( 40? ) 



tipper one, R- curved at base. Genital armature as in (jorgon, apical process of 

 tenth tergite rather shorter and more straight. 



?. Not known. 



Hab. Mexico to Southern Brazil. 



Two subspecies : 



fi. E. taedium taedium. 

 *E>ty(i taedium Schaus, I.e. 



S. D' of forewing about half the length of D*. 



Hab. Mexico to Colombia, probably ranging to Bolivia. 



In the Tring Museum 'i (S S from : Rio Dagua, (!olombia (W. Rosenberg); 

 ( 'harnplaya, Bolivia, vii. (Simons) ; Juntas, Oauca (Matlian). The last received 

 from Mons. Charles Oberthiir, who has a series from Juntas. 



b. E. t((C(li>im ((tt.stralis subsp. uov. 



Enyn li/ctKs, Walker, /.<•. (partim). 

 Eiii/o 0'>''9<>"i Butler, I.e. (partim). 



c?. Differs from the western form in the halfmoon-shaped pale marginal space 

 of the forewing being more sharply defined, pure in colour, with the veins in it not 

 streaked with brown, and in D' of the forewing being less than one-third the 

 length of D^ the cell being narrower than in tdediuni taedium. 



Hah. Brazil ; Venezuela ; probably in all suitable districts cast of the Andes. 



In the Tring Museum 1 <S (type) from Petropolis. 



In the British Museum 2 S 6 from Brazil and Venezuela. 



337. Epistor cavifer spec. nov. 



Thyreiiit h/clu><, Herrich.-Sch. {mm. Cramer, 177',1), Ax^xfi: Sriim. i. f. 108 (1854) (Brazil). 

 Epistor lyclim, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Hit. i. p. 300. n. G (1875) (partim). 

 Enyu gorgim, Butler {mm Cramer, 1779), Trans. Zool. Soc. Loud. ix. p. 641. u. 4 (1877) (partim). 

 Enyo 'lyctii.1, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Ilel. i. p. 645. n. 7 (1892) (partim). 



c?. Body and wings, above, much darker than in tjoi-qoti and taedium, chocolate 

 mummy-brown, almost black in some places. Dorso-lateral patches of wool on 

 abdomen large, directed upwards and backwards, sixth tergite with greyish white 



fringe. Forewing, iijtperside : apex truncate, not sinuate ; basal two-thirds 



flnslied with grey, excejit a large space between M- and R^ and the costal margin, 

 which are chocolate-black, the greyish area forming a curved band from costal margin 

 to liinder margin at angle ; posterior veins within this band with interrupted bluish 

 white streaks, posterior i)art of grey area crossed by dark undulating lines running 

 from black patch backwards, costal margin with thin bluish white lines proximally 

 of ajjcx of cell ; onter third of wing like discal patch, excepting a sharply defined 

 marginal halfmoon from SO' beyond M', which is clayish ; SC''^ and R' with 

 interrupted bluish white streaks, bluish white scales also at costal margin ; an 

 ovate subbasal cavity behind M, deep, clothed with dispersed narrow and long 



scales ; fold as narrow as in taedium. Hindwing dark mummy-brown, apex 



down to M' and costal area paler ; submarginal dark line rather more distal than 

 in the allied species, outer margin less convex. 



Underside : barely darker than in gorgon. Cell of forewing narrower than 

 in gorgon and taedium, W very short, curved, D^ longitudinal, not oblique or 

 transverse ; R^ curved, R^ also a little. 



