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TRACHEA AURIPLENA (Plate 148, Fig. 2). 

 Eurois aurijileua, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xi. p. 5.57 (1857). 



Forewing brown ; crossed by a subbasal and an antemedial zigzag green-bordered 



black line, a discal denticulated black linewitli purplish-grey outer border, an irregular 



zigzag snbmarginal grey-bordered black line, and a marginal row of green-bordered 



black Innules; orbicular mark round, reniform mark large, both with green inner 



border ; a more or less purplish-white streak extending from between the orbicular 



and reniform marks obliquely below the cell ; the area between the inner lines, and 



also between the discal hues suffused with purplish-grey : hindwing brownish-white, 



with a broad dark brown marginal band ; cilia white, with inner brown line. Thorax, 



head, palpi, and legs brown, green streaked ; tarsi with greenish bands ; abdomen 



cinereous-brown. 



Expanse If inch. 



Genus EUROIS. 



Eu7-ois, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 218 (1818-25). 

 Forewing long ; exterior margin oblique ; cell long, narrow, extending three- 

 fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted beyond one-half before end of the cell, 

 second at one-fourth, trifid, third at one-third from base of second, fourth at one-half 

 from base of third, fifth from end of the cell and touching the third near its base ; 

 discocellular bent acutely inward in the middle and slightly outward near lower end, 

 radials from upper end and lower angle ; middle median from close to end of the cell, 

 lower at more than one-third before the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing broad, 

 exterior margin oblique, waved ; two subcostals from a short distance beyond end of 

 the cell ; discocellular bent in the middle, radial from below the middle ; two upper 

 medians from end of tlie cell, lower at one-fourth; submedian and internal vein 

 straight. Body stout ; j^alpi laxly clothed beneath, second joint broad, third joint 

 short, thick, conical; antennse finely ciliated; legs stout, pilose, middle and hind 

 tibia3 spurred. {E. occulta.) 



EUROIS INCLUSA. 



Eurois inclusa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 725 (1865). 



" Female. Greenish-brown : forewings speckled with black ; cinereous about 

 the middle and about the exterior border ; costa hardly convex ; tips slightly rounded ; 

 exterior border very oblique ; a short black basal line ; interior and exterior lines 

 black, the first nearly straight, the second denticulated and much bent outward ; 

 marginal line brown, interrupted by each vein ; orbicular mark forming a blackish 

 dot ; reniform mark almost obsolete : hindwings cinereous ; marginal line brown. 

 Abdomen and underside cinereous, the former speckled with black. 



" Expanse 18 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in Mr. E. L. Layard's Collection. 



