EtJGEAPHIA. 793 



A. Pore wing with the ground-colour creamy white. 



a. Fore wing with the tei'minal area creamy white splende^is. 



b. Fore wing with the terminal area orange-red with broad 



greyish fuscous subterminal and terminal bands irretita.. 



c. Fore wing with the terminal area black effiisa. 



B. Fore wing bronze-green. 



a. Fore wing with orange streaks below costa, on median 



nervure and vein 1 trilinea. 



b. Fore wing without orange streaks ohscura. 



6193. Eugraphia splendens. (Plate CLXXIV. fig. 1.) 



Eugra'phia splendens, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 42 (1896). 



Head and thorax pale yellow ; antennae black ; fore tibiae and the 

 tarsi banded black and white, the mid and hind tibiae with black 

 bands at extremities ; abdomen orange, pale yellow below. Fore 

 wing pale yellow ; an obliquely curved olive- brown line from costa 

 before middle to lower angle of cell where it joins the olive-brown 

 medial line, slightly excurved below costa ; a postmedial olive-brown 

 patch on costal area, its lower extremity connected by a streak with 

 a small spot beyond the cell ; an oblique blood-red bar from lower 

 angle of cell to near tornus with two ocelli on its inner edge, with 

 olive-brown inner parts, silvery blue centres and black outer parts ; 

 an oblique olive-brown fascia suffused with grey from just below 

 apex to beyond lower angle of cell ; cilia pale olive-brown. Hind 

 wing orange, whitish at base ; a small black spot on termen just 

 below apex ; cilia white ; the underside with white mark at apex 

 with small blackish spot before it on costa. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing of male whiter except terminal area and with- 

 out the black spots, of female with oblique blackish streak from apex 

 or large patch on apical area emitting a spur from lower extremity. 

 — Paraguay. 



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 Sapucay {Foster), 1 c? , 2 $ . Exi?. 28-34 millim. 



6194. Eugraphia irretita. 



Eusceptis irretita, Hiibn.Zutr. Ex. Schmett. ii. p. 21, ff. 305, 306 (1823). 

 Noctua melanogramma, Perty, Del. Anim. Artie. Bras. pi. 32. f. 10 (1833). 



Head and thorax pale yellow ; antennae black ; fore femora black 

 on inner side, the fore tibiae and the tarsi black ringed with white, 

 the mid and hind tibiee with black bands at extremities ; abdomen 

 orange, the ventral surface white with some sublateral black 

 spots. Fore wing yellowish white ; an antemedial black line 

 oblique to submediau fold where it is angled, then inwardly 

 oblique ; an oblique black line from costa to the postmedial line 

 at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line black, expanding at costa, 

 obliquely curved from costa to submediau fold where it joins the 

 antemedial line, then outwardly oblique, some silver scales on 



