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Remarks: This species is very similar to E. lelae, new species, 

 from which it may be separated by sHght differences in maculation, 

 genitalia, and by geographical distribution as explained in the dis- 

 cussion of lelae. It may be separated from the other species of the 

 splendens complex by the characters indicated in the keys. 



Method of determination: The species was identified from the 

 illustration in Hampson, 1910, pi. 174, fig. 1. A photograph of a 

 specimen so identified was then compared with the type for me by 

 Mr. D. S. Fletcher at the British Museum. 



Eusceptis lelae, new species 



Figures 13, 14, 25, 26 



This species is very similar to splendens except the gray brown 

 terminal line usually does not cross the anal vein or reach the apex 

 of the forewing, the fringe usually paler; the dull reddish-brown 

 shading basad of base of oblique subterminal bar and distad of upper 

 ocellate spot of forewing paler; outer dark mark of upper ocellate spot 

 nearly as dark as similar mark of lower ocellate spot; clasper of left 

 valve straight or nearly so, clubbed apically (fig. 25). Length of 

 forewing: male, 13 to 14 mm.; female, 14 to 15 mm. 



Type: Type male, Avangarez, Costa Rica, July-August, William 

 Schaus (USNM 64640); 1 male paratype, same place, July, Schaus 

 and Barnes collectors; 1 male paratype, Chejel, Guatemala, June, 

 Schaus and Barnes collectors; 1 male paratype, Cayuga, Guatemala, 

 April, Schaus and Barnes collectors; 1 female paratype, Mexico, no 

 date or collector, and 1 female paratype, Mexico City, Alexico, no 

 date or collector, in the collection of the U.S. National Museum. 

 One male paratype, Quirigua, Guatemala, September, Schaus and 

 Barnes collectors, in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Distribution : This species is known to occiu* in Mexico, Guatemala, 

 and Costa Rica. 



Remarks : E. lelae, new species, and E. splendens (Druce) differ in 

 maculation from E. extensa (Strand) in that the gray brown sub- 

 terminal oblique bar of the female is not widest at base and in that 

 the hindwing of the male is mostly yellow orange. They differ from 

 the other two species of the complex in that the basal parts of the 

 ocellate spots of the forewing do not form a sinuous line and in that 

 the fringe is not uniformly dark. In the male and female genitaUa 

 lelae and splendens agree and differ from the other species of the 

 splendens complex because the right valve lacks a costal spine of the 

 sacculus and the sclerotized part of the ductus bursae forms a groove 

 to the left side. 



