( 1'5 ) 



last two segments. Forewing creamy white, three irregular zigzag transverse 



lines, the nervures and a large patch on and around discocellulars sooty brown. 



Hindwing sooty grey, nervures darker. 



? has ground colour of forewings greyer and disc of hindwing paler. 



Length of forewing : 27 mm. 



Ilab. Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, September 1906 (S. M Klages) (type). 

 Manaos, Amazons, September 1900 (M. de Mathan) ; Rio Janeiro. 



116. Eucereon schausi sp. nov. 



3 ? . Similar to so/ton, but much larger and whiter. 



Pectus and two very broad bands on underside of abdomen white ; head grey 

 with orange spots ; thorax greyish white edged with sooty grey ; abdomen sooty 



grey, last segment yellow with basal black line or ring. Forewing white, a patch 



on discocellulars, some irregular spots and streaks and the nervures brown- 

 black. — ■ — Hindwing semihyaline grey with darker margins. 



? sometimes slightly greyer. 



Length of forewing: 3 19 mm., ? 23 mm. 



Hab. Jalapa, Me.xico, April 1896 (W. Schaus) (type); San Jos6, Costa Rica 

 (Underwood) ; Tuis, Costa Rica ; Onaca, Sta Marta, 2U00 ft., wet season, 

 November 1901 (Engeike); Paramba, Ecuador, November — December 1898 (W. H. 

 Rosenberg) ; Lita, Ecuador, 3000 ft. (Flemming). 



117. Eucereon tessellatum sji. nov. 



(?. Nearest to marmoraUim Butl. Differs in being smaller with narrower 

 forewings. Tiie patagia are pale yellowish grey with brown-black borders, not 

 dark grey with central black band ; the whole thorax is yellowish grey, not dark 



grey. Forewings yellowish grey, not dark grey ; basal fourth shaded with 



dark brown and the antemedial transverse angnlated lines are only visible below 

 vein 1 ; nervures dark brown, a large irregnlar oblique ivedge-shaped band of dark 

 brown from costa to tornus and two brown bands in apical region. 



Length of forewing : marmoratum, 23 mm. 



Breadth „ ■ „ 10 mm. 



Length „ tessellatum, Is mm. 



Breadth „ ,, 7 mm. 



Hab. La Vuelta, Canra River, Venezuela, May 1903 (S. M. Klages) (type); 

 Maripa, Caura River (S. M. Klages) ; La Union, Canra River, August 1901 (S. M. 

 Klages) ; Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley, Surinam, April 1905 (S. M. Klages) ; 

 Allianca, below San Antonio, Rio Madeira, November — December 1907 (W. Hoff- 

 manns). 



118. Eucereon marmoratum ab. atratum ab. nov. 



Forewings and thorax sooty brown-black with marbling darker. 



Ilab. La Union, Caura River, September 27— October 15, 1901 (S. M. Klages). 



119. Eucereon obliquifascia sp. nov. 



? . Similar to piloti Walker, but paler and the spotting on forewings larger 

 and more irregular; the black streak on vein 3 is wanting and a broad oblique 

 dark brown band crosses the wing from costa near middle of cell to tornus, 



Ilab. Port of Spain, Trinidad (F. Birch). 



