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fonti. nor. It has additional yellow dusting in tlip end of the cell of the forewing and on the hindwing. On 

 the undei' surface the margins are darker red-hrown with hlackish l)orders. 



E. carcinia Scliaus, from South Brazil, is said to have colourless wings with narrow margins and a carcinia. 

 white sjiot behind the cell at the costal margin of the forewing. — In pasena Schnus, from Central Brazil, the i^asena. 

 body is said to be grey beneath: the transparent wings with ver_y narrow brown margins. Forewing with 

 narrow streak at the end of the cell and a transparent streak at the costal margin. Hindwing with 1 — 2 

 white dots at the apex of the under surface. 



E. mira Hew. (= segesta Weijm.) (39 d), from eastern Ecuador, has a very broad yellow halt-band at mira. 

 the end of the cell of the forewing and is otherwise similar to clausina. 



E. hymenaea Prittw. (39 e), from Central Brazil, has brownish margins and lialf-baud at the end of the hymcnaea. 

 Cell of tile forewing and in addition a whitish patch. Diaphanous spots are placed at the distal margin of 

 lioth wings. On the under surface the margins are lighter. — hymen Hsch. (39 e), from southern Bolivia, hymen. 

 is smaller with broader margins and half-band at the end of the cell, and also a yellow oblique band. Sub- 

 costal red-brown at the base. The median, the end of the cell and the hinder angle of the forewing are dusted 

 with yellow, and also the lower radial of the hindwing and a stripe at the costal margin on the under surface. 



E. sulphurea H.scli.. fi-om the border of Peru and Bolivia, has longer wings, broader yellow oblique sulphurca. 

 band and broader dark brown margins. The yellow dusting is extended over the cell of the forewing and the 

 greater part of the hindwing; on the other hand it is absent at the costal margin of the hindwing beneath. 



E. sao Hbn. (39 d). from Brazil, has broader dark margins and yellow patch at the end of the cell of sao. 

 the forewing. Base of the under surface of the hindwing yellow-brown, distal margin with 4 white crescents. 

 — obscurata F. is according to Butler a dark form of the preceding. ohscumta. 



E. sylpha Hscli. (39 e), from Venezuela, is similar to Miraleria sykella, but is smaller and has different sylpha. 

 neuration. The wings are diaphanous with brownish margins; at the costal and inner margins of the fore- 

 wing with yellow-brown, and the same at the inner angle of the liindwing. At the end of the cell of the fore- 

 wing a yellow patch. 



E. polita Weijm. (39 e) is very similar to Fieronijmia aleita. The wings are dark-shaded with dark iiolila. 

 brown margins. The inner margin and the subcostal of the forewing, as well as the veins in the disc of the 

 hindwing, are yellow-brown. Besides the yellow spot at the end of the cell both wings have further yellowish 

 patches at the distal margin and in the end of the cell, polita flies together with Pteronijmia aletia in Colombia. 



E. cabenis Hsch. is somewhat larger, with colourless wings, dark brown margins and white half-band cahenis. 

 behind the brown one at the end of the cell. On the under surface the margins are yellow-brown, dark-margined 

 with 1 — 2 dots in the apex of both wings. It flies hke the similar Helena Hsch. in eastern Colombia. The helena. 

 latter is still larger, with narrower margins, triangular spot at the end of the cell of the forewing and broader 

 white half-band, 



E. Sidonia Hsch., from southern Peru, has more pointed wings; cell of the hindwing with long recurrent sidonia. 

 vein. The white patch at the end of the cell of the forewing is only distinct at the costal margin and on the 

 radials. On the under surface the margins are deep ochreous coloured, without white dots in the apex. 



E. cora {Bang-H. i.l.), from Bohvia, is larger than the similar tlcidella Hew. (39 e), from eastern Ecuador, ncidella. 

 The wings in cora are slightly brownish; behind the end of the cell of the forewing, at the distal margin and 

 at the inner angle of the hindwing yellowish. Across the end of the cell of the forewing there is a broad 

 brown wedge-spot; in ficidella there is only a very narrow dark mark here and behind it a whitish patch. 

 On the under surface the margins in cora are light yellow-brown, in ticidella brownish with white dots in the 

 apex of the forewing arid at the distal margin of the hindwing. 



E. canilla Hew. (= canaletta Stgr.) (39 c) has elongate wings with yellow dusting, except in the apex, canllla. 

 The margins are dark brown; in the $, especially in the hindwing, nuich broader. On the under surface the 

 margins are brown-red, with dark borders; at the base of the hindwing yellow; with white double spots in the 

 apex of the forewing and at the distal margin of the hindwing. 



E. perasippa Hew. (39 e) is a very large, little marked species from Ecuador and Colombia. The wings perasippa. 

 are yellowish, vitreous with narrow brown margins and a streak across the end of the cell of the forewing. The 

 subcostal of the forewing and the underside of the margins are yellow-brown. 



E. dirama Hsch. (39 f), from Bolivia, is smaller, with broader streak at the end of the cell and yellow dirama. 

 spot behind it. The costal margin of the hindwing is yellow on the under surface. — alidella Hew., from Co- alidella. 

 lombia, is a very similar form, which also much resembles Pteronymia alula. Hewitson has noticed that 

 there is a difference between the two in the neuration, which also appears to be constant for other species 

 of Episcada and Ptero7iymia: in alida the lower arm of the lower discocellular of the forewing is the longer; in 

 alidella it is the upper one. alidella has broader wings with dark margins and broad yellow half-band at the 

 end of the cell of the forewing. In the $ there are further several yellow patches at the distal margin. 



E. scantilla Hew., from eastern Ecuador and Colombia, has similar wing-form to dirama, a white spot scaniilla. 

 at the end of the cell of the forewing and white patches at the distal margins. 



