212 EUPTYCHIA. By G. Wbymer. 



places with white scales. On the hindwing it is interrupted several times, only remaining visible, as a fine, 

 white transverse line, at the costal margin, in the middle of the wing and before the anal angle. On the other 

 hand the first transverse line (that nearest to the base) is on both Avings distinctly white and distally margined 

 mclcmia. with brown. — melania form. nov. differs still more. In it the white median band has disappeared entirely 

 and in its place a black line runs through the deep dark brown ground-colour. The basal transverse band 

 is also much darkened, so that it is iirconspicuous. The eye-spots and the broad, light mai'gmal band, however, 

 are as in the type-form. Both forms were found by Fassl at Carmen in West Colombia, interrupta at 1600 m. 

 in December, melania at 1200 m. in October. 



satyrina. E. satyrina Bates (= Tayg. cecilia Bdv.) (48 e). Above brown with a black, white-pupilled, sometimes 



very indistinct eye-spot at the anal angle of the hindwing. Beneath likewise brown with 2 parallel, nearly 

 straight, dark brown transverse stripes crossing the middle of both wiirgs, the inner one distally, the outer 

 one proximally bordered with ochre-yellow. The distal margin of the forewing is rather broad, lighter reddish 

 brown, and shows before the apex a small black, white-pupilled ocellus. The hindwing has anteriorly two and 

 posteriorly one similar but larger ocellus. The species is very variable. From Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama 

 incerfa. and Mexico. — incerta Btlr. is a form of satyrina which differs in the lighter brown ground-colour of the under 

 surface and has 6 eye-spots on the hindwing beneath. Occasionally the 3rd and 4th of these eye-spots a,re 

 small, but all have distinct white pupils. There are further 2 white dots on the forewing. Occasionally also the 

 ochre-yellow bordering of the brown median stripes is absent. A $ of this form has on the upperside of the 

 forewing a reddish yellow-brown band, differing somewhat from the ground-colour, and on the underside of 

 the hmd^viag only two eye-spots m cellules 2 and 5. Between these are placed in cellules 3 and 4 three small 

 gic/as. white spots. Prom Costa Rica. — gigas Btlr. (48 e) is a rather large form of satyrina, in which the forewing 

 has 3 ocelli on the under surface (one larger and 2 smaller) and the hmdwing five large ones, the first, second 

 and last black, with yellow iris and white pupil; the third and fourth are brown with white pupil. From Mexico. 



tiessa. E. tiessa Heiu. Size of the preceditrg. Above dark brown with black submargmal line. The hiirdwing 



is dentate and has in the anal angle an iadistinct eye-spot with brick-red ring. The under surface (according to 

 Hbwitson) is brown from the base to the middle. Both 'ivings are traversed before the middle by a red-brown 

 band, and at the middle by a broader band of the same colour. Then folloAvs a broad grey band, on which is 

 placed a brown stripe with the eye-spots ; these consist of a small one near the costa of the forewing and 3 on the 

 hindwing, namely 2 at the apex and 1 at the anal angle. All the eye-spots are black with reddish iris, 

 dark brown ring and white pupU. 2 submargmal stripes and the margin red-brown. The stripe on the hindwing 

 is dentate like the margin. — The figure in Bxjtlee Lepid. Exot. pi. 18 fig. 4 does not agree with this description 

 of Hewitson's as regards the ground-colour of the wings and the colouring of the eye-spots. According to this 

 figure the ground-colour of both wings is light reddish grey or flesh-coloured all over with a lilac band beyond 

 the middle, Avliilst Hewitsox says the basal half of the wings is brown and the band grey. The iris of the eye- 

 spots according to Butler is light yellow, Hewitson calls it rufous. God man and Salvin describe the species 

 with 5 eye-spots on the hindwing, of which 2 are mdistinct. From Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador. 



Ubye. E. libye L. {= harpyia Fldr.) (48 e). Above olive-brown with two dark brown marginal lines and one 



submarginal line, beneath much lighter, more or less inclining to lilac, with 2 straight, rust-brown stripes, one 

 before, the other in the middle; the former crosses the cell on both wings, the latter on the forewing only 

 touches its posterior angle, on the hinch^-ing it enters the cell at the point of origin of vein 5 and leaves it between 

 that of vein 2 and that of vein 3. Before the apex of the forewing a small round ocellus, 5 oval ocelli on the 

 hindwing, of which the 1st, 2nd and 5th are black Avith very indistinct pupils and yellow ring, thickened at the 

 proximal side, the rest indistinct, libye is a common and widely distributed species. Guatemala, Honduras, 

 Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Surmam, Brazil (Para, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio), Jamaica. 

 KhyoUlea. — Hbyoidea Btlr., is a form of libye, somewhat larger, with the forewiiig more produced at the apex and the 

 hindwing less strongly dentate. Oil the under surface are placed on the forewing four distinct black-brown eye- 

 spots Avith j^ellow rings and with white pupils formed of irregular white dusting, the ocelli of the hind'wing 

 are much larger than m the tj'pe-form, the largest, in cellule 2, measures 6 mm. in length and 4 mm. in breadth. 

 In the course of the 2nd (outer) median stripe I notice another difference from libye, which Btjtlee has not 

 mentioned. In the figure of Hbyoidea in theProc. Zool. Soc.Lond. 1867 pi. 11 fig. 13 this stripe intersects the lower 

 angle of the cell on the forewing, whilst in libye it onh' touches it. On the hmdwing it enters the cell between 

 the points of origin of veins 4 and 5, thus on the lower discocellular, and leaves it between veins 3 and 4, 

 whilst m libye, as mentioned above, it enters the cell at the origin of vein 5 and leaves it between veins 2 and 3. 

 (jracil)s. From Nicaragua. — gracilis form. nov. (48 f ) is a further form of libye, differing chiefly in having the two straight, 

 reddish brown median stripes on the under surface of both wings placed more distally. On the forewin.g the 2nd, 

 outer stripe is situate at a distance of 2 mm. from the cell. On the liindwing it crosses the lower discocellular 

 as it enters the cell and the median at the origin of vein 3 as it leaves it, and is thus placed somewhat further 

 distad than even in Hbyoidea. In consequence of this gracilis has the marginal area much narrower. On the fore- 



