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thirds of the wing : secondaries hyaline -white, with a broad black-brown outer border ; costal 

 area pale greyish brown ; the veins and the borders of the hyaline area metallic green. Head 

 and thorax black-brown ; the head, collar, and tegulse spotted with metallic green ; abdomen 

 greyish brown with greenish reflections ; a dorsal metallic-green stripe, and green and whitish 

 lateral stripes : coxa; and trochanters of first pair of legs white; tibise with a green stripe ; 

 venter sordid white. Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. 

 St. Paulo {Bates). 



EUCHROMIA, Hiibner. 



Euchromia leonis. (Plate X. fig. 2.) 



Euchromia leonis, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soe., ZooT. vol. xii. p. 363. n. 4 (187G). 

 Euchromia (Hira) interstans, var. fi, Walker, Cat. Lep. ILt. i. p. 221. n. 28 (1854). 



Smaller and more brightly coloured than E. interstans; the metallic spots all brilliant 

 green, the yellow wing-spots more golden in tint: primaries with the basal yellow patch 

 larger and more oblique ; postmedian quadrifid band rather narrower: basal yellow spot of 

 secondaries more distinct. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. 



Sierra Leone [Foxcroft is; Morgan). 



Enchrornia semiltma. (Plate IX. fig. 8.) 

 Euchromia (Frcgella) semiluna, Walker, Cat. Lep. Set. i. p. 272. n. 127 (1854). 



Wings black-brown : primaries with a creamy ochraccous spot at the base of the costa ; 

 a semicircular band across the base, a nearly straight band across the middle, and an oblique 

 subapical band orange : secondaries with the basal half of costal area and cell pale yellow ; 

 base of interno-median area carmine ; two rounded orange spots just beyond the end of the 

 cell. Body black ; head, collar, margin of tegula?, metathorax, anal segments, and pectus 

 carmine ; segments of the abdomen with posterior blue edges ; collar spotted with lilac. Ex- 

 panse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 



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EURATA, Herrich-Schaffer. 



Eurata picta. (Plate XI. fig. 14.) 



Kurnta picta, Ih m'rli-SeliiiJpr, Avssl. Schmett. i. fig. 52. 



Eurota (tie) pictula, WaUeer, Cat. Lep. Set. i. p. 181. n. 72 (1854). 



Wings black : primaries with the base yellow ; a central bifid hyaline white band, and a 

 second irregular hyaline band 1'rom subcostal ncrvure to outer margin, separated by the 

 black ncrvures into five parts : secondaries with a trilid hyaline spot beyond the cell ; base 

 canninc. Body black; collar oehrcous; abdomen broadly banded with creamy yellow, with 

 the basal segments carmine at the sides; coxae red. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 



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