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<E; teiitatrix, Walk., Cat. Dermap. Salt., V, Suppl. 75. 



Male. — Testaceous or tawny. Head small; fastigium short, with two 

 parallel keels, which are continuous with the inner pair of the four slight 

 diverging keels of the front. Eyes elliptical. Prothorax short, sub-sellate, 

 widening hindward, with a very slight keel, and with slight transverse-im- 

 pressed lines, occasionally with some small black marks. Hind femora with 

 two irregular black bands. Hind tibiae reddish, as long as the hind femora, 

 pale-yellow at the base, near which there is a blackish band. Fore wings with 

 many partly-confused brown marks ; apical part obliquely pale cinereous, with 

 some brown points. Hind wings rose-color ; apical half obliquely pellucid ; 

 an irregular, oblique, brown band, which tapers hindward, and is much abbre- 

 viated toward the costa. 



Length of the body, 7 to 12 lines; expansion of the fore wings, 17 to 

 24 lines. 



Oajaca (Mexico). 



<E. §pecio§a, Walk. Cat. Dermap. Salt., IV, 735. 



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Male. — Pale-testaceous, with white hairs. Head and pronotum with 

 two irregular black stripes, which on the pronotum are dilated and emit a 

 fork. Head tawny above ; fore part whitish ; a band of four black points 

 between the eyes ; the two carinse of the tip black, slightly angular ; face 

 with four slight carinas, which disappear below. Antennas tawny, blackish 

 toward the tips. Eyes short, elliptical. Pronotum short, wdth a very slight 

 carina and with four transverse furrows ; first furrow widely interrupted in 

 the middle ; second and third undulating; fourth straight; hind border 

 obtusely angular. Hind femora a little longer than the abdomen, with two 

 black bands, which are indeterminate on the outside. Hind tibiae bright-red, 

 much shorter than the hind femora, black, with the exception of a broad 

 white band for nearly half the length from the base. Four anterior legs 

 with irregular blackish bands. Elytra with two large brown patches, which 

 are accompanied by brown dots and are partly cinereous ; first patch near the 

 base, second slightly antemedial ; two exterior brown spots and a few more 

 exterior brown dots ; costa round near the base. Wings pellucid with black 

 veins; veins toward the base and along tlie inner border rosy, and bordered 

 with roseate ; a pale-brownish space along the hinder part of the outer 

 border. 



