EUCEREON. 495 



strongly incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal series of spots. Hind 

 "wiog semihyaline, the veins and the terminal area broadly and 

 irregularly suffused with fuscous ; veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 from just 

 above angle of cell. 



Hab. Honduras, I 6 type. Exp. 86 millim. 



1087. Eucereon melanoperas, n. sp. (Plate XYI. fig. 10.) 



Head and thorax dark red-brown ; vertex of head with two 

 crimson points ; coxae pale crimson ; abdomen crimson, with the 1st 

 segment brown, lateral brown fasciae, and the terminal segment 

 brown. Fore wing dark red-1)rown, with llie veins and markings 

 pale purplish ; an antemedial line, angled on median nervure, then 

 excurved ; two pale marks in cell defining the orbicular spot ; a 

 postmedial line, very strongly excurved between veins 5 and 2 and 

 joining the crenulate subterminal line, then strongly incurved to 

 inner margin before middle. Hind wing fuscous, the interspaces 

 in, below, and beyond cell semihyaline ; veins 3, 4 stalked. 



Hah. Amazons, Ega, 1$ (Bates); Eio Purus, 1 S (Trail), type. 

 Exjj. 30 millim. 



1088. Eucereon quadricolor. (Plate XVI. fig. 15.) 



Theac/es quadricolor. Wlk. iii. 722 (1855) ; Driice, Biol. Ceiitr.-Aiii., Het. i. 

 p. 83 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. x>- 202. 



Head and thorax brownish grey ; palpi black, with the end of 2nd 

 and 3rd joints white ; lower part of frons and base of antennae black; 

 tegulae, patagia, and thorax spotted with black ; coxae pale pink ; 

 legs black and white ; abdomen crimson, with dorsal black points 

 and terminal segment black, a lateral series of black spots, the 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore wing brownish grey, with irregular 

 black spots edged by yellowish ; two irregular conjoined sjiots at 

 base and an oblique mark on iimer margin ; an antemedial spot on 

 median nervure ; conjoined obliquely placed spots on costa and in 

 middle of cell; an elongate mark above vein 1; a somewhat 

 S-shaped discocellular mark with spot above it on costa, aspot beyond 

 upper angle and triangular spot beyond cell ; a very obliquely curved 

 postmedial series of spots joining the elongate mark on vein 1, with 

 the spot below costa wedge-shaped and f-he spot below angle of cell 

 larger ; two points below costa towards apex, and a subterminal 

 series between vein 5 and inner margin, the spot above vein 2 larger 

 and the one below it displaced towards base ; some terminal spots. 

 Hind wing dark fuscous brown, with the cilia greyish. 



Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 3 S , type. E,v2)., cS 34, 5 42 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing with all the spots smaller and separate, the 

 elongate mark above vein 1 represented by two spots, and the spot 

 below angle of cell small. Hind wing paler fuscous, the basal half 

 whitish in male. 



Hab. Mexico, J alii'pi\(Trujillo\ Cordova (Bumeli); Costa Rica 

 {Underwood) I Panama (Champion)'. Godman-Salvin Coll. 



