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Show 1877.] ON NEW BUTTERFLIES. 63 long, projecting far beyond the head, as in the genus Nica. Costal and median nervures of the anterior wing swollen towards their bases, almost as in the costal nervure of the genus Cystineura. General coloration as in the genus Epiphile. Type Temenis sylphis, Bates (Ent. Monthl. Mag. i. p. 113). Hab. Mexico and Guatemala. Mus. nostr. 9. EUBAGIS IMMARGINATA. <f . Exp. 1*7 in. Above uniform Eabagis green ; the anterior wings without black spots or dark outer margin ; posterior wings with a black margin, and a single black spot in the interspace of the median branches. Beneath, the markings almost exactly correspond to those of E. postverta (Cr.), the colour between the ocelli of the posterior wings being darker than in the above species. Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). Mus. nostr. 10. EUNICA MIRA. 2 • Exp. 2*45 in. Anterior wings with the apex pointed, the costa and outer margin uniformly convex ; margin of the hind wings rounded. Anterior wings deep purple black, with a greenish tinge, beyond the cell an interrupted band of paler greenish hue crosses the wing from the costa to inner angle, outside of which is a band of whitish passing from the costa to the middle of the outer margin ; posterior wings deep brown, outer margin pale; dark submarginal spots near the apical angle. Beneath, both wings distinctly variegated with black spots and bands on a blue-green ground, apex of the anterior wings and margin of the posterior wings whitish, the former crossed by a line of black spots; the posterior wings have a line of fulvous spread over the region of the median nervure, the inner margin being of the same colour. Hab. Veragua (Arce). Mus. nostr. This remarkable species, of which at present we have only received one damaged female specimen, belongs to the group containing Eunica sophronisba (Cr.), but is abundantly distinct from that species, both in the coloration and the pointed apex of the anterior wings. The male remains to be discovered. 11. EUNICA EXCELSA. cf Exp. 2-95 in. Similar to E. cinara, Hew. (Ex. Butt. Gybd. t. i. f. 2), as to the markings of the undersurface; but above, instead of the smalt-blue of both wings being of a uniform tint, the hind wings are suffused towards their outer margin with glittering greenish blue, as in E. venusia, Feld. (Voy. Nov., Lep. p. 407, t. 52. f. 3), and E. aspasia, Feld. (Wien. ent. Mouat. v. p. 104). From the last-named species it differs in the greater extent of the smalt-blue of the anterior wings and in the paler ground-colour of the posterior wings beneath ; the glistening blue of the latter wings above is also greener and more refulgent. Hab. Chiriqui (Arci). Mus. nostr. |