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I'ciw of yellowisli brown or dark I'lu'stmit-rcd spots, which stands out but little on the dark j^round and on the 

 hindwing is angled and abbreviated. The under surfac^e is irrorated with yellow-brown. The band of the liind- 

 wing is here ochre-yellow and reaches the inner margin with a large s})ot. Ecuador. — triquetra TIneiiic /rhiiicim. 

 is a form of jiilxi wiiich has on the underside of the hindwing in the anterior jiart of the disc a dark brown triangle 

 on a light ground. Ecuador. 



4o. Genus: Ki*«'<l'is Thitme. 



The forewing is l)roader and shorter than in the genus Pt'tlaliofhs, its distal margin is more rounded, 

 whilst that of the hindwing is wea.kly undulate. The ])rincipal ciuira.cter of the genus consists in the sha])e of 

 tile inner margin of tlie hindwing. which shows a distinct exi'ision before the anal angle. Antenna brownish 

 yellow, with the sejnirate joints somewhat tiiickened at their up])er end and hence forming distinct rings. 

 Its shaft is short, tiie ti]) ()l)tuse, Idack. The butterflies are mostl^y dark brown, below medium size, with eye- 

 spots or leaden-hued lines on the underside of the hindwing. They occur in the mountains of tropical South 

 and Central America. 



E. decorata FIdr. (= Pron. catargyrea Styr., ]ihyllalia >St(jr.) (SO b). Above unicolorous dark brown, ih-romla. 

 distally somewhat lighter. Beneath easy to recognize l)y the very complicated pattern, which the figure distinctly 

 reproduces. From Bogota and Antiocpiia in Colombia. — mariona Weeks (= Pedal, m.) is a form of decoratd marionn. 

 in which the dark brown submarginal line on the underside of the forewing is proximally finely l)ordered with 

 ])rick-red and the markings of the hindwing are more suffused with yellowish. Tlu' retl-yellow bordering of the 

 eye-spots is only narrow, not broad. Bogota. 



E. porphyria Fhlr. (5(i I)). Al)ove unicolorous brown, l^eneath the hindwing has a, straight red-yellow puriihuria. 

 median line, jiroximally bordered with lilac. Beyond the row of small eye-spots 2 lilac untlulate stripes at the 

 margin. Figured from Fklder's type in the Tring Museum. Venezui'la. 



E. ocellifera Fhlr. (")(i v). Above brown, the hindwing with a very small subanal ocellus, the anal uccltifcnt. 

 angle grey, slightly dusted with rust-yellow. On the underside of the hindwing before the eye-spots there 

 is a proximally red-yellow, distally ochre-yellow, anteriorly pointed stripe, running from the inner margin to 

 the middle of the wing. Figured from one of the tyj^es in the Tring jMuseum. Colombia. 



E. encycla Fldr. (56 c). Above unicolorous brown. F^eneath the proximal part of the hindwing is oici/da. 

 ting<'d with ochreous fawn-colour, the eye-spots are larger than in occJJljeni, the space Ix'yond them as far as 

 the submarginal lines is filled up with glossy lead-colour. Figui'cd from Felder's type in the Tring Museum. 

 Venezuela. 



E. calisto Fldr. (5() b). Above daJ'k brown, distally S(.)mewluit lighter. On the under surface of the ndi.ilo. 

 hindwing the eye-sj)()ts are broadly bordered with glossy lead-colour both basally and distally and midway 

 betwci'n the submarginal lines is placed a leaden lint'. Bogotii and V'eja in the Colombian East Cordilleras. 



E. oculata Fldr. (5() d). Hindwing above with small subanal eye-sjxit dusted with rust-yellow. Beneath aciilnta. 

 the wings arc as in tiicychi, but the marginal area of the hindwing is not glossy leaden but violet-grey; the prox- 

 imal stripe red-yellow, proximally bordered with black-brown. The eye-spots are surrounded with \n\\v yellow- 

 brown. Figui'ed from the type in the Tring Museum. Bogot;!. 



E. apuleja Flilr. (Mi b). Above brown, at the anal angle of the iiiiidwing red-\-cllo\\ . which colour (iimUja. 

 occupies the posterior third ot the distal and inner margins. On the underside of the hindwing an ochrc-\ellow 

 band, anteriorly red-yellow, runs to the middle of the wing, becoming narrower anteriorly. The anal angle is 

 red-brown. The eye-spots are very small. Venezuela. — pliyllalia Ihir. is a fornt of npNlcja. with two small, white- iihijltalia. 

 pupilled black spots in the i-ed-yellow anal patch on the upper surface. Ecuador. 



E. hulda Btlr. d' Druce (5(i c). Ai)ove brown, at the anal angle somewhat reddish, with dark submarginal htilila. 

 line. Forewing beneath with 3 transverse lines between middle and distal margin. The anal third of the hind- 

 wing l)eneath is ferruginous, traversed by an interrupted yellow stripe and with 2 eye-spots before the anal 

 angle. According to the "Biologia Centrali Americana" Butler described this species from a damaged specimen 

 in coll. Druce. Hence Godman and Salvin's diagnosis and figure in the above work agree but little with the 

 original description. Costa Rica. The species seems, however, to be more widely distributed, for the example 

 from coll. Weymer figured here, which agrees with the figure just mentioned, is from Ecuador. 



E. subpunctata <S'wi. d- Kirhy. Brown. Forewing beneath with 2 dark transverse lines in the middle .•^uliimnc- 

 and 2 before the margin. Hindwing at the base dark brown, in the middle somewhat reddish, then a ferruginous '"'"■ 

 dentate stripe, bordered with dark brown at both sides, and a grey-brown band with (i small, black, white- 

 pupilled eye-si)ots. At the distal margin 2 ferruginous marginal lines. From Bolivia. — unibriiia form. >iov. idnhrhui. 

 (56 e) approaches subpunctittu, but differs from it in the presence of 2 anal eye-spots on the ui.pcrside of the 

 hindwing, one" in cellule 1 c near the distal margin, the other in celhde 2 somewhat further from the margin, 

 both black with light iirown ring and white pupil. For the rest the upi)er surface is dark l)niwn, at the margin 



