bent round before the apex and follo- 

 wing the margin to the anal angle, but sometimes with attenuations or slight interruptions bcliind the cell. 

 Costa Rica to Colombia and Venezuela, varying in almost every locality. • — Such a local form is pompata Fruhst. pomiiaUt. 

 with more blue than violet stripes; the under surface darker, all the ocelli of the hindwings smaller, surrounded 

 by a softer yellow, the dark submarginal band more prominent. Colombia. — irma Friihst. (100 B f) has deci- hum. 

 dedly the loveliest c^cj ($ not at hand); a band of magnificent blue lustre in the sunshine runs from the base 

 of the forewings as far as before the apex, where it makes a broad bend going as far as into the anal 

 angle. The band of the hindwing is broader, but somewhat shorter, otherwise like in alcmena. Under surface 

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