1863.] 
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Notes on Central American LEPIDOPTERA, with descriptions of new species. 
No. II. 
BY TRYON REAKIRT. 
PIERID.E. 
EUTEKPE Swainson. 
1. E. Bithys, Htibn. 
Delius Bithys, Hiibn. Zut. f. 467, 468. (1818.) 
E. Bithys, Boisd. Sp. Gen. I, p. 410, n. 7. (1836.) 
Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII, p. 22. (1844.) 
Doubled, and Hewits. I, p. 34, n. 4. (1847.) 
Nicaragua. 
An unusual visitant in that section, inhabiting chiefly the valley of 
the Amazon. 
2 . E. Nimbice. Boisd. 
Boisd. Sp. Gen. I, p. 409, n. 6. (1836.) 
Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII, p. 22. (1844.) 
Doubled, and Hewits. I, p. 34, n. 7, t. 5, f. 1. (1847.) 
Morris’ Cat. p. 3. (1860.) 
Chiapas. 
3. E. Eudoica, nov. sp. 
Head, antennae and palpi, black; thorax, abdomen and legs, dark 
brown. 
Upper surface, brownish black; a macular band, orange, divided by 
black nerves and nervules, traverses the middle of the wings, consist¬ 
ing, on the primaries, of five spots, the first being in the lower part of 
the cell, the last on the middle of the interior margin; on the second¬ 
aries of eight; the third, in the upper angle of the post-apical, and the 
fifth in the lower angle of the medio-central interspace, are very small; 
the seventh and eighth, on the abdominal margin, are yellow. Two 
detached oval spots on the apical area of the primaries, just above the 
origin of the third sub-costal nervule ; a marginal row of small indis¬ 
tinct yellow crescents. Fringe, alternating brown and white. Expanse 
2.68 inches. 
Under side, primaries, brown; costa, white near the base of the 
wing; the transverse band and spots are the same as above. In the 
apical area, near the anterior margin, a white mark, dashed with orange, 
and divided by a black nervule; on each side of the post-apical ner¬ 
vule, a sagittal bar pointing inwardly, the head, white and orange, the 
