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more distinct : liiudAviiig with 5 eye-spots, the 2nd and last larger than the rest. The eye-spots are black with 

 white pupils and yellow and outer brown rings. The $ is above unicolorous brown, beneath quite like the (J, 

 except that the ground-colour is light brown, towards the distal margin grej^. (38 mm). From Tapajos (Amazons). 



E. scopulata (49 d). q: similar to the preceding species, with a similar hair-tuft on the forewing, but scopuMa. 

 with the upper surface not blue, but bro«ai with dark brown marginal lines and somewhat lighter fringes. Under 

 siu'face grey, the stripes tlu-ough the middle of the wings broader and red-brown, on the forewing 2 or 3 eye- 

 spots present, on the hindwmg 5, of which, as in 'penicillata, the first on. the forewing and the 2nd and 5th 

 on the liindwing are larger and more distmct than the rest. The latter is bi-pupilled. From the Ma]3iri in Bolivia 

 and the Upper Amazon. 



Arnaea Group. 



E. arnaea F. (= ebusa Cr.. aranea F.) (49 d). Above brown, the larger posterior half of the hindwing amaea. 

 with bright blue reflection. In the $ this reflection extends over the whole hindwing and also occupies the 

 inner margiu of the forewing. The $ is further distinguished by having on the hindwing before the 2 marginal 

 lines a dentate, dark brown submarginal Ime, which is wanting in the ^. In addition the 2 dark brown median 

 lines on the forewing are somewhat broader in the $. The light brown under surface has likewise a blue reflection 

 in the 3, but tliis is much weaker than above, occasionally, however, extending, beyond the 2nd median stripe, 

 nearly to the costal margin of the forewing. In the $ the reflection on the under surface is less visible. 

 Widely distributed and rather common. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Guiana, Colombia, Amazons. — GoD- 

 3IAX and Salats" (hx Biol. Centr. Americana I, p. 89) question the correctness of employing the name arnaea 

 for this species and consider that of ebusa Cr. more correct, as Fabeicius himself in his Species Insectorum 

 Vol. II, p. 75 has cited Euptychia lea Cr. (with a ?, however). But as lea has both wings blue above, while Fa- 

 BKicius only speaks of blue liindwing and describes the forewing as brown, I am of the opinion that Kirby 

 and Butler are right in employmg the name arnaea for ebusa Cr. 



E. sericella Bat. 9. similar to the preceding, but both wings above blue. Apex and distal margin of sericella. 

 the fore^^'ing broadly dark brown, the costal margin narrow, with 2 fine brown median lines. The hindwing 

 has brown fringes and 2 bromi margmal lines with a reddish line between them. The under surface is accord- 

 ing to Bates tawnj^ brown, with 2 dark brown median lines, the outer somewhat thicker and distally bordered 

 by a straight, light lilac stripe; at the distal margiti 2 dark brown median lines. Before 3 or 4 eye-spots on the 

 forewing and 5 on the hindwing. Of the latter the 2nd and last are black with white pupil and yellow iris, the 

 rest white with j^ellow iris. But the figure in the Biologia Centrali-americana does not agree with this descrip- 

 tion of Bates' in two points. The ground-colour in the figure is not tawny brown but dark brown, so that the 

 transverse lines can scarcely be seen, and the difference in the colouring of the eye-spots mentioned bj^ Bates 

 is not discernible. As the species is represented in but few collections and is not known to me m nature, I cannot 

 decide whether figure or description is correct. Very rare in Mexico (Orizaba) and in Guatemala (Vera Paz and 

 Choctum). 



E. chloris Cr. (= chlorimene .ff&w., tolumnia $ Godt.) (49 e). The wings of this species are very thinly cMorif^. 

 scaled, hence the markings of the under surface show through above. The upper surface is brown; in the cj the 

 inner angle and the inner margin, of the hindwing have a blue reflection. In the $ this reflection, which is here 

 more violet, is extended over the whole hindwing and the greater part of the forewing. The under surface 

 is in both sexes glossy violet -blue with broad, reddish brown median stripes, one eye-spot on the forewing and 

 5 on the hindwing, of which the 4th is of a flattened form and is divided longitudinally by a silver stripe, 

 while the 3rd is little prominent and only recognizable by its round silvery central spot. The species is common 

 in Surinam, on the Amazon and in Bahia. — agatha Btlr. (49 e) is a form of chloris in which the distal margin agatlm. 

 of the forewing is less excised and the hindwing more ample; the brown ground-colour is darker and the 

 blue colouring on the hindwing more extended. On the under surface the outer median band on the hindwmg 

 forms an obtuse angle in. the middle and an acute angle at the umer margin. The ocelli are larger. The 2nd 

 eye-spot Ls placed so near to the distal margin that it touches the submarginal line. The 3rd and 4th eye- 

 spots consist of elongate orange-yellow rings with silvery centres. The $ is more thinly scaled, of more violet 

 colour, with red-brown margins; the ocelli of the under surface show through above. Beneath the median 

 bands of the iiindvvin.g are placed nearer together. From Para. — A considerably larger form of 45 mm. expanse I 

 name agathina form. nov. It has much broader wings, is more thickly and densely scaled and hence not trans- agaihina. 

 parent. Above dark brown, the greater part of the hindwing dark steel-blue, only the costal margin dark 

 brown for a breadth of about 10 mm. The under surface has on both wings a bright blue reflection, especially 

 in the posterior half of the hindwing. The median bands are dark brown and on the hindwin.g straight, only 

 on the forewing the 2n.d band is somewhat distally curved before the inner margm. The two elongated eye- 

 spots of (Mjatha are here not bordered with orange-yellow but with brown. From Macas in Ecuador. 



