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Show 1878.] CENTRAL-AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 361 3. EURYGONA AMPHIDECTA. d • Exp. 1*3 in. Secondaries slightly produced, outer margin distinctly dentate; above brownish red; costa and outer margin of both wings (the secondaries only as far as the middle of the outer margin) deep brown: beneath nearly uniform brown; a common narrow band runs beyond the cell across the primaries, and curving gradually on the secondaries passes to the inner margin; a black spot with white outer edge near the margin of the secondaries between the lower radial and second median branch ; between it and the anal angle are five similar smaller spots; margin at the anal angle rufous ; inside the spots is an indistinct band parallel to the margin. d. Exp. 1*5 in. Earthy brown, each wing paler in the middle, with a central spot as dark as the margin ; beneath paler, nearly uniform, the dark bands more distinct than in the male, and the secondaries with a row of submarginal nearly obsolete dark spots, and a similar row of less defined spots round the outer margin of the primaries. Hab. Veragua, Chiriqui (Ribbe). Mus. Dr. O. Staudinger. 4. EURYGONA INCONSPICUA. 2 . Exp. 1*1 in. Secondaries rounded; upper surface uniform pale earthy brown, rather darker about the apex of the primaries ; through this colour the bands of the underside are faintly seen : beneath whitish tinged with fawn-colour; a rufous band crosses both wings through the end of the cell in each, and turning sharply between the first median branch and submedian nervure of the secondaries passes to the inner margin ; a second band crosses the primaries between the end of the cell and the apex; the outer margin of the same wings is dark but less rufous than the bands; on the secondaries is a submarginal row of black spots, those on either side of the median nervure being the largest (the lower one larger than the other) and nearly round ; those near the anal angle are linear and surrounded by white; the margin of the secondaries is narrowly rufous, and a dark band runs between the large black spots and parallel to the inner band from the costa to where the inner band turns to the inner margin. Hab. Costa Rica, Cache (H. Rogers); Veragua, Chiriqui (Ribbe). Mus. nostr. et Dr. O. Staudinger. 5. EURYGONA RUSSATA. 2 . Exp. 1*5 in. Above brown, a large fulvous spot on the median branches of the primaries ; secondaries, except the margin next the apex, red-brown, darker than the spot on the primaries: beneath greyish white ; marginal fourth of the primaries darker ; a narrow dark band crosses the primaries beyond the cell, and following irregularly the curve of the margin of secondaries passes to the inner margin ; a submarginal row of black subtriangular spots edged with |