418 ARCTIADiE. 



female; tibiae with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 from bejond middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing with white fascia below cell joined by an oblique 



maculate band from below apex risoma. 



B. Fore wing without white fascia below cell or maculate 



band. 



a. Abdomen red above. 



a'. Fore wing with costal fascia. 



u^. Fore wing with the costal fascia yellow antica. 



b'-. Fore wing with the costal fascia white albicosta. 



Z/'. Fore wing without costal fascia. 



ar. Hind wing with crimson patch on inner area perlevis. 



b'^. Hind wing without crimson patch on inner area. 



a?. Fore wing strongly irrorated with brown expressa. 



h^. Fore wing uniform brownish murina. 



c^. Fore wing white, tinged with fuscous bolteri. 



b. Abdomen orange above. 



rt^. Fore wing grey-brown effle. 



b'-. Fore wing brownish white with the veins white oregonensis. 



c. Abdomen whitish above pudens. 



]978. EuchaBtes rizoma. (Plate XLYIIL fig. 21.) 

 Thagoptera risoma, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 140 (1896). 



2 . Head and thorax black ; frons with white band; basal joint 

 of antennae crimson ; shoulders with white bands, patagia with 

 white stripe ; sides of thorax crimson ; coxse with crimson points ; 

 abdomen crimson, with dorsal black fascia formed of triangular 

 patches and with dorsal bands on last four segments, a lateral series 

 of spots, the ventral surface black with sublateral series of white 

 spots. Fore wing fuscous black, with white fascia below the cell, 

 then running as a series of spots in the interspaces to just below 

 apex ; subtermioal strite above veins 2 and 3. Hind wing fuscous 

 black, with some crimson at base ; three obliquely placed white 

 subapical spots sometimes much reduced, a postmedial spot or a 

 patch or fascia from base often present in submedian fold. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Paraiia, 1 5 . Exp. 42 millim. Type t in 

 Coll. Schaus, 



1979. Euchs&tes antica. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 7.) 



Halesidota antica,W\\.Vu. 1708 (1856); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. 



p. 365 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 211. 

 Euch(Etc& zonalls, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 131 (1882) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 236. 



2 . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; back of head with crimson 

 spots ; teguhe in front and stripes on shoulders yellow ; fore coxfe 

 crimson behind ; abdomen crimson with dorsal black bands, the 

 anal tuft yellow or tinged with yellow, the ventral surface fuscous 

 brown ; fore wing with a yellow costal fascia narrowing to a point 

 before apex. 



