402 XOCTTJIDJE. 



from middle of discooellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base o:ily. 



A. Hind wing without terminal band mncti-johannis. 



B. Hind wing with red terminal band. 



a. Fere wing with the postmedial line not waved and 



curved inwards to costa grata. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line waved and not 



curved inwards to costa. 



ft 1 . Hind wing with black discoidal lunule brevipennis. 



ft 1 . Hind wing without or with slight discoidal spot ... unio. 



4865. Eudryas sancti-johannis. 



Eudryas sancti-johannis, Steph. Brit. Animals in Coll. Brit. Mus. v. p. 312 



(1850), non descr. 

 Eudryas sanctce-johannis, Wlk. ix. 144 (1856); Druce. Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Het. ii. p. 328, pi. 70. f. 8 ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 39. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white ; palpi and frons 

 blackish, the former white at base: patagia with white patches; 

 pectus and base of legs orange-yellow, the rest of legs red-brown 

 mixed with some white, the tarsi ringed wiih white; abdomen 

 orange with dorsal brown spots on basal half, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing white, the basal half suffused with red-brown 

 leaving a white fascia from base of costa and thence below the cell, 

 some yellow suffusion above vein 1 except at extremity of the dark 

 area ; orbicular deep red defined by white, elliptical ; reniform 

 olive, angled inwards on median nervurc ; postmedial line placed 

 towards termen, deep red with an olive band on its inner side 

 with slightly waved inner edge, excurved from costa tor vein 2, 

 then incurved, the area beyond it blood-red with traces of a waved 

 whitish snbterminal line. Hind wiug uniform orange. Underside 

 orange ; fore wing with the orbicular and reniform red. 



Hah. 1 $ type taken at Horsleydown, England; Mexico, Jalapa 

 (Trujillo), 1 c? , Godman-Salvin Coll. Eoap. 50 millim. 



4366. Eudryas grata. (Plate CXLV. fig. 29.) 



Bimihyx grata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. iii. pt, 1, p. 457 (1793); Stretch, Zyg. & 

 Bomb. N. Am. p. 147, pi. 7. f. 1 ; Rilev, Rep. Ins. Miss. v\. p. 88, fig. 22 ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 195 ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 39. 



Eudryas assimilis, Boisd. Rev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 59 (1874). 



Head and a broad dorsal fascia on thorax black -brown with some 

 silvery blue scales ; patagia pure white ; pectus and base of legs 

 white, the rest of legs black-brown, the fringes on fore tibiae with 

 some white mixed and tipped with white, the tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen orauge with dorsal and lateral series of black 

 spots, some white before anal tuft which is black above, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing pure white ; the costal area crimson- 

 red to end of cell and extending to discal fold, irrorated with white 

 and becoming blackish at costa ; orbicular deep crimson, round : 

 reniform crimson and blackish above, its lower part olive and much 

 reduced ; an olive patch suffused with fuscous and irrorated with 

 blue- white on middle of inner margin along: which it extends to a 



