230 ARCTIADiE. 



Geinis EURYPTIDIA, nov. 



Type, E. univifta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head, 

 the 1st joint fringed with long hair ; tibia? with the spurs moderate. Fore 

 wing broad ; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell, oblique ; 3 from well before 

 angle ; 4, 5 from angle or separate ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 

 stalked ; 10, 11 free, oblique. Hind wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of 

 cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 4, 5 shortly stalked from angle or separate ; 

 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from before middle of cell 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with very short branches and fasciculate cilia. 

 478. Euryptidia univitta, n. sp. 



Black. Fore wing orange; the costa, vein 1, and inner margin 

 with black fasciae ; a terminal black band expanding very widely on 



Fig. 1.52. — Euryptidia univitta, J. \. 



apical half, its inner edge oblique or rounded from vein 4 to costa. 

 Underside of fore wing vt'ith black discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with black discoidal spot on upperside. 



Bah. Beazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 S type, Castro Paraiia, Rio Grande 

 ■do Sul ; Argentina, Goya (Pemns), 1 $ . Kij). 46 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with orange streaks on basal area and oblique 



postmedial band trifera. 



B. Fore wing with large triangular orange patch basivitta. 



C. Fore wing with the basal half orange ira. 



479. Euryptidia trifera. 



Lama trifera, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 8 (1869), $ ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 408. 

 Lama striata, Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 55, pi. 19. f. 7 (1877), S ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het, p. 408. 



(5 . Black. Fore wing with orange streak from base below 

 costa^ two in cell, and two in submedian interspace increasing in 

 length towards inner margin ; an obliqiie postmedial band from 

 below costa to above tornus. Underside of hind wing with oblique 

 orange fascia from submedian fold before middle to lower angle of 

 cell. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with the fascia also on upperside and on 

 underside extending to inner margin, into the cell and below its 

 lower angle. 



