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EACLES. 
Eacles, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 153; Walker, Cat. vi. p. 1370. 
Numerous species of.this genus are known from North and South America; in our 
country it is represented by three species, one of which is now described as new. — 
1. Eacles magnifica. (Tab. XV. fig. 13.) 
Eacles magnifica, Walk. Cat. vi. p. 1873'. 
Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Hoge); GuateMaua, Joyabaj (Champion); Nicaraaua, Chon- 
tales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé).—Braz, Para}, Rio Janeiro ; 
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC; PARAGUAY. 
This species is found over a very wide range of country; I have a good series of 
specimens before me which show a considerable amount of variation in the females; 
the Mexican and Guatemalan examples are most like those from the Argentine 
Republic, being more strongly spotted and banded than the examples from Nicaragua, 
the State of Panama, and Brazil. A specimen from Nicaragua is the palest I have 
seen, and also the largest, measuring fully seven inches from tip to tip of the primaries. 
An individual, a female, from Paraguay, in my collection, is of a dull dirty yellow colour 
with all the spots and bands considerably larger than they are in any other example 
before me; but without seeing a male I do not feel justified in considering it as 
distinct from EF. magnifica, at the same time it may belong to a different species. 
The example sent from Joyabaj Mr. Champion reports as having dropped from the 
mouth of a bird on the wing and was picked up (comparatively uninjured) by him, 
while crossing the lofty range of mountains between Cubulco and Joyabaj. 
E. magnifica closely resembles the North-American E. imperialis. Our figure is 
taken from a specimen from the Volcan de Chiriqui. 
2. Eacles mexicana. (Tab. XV. fig. 11, ¢.) 
Citheronia mexicana, Grote & Robinson, Ann. Lyc. New York, viii. p. 382, t. 18. fig. 1 ( 2)’. 
Hab. Mexico (Ldwards'), Jalapa (Hoge). 
A single specimen sent by Herr Hoge from Jalapa is, I have very little doubt, the 
male of E. mexicana; it is rather smaller, but in all other respects it agrees fairly well 
with the female figured by Grote and Robinson. 
8. Eacles splendens, sp.n. (Tab. XV. fig. 12.) 
Male. Primaries slaty-brown, with all the veins reddish-brown, a transverse band of nine primrose-coloured 
spots extending from the costal margin near the apex to the middle of the inner margin, a square-shaped | 
spot at the end of the cell, and an elongated spot at the base, both pale primrose-colour, the underside the 
same as above, excepting the inner margin which is broadly banded with primrose-colour from the base to 
near the anal angle; secondaries from the base to beyond the cell pale primrose-colour clouded with slaty- 
brown, from just below the cell to the outer margin dark slaty-brown, the veins reddish-brown, the 
underside pale primrose-colour, except at the apex which is rather broadly banded with slaty-brown, a 
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