274 ■ LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



stoat; median and apical spurs of the hind tibioe of moderate 



length. 



Walker. 



1. E. interrupta Walker, 1628. 



Male. Black, with a metallic green tinge. Thorax with white 

 or green marginal dots in front, and with two dorsal streaks of 

 the same hue. Abdomen with a white dot at the base, and with 

 interrupted gilded green bands ; under side with two lateral rows 

 of white spots, which decrease in size hindward. Legs piceons. 

 Wings black, narrow. Fore wings with four elongated limpid 

 spots, the hind one of the first pair nearer the base of the wing 

 than the fore one, which, like the exterior pair is intersected by 

 the black veins. Hind wings with the disk limpid towards the 

 base, and with an exterior intersected limpid, spot. Length of 

 the body 7| lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



Mexico. 



Walker. 



Group Anticliloris. 



Antichloris Eiihner. Verz. Schmett. 124. 



Body rather narrow. Palpi moderately long ; second joint 

 small. Antennae rather deeply pectinated, serrated towards the 

 tips. Fore wings opaque, unspotted, rather broad, slightly pointed 

 at the tips, obtusely angular on the hind border. Hind wings 

 obliquely truncated and slightly angular at the tips ; hind border 

 a little sinuated. Peculiar in the form of the hind wings. 



1. E. eriphia Fahr. A. phcmonoe Hiibn. Samml. Ex. Sclimett. 9, 8, f. 

 15-6. A. caca Samml. Ex. Schmett. 24, 67, f. 133, 4. 



Var. 31ale. Gilded green. Head crimson behind. Tongue and 

 antennae black. Palpi black, white beneath. Thorax crimson on 

 each side in front. Pectus with white spots on each side. Abdo- 

 men above black, with three rows of triangular gilded green spots; 

 under side with two lateral interrupted white stripes, which extend 

 from the base to the middle. Fore coxse white beneath. "Wings 

 dark brown. Hind wings whitish in front. 



Mexico, West Indies. 



Walker. 



