490 SYJflOJIID^. 



1075. Eucereon ol)scuriim. 



Adytia obscura, Moschl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 348 (1872) ; Druce, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 80 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 173. 

 Epanydes stellifera, Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 48, pi. 16. f. 10 (1877). 



Head and thorax black, speckled with white ; fore and mid tibiae 

 and tarsi marked with white; abdomen black, the terminal segments 

 shot with blue. Fore wing bronze-black, with fine markings formed 

 by white scales ; a curved antemedial line with scattered white 

 scales before it ; an aunulus in end of cell ; a postmedial line very 

 highly dentate beyond the cell, then recurved to below middle of 

 cell, bent outwards again and joined by some fine streaks on inner 

 area ; cilia white towards tornus. Hind wing semihyaline, the veins 

 and terminal area suffused with bluish fuscous. 



Hab. Mexico, Tabasco {H. H. Smith) ; Costa Eica (Zurcher) ; 

 Panama {Cliamjjwn), Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Cayenne ; Amazons, 

 R. Jutahi (Trail), type stellifera. Exp. 28-32 millim. Typet in 

 Coll. Staudinger. 



1076. Eucereon maricum. 



Sphinx marica, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 20. F, G (1775) ; Butl. 111. Het. 



i. p. 45, pi. 9. f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 165. 

 Euchromia grylloides, Wlk. i. 271 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 165. 

 Eucerea thalassica, Feld. Eeis. Nov., Lep. iv. pi. 102. f. 18 (1874) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 165. 

 Acridopsis virescxns, Moschl. Yerh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, p. 644, pi. 10. f. 53 



(1877) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 165. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; back of head with two crim- 

 son spots ; tegulae and patagia edged with orange; metathorax with 

 orange patch ; coxae pale crimson. lore wing bluish white ; the 

 veins streaked with orange, the inner and terminal areas suffused 

 with yellow ; some black streaks on basal area, longer towards inner 

 margin ; an obliquely curved antemedial lino from submedial inter- 

 space to inner margin, sometimes joining the basal streak above 

 vein 1 ; a round spot in cell ; a bar across end of cell and spot below 

 angle ; a series of spots beyond the cell, becoming streaks between 

 veins 5 and 3, then bent inwards ; a subterminal maculate band 

 from costa to vein 5 ; a terminal series of irregular spots. Hind 

 wing bluish white ; the veins black, the area from discocellulars to 

 termen black, and a terminal band narrowing to tornus ; veins 3, 4 

 stalked, 5 from just above angle. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with the terminal band narrow between 

 vein 3 and tornus. 



Hah. Amazons, E. Purus (TratZ), 1 S , Para, 2 J , 1 ? . Kvjj., 6 38, 

 $ 42 millim. Type f virescens in Coll. Staudinger. 



1077. Eucereon davidi. 



Galeihalea davuU, Dogniii, Le Nat. (2) iii. p. 14 (1889) ; id. Lep. Loja, p. 48, 

 pi. 4. f. 4 ; Kii-by, Cat. Het. pp. 172, 904. 



c? . Head and thorax white ; vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, 



