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ERESIA EMERANTIA. 7, 11. 
Uprrersipr. Male black. Anterior wing with a large space of orange from 
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the inner margin to near the centre, marked near the base by a line of black. 
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Beyond the middle, and nearly equidistant from the margins, a trifid white spot. 
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Posterior wing from the base (which is black) to beyond the middle orange ; the outer 
margin broadly black. 
Unpersipr. Anterior wing as above, but lighter, with a triangular spot of 
yellow on the middle of the costal margin; a submarginal row of spots, white near 
the apex of the wing, yellow below, and a second row of indistinct white spots at the 
apex. Posterior wing with the orange as above, but lighter; the costal margin from 
the base to beyond its middle yellow, bordered by a band of black which joins the 
black of the outer margin ; a submarginal row of seven large yellow spots, and within 
them, on the inner border of the black, a row of four lilac spots, divided by the median 
nervules. 
BExpan. 23% in. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
ERESIA ERANITES. 8, 9, 10. 
Upprrsipr. Male black. Anterior wing with an oblong space from the base 
to beyond the middle; a short oblique trifid band from the costal margin beyond the 
middle; a bifid spot between it and the outer margin; two parallel rows of minute 
spots across the apex, and two minute spots near the anal angle, all rufous-orange. 
Posterior wing with a longitudinal central band, a minute spot at the apex, and two 
short limes near the anal angle, rufous-orange. 
Unpursipe. Anterior wing nearly as above, but much lighter; the spots be- 
yond the middle and the apex light yellow. Posterior wing light yellow with a band 
from near the base ending in a large spot at the middle of the costal margin, and a 
broad band on the outer margin from the anal angle to beyond its middle, claret 
colour, the latter traversed by two rows of lunular yellow spots, the upper ones upon 
a narrow band of black. 
Female larger than the male, from which it differs on the anterior wing in 
having all the spots beyond the middle hght yellow or white, and one half of the 
bifid spot replaced by two minute spots which form part of the two rows across the 
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