EACHIPLUSIA. 



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Aving- greyish suffused with red-brown with a golden cupreous gloss, 

 the medial area with a darker patch below the cell ; subbasal line 

 represented by two faint brown striae from costa and a curved 

 blackish mark below the cell ; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 red-brown, excurved above vein 1 ; orbicular indistinctly defined 

 by whitish except above, oblique and rather quadrate ; an oblique 

 silvery Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail hardly dilated; 

 reniform with indistinct pale outline with slight brown marks 

 beyond it and in its lower part, constricted at middle ; an oblique 

 brown shade from costa to lower angle of cell and traces of an 



F'ig. 106. — Eachijol'usia im, (^ . 



oblique sinuous line on inner area ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 double, red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 

 minutely waved, somewhat angled inwards at vein 2, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line dark with an oblique 

 cupreous brown shade from apex to it at vein 7 then defining its 

 inner side, the line bent outwards at vein 7, angled inwards at 

 discal fold and excurved below veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series 

 of brown striae ; cilia intersected with brown at the veins. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with cupreous red-brown, the terminal area 

 cupreous red-brown ; cilia whitish with a red-brown line near base. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma consisting of a U-shaped mark 

 with spot beyond its lower extremity, sometimes much reduced. 



Ab. 2. atrata. Fore wing nearly uniformly suffused with 

 blackish. 



Hal). Para&uat, Sapucay (Foster), 1$ ; Uruguay (Darwin), 

 1 (S type detrusa ; Argejvti^'a, Goya (Perrins), 2 $ , Buenos 

 Ayres (O. Thomas, Wilkinson), 1 J , 3 5 , Eioja (G-iacomelli), 1 J ; 

 Chili (Cuming, Edmonds), 2 S type fumifera, Callao (J. J. 

 Walker), 1 S , Coquimbo (J. J. Walker), 5 S , Chilian (Elwes), 

 1 ? . Ex^J. 30-36 millim. 



Larva. Izquierdo, Notas, Lep. Chile, 1895, p. 47 (1896). 



Food-plant, Erigeron. 



