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the forewings have before the apical third not three separated white spots, but a broad white oblique band 
proximally bordered with blue reflection. Colombia, Amazon. — The name oreandra Fruhst. denotes Peruvian 
specimens in which the blue reflection is more brightly and decoratively prominent than in the northern affinities. 
E. clytia Hew. (100 Be). Compared with the preceding, plainly coloured and with hardly any decora- 
tions. g§ above dark-brown with uniform violet reflection, 2 brown with 5 white spots standing in 2 oblique 
rows. Under surface of hindwings plain ashy grey, the dentate-lines and eye-rings formed of plain dark streaks. 
Peru, Rio Madeira and Upper Amazon. 
E. veronica Bates (100 B e) likewise from the Amazon, has the same size and about the same colours 
as clytia, but the markings of the hindwings being beneath unicolorous yellowish ash-grey are still more reduced. 
E. violetta Stgr. (100 Bd). As the description of this species by the author refers to the figure, speci- 
mens corresponding exactly to it are, however, not lying before me, I bring a copy of STauDINGER’s’ figure 
which is said to be painted according to 2 not quite sound ¢¢ and, therefore, may be inexact. The @ is not 
described. Pebas. — Maybe it is onl a form of viola Bates also originating from Pebas, which would thus form 
the type of the name; although the latter has a more naulisiecianned inven surface, and red markings, yet 
the design of both is the same. On the upper surface of viola the small light spots in the apical area are covered 
up with dark, or missing altogether, and the bluish-violet reflection is less; these differences also occur in 
clytia and veronica and are only individual there. Teffé, Pebas. 
E. eurota. ¢ above black with blue reflection of magnificent splendour, extending in a broad band 
along the costal margin of the forewings and reaching, in the shape of a glossy oval, proximally convex, from’ 
the margin of the hindwings as far as almost to the cell-end. The 9 is dark-brown with a white oblique band 
of the forewing and often white preapical spots in addition. The under surface of the hindwings is compara- 
tively very plainly marked: a submarginal cucullated line, a median line turning almost rectangularly round 
the cell, between both above one double eye-ring and below it 2 or 3 single ones. The range is very great so 
that numerous sub-forms have been distinguished which, however, were mixed up several times. —. The 
most southern is euphemia Godt. (= dolores Prittw., alemene Boenningh.) from Southern Brazil, which chiefly 
distinguishes itself by the very dark, almost black under surface of the hindwings. Hspiritu Santo and Rio 
de Janeiro, in the alpine districts. — eurota Cr. (100 B e) from Surinam to Colombia, is lighter and somewhat 
smaller, but the blue iridescent stripes of the upper surface are broader and more lustrous, especially those 
on the hindwing. — flora Fidr. is the race occurring from the Upper Amazon as far as up to Peru. The blue of 
the hindwings in the g does not reach quite to the margin, and in the @ there are yet 2 small subapical 
spots behind the white oblique band. The animals vary exceedingly, and from the Chanchamayo there 
are lighter and darker specimens lying before me, more or less blue decorated; those with a lighter under 
surface have been branched off as a form of the Upper Amazon, myrthis Fruhst. — theophania Fruhst. is smaller 
than flora, in the g the bands are more subdued, more violet, those on the hindwing broader. Under surface 
reddish instead of brown or grey with light spots in the distal area of the forewing. A 9 is mentioned having 
the white band of the forewings dissolyed into 3 spots what may be constant for this form the habitat of 
which is on the Middle Ariazon (Manaos). 
E. alemena. This magnificent species has in the 3 above a blue costal-marginal stripe, mhichi is some- 
times continued even at the distal margin, and a blue marginal band of the faite the 2 brown with a white 
oblique band of the forewing. Characteristic is the under surface. Here there is, near the base in the cell and 
above it, a velvet-brown spot; near the costal margin, behind the middle of the wings, a large eye-spot, encircled 
by yellow and with two pupils; (proximally) before this 2 arch-like stripes touching each other, the lower one 
lying on the transverse yein; from this lower one a brown shadowy outline runs rectangularly to the inner margin 
and beyond this line there is an eye-spot, to which sometimes another small accessory eye-spot adheres. 
Before the hindwing-margin a dark shadowy outline. Furthermore the alemena- is distinguished by the place, 
where the first median vein branches off from the median principal vein (near the base of the forewing), sho- 
wing also on the under surface a blue iridescent spot. alemena Dd/. and Hew. (100 Be, f) flies from Mexico 
to Panama. ‘lere the blue stripe of the costal margin is at the cell-end somewhat overpowdered by the dark 
ground-colour and thereby strangulated or even interrupted; it ends in a thick wedge before the apex without 
extending any further along the margin. — amata Druce from Costa Rica resembles in the male sex pretty 
much the typical alemena, the 9 I do not know. In the $¢ — certainly also in the 9 — the eye-rings on the 
under surface are (according to DRucE) smaller, above the blue is considerably more abundant and more violet. 
— pomona Fidr. (100 Bf) which may be a species of its own (there are, however, transitions of it to alemena 
lying before me, from the Chiriqui), shows the blue costal-marginal stripe bent round before the apex and follo- 
wing the margin to the anal angle, but sometimes with attenuations or slight interruptions behind the cell. 
Costa Pica to ¢ Jolombia and Venezuela, varying in almost every locality. — Satoh a local form is pompata Fruhst. 
with more blue than violet stripes; the under surface darker, all the ocelli of the hindwings smaller, surrounded 
by a softer yellow, the dark submarginal band more prominent. Colombia. —irma F'ruhst. (100 B f) has deci- 
dedly the loveliest G3 (2 not at hand); a band of magnificent blue lustre in the sunshine runs from the base 
of the forewings as far as before the apex, where it makes a broad bend going as far as into the anal 
angle. The band of the hindwing is broader, but somewhat shorter, otherwise like in alemena. Under surface 
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oreandra. 
clytia. 
veronica. 
violetla. 
viola. 
euphemia. 
eurota. 
flora. 
myrthis. 
theophania. 
alemena. 
amata. 
pomonda. 
pompata. 
irma. 
