ERATEINA. — ERILUS.A . (i 1 



ERATEINIDJS. 



ERATEINA, Boubleday. 

 Erateina cometaris. (Plate XX. fig. 6.) 

 Erateina cometaris, Butler, Ann. $• Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xii. p. 229. n. 35 (1873). 



Wings above with basal half greenish cinereous, with bronze reflections ; apical half 

 black : primaries with a nearly central abbreviated oblique white band : secondaries with a 

 white oblique line; a red spot near anal angle; fringe varied with white. Wings below plum- 

 coloured ; ncrvures of basal area and two oblique central bands, broadest on primaries, silver ; 

 an oblique transverse discal golden streak : primaries with the internal area silver ; outer 

 central band hyaline in the centre : secondaries with the golden discal streak abbreviated ; 

 fringe alternately black and white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Huasampilla, Peru {Whitely). 



Erateina discalis. (Plate XX. fig. 7.) 

 Erateina discalis, Butler, Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xii. p. 229. n. 30 (1873). 



Primaries above black ; basal area and a hyaline spot crossing the median branches and 

 end of cell, white ; costal and subcostal nervures red : secondaries white ; a broad black outer 

 border; fringe varied with white. Body black; thorax clothed with whitish hairs; abdomen 

 white-banded above, white below, with lateral red spots : head white ; Irons and antennae red ; 

 palpi and legs black and white. Primaries below plum-coloured ; internal area and central 

 transverse band silvery white ; the band with hyaline centre ; basal half of costa irrorated 

 with orange ; the base and an oblique dash in the cell white : secondaries silvery white ; a 

 spot and two dots in the cell, a large patch on inner margin, a marginal border terminating 

 in front in a quadrate subcostal spot, and spots on the fringe at the terminations of the veins 

 reddish plum-colour, speckled with orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 



Huasampilla, Peru {Whitely). 



MARGARODIDiE. 



ERILUSA, Walker. 

 Erilusa dioptalis. (Plate XX. fig. 1.) 

 Erilusa dioptalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Iht. Suppl. iv. p. 1376 (1805). 



Wings purplish brown, with steel-blue reflections, particularly at the base : primaries 

 with a bifid hyaline sjjot interrupted by the median ncrvure, and a postmedian abbreviated 

 oblique hyaline white baud : secondaries with a broad central hyaline streak from the base to 

 near the outer margin. Body brown, bluish in parts ; below whitish ; collar clay-coloured. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



Ega (Bates). 



