[69] DESCRIPTION OP .EUDAMUS EPIGEHA. 181 



XI. DESCRIPTION OF EUDAMUS EPIGENA BUTL. 





Eudamus Epigena BUTLER. Lepidop. Exot., p. 65, pi. 25, f. 6. 1871. 

 Thymele KIRBY, Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lep., p. 655. 1871. 



Eudamus " EDWARDS. Cat. Diurn. Lep. N. A., p. 58. 1877. 



Eudamus Orestes LINTNER MS. : non 28th Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. K H. 



Thorax, abdomen and wings dark brown, nearly unicolored, 

 but rather deeper toward the terminal margin. 



Primaries: costa moderately curved, outer margin nearly 

 straight ; in general shape in the <$ resembling E* BatTiyllus 

 of same sex, but in the female with its prolonged secondaries, 

 approaching E. Tltyrus $ . Cilia, fuscous on primaries 

 merging into white toward the inner angle ; on secondaries, 

 white with black basilar scales opposite the veins, until to the 

 angle on the internal vein, thence black. Eight transparent 

 white spots on each wing, viz. : three small disconnected 

 anteapical ones ; one triangular cellular spot ; a small one in 

 cell la, touching vein 2 ; a larger double-concave one reaching 

 from vein 2 to vein 3 ; a subtriangular one extending from 

 vein 3 to vein 4; a minute one just above vein 4, equidistant 

 from the margin with that in cell la. 



Beneath : primaries black costally and above the 1 st median 

 nervule (vein 2) outwardly to the white spots remainder, 

 brown ; spots same as above, margined with black. Seconda- 

 ries, with the bands much as in Lycidas, except that they do 

 not contrast so strongly with the ground, producing less of a 

 mottled effect ; the outer fourth (third in Lycidas) bordered 

 with white (except at anal angle), traversed by numerous 

 short, wavy, brown lines. 



Expanse of wings : male, 2 inches, female 2.15 inches. 



Habitat. Texas. 



From a pair in the collection of Mr. Otto von Meske, received 

 from Mr. Heiligbrodt, of Bastrop, Texas, to whose faithful 

 labors science is indebted for the discovery of a number of 

 new and peculiarly interesting species of Lepidoptera. 



The above species is of special interest from its uniting the 

 principal features of Bathyllus and Pylades, and the conse- 



