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whitish ; the tuft of hair in fold of inner area creamy white ; the 

 underside with the white area below and beyond the cell more 

 extensive. 



Hab. Bn. Honduras, Belize, type f J in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



861. Episcepis inornata, insert (syn.) : — 

 Episcepsis doddba, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxviii. p. 230 (1910). 

 6 . Tegulae with more or less prominent crimson spots on their 

 outer edges ; abdomen with ventral white patch on basal segments. 

 2 . Sometimes with a few crimson scales on outer edge of tegulae ; 

 abdomen without white on ventral surface. 



862 a. Episcepsis frances. (Plate XIII. fig. 3.) 



Ejiiscepsis frances, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus> xxxviii, p. 230 (June 7th, 



1910). 

 Episcepsis redunda, Schaus, A.M.N.H. (8) vi. p. 190 (Aug-. 1910). 



<5 . Head and thorax fuscous tinged with grey ; the back of 

 head and shoulders with paired crimson spots ; fore coxse crimson 

 in front; abdomen metallic blue with the hair on dorsum of basal 

 segments greyish fuscous, the ventral surface with white patches on 

 1st three segments. Fore wing uniform fuscous tinged with grey. 

 Hind wing fuscous black, the lower part of cell and interspaces just 

 below and beyond it with semihyaline white streaks. Underside of 

 fore Aving with white streak below base of subcostal nervure ; hind 

 wing with the lower part of cell and area just below and beyond it 

 and the basal inner area white. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with the white on underside reduced. 



Hab. Mextco, Sta. Rosa, 2 J co-type redunda ; Costa Rica ; 

 Venezuela, 1 5, Caura Valley (Klages), 1 6 ; Fb. Guiana; 

 Bk. Guiana (Rodway, Kaye), 3 <$ ; Peru. Exp. 32-36 millim. 



863 a. Episcepsis vinasia. (Plate XIII. fig. 4.) 

 Episcepsis vinasia, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 189 (1910). 



<3 . Head orange with black point on vertex ; palpi and lower 

 part of frons grey-black ; antennae black ; thorax grey-black, the 

 tegulae orange at base and on outer edge, the patagia edged with 

 grey; fore coxse orange in front; abdomen metallic blue with 

 large patch of fuscous hair at base, the ventral surface white with 

 the extremity black. Fore wing grey-black ; the veins, discal 

 and submedian folds streaked with pale grey. Hind wing black 

 slightly shot with blue; semihyaline white streaks in, below, and 

 beyond lower part of cell ; the tuft of hair in the fold on inner area 

 ocbreous ; the underside with the semihyaline area white and 

 confluent with a white fascia on inner area. 



Hab. Costa Pica, Juan Vinas {Schaus), 1 J. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



