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Show 1866.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS EUPTYCHIA. 499 Satyrus areolatus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. pp. 465 & 494. n. 58 (1819) ; Boisd. & Leconte, Icon. Lep. A m . Sept. pi. 63. figs. 5 & 6, 7 & 8 (metam.) (1833). Neonympha areolatus, Westw. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 375. n. 6 (1851). Oreas (fimbriata) helicta, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. Bd. i. pi. 95 (1806). Neonympha helicta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 65. n. 622 (1816). Hab. Georgia, United States. Var. Alar anticar subtus immaculatar, posticar ocellis quatuor vel quinque elongatis, tribus mediis longioribus. Papilio phocion, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 218. n. 683 (1793). Satyrus phocion, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. pp. 465 & 494. n. 59 (1819). Neonympha phocion, Westw. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 375. n. 6 (1851). Hab. United States. B.M. This species is exceedingly variable in marking, as the following list of the number of ocellate spots in the various figures and descriptions will show :- Smith & Abbot's 'American Insects,' f. w. 4, h. w. 6. Godart, 'Encyclopedic Methodique,' f. w. 4, h.w. 6. Hiibner, 'Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge,' f. w. 2-3, h. w. 5. Boisduval et Leconte, ' Histoire des Lepidopteres,' f. w. 1, h. w. 4. Fabricius (E. phocion), 'Entomologia Systematica,' f. w. 0, h. w. 3. Coll. Brit. Mus. (E.phocion), three specimens, f. w. 0, h. w. 4-5. The figure of this species given by Dr. Boisduval appears to have been badly coloured ; it does not agree in tint with any of the other figures or with our specimens. Subdivision 4. Alar subtus maculis ocellaribus marginalibus, nigris argenteisque. 118. EUPTYCHIA PYRACMON, sp. n. 2 • Alar supra fuscar, linea post alarum medium posita fusca, extus rubro marginata, anticarum subintegra, posticarum lunulata: anticar margine postico paulo fuscescente, ciliis cinereis: posticar margine apicali paulo fuscescente, margine anali rufescente, maculis tribus submarginalibus nigris, interna minima : corpus cinereo-fuscum ; antennis supra fuscis, subtus albidis, prar flavescentibus, cinereo fasciolatis. Alar subtus ochrear cinereo variar, fasciis duabus mediis irregularibus ferrugineis: anticar linea submarginali undulata apicem non attingente: posticar linea submarginali lunulata argenteo, apud marginem analem intus ferrugineo marginata, ad apicem maculas |