EUNICA. By Dr. A. Szirz. 487 
E. anna Cr. The forewings rather pointy, the basal half in the ¢ with a bright blue reflection and anna. 
in the 3 dull-brown spots in the apical area, 3 of them pass by in a row in an oblique direction behind the cell, 
coming together before the apex and forming an oblique stain. Beneath the scheme of markings in the distal 
area of the hindwings resembles that of brunnea (99 f), but the streaks are thicker and in the proximal part there 
is a large dark four-cornered spot at the middle of the costa and a thick dark comma-like streak under it. Con- 
siderably smaller than brunnea, the eyes of the under surface of the hindwings, however, similar. 
E. sophonisba Cr. (100 Ad). 3 black with magnificent blue band at the margin of the hindwings, which sophonisba. 
laps over on the anal part of the forewings; 9 of a steel-green gloss with white oblique band of the forewings. 
Much more characteristic, however, is the under surface: light or metal-blue, with very complicated black 
markings; peculiar is an ochreous ray through the centre of the hindwings, which looks as if faded or like 
an artificial change of colour. In typical (Guiana-) specimens the blue of the hindwings runs in the ¢ from the 
margin proximally till over the centre and is therefore very broad; in the 2 the white oblique band at its proxi- 
mal margin above the lower cell-angle projects proximally in the shape of a bow, and in both the sexes the 
ground-colour of the under surface is quite light bluish-grey. — In agele form. nov. (100 A e) (= sophonisha agele. 
Stgr.), from the Upper Amazon (Humayta, Iquitos) and Colombia, the blue band of the hindwings of the ¢ 
occupies scarcely more than 14 of the hindwing, the oblique band of the, 2 runs more pointy, the white protu- 
berance at the cell-end is diminished, the ground-colour of the under surface especially in the ¢ much darker, 
bluish-green, the ray in the hindwings brown instead of yellow (sophonisbe, as it says in the table, is a mis- 
print). 
E. chlorochroa Salv. (100 Ae). On the under surface this species is almost exactly like sophonisba, but chlorochroa. 
above the distal half of the hindwings is not blue in the 3, but steel-green, and this colour has a bright whi- 
tish-grey gloss in the sun. North-Eastern Peru. 
E. mira Godm. and Salv. (100 Ae). On the under surface of the hindwings the basal brown here likewise mira. 
continues, like a thick ray, through the bluish-green hindwing towards the margin, but does not quite reach it. 
The upper surface of the (unknown) ¢ is certainly black with a broad metallic margin of the hindwings; the ° 
has steel-green, black-spotted forewings with white subapical band, and dark hindwings. The species is only 
known to me from the figures in the Biologia Centrali-Americana, of which I give a copy. Panama. 
E. norica Hew. (100 Ba). Forewings under the apex geniculated, upper surface black, the hindwings norica. 
with a broad blue reflection in the distal area. The under surface with very bright violet-brown and brownish- 
black markings is at once to be noticed from the figure. The 9 has on its brown upper surface a white oblique 
band which is widely discontinued behind the cell. Typical norzca come from Chanchamayo in Peru; a smaller 
form with more reddish-hued under surface comes from Bolivia (Oroya), seems to be more of a mountainous 
form and was separated as occia Fruhst. (100 Ba). The species is apparently common where it occurs. occia. 
E. mygdonia Godt. (100 Ac). This rather large Hunica, occurring in great numbers in some years mygdonia. 
near Rio de Janeiro and then frequently seen on the Corcovado, the Tijuca, at the foot of the Orgel Moun- 
tains, coming even into the gardens of Sa. Thereza, as far as Botafogo and into the Botanical Garden, in order 
to disappear almost entirely for years, has a unicolorous dark upper surface with 5 quite effaced little spots 
in the distal area of the forewing. It has a characteristic under surface which is easily seen from the figure 
and only varie in the tinge of the colouring. The @ has a white oblique band on the forewing and 2 2 little 
subapical spots. If GopMaAN and Satvrn have correctly construed this species (against which fers are many 
arguments), anna Btlr. and Dru. would coincide with it and the range would be very great reaching from Gua- 
temala to Ecuador in the west und Southern Brazil in the east. : 
E. augusta Bat. (100 Af). 3g above black, the basal half of the forewings with a magnificent bright augusta. 
metallic-blue reflection the intensity of which in sunshine reaches up to that of many a Morpho. Before the 
apex of the forewing a white oblique band which is double as broad in the 9 as in the 3, the upper surface 
of the wings being here, however, steel-green almost as far as the margin. The species is at once recognizable 
by the dentated margin of the wings which is otherwise only noticed in caelina, and by the bark-like marked 
under surface of the wings. Typical augusta originate from Central America and are not rare there. The figure 
in Stavprvcer’s Exotic Day-Butterflies is the narrow-banded Colombia-form going in the north as far as 
Costa Rica. ain cage are white-speckled. — olympias Fidr. (100 A f) has less blue on the forewing and the olympias. 
white oblique ban® is missing altogether in the 3. The under surface is almost exactly as in augusta, but the 
hindwings are less deeply dentated and the fringes not.so bright white-speckled. Likewise Colombia. 
E. caelina @@d/t. (100 Bb). -Hindwings above and beneath almost exactly as in the preceding, also so caelina. 
deeply dentated; bh the eee more ultramarine blue than’ cyan-blue, upper surface with 3 separated 
white subapical spo’ Jibeneath there runs through the forewing from the costal centre towards the anal angle, 
a broad white obliqu ; and strongly covered with brown in the g. Southern Brazil. — alycia Fruhst., founded alycia. 
upon 1 3 and which has not been lying before me, from the Upper Amazon, is said to be considerably larger, 
the forewings much lighter viclet, the hindwings lighter brown, the white dots on the forewings more diffuse, 
under surface of hindwings with more white markings. Local and not common. 
E. caresa Hew. (100 Bb, d). Very nearly the largest species of the genus; the forewings below the caresa. 



