378 MR. H. W. BATES — CATALOGUE OF EBTCINIDiE. 



spots, edged on the inner side with black triangular spots, the 4th 

 being much larger, and the space between them and the hind margin 

 orange tawny. 



Palpi and legs tawny yellow ; face tawny yellow, with a black central 

 stripe. 



$ . 1" 8'". Fore wing subtriangular, with slightly produced apex, as 

 in c?. Hind wing not elongated, broadly rounded, with festooned 

 margin. Above light brown. Beneath light lilacine brown ; wings 

 crossed beyond the middle by a straight rusty-brown streak, and near 

 the margin by a broad undefined brown stripe, after which, on the fore 

 wing, is a row of very slender dusky angulated lines, and on the hind 

 wing a row of black mostly triangular spots, the fourth of which is 

 much larger than the others. 



Face white ; palpi, tibia3, and tarsi orange-yellow. 



Hab. St. Paulo, Upper Amazons. 



EURYGONA VIOLETTA. 



(^ . I" 3"'. Allied to E. Arbas, Cram. pi. 379. Smaller; hind wings 

 shorter. Above blackish brown, fore wing with a large rounded glossy 

 blue patch in the middle of the outer border ; hind wing with a streak 

 of similar colovir along the abdominal edge, widening at the anal 

 angle, the blue gloss seen only in certain lights. Beneath rusty 

 reddish brown, lighter towards the inner margin of the fore wing ; 

 wings crossed in the middle by an oi-ange stripe, edged on each side 

 with brown, and biflexuous on the hind wing. The hind wing has a 

 submarginal row of acute spear-shaped orange streaks, each arising 

 from a black spot, and in the middle of them a large blue-black 

 ocellus ; exterior to these is a brown continuous submarginal line. 



Palpi and legs tawny ; face brown, margined with yellow. 



Hab. Forests of the Tapajos. 



Themone pcecila. 



c5'. 1" 7"- Same size and shape as T. Pais; hind wing with the outer 

 margin regularly rounded and festooned, with white fringe in the 

 sinuses. Above black ; a broad orange belt near the base, commencing 

 within the cell of fore wing and extending to the abdominal margin of 

 hind wing; an oval testaceous-yellow spot across the disk of fore 

 wing beyond the middle, and a smaller one on the hind wing half- 

 way between the orange basal belt and the outer margin. 



Beneath, the same, except that there are a white apical spot and several 

 marginal ones on the fore wings. Body, antennae, and legs blackish. 



Hab. Ega. 



Cham^limnas I^ris. 



cJ & 5 . 1" 6'". Fore wing elongate, broadly rounded at apex; hind 

 wing short, anal angle not passing the tip of the abdomen. Above 

 black, fore wing crossed by an oblique yellow belt of imiform width 



