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dozen or fourteen species of Eubagis, six or seven of which are new 

 to me ; one is of a pale silky blue above, another which I took, how- 

 ever, in the heart of the forest in a sunny opening, is velvety black, 

 with a patch of metallic-green at the base of the fore wings. These 

 two species will contribute to vary more the forms in this most lovely 

 and numerous genus of Nymphalide butterflies. The Eubages I con- 

 sider come somew^hat near our European Fritillaries and Vanessae, 

 and their larvae, when discovered, I venture to prophecy, will be mul- 

 tispinose. Paphia and Siderone, two allied genera, were also well 

 represented here ; of the former, six or seven species w^ere daily in 

 great abundance, and amongst them four species new to me, one of 

 them almost as brilliantly coloured as the Catagrammae. Of Side- 

 rone, I obtained one of a most handsome new species, in shape of 

 wings like the S. Syntyche, and in colours differing chiefly from that 

 species in wanting the blue. Another genus of Nymphalidag, very 

 numerous here, was Cybdelis ; they were abundant both in species 

 and in individuals in the streets, on the borders of the river and 

 within the margins of the forest, sometimes in vast multitudes con- 

 sisting of two or three species ; the rarer species, however, generally 

 found solitary and apart. I think 1 found all the Ega species ex- 

 cept Celina ; but there occurred four species not found so low down 

 as Ega, two of them extend only as far down as Tunantins and Fonte 

 Boa, the other two I found for the first time at St. Paulo, neither of 

 them has any close affinity with the other species of the genus known 

 to me : one of them is perhaps the handsomest species of the genus, 

 the colour and marks of the under surface of posterior wing, some- 

 what approximating Callithea : the other new Cybdelis, also very 

 handsome, was, for a few days in November, excessively abundant at 

 the roosting- place above mentioned. I found also a very interesting 

 new species, closely allied to Cybdelis (?) Pharsalia of Hewitson ; it 

 is however constantly and clearly distinct ; it was almost abundant in 

 December for several weeks, at least on the gleamy hot mornings I 

 used to see three or four of them together settling on the moist sandy 

 margins of the brook in the deep dells of the forest in sunny openings. 

 I also captured a female which resembles the same sex in the Cyb- 

 deles generally, being brown, with white spots towards the tip of the 

 wings. Heterochroae, although abundant as everywhere else, yielded 

 me no fresh species, and Pyrrhogyra only one. Timctes were more 

 numerous in species : it is a genus which prefers the moist sandy 

 margins of water, in this respect differing from other genera of Nym- 

 phalida), especially the typical forms which give the preference to 



