128 MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



EACLES PEISTELOPE (Cramer). 



Attactm penelope Cramer, Papillons exot. I, p. 70, PI. XLV, fig. A. 1774. 



Elides penelojie HvB>iER, Verzeichniss Sehmett, p. 153. 1818-1822. 



Lonomia penehipe Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Br. Mus. VII, p. 1766. 1856. 



Bcwlona ducalis Boisduval, Annales Soc. Ent. France {4me ser. ) VIII, p. 319. 1868. 



JSacles ducalis Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Br. Mus. VI, p. 1374. 1855. 



Eades penelope Peters, Die Heteroceren-Raupen, p. 9, larva. Tab. Ill, fig. 7. (189S)-1901. 



Basiloaa penelope TivRitEi^TER, Descr. Phj'. Rep. Argentine, Atlas, p 46, P!. xx, fig. 1. 1S79. 



Bunneister giv'e.s an excellent figure and description of the larva. (See our PI. XVII. fig. 1.) 



Peters describes the larva, which seems to be a true Eacles, having no spines on the pro- 

 thdi-acic segment, but low tubercles instead, the dorsal and caudal horns being short and stout — as 

 having a violet dorsal line bordered with white. It is peculiar in having yellow wart-like out- 

 growths on the anal legs and suranal plate (At'terklappe). 



Food plant. — It lives on Melastomew, also on the guava [Pisidium poiiiifei'iiin), one of the 

 Myrtaceae. • 



Geographical distrihutlon. — This species does not occur near Rio, and only inhabits the high- 

 lands, also occurring in the more southern states of Brazil. Cramer records it from Surinam. 



The moth entirely differs from E. imperkdif! and jiuiijnijica, in the male sex. 



SPECIES NOT SEEN BY ME. 



Eades ormondei Schaus, Ent. Amer. V, p. 192, 9 1889; Jnurn. N. Y. Ent. Soc, IV, p. 154, g. 1896.— Drucb, 

 Biol. Centr.-Anier. Lep. Het. II, p. 413. Tab. lxxix, fig. 10, $. Sept., 1897. 



Judging irom Druce's figure this species differs from E. imperkdls in rather slight features. 

 The wings are of the same shape, the spots and l)ands in the same position. Perhaps it will be 

 found to be a local variation of E. hiipvi'kdh. 



It occurred in Coatepec and Orizaba, Mexico (Schaus). 



Eades masoni Schaus, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. IV, p. 1.54. Dec, 1896. — Dkuce, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Lep. Het. 

 II, p. 413. Tab. LXXIX, fig. 9, S- Sept., 1897. 



This also appears to me, judging from Druce's figure of Mr. Schaus's type, to be a local 

 form or variation of E. imperialu. The fore wings are more acute than in E. ormondei., but 

 E. iiiiper/al is vnvies in this respect. The outer edge of the hind wings is dull brown and the fore 

 wings more suffused with brown ocherous than usual. Tiie discal spots of both wings are 

 situated much as in 7^ iiiij>i'rialis and are of the same size and color. Orizaba, Mexico (Schaus). 

 Eades maz/nijica Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Lep. Het. I, p. 169. Tab. 15, fig. 13, $. II, p. 412. Sept., 1897. 



This is truly a magnificent form, but yet I am inclined, judging only from Druce's figure, 

 to suppose that it may prove to be but a local variety of E. ii/ijiir/'al/s, unless it prove to be 

 E. caclcus. The shape of the wings is the same; the discal spots and lines and patches of 

 purplish on both wings are almost identical with a smaller male from Pennsylvania. 



Druce records it from Cordova, Durango City, Mexico; Chontalcs, Nicaragua; Joyabaj, 

 Guatemala, and also the city of Guatemala; Volcan do Chirique, Panama; San Pedro Sula, British 

 Honduras; Para. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Argentine Repul)lic and Paraguay. 



CITHERO>.'^I^ Hiibiier. 



(Pis. XVIII, XIX, XX.) 



Bombj/x Fabricics, Ent. Syst, III (1), p. 436. 1793. 



Plialat'iia .\hbot and S.Mrrn, Lep. Ins. Georgia. 1797. 



Citheroiiia (Eacles pt.) Huhner, Verzeichniss Sehmett. , p. 153. 1818-1822. 



Ceracampa Kirby ami Spence, Intr. Entomology, II, p. 235, III, p. 179. 1828. 



Ceraioeampa (Ceracampa Kirby) IlARRLsCat. Ins. Mass., p. 591. 1834; Ibid., Hitchcock's Rep. Geology of Mass., 



pp. 72, 592. 18.35; Rep. Inj. Ins. Mass., p. 287. 1841; tliird edit., p. 399. 1862.— West wood. Edit. 



Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. 

 Dorijcampa (in part) Duncan, Nat. Libr. Exot. M'oths, p. 158. 1S41. 

 Eades (in part) Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Br. Mus., VI, p. 1370. 18.55. 



