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blue bands, which are partly interrupted in the middle, and wholly inter- 

 rupted on each side. Knees and tarsi beneath metallic blue. Fore wings 

 with five or six oblique bands of small, separated brown ringlets, those along 

 the costa are larger and with broader borders, and nearly subquadrate. Hind 

 wings with the inner angle prolonged into a short tail. 

 Mexico. 



* E. incarnata, Walker. Gray. Head with a curved white black- 

 bordered band in front of the antennae, and with a black border on each side, 

 behind, and toward the mouth. Tongue pale testaceous. Palpi red, white 

 beneath. Antennae black, white at the base. Thorax with fine slender black 

 stripes, the middle one and the inner pair abbreviated in front, accompanied 

 with some white and red hairs behind ; a white stripe on each side, widening 

 from the head to the fore wings. Breast mostly white. Abdomen dark blue, 

 with a red stripe on each side ; under side testaceous, with a black stride 

 Femora with red, black-bordered stripes ; tibia? with white stripes ; tarsi with. 

 red bands. Fore wings with various irregular white black-bordered streaks, 

 which are broadest and most oblique along the costa, where the black hind 

 border of them is dilated and forms a discal mark ; these streaks are mostly 

 red on the under side. Hind wings red [ ? ] at the base and with two crimson 

 macular oblique bands, which on the under side toward the costa are white, 

 with black borders. 



Arachnis aulcea? Mexico. 



* E. exirema, Walker. White. Head bluish black in front. Antenna? 

 black, tinged with blue at the base. Thorax with ten bluish black spots, two 

 in front, two behind, and each three of the other six forming two intermediate 

 bands. Breast blackish brown. Abdomen bluish black, with a testaceous 

 stripe on each side ; under side white, with three rows of black spots. Legs 

 bluish black, with white streaks and spots. Fore wings with two oblique, 

 more or less interrupted dark brown bands, the intermediate spaces with 

 various dark brown spots, dots and streaks. 



Male. Hind wings grayish brown, with two white spots, one costal, the 

 other discal ; cilia partly white. 



F, male. Hind wings white, with a few grayish brown submarginal spots 

 and marginal dots. 



Mexico. 



*E. obliterata, Walker. White, stout. Antenna? black beneath. Ab- 

 domen above luteous, with two rows of white spots ; base and tip white. 

 Femora and tibia? with luteous stripes ; ungues black. Fore wings with four 

 oblique bands of connected testaceous ringlets. Hind wings with three more 

 indistinct bands of the same, their hind borders slightly emarginate and un- 

 dulating, with the inner angle somewhat dilated. 



West Indies. 



*E. nigriplaga, Walker. White. Antenna? black. Thorax with 

 greenish or bluish black ringlets. Abdomen dark metallic blue, with crimson 

 bands, clothed with blackish brown hairs at the base ; tip with white hairs 

 on each side ; under side with tawny hairs at the tip. Tibia? with black bands ; 

 tarsi black, partly white at the base. Fore wings with greenish or bluish 

 black ringlets, whose disks are grayish or dingy white ; these are largest on 

 the borders, very small on the disk or toward the tips of the wings. Hind 

 wings with two large black spots on the fore border, hairy, vaulted cylindri- 

 cally and each including a tuft along the abdomen, their tails reaching to the 

 tip of the abdomen, and each with a large black elliptical spot. 



Jamaica. 



*E. simplex, Walker. Male. White. Head in front and beneath, 

 and palpi blackish brown. Antenna? blackish brown, minutely pectinated, 



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