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the hindwing exhibits a beautiful double-eyespot before the apex and from the costa there runs a short an- 
terior and a long posterior brown marginal spot to the interior of the wing. Above the blue reflection is 
especially bright in the distal half of the hindwings. From the Amazon, Iquitos, Tapajoz and so on. 
E. malvina Bates (100 Ac). Larger than the preceding, upper surface brown, without distinct re- 
flection, the spots on the forewings only noticeable as large dull stains. Easily to be recognized by the under 
surface of the hindwings which is of a light grey marked with beautiful brown dentated lines and has before 
the apex a beautiful double-eyespot encircled by yellow, which is followed by 2 or 3 smaller ones towards the 
anal angle. Southern Central America and South America as far as Ecuador and the Amazon. The Q is 
traher similar to the 3, the distal part of the forewings of a darker colour. Nowhere common. 
E. brunnea Salv. (99f). Pretty large, above similar to a caralis (100 Bb), dark brown, apex and an 
indistinct oblique band beyond the cell silky lighter brown. Basal part of the wings with a dull violet reflec- 
tion. Markings of the under surface of the hindwings: dark brown lines on a lighter brown ground. Before the 
apex a beautiful double-eyespot with a metallic blue nucleus, above the middle median vein a smaller, below 
it a larger rimg-eye. In the subcostal area 2 comma-like streaks, one more at the closing of the cell, and 
about 2—3 mm before the margin a submarginal line. Bolivia and Peru. 
E. monima. There are 4 forms of butterflies, obviously nearly allied, but quite easily distinguishable. 
So far there are 3 names existing for them: monima, modesta, pusilla. As all the descriptions are so inexact 
that they are adaptable to all the 3 names, and as the only figure (monima with CRAMER) is, according to Gop- 
MAN and SALvIy, ,,everything else but good‘, the names have now been assigned to one form, now to the other, 
and often even — at least partially — united (Dyan, GopMaAN and Satyin). I should like to distinguish now 
the following forms, the appearance of which is to be established by the figures of the four. monima Cr. 
(= myrto Godt.) (100 Ab) I take to be the smaller form from Cuba, which was several times wrongly deno- 
minated pvsilla (this latter form does not occur at all in Cuba). It is nearly entirely without any reflection, 
the spots more or less dull, and the same specimens as are found in Cuba, also fly in Florida, Mexico and 
Yucatan. — habanae form. nov. (100 A c) likewise flies in Cuba, but is probably a season-form of monima, for 
a whole series lies before me without transitions. It is always larger, the blue reflection considerably stronger 
and the under surface brighter though not differently marked. — modesta Bates (100 A b) may then be called 
the form flying from Guatemala to Colombia. The gg have a strong blue reflection, but are without spots 
on the upper surface; size like monima; 2 below rather brightly marked. — pusilla Bates (100 A b) might be the 
tiny butterfly which in some districts where modesta is missing, seems to replace it. It has hardly the size of 
a Lycaena icarus and no reflection; by far the smallest Hunica. The figured specimen comes from the Colom- 
bian Province of St. Marta and may be especially small; but Gopmawn and Satvin mention pusilla from Pa- 
nama which is not very distant, whereas the genuine pusilla is presumably absent in Cuba. 
E. macris Godt. (100 Ad) immediately recognizable by the dusty yellowish-grey colour of the upper 
surface. In typical macris the apex of the forewing is mostly black with a number of white spots, the hind- 
wings have, in front of the irregularly dentated submarginal band, generally a row of 4—5 dark dots cor- 
responding to the pupils of the ocelli on the very much white-mixed under surface of the hindwings. Occurs 
in Central and Southern Brazil (Bahia, Espiritu Santo); near Rio de Janeiro, however, the species does not 
occur. Further to the south it frequently reappears in Paraguay, the g flying there in two forms: one not to 
be separated from the northern form from the Amazon valley having a dark white-spotted apex of the forewing 
and a uniformly dusty-grey ground-colour of the under surface of the hindwings; and a second one with a 
drab apex of the forewing, little contrasting to the discus, with dots partly overshadowed in brown; with this 
form we might connect the name ab. aeschrion Fruhst. (100 Ad), but the ground-colour of the forewings is 
just as often lighter as darker than that of typical macris. This form nearly always lacks the row of dark dots 
on the upper surface of the hindwings. — heraclitus Poey (100 Ad) is the Cuban form; it is coloured the 
most brightest of all, the forewings below the apex the most strongly angled, the dots on the hindwings large 
and distinct, the upper surface of the wings also often marked in the discus with dark dentate-lines. Between 
this and typical macris stands phasis F/dr. reaching from Colombia to the south of the Amazon; according to 
FELDER it has the more strongly angled margin of the forewings of the Cuban form, as well as its size, but the 
colouring of the Southern Brazilians. — On the whole, large series show that both the ground-colour and the 
grey or black apex vary a great deal in the same district and the denominations much rather signify aberrations 
than being names of special races. 
E. margarita Godt. (100 Ad). At once noticeable by the pearl-grey ground-colour. The hindwings 
exhibit black marginal-chains, the forewings a white oblique band and in the black apical part three white 
little spots. A southern animal. Typical margarita are common in the most southern parts of Brazil, and the 
specimen described first seems to come from Porto-Alegre; in specimens from there, the apical band of the 
forewings is strangulated on the median. If one travels only some hours to the north, to Sao Leopoldo, one already 
finds preponderantly specimens in which the distal margin of the silver-grey basal area penetrates like an im- 
mense triangular tooth into the white band of the forewing, not only like a small point as shown in the figure. 
malvind. 
brunnea. 
monima. 
habanae. 
modesta. 
pusilla. 
macris. 
aeschrion. 
heraclilus. 
phasis. 
margarita. 
