194 EUPTYCHIA. By G. Weymer. 



It is not withiii the scope of tliis work to give a monograpliic working out of the genus; we only 

 offer a survey of those ah-eady known, and in this we claiefly follow the work of Btttler with some few modifi- 

 cations. The types of Felder's species, which Butler was not able to make out, we here figure above 

 and beneath, but must merely refer at the end to some species described and not figured by other authors, as, 

 in these cases similar or allied species are not mentioned. 



Hesione Group. 



hesionc. E. hesione Sulz. (= ocirrhoe F., cissia Cr.) (46 d). Above white with broad black apex to the forewing, 



which is more or less continued on the distal margin. In the ? the margin of the hindwuag is also black and 

 the forewing has a dark median band. On the under surface brown and white transverse stripes alternate, 

 before the distal margm are placed on the forewing 3, on the hiiidwing 5 ocelli. The extent of the black colour 

 on the upper surface varies very much according to the locality. Widely distributed and common. Mexico, 

 Central America, Surinam, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil as far as St. Catharina. The examples from Bolivia 

 suhobscura. have the forewing somewhat more pointed, otherwise I see no difference, subobscura form. nov. (46 d) is an aber- 

 rant form, in which the white bands of the under surface, except the distal one, are covered by a brownish grey 

 lydia. colour. I have received this from Paraguay, but it also occurs at single localities in Brazil. — lydia Cr. 

 is a somewhat larger form (60 mm.) with broad, rounded wings. Forewing almost entirely bro\^ar, only the 

 basal half of the inner margin, is dusted with white, but indistinctly defined. The hindwing is white with 3 

 fine brown marginal lines and 2 round black spots in cellules 2 and 5. On the under surface the brown 

 bands are much narrower in the basal area, the wliite bands on the other hand twice as broad. Forewing with 2, 

 calpurnia. hindwmg with 5 eye-spots, similar to those of the type-form. Surinam. — calpurnia Fldr. (46 d) is a form similar 

 to lydia, but somewhat smaller (50 mm.), M'ith somewhat narrower and more elongate fore'WTJig, which has a very 

 shallow excision at the distal margua. The brown ground-colour is somewhat lighter than in lydia, the 

 white extends on the forewui.g from the inner margin to the median, the bro'mT. stripes of the under surface 

 show through above on both wings, and also the eye-spots, of which, however, onlj^ one is present on the forewing 

 bhwcula. and only 3 on the hindwing. From the Maroni m Cayenne, Surmam. — binocula Btlr. (46 d), a further form 

 of hesione, has the upper surface of both wings light grey-brown with 2 dark brown bands through the middle 

 and broad broAvn distal margin, wliich occupies over a third of the wings, only the middle of the hindwing is dull 

 ■ white and in cellule 2 there is a round black, white-bordered spot. The under surface is as in hesione. From 

 Cayenne. 



mdaleuea. E. metaleuca Bdv. (= butleri Dist.) (46 d) is indeed nearly allied to hesione Sulz., but following the 



example of Godjlax and Salvin I regard it as a good, independent species. Whilst in hesione and its allies 

 the light bands on the under surface are all nearly equal in breadth, in this species the distal band is more 

 than twice as broad as the others, moreover these narrower, basal bands are mostly strongly dusted with grey- 

 brown. In addition the foreM-mg of the o is not so round, but more triangular and at the distal margin some- 

 what waved. The upper surface of the forewing is black-brown, with a white triangle on the middle of the 

 inner margin. From Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador. — 

 languida. languida Btlr. (46 e) is a form of metaleuca, in which the white colour is reduced on the forewing but somewhat 

 extended on the hindwing, and in the middle of the distal margm reaches nearly to the border. In cellule 2 and 

 in cellule 5 a black, eye-shaped spot is placed on the dark border. The under surface is grey-brown with broad 

 white median band, an eye-spot on the forewmg m cellule 5, 3 eye-spots on the hindwing in cellules 2, 5 and 6, 

 all black with j'ellow rings and white pupils. Between the ej'e-spots of the hindwing and below the eye-spot 

 of the forewing are placed some small round silvery spots. Columbia, Bolivia. 



hemileuca. E. hemileuca Stgr., only known in the $, has an expanse of 38 mm. and somewhat resembles languidu 



Btlr. above ; but the white colour is extended nearty to the costal margin of the forewing and covers the entire 

 hindwmg, leavuig only a narrow black distal margin, and the two round black spots are isolated. The under 

 surface is entirelj^ bro^^^^-grey with 2 narrow dark brown transverse stripes through the middle, bordered with 

 light grey, 3 fme brown margmal lines, 1 eye-spot on the forewmg and 3 on the hindwing. The anterior eye-spot 

 on the latter is 4 mm, in diameter, -with black centre and white double pupil. The others are smaller, but si- 

 milarly coloured. From the Rio San Juan in West Colombia, Rare, 



aurigera. E. aurigera Stgr. i. I. (46 e) resembles no other Euptychia; ground-colour white; on the forewing the 



costal margin, apex and distal margm broadly black-brown, broadest before the apex, hindwing with narrow, 

 dentate brown border. The pattern of the under surface shows through above. This bro-mi with a white band 

 through the middle of both ^^■lngs, extending from the lower radial of the forewing to the inner margm of the 

 hindwing and pointed at both ends. On the hindwuag are placed on a reddish ochre-yellow ground 5 ocelli in a 

 zigzag roAv and between the 3 brown marginal luies small wliite double dots on the veins. From Cuzco in Peru, 

 coll. BaisG-Haas. Rare. 



