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Show 486 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS EUPTYCHIA. [Nov. 22, Division III. Alar magnar, supra fuscar, subtus fasciis duabus mediis ; ocellis magnis regularibus. 81. EUPTYCHIA ANTONOE. Papilio antonoe, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 59. f. E, F ( d ) (1779). Satyrus hermes (part.), Godart, Enc. Me'th. ix. p. 487 (1819). Hab. Para; Bolivia ($ , B.M.) ; ? (d, Coll. Salvin). This insect is quite distinct from the antonoe of the ' Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera;' that species is the libye of Linnaeus. It is also widely distinct from the insect generally supposed upon the continent to be Cramer's species, and which I have here described and figured as E. erichtho. 82. EUPTYCHIA GIGAS, sp. n. (PI. XL. fig. 7.) 2 . Alar supra fuscar, fascia media obscuriore valde indistincta, lineis duabus undulatis marginalibus unaque submarginali fuscis, posticarum nigrescentibus: posticar ocello permagno subanali nigro, rubro cincto alboque pupillato : corpus fuscum; antennis flavis, apice nigro, albo acuminatis. Alar subtus pallidiores, roseo tinctis, fascia media alteraque apud basim rufo-fuscis; area apicali paulo pallidiore, anticarum ochreo variegata; lineis duabus marginalibus undulatis unaque submarginali angulis alternis undata fuscis : anticar ocellis tribus subapicalibus, apicali distincto, nigro, flavo cincto alboque pupillato, aliis minimis brunneis, pupilla violacea, indistinctis: posticar ocellis quinque paulo piriformibus, quinto maximo, primo, secundo quintoque nigris flavo cinctis alboque pupillatis, tertio quartoque brunneis, iride obsoleta, albido pupillatis : corpus ochraceo-fuscum. Exp. alar. unc. 2^. Hab. Mexico. " B.M. This species is of the same size as antonoe of Cramer, to which it is allied; it more nearly resembles E. libye in the pattern of the underside. 83. EUPTYCHIA LIBYE. Papilio libye, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 772. n. 146 (1766); Sulzer, Gesch. pi. 17. f. 7 ; P. lybie ejusd. p. 145 (1776). Neonymphal antonoe, E. Doubleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. i. p. 138 (1844). Neonympha antonoe, Westw. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 375. n. 12 (1851). Euptychia antonoe, Westw. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 374. n. 30(1851). Hab. Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio, Honduras, Para, Quito (B.M.); Jamaica; Polochic Valley, Guatemala (Coll. Salvin). Var. Parva, obscura. Hab. Quito. B.M. |