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Show 1866.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS EUPTYCHIA. 473 corpus fuscum pallidum, antennis fuscis albido fasciolatis et nigro flavoque acuminatis. Exp. alar. unc. 1|. Hab. Rio Janeiro. B.M. 42. EUPTYCHIA MODESTA, sp. n. Alar supra fuscar, lineis duabus marginalibus aliaque submarginali undulata obscurioribus, anticis valde indistinctis : corpus fuscum, prar olivaceo virescens; antennis supra brunneis albido fasciolatis et nigro acuminatis, subtus ferrugineis. Alar subtus pallidiores, cinerascentes, fasciis duabus mediis obliquis paulo irregularibus rufo-fuscis, lineis duabus marginalibus aliaque submarginali undulata fuscis: anticar ocellis tribus ochreo cinctis, primo nigro, argenteo bipupillato; aliis fuscis: posticar ocellis quinque fulvo cinctis et argenteo pupillatis, primo minimo, quinto maximo, primo secundo et quinto nigris, aliis fuscis, tertio quarto et quinto bipupillatis: corpus cinereum. Exp. alar. unc. 1-J-. Hab. Para (Coll. Bates). Var. Alar subtus ocellis minoribus lineisque tenuioribus. Hab. Cameta (Coll. Bates). Allied to E. ambigua. * 43. EUPTYCHIA HUEBNERI, sp. n. (PI. XXXIX. fig. 11.) Alar supra velut in E . ambigua, subtus autem area basali paulo brunnescente, area apicali cinerascente, margine postico ochraceo, ocellis distinctioribus, lineis mediis rufescentibus, interna regulari, externa apud angulum analem paulo undulata, posticisque additur ocellus subanalis minimus: corpus fuscum, antennis velut in E . ambigua. Exp. alar. unc. 1^-. Hab. Para (Coll. Bates and B.M.). Allied to the preceding species. 44. EUPTYCHIA GALESUS. Satyrus galesus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. po. 465 & 496. n. 64 (1819). Neonympha galesus, Westw. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 376. n. 20 (1851). Euptychia cant he, var., Herrich-Schaffer, Ind. Syst. (1864). "Alis integris, fuscis, supra immaculatis: subtus strigis tribus obscurioribus; anticis punctis nullis, posticis quinque nigricantibus. "About 1J inch in expanse. All the wings entire and of a rather dark brown ; upperside without spots; the underside shows three very dark lines, the central one relieved in front by greyish violet, the outer one very delicate and festooned; this last line is separated from the preceding one, but only in the hind wings, by a row of five P R O C ZOOL. Soc-1866, No. XXXI. |