KUSELA,S1A. By i)r. A. Seitz. (il'i) 



avcaiiite .stripe, and behind tliis a series of small dark subniarginai spots. The hiudwing exhibits at tiie end 

 ef tlie u])per median vein an angle, a small tooth or even a stronger tooth. CTiiiana, (.'olond)ia and Lower Amazon 

 (Santaiem), not common. ■ — Tailed specimens from Muzo (Colombia) already forma transition to the very 

 similar, likewise one-coloured dark-brown angulata Bates (122 e) from the Upper Amazon; licre the tooth of ,ni;iiii,iia. 

 the hindwing is protracted in the shape of a lol)e and also the border of the forewing is drawn forth angularly 

 Rare. -- clesa Hew. (122 e) is the largest form of the species; it lies before me in but one ^ from Rio de JaneiiX) '/r.s^. 

 where it is apparently very rare. The hindwing is broken almost rectangularly, with a very strong canine tooth, 

 on the under surface the shadowy thransverse line is thinner, the one between it and the border of the hind- 

 ■\\'ing is absent altogether, as well as the spots before the margin. 



E. modesta Bates from the Rio Tapajoz is known to me only from the description; it is above darker, inuih.^iii. 

 beneath lighter brown, the forewing clipped at the apex, behind the middle somewhat brighter; hindwing 

 rounded at the anal angle. The transverse line beneath is somewhat darker than the ground-colom'. Size of 

 (iiiguJ'ttii. 



E. amphidecta G. and »S'. (122 b). The upper surface has large red-brown, discal, diffuse sjjots iha amphUlccta. 

 shape and distribution of which remind us of the yellowish-red of labdacus, but the under surface is marked 

 almost like in crotopiis or nnfjidatn, of a yellowish colour, with a transverse stripe running parallel to the border. 

 The ^ is no rarity in the southern parts of Central America (Veragua, Chiriqui) and Colond)ia (Muzo, Cundina- 

 marca). The $ is not yet known, and it is, therefore, not unlikely that it is a (J-form of tlie following spec:ies 

 flying at the same plat'cs (for instance, on the Chiricpii). 



E. euploea Hev\ Size and shape like ninphidect<i, the under surface also similar, but the upper surface i-uplm-d. 

 in the (^ of a fiery red-yellow as in tahdarns (122 b); on the border of the hindwing, between the veins, there 

 rest the bases of black triangles the points of which sliow in the direction of the base. Amazon. Not before me. 



E. cucuta Sells. Forewing dark brown; a large, dark red spot extending somewhat into the cell and cucKfa. 

 along the vein -i. but not reaching the distal margin; beneath the subcostal, at the base of the cell, a short 

 red streak. Hindwings dark red, costal margin and inner margin brown. Under surface brownish grey, a 

 reddish median line being bordered in black and cmved near the inner margin of the hindwing; before the 

 border a narrow brownish shade. Hindwing with a light-brown distal margin; between the veins 3 and 4 a 

 black spot behind bordered in white; beneath the vein 2 two yellowish, black-speckled streaks ending in white, 

 a similar one above the anal angle; the outermost border darker, beneath vein 2 ochreous. 22 mm. Cucuta, 

 Venezuela. 



E. cheles 0. and S. (122 c) (as nurantiacit). Only the $ is known and most variable. Above yello- chclcs. 

 wish red with blackish margins of the forewings, the ground-colour with light spots in and behind the cell. 

 The under surface is pale ochre-yellow, the brownish transverse stripe runs almost cpiite straight. Before me 

 from Venezuela. — aurantiaca G. and >S'., from Central America, with transitions from cheles, has much larger aumntiaca. 

 $9 the under siu'face of which exhibits the very same colours and markings as cheles, but which are above 

 more fiery red-yellow, with a lilackish apex of all the wings; between this and the red-yellow basal part of the 

 forewing there is a dark yellow oblic^ue band. Godjiax and Salvin include in this latter form lying before me 

 from the Chiriqui, ^^ being above miniate, beneath earthy grey and looking almost like gydn-^ (122 c), though 

 they are redder and have a black apex of the hindwing. Rare. 



E. leucon Schs. (142 c) from Costa Rica is somewhat smaller, the $ above dark brown with an orange- Icucon. 

 yellow disc of the forewing, the ^ with ;i black forewing being only at the base red-brown and a red-brown 

 hindwing with a black costal and distal margin. Under surface with an irregular dark median band and a 

 thinner, duller line traversing the distal area; befoie the middle of the border of the hindwing a black smjill 

 spot tinged witli white. 



E. Julia Drc. Larger than leucoii. Above the forewings are dark brown, shaded by red-brown from inliit. 

 the base to the middle. Hindwing dark red-brown with a brown distal margin. LTnder surface dull A\liite. the 

 margins red-brown. Both wings are traversed by a coherent, curved, yellowish-red line which is slightly broken 

 near the inner margin of the hindwing. The forewing is traversed by a delicate brown submarginal line. Hind- 

 wings with a subnuxrginal row of 6 black spots being very small except the one next to the costal margin. Saii- 

 tarem on the .\mazon. 



E. labdacus Cr. (122 b). Wings above miniate with broad blackish-brown margins of variable shapes. lalMlacii.f. 

 Under surface yellowish- or silveiy-white with several brownish-yellow or black transverse lines, the one of 

 which, in the middle of the hindwing before the inner margin, forms a distinct W. Of the $ I only po.ssess 

 one very bad specimen which seems to have been sulphurous, otherwise like the ^, but the under surface 

 is duller, yellowish, the transverse lines pale. Larva of a bright brick-red with broad blackish-green subcostal 

 stripes and white points liehind the head; on Mamniea americana. Pupa green, witli brown markings. The 

 butterfly has a range from the northern coast of South America (Colombia, Guiana) to the south as far as 

 Bolivia; the (J(J are locally not rare. 



E. argeiltea Hew. (122 g). Above blackish-brown with a red ray from the base of the hindwing as unjcntca. 

 far as beyond the anal angle, almost exactly like in hieronymi, but beneath of quite a different appearance, 

 since argentea is beneath silvery with numerous transverse stripes and a yellowish-red anal angle of the hind- 

 wing. The 9 is beneath like the (J, but above blackish-brown with a large orange-yellow spot of the forewing 



