506 SYNTOMID^. 



1113. Eucereon pica. (Plate XVII. fig. 21.) 

 Halesidota pica, Wlk. iii. 743 (1855) ; Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Het. ii. 

 p. 358; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 172. 



c? . Head and thorax white ; palpi and a patch on vertex of head 

 black; antennee black, with some white on shaft near base and 

 extremity ; some orange behind the eyes ; black patches on tegulse, 

 shoulders, meso- and metathorax, the patagia edged with black; 

 a slight orange tuft on metathorax; pectus and legs black and 

 white ; abdomen black, with broad maculate orange-yellow lateral 

 stripes almost meeting on dorsum towards extremity ; the ventral 

 surface white except on distal segments. Fore wing yellowish 

 white, with maculate subbasal black band angled outwards on 

 median nervure ; an antemedial black patch on costa conjoined to a 

 rounded spot in cell ; antemedial and medial series of spots below 

 the cell ending in a patch on inner margin, the two spots above 

 vein 1 sometimes conjoined ; two conjoined discocellular spots con- 

 nected with a patch on costa ; an oblique series of spots beyond the 

 cell, the two beyond lower angle displaced outwards, the spot above 

 vein 2 large and wedge-shaped and conjoined to a patch at tornus, 

 the spot on inner margin elongate ; a subterminal spot on costa 

 conjoined to a large V-shaped patch below costa ; small spots 

 between veins 3 and 5; an irregular terminal series of spots, the 

 spots at apex and between veins 3 and 5 largest. Hind wing 

 white, with discoidal fuscous spots ; an apical patch and the veins 

 towards apex black ; the inner margin black ; veins 3, 4 stalked. 



$ , Hind wing with all the veins black and a broad irregular 

 fuscous terminal band. 



Hah. Brazil, Eio Janeiro, 2 J , 1 $ , type. Exp. 44 millim. 



Subsp. 1, figmta, Herr.-Schaff. Aiissereur. Schmett. f. 278 (1855); Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 172. 

 Brycea peruviana, Schaiis, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 283, and Am. Lep. pi. n. 

 f. 16. 

 Fore wing pure white, with all the black markings reduced ; 

 tegula? with black in front only; fore wing with the spots in 

 middle of cell and on inner area before middle somewhat X-shaped ; 

 hind wing fuscous except the interspaces of discal area. 



Hah. Costa Eica ( Undenvood), 2 $ , Godman-Salviu CoU. ; Bkazil; 

 Peru, ty^^ef peruviana in Coll. Schaus. 



1114. Eucereon varium. 



Euchromia varia, Wlk. i. 266 (1854) ; Butl. Ili: Het. i. p. 49, pi. 9. f. 5 ; 

 Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Het. i. p. 84; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 199. 



S . Head and thorax black-brown ; back of head with two orange 

 spots; metathorax with orange and whitish patch: coxae orange; 

 abdomen black-brown, the 4th segment with subdorsal orange 

 patches, the next three orange above. Fore wing black-brown, the 

 veins and lines greyish brown ; a short curved subbasal line ; an 

 antemedial line angled on vein 1 ; a patch ^n end of cell ; a post- 

 medial sinuous line, with a sinuous line inside it between veins 7 



