394 Mr. Osbert Salvin on 



3. Clothilda euryale. 



Argynnis euryale, Klug, Neue Schm. Mus. Berl. p. 2, 

 pi. ii. f. 1, 2 (1836). 



Clothilda euryale, Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. i. 156, 

 pi. 21, f. 4. 



Anelia thirza, Hiibn. Ex. Schm. iii. pi. 24. 



Hah, — Mexico (Deppe; Fenochio) ; Guatemala {Salvin 

 and Godman) . In Mus. Salv. and Godm. 



The specimens from which Klug took his original de- 

 scription were collected by Deppe, through whose exer- 

 tions the Berlin Museum owes, in a great measure, its 

 extensive series of the natural productions of Mexico. 

 Deppe^s discoveries, however, have so long remained 

 unnoticed in the stores of that Institution, that the ma- 

 jority of the species have since been rediscovered by 

 more recent explorers, and thus the fruits of his expedi- 

 tion have been fore-stalled. The present species, how- 

 ever, escaped the fate of many others, and was described 

 by Klug as long ago as 1836. 



The species is not uncommon in the highland districts 

 of Guatemala. On one occasion, in the mouth of Sep- 

 tember, I captured several specimens which were flying 

 lazily about the foot of a precipice reeking with moisture 

 in the high mountains above the old Indian town of 

 Quiche. The altitude of this spot is about 8000 feet 

 above the sea level. It also occurred in the ravines of 

 the Volcan de Fuego, at an elevation of about 7000 feet; 

 and in the mountains surrounding the Plain of Salama, 

 in Yera Paz, at an elevation of 4000 feet. Specimens 

 have also been forwarded to us from the northern slopes 

 of the mountains of Alta Yera Paz, below the village of 

 San Christobal. 



As in G. pantherata, the male of this species does not 

 differ in coloration from the female ; it is, however, 

 smaller, and has the anterior wings more pointed. 



4. Clothilda insignis, sp. n. 



C. alis fuscis, anticis supra et subtus rubro-maculatis; 

 posticis fuscis, ochraceo late transfasciatis. 



