SCEPSIS.— EUCEREON. 49 



SCEPSIS, Walker. 

 Scepsis trifasciata, n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 11.) 



Primaries pale brown ; the veins, base, apex, and external angle black-brown : secondaries 

 hyaline white, with a black outer border, black veins, and a grey costal area. Head and 

 thorax dark brown ; abdomen black : head and collar spotted with carmine ; prothorax 

 spotted with white; abdomen crossed by three yellow bands: body below pale brown; 

 trochanters and a row of spots on each side of the venter, cream-colour; a white streak 

 below proximal end of femora. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 



Jurucua, Rio Purus ; taken September 26, 1874 (J. W. H. Trail). 



EPISCEPSIS, n. gen. 



Allied to Scepsis : shorter in the primaries ; secondaries with two subcostal branches, 

 running close together at their origins ; upper discocellular nearly four times the length of 

 lower, strongly inarched ; radial as usual dividing the discocellulars ; lower discocellular very 

 short and oblique ; second and third median branches emitted close together (not from the 

 same point) at the end of the cell ; first median emitted normally ; body not so long as in 

 Scepsis. Type E. venata, n. sp. 



Episcepsis venata, n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 7.) 



Wings hyaline, the veins black ; primaries brownish, with the apex, base, external angle, 

 margins, and a spot on the discocellulars, dark brown; secondaries hyaline white, with a 

 broad external black border. Body dark brown ; frons white-spotted ; back of head and 

 sides of collar spotted with carmine; abdomen shot with blue, terminal segments above 

 metallic green ; collar below white-spotted ; legs white below, trochanters of first pair rose- 

 red ; venter white in the centre, grey-brown at the sides, with a row of small testaceous 

 spots ; genitalia yellow. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 



Rio Jutahi, near Rio Curnem ; taken January 29, 1875 (/. W. H. Trail). 



EUCEREON, Hulner. 

 Eucereon varium. (Plate IX. fig. 5.) 

 Euehromia (Eucereeon) varia, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 26<i. n. 117 (1^54). 



Primaries black-brown; the veins, two very irregular transverse lines (converging 

 towards inner margin), a lunulated submarginal line, a sigmoidal litura intertwining with the 

 external transverse line, and a basal arched litura, whity brown; a whitish spot within the 

 end of the cell, and another just below the middle of outer margin : secondaries hyaline 

 white, veins and borders black. Body black-brown; collar, a broad transverse band on 

 proximal half of abdomen, and two lateral spots above it, orange ; a whitish spot on meta- 



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