236 NYMPHALID^E. 



wings of the male is strongly glossed with a purple hue ; in this variety, or species, the eosta is glossed with bright blue. It differs also 

 in entirely wanting the brown discoidal mark above in the male, and in having only a very slight trace of it in the female, and below, 

 though present ; this mark is much less distinct than in the true type of Eub. Athemon. Eub. Meeon wants the discoidal mark in both 

 sexes, and has the black border rather wider in the male than in the female. The female has scarcely any blue on the costa. Some copies 

 of Plate 30., by an error of the colourer, have unfortunately this discoidal mark, represented as it is in the females of the variety of Eub. 

 Athemon ; an error I did not discover until after the copies had been sent out. I propose to give the name Myrrhina to the species figured 

 by Boisduval, which is very distinct from any other. Of this I only know the male, which has the anterior and outer margin of the 

 anterior wings bordered with black, this border deeply sinuated internally ; the sinus, towards the anal angle, being much deeper and more 

 angular than is represented in the figure. The posterior wings are pure white, with only a very slender suhmarginal black line. This 

 insect is nearly allied to Eub. Ceenus, but this latter species has the border less sinuate internally, and marked with a larger oval white spot 

 near the costa. The females of Eub. Ceenus have almost precisely the colouring of Eub. Agacles, but always have a considerable gloss of 

 blue on the costa of the anterior wings, which never exists in Eub. Agacles. There is also a difference in the neuration of the wing ; the 

 first and second subcostal nervules being much nearer together in this species than in Eub. Agacles. 



Of the species I have called Eub. Myrson I have only seen a female, and it is just possible, not probable, that it may be the female of 

 Eub. Mvrrhina. It is fully as large as the largest females of Eub. Athemon, from which it differs in having the discoidal band united to 

 the costal border by a band which traverses the cell, and to the outer border by a black streak which follows the third median nervule. It 

 also differs from Eub. Athemon in having the first subcostal nervule actually anastomosing with the costal nervure. 



