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white above. Disk of the thorax with blackish brown ringlets, which vary in 

 size and number. Abdomen orange above, white at the tip, with brown and 

 white bands at the base, and with a row of blue spots along each side. Legs 

 brown, with white stripes ; tarsi with white bands. Fore wings with six 

 oblique bands of pale brown ringlets. 

 West Indies. 



*E. decora, Walker. Male. White. Head blue about the eyes ; ver- 

 tex with a black band, which encloses a whitish spot. Palpi and antennae 

 black. Thorax with nine blue ocelli, two in front, then four in a curved band, 

 and behind them three which form a triangle. Abdomen luteous, blue at the 

 base, and with two rows of transverse blue spots ; tip white, with four 

 streaks, the outer pair black, the inner pair blue, united landward. Legs 

 with black stripes and bands ; tarsi blue. Fore wings with numerous black 

 ocelli, which are disposed in six oblique irregular bands ; some angular and 

 incomplete ocelli along the costa, and a blue mark on the discal are >let. Hind 

 wings with a black interrupted stripe along the interior border, which termi- 

 nates in a rather long tail. 



St. Domingo. 



*E. Cunigunda, Cramer. Male. White. Head metallic blue in 

 front and about the eyes. Thorax and fore wings with dark brown ringlets, 

 which on the latter form six oblique bands. Scutellum with two blue spots. 

 Abdomen above dark blue, clothed with brown hairs at the base, whitish at 

 the tip, with a row of luteous triangular spots along each side ; hind borders 

 of some of the segments partly luteous ; under side slightly testaceous, with 

 three rows of blue spots. Femora with a blue spot on each tip ; fore femora 

 and tibiae partly blue ; tarsi blue. Fore wings with subquadrate, slightly 

 testaceous black-bordered costal spots. Hind wings with the inner angle 

 prolonged into a short tail, and having a black spot. 



Female. White. Palpi partly brown. Antennae black, white at the base. 

 Thorax with four pairs of testaceous ringlets of different sizes and shapes. 

 Abdomen above luteous, with three blue, purple, green or gray bands ; these 

 are more or less dilated and connected on each side, and excavated in the 

 middle, and in one specimen the abdomen is gray above, with three luteous 

 black-bordered stripes. Tibiae with brown ringlets ; tarsi blackish. Fore 

 wings with six oblique bands of connected testaceous brown ringlets, which 

 are very variable in size and shape, and are in some cases partly confluent, 

 and in one variety those in the fifth are partly shaded with brown ; the bor- 

 ders of the costal ringlets, and of a reniform discal ringlet, are darker than 

 the others in the wing. The ringlets are still more variable and irregular in 

 the hind wings, which are occasionally nearly wholly pale brown. 



Honduras, S. America. 



Arachnis, Hubner. 



Fore wings nearly one-third longer than the hinder pair, much longer than 

 the body. The subcostal vein forms a small costal cell, immediately behind 

 the origin of the discal vein, and gives rise to a marginal nervule which sends 

 off, near its middle, a short nervulet to the costa ; near the tip of the wing it 

 sends off the post-apical nervule and behind it becomes bifid. The subcosto- 

 inferior arises on a short stalk common to it and the discal vein. The median 

 is 4-branched, the medio-posterior being very remote from the penultimate 

 branch. Hind wings about equal to the abdome'n, broader than th anterior 

 pair, with neuration as usual in the family. 



Female. Head quite small, somewhat depressed, smooth ; with ocelli. 

 Face moderately broad, slightly inclined. Eyes very small. Antennae simple. 

 Labial palpi rather short, scarcely extending beyond the clypeus, but slightly 

 curved and ascending, and slightly hairy beneath ; third joint short. Tongue 

 exceeding the tips of labial palpi by one-half its length. 



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