EUTKHA. 2'5 



C222. Euteiia aMatrix 



Penicillaria ahlairi.v, Guen, Noct. ii. p. 303 (1852). 

 Penicillarta rufatri-x, Wik. xv. 1775 (l858). 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brick-red ; togulie slightly 

 edged with white, the patagia with white bars ; pectus white, the 

 spurs and tarsi banded white and blackish ; abdomen with white 

 dorsal spot on 4th segment, followed by two minute black crests, 

 then a white point, the ventral surface whitish towards base. Fore 

 wing pale brick-red, the costal area irrorated with black to end of 

 cell ; an oblique pale subbasal striga from costa and a black point 

 on vein 1 ; antemedial line white irrorated with black, oblique 

 from costa to discoidal fold in end of cell where it is acutely angled, 

 then inwardly oblique ; a fine oblique white line before it from 

 cell to inner margin ; reuiform white with red spots slightly edged 

 with black in its upper and lower parts and a short white streak 

 before it in discal fold, an oblique white striga above it from costa ; 

 the inner area from just beyond antemedial line to near termen and 



Fig. 13. — Euteiia aUafrix, (^ . \. 



extending to vein 2 and beyond the cell to vein 3, semibyaliue 

 white traversed by four slight waved lines ; medial line excnrved 

 from vein 7 well beyond the cell to vein 4, then double and incurved 

 on the whitish patch ; postmedial line white defined on outer side by 

 brownish and oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is angled 

 outwards, then very indistinct, with white point beyond it above 

 vein 5 and incurved below vein 3, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line white and incurved from costa to just below 

 vein 6 near termen, then almost obsolete to vein 3 and straight to 

 tornus ; the apex grey with small terminal dark lunules defined by 

 white and dark patch at vein 6 ; cilia white at base except at 

 middle. Hind wing hyaline white, the terminal area brick-red ; 

 traces of some postmedial black points on the veins and two black 

 strias at inner margin near tornus ; cilia with a fine white line at 

 base ; the underside with the costal area ochreous white slightly 

 irrorated with black and blackish spots just beyond middle. 



2 . Much deeper crimson-red ; fore wing with the patch on inner 

 area much less hyaline, yellowish on its basal part and whitish 

 outwardly. 



Hah. Panama, La Chorrera (Dolby -Tyler), 1 d* , 1 $ ; Jamaica, 

 1 ^ ty ])e riifatrix ; }i>LiTi (Tweedie),' 1 5 ; Sta. LtrciA (Cowte), 2 J, 

 1 o ; Grenada (//. H. Smith), 1 $ E.vp. 30 millim. 



