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7. E. Obeba, Butler, pi. 1, fig. 7. 



Cist. Ent. £, p. 19, n 1 (1870). 



Habitat unknown. g , Coll. Druce. 



The colouring of the under-surface in this insect is very similar to 

 that of the species belonging to the Neonympha group of the genus 

 Taygetis : the species comes nearest to E. nebulosa, from which it may 

 be at once distinguished by its greater size, the more slender central 

 lines, and different ocellation af the under-surface. 



Before leaving Euptychia, I wish to correct one or two errors 

 which the re-examination of types and the comparison of longer series 

 of species than were formerly at my command have discovered to me. 



The true type of E. similis, described in my monograph in the 

 Zoological Proceedings for 1866, proves to be a modification of E. 

 Themis, described and figured in the supplement to my monograph 

 (P. Z. S., 1867 ; pi. xii, fig. 13) ; whilst E. similis of the supplement, 

 figured (pi. xii, fig. 10) from an example in the British Museum collec- 

 tion, proves to be a distinct species, which may now take the name of 

 E. JJndina. 



Euptychia Pieria (Monogr., "p." 3<63, n. 13 ; pi. xxxix, fig. 3) is, iu 

 all probability, a variety of E. usitata (Monogr., p. 463, n. 11, pi. 

 xxxix, fig. 2). 



Family EBTGINIDJE, Westwood. 



Sub-Family ERYCININ.E, Bates. 



Genus Ntmphidium, Fabrieius. 



JNymphidium lilina, n. sp., pi. 1, fig. 8. 



$ . Front-wings above dark cupreous, intersected by greyish nervures ; the 

 basal area striolated with violet scales : a broad oblique snow-white patch upon the 

 costa beyond the discoidal cell, and terminating (upon the second median branch) in 

 two black spots : the anal half of the inner margin irregularly white ; a sub- 

 marginal chain-like series of violet ring-spots, terminating (upon the white internal 

 area) in two black spots ; fringe white, black-varied : hind-wings snow-white ; base 

 copper-brown ; three sub-marginal black spots near the apex : body brown, 

 abdomen ochraceous. 



Wings below nearly as above; the copper-brown replaced by dull brown, 

 which, in some lights, shows a cupreous reflection; the violet markings replaced 

 by white ; hind-wings with seven sub-marginal black spots ; base olivaceous, 

 bounded upon the costa by two black spots ; a brown patch upon the costa near 

 the apex. Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 9 lines. 



Mexico. $ , one example, Coll. B. M. 



This very beautiful species was presented to the National Collec- 

 tion by the late Edward Doubleday, Esq. ; it is perfectly unique in 

 pattern, and comes near to no described species of the genus. 

 British Museum, February, 1870. 



