NYMPHALIMI EPICALIA AND MYSCELIA. 



of both wings, chocolate, darkest near the band ; the wing below the band red- 

 brown. 



Expan. -— in. Hab. River Amazon. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



Epicalia Salacia is much like E. Nyctiinus Westwood, of the Diurnal Lepidoptera. 



On the underside of the posterior wing of E. Nyctimus, which Mr. Westwood has not described, 

 there is no band of orange as in E Salacia, but from the base to beyond the middle, and on the apex and 

 anal angle, it is of a chocolate colour, clouded and undulated with fine lines of red-brown, the rest of the 

 vi n o- red-brown. 



MYSCELIA SAMARIA. 3. 



Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing, with the apex and most of the outer mar- 

 gin broadly ferruginous ; a horizontal line at the base, an oblong spot beyond it, another 

 on the middle of the costa, and a transverse band commencing on the middle of the wing 

 in two oval spots, and ending above the middle of the inner margin of the posterior 

 wing, yellow. Posterior wing, with a submarginal line and a carved belt of seven oblong 

 spots between it and the centi'al band, also yellow. 



Underside. Anterior wing nearly as above, but lighter. Posterior wing with a 

 large central patch of brown. Above it a broad transverse band of yellow to a black line 

 which crosses the wing near the base ; the base above the line chocolate, with a minute 

 black spot. Below the central patch several indistinct round white spots dotted with 

 black : between them and the outer margin rufous brown. 



Expan. 2j^ in. Hab. Rio de Janeiro. 



In the Collection of W. 0. Hewitson. 



This remarkable butterfly, the only one which I have seen, was sent me from Rio de Janeiro by 

 Mr. Reeves. 



The first two sections of Doubleday's genus, Myscelia, contain this and several nearly allied species, 

 but seem to me to have little relation to the other sections of that genus, and less with the other genera, 

 near which he has placed them in the genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera. 



I have made use of Boisduval's genus Myscelia, as it was intended by him to contain the insects of 

 these two sections only, which form a very natural group, and though placed by Mr. Doubleday at a dis- 

 tance from Epicalia, bears such close affinity to it, that they might very well form one genus. 



