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1103 a. Eucereon xanthura. (Plate XIX. fig. 7.) 



Eucereon xanthura, Schaus, A.M.N.H. (8) vi. p. 192 (1910). 

 Eucereon schausi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 175 (1912). 

 Eucereon apicaflava, Kaye, Ent. Rec. xxii. p. 115 (1914). 



Head greyish fuscous, the frons with white bar above, the basal 

 joint of antenna? white in front, the back of bead with pair of 

 yellow spots ; thorax grey mixed with white, the patagia with 

 black streaks and white edges, the dorsum of thorax with pair or 

 white stripes ; pectus and legs fuscous, the femora and base of 

 niitl tibia? streaked with white; abdomen fuscous, the extremity 

 yellow, sublateral series of white patches except on terminal seg- 

 ments. Fore wing white, the veins, discal and submeclian folds 

 streaked with black; antemedial line with oblique black bar from 

 costa, then slight and angled inwards on median nervure, then 

 almost obsolete and angled outwards at submedian fold ; an oblique 

 black lunule from costa to lower angle of cell with some white in 

 centre ; postmedial line represented by a series of short black dashes 

 on the veins, oblique fromcosta to vein 4, then very obliquely incurved 

 to middle of inner margin and with traces of a line between them ; 

 subterminal line black, with spot at costa, angled outwards below 

 veins 7 and 6, bent outwards to near termen from above vein 4 to 

 vein 3, then bent inwards to vein 2 and outwards to tornus, at 

 vein 3 connected by an oblique bar with the termen ; a black spot 

 on costa before apex. Hind wing whitish tinged with fuscous, 

 the terminal area darker, the veins slightly streaked with black ; 

 the underside white with the veins, costal area, and terminal area 

 to vein 1 suffused with fuscous. 



Ilab. Mexico, Jalapa {Schaus), type f 6 schausi in Coll. 

 Rothschild; Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), 1 2; Colombia, 

 Don Amo (H. II Smith), 3 6 , Sierra del Libano (II. II. Smith), 

 1 § ; Ecuador, Paramba ; Venezueea, Caracas, type t apicaflava in 

 Coll. Kaye; Brazil, Rio Janeiro, Tijuca (Wagner), 2 £. Exp. 

 44 millim. 



*1105a. Eucereon tessellata. (Plate XIX. fig. 8.) 



Eucereon tessellation, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 175 (1912). 



6 ■ Head and thorax brownish grey, the back of head with pair 

 of orange spots; palpi, frons, and antennae black, the last brownish 

 grey towards base; teguke and patagia edged with black, the 

 prothorax with black streak; pectus and legs black-brown, spots 

 on shoulders and coxa? orange, some whitish below the wings and 

 on extremities of femora and base of tibia?; abdomen orange- 

 yellow with dorsal black-brown patch on basal half and the 

 extremity black, the ventral surface black-brown with yellow 

 patch on basal half. Fore wing brownish white, the veins streaked 

 with blackish; the basal area suffused with black-brown below the 

 cell; antemedial line blackish, forming a streak on costa, angled 

 outwards on median nervure and very strongly excurved below 

 submedian fold ; a diffused oblique black-brown bar from middle 



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