ECTOMIS; RHABDOIDES; BUNGALOTIS. By Dr. M. Dhapdt. 871 



C. electrus M<xb. is very conspicuous owing to its orange-yellow palpi; the forewing exhibits 3 apical ckctrus. 

 dots. The band ends pointedly below. Beneath the hindwing is quite black, only in the disc with few yellow 

 scales. Brazil. 



C. zeutus Mschlr. (= koluthos Plotz) (172 d) has no apical dots; the thorax is above olive-green ^culus. 

 like the bases of the wings. Body beneatli yellowish-white. The white band of the forewing is light yellow at 

 the costal margin. Fringes at the proximal angle of the forewing and of the whole hindwing white. Hindwing 

 beneath strewn with greenish, the 2 black bands bordered with a lighter colour. Guiana, Colombia. 



C. sulfureolus Mab. has a light sulfurous band and 3 apical dots in one line; fringes of the hindwings sulfureohis. 

 narrow yellow. Hindwing beneath reddish-grey with 2 darker narrow bands and a dot at the base. Brazil. 



C. vectilucis Btlr. (168 g) has 4 apical dots, otherwise the same. Fringes of the hindwings more veclilucis. 

 yellowish-grey than the narrow distal margin. Hindwing beneath blackish-brown, similarly marked. Guatemala 

 to Colombia. 



21. GeiiiLs: Hctomis 3Inb. 



It has the same characters as Cecropterus, but the hindwing is rounded like a lobe at the costal margin 

 and covered with a membrane like a pocket. Beneath the forewing shows a hair-jjcneil at the base of the lower 

 median vein. The posterior tibiae are covered with long, bent hair and exhibit 2 pair of spurs. Only 1 species: 



E. adoxa Mab. is quite black, on the forewing with a hyaline sjjot parted by the veins, in the shape adoxa. 

 of a short median band growing broader downward; above it at the costal margin the band is continued by 

 white dusting. Beneath similar, but the hyaline band is broadly bordered with white. Described according 

 to a (^ from Cayenne. In the British Museum there is said to be another quite black animal devoid of the 

 hyaline spot. 



22. Genus: Bliabdoicles Scdd. 



Antennal club moderately thickened, bent round to a long hook. The 3rd palpal joint is conical and 

 somewhat longer extended. On the forewing the upper median vein rises before the lower cell-angle; the cell 

 itself is covered with short hair. There is no costal fold ; posterior tibiae as in Ectomis. 



R. cellus Bsd. t£- Lee. (= festus Hbn.) (169 a, b) is above deep blackish-brown with a beautiful ccUus. 

 chrome-yellow, partly transparent oblicjue band and on the hindwing with speckled yellow fringes. Beneath 

 the hindwing is strewn with a lilac grey towards the margin and exhibits 2 blackish-grey macular bands. Wide- 

 spread in North and Central America. — From Mexico there is a form before me from Orizaba: mexicana form, ine.vicana. 

 nov. (169 a) in both sexes, with an almost twice as broad, deep orange-yellow band terminating round below, 

 the small apical spots still smaller, reduced to 2, the yellow fringes of the hindwings narrower. — pseudocellus j>.<!ci(doceI- 

 Cool. from Arizona has also an orange-yellow band, but it is much smaller, with grey fringes of the hindwings, '"•'• 



and beneath the lilac-grey scales are absent on the hindwings. 



R. casica H.-Schaff. (= epigena Btlr.) (169 b) is dark brown with minute hyaline spots in the disc cas'ica. 

 and before the apex, the hindwing with broadly white fringes. The hindwing is white in the marginal third, 

 otherwise grey, watered with black, with 2 dentate bands bordered with bluish-black. From Arizona to Colombia. 



R. tehuacana sp. nov. (169 b) I as yet consider to be a distinct sijecies, since there are also typical ea.sica ichiKirana. 

 before me from the same district. It greatly resembles easica above, but it is of a somewhat duller, greyer tone, 

 with smaller, partly almost extinct hyaline .spots. On the hindwing beneath the white marginal area is much 

 broader, proximally convex, almost without any black dashes, the other space of a pure ashy-grey without 

 the jet-black transverse bands which are merely indicated, and near the proximal margin with 2 whitish spots. 

 The forewing is somewhat more tapering at the apex. From Tehuacan (Puebla). 



R. jalapus PJotz (169 b) is a doubtful species: above blackish-brown with a dark leaden-grey, cin'ved jalupus. 

 antemarginal band, and a similar cell-end .streak, the hindwings with white fringes. Beneatli more reddish- 

 grey with the same marking, but in black; the hindwing is yellowish-brown with 2 blackish transverse bands. 

 The species was described from Jajlapa (Mexico) and is perhaps only a variable M. albociliata (170 c). 



23. Genus: Biiug^alotis Wts. 



Antennal club gradually thickened and extended into a twice as long, fine, scarcely bent tip. The 3rd 

 palpal joint is scarcely visible. Venation as in the preceding genus. The cell of the forewing is covered with 



