[69] DESCRIPTION OF .EUDAMUS EPIGENA. 181 



XI. DESCRIPTION OF EUDAMUS EPIGENA BUTL. 



Eudamus Epigena BUTLER. Lepidop. Exot., p. 65, pi. 25, f. 6. 1871. 

 Thymele &quot; KIRBY. Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lep., p. 655. 1871. 



Eudamus &quot; &quot; EDWARDS. Cat. Diurn. Lep. N. A., p. 58. 1877. 



Eudamus Orestes LINTNER MS. : non 28th Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. N. H. 



Thorax, abdomen and wings dark brown, nearly unicolored, 

 but rather deeper toward the terminal margin. 



Primaries: costa moderately curved, outer margin nearly 

 straight ; in general shape in the &amp;lt;$ resembling E* Bathyllus 

 of same sex, but in the female with its prolonged secondaries, 

 approaching E. Tltyrus & . Cilia, fuscous on primaries 

 merging into white toward the inner angle ; on secondaries, 

 white with black basilar scales opposite the veins, until to the 

 angle on the internal vein, thence black. Eight transparent 

 white spots on each wing, viz. : three small disconnected 

 anteapical ones ; one triangular cellular spot ; a small one in 

 cell la, touching vein 2 ; a larger double-concave one reaching 

 from vein 2 to vein 3 ; a subtriangular one extending from 

 vein 3 to vein 4; a minute one just above vein 4, equidistant 

 from the margin with that in cell la. 



Beneath : primaries black costally and above the 1 st median 

 nervule (vein 2) outwardly to the white spots remainder, 

 brown ; spots same as above, margined with black. Seconda 

 ries, with the bands much as in Lycidas, except that they do 

 not contrast so strongly with the ground, producing less of a 

 mottled effect ; the outer fourth (third in Lycidas) bordered 

 with white (except at anal angle), traversed by numerous 

 short, wavy, brown lines. 



Expanse of wings : male, 2 inches, female 2.15 inches. 



Habitat. Texas. 



From a pair in the collection of Mr. Otto von Meske, received 

 from Mr. Heiligbrodt, of Bastrop, Texas, to whose faithful 

 labors science is indebted for the discovery of a number of 

 new and peculiarly interesting species of Lepidoptera. 



The above species is of special interest from its uniting the 

 principal features of Bathyllus and Pylades, and the conse- 



