^^•F.0PH^^^IS. 



68i 



vein 4; cilia fuscous with fine gi-eeii line at base and green patches 

 at middle and tornus. Hind wing deep red suffused with greyish, 

 the terminal area with fascous ; traces of a discoidal bar and dif- 

 fused postmedial line ; a waved dark terminal line from apex to 

 vein 2 with some whitish before it and a small white spot on vein 1 

 above tornus ; cilia white tinged with red from apex to vein 2. 

 Underside of fore wing red, the inner area whitish, some slight 

 white marks on costa towards apex and on termen ; hind wing 

 whitish tinged with red, the terminal area red, a red discoidal bar 

 with patch above it on costa and diffused minutely waved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (ScJiaus), 1 2 ; Panama, La Chorrera {Dolhy- 

 Tyler), 1 $ ; Br. Guiana, Potaro K. {Roberts), 1 $ . Exij. 33-42 

 millim. 



Genns ECCLETA. 



Type. 



Eccleta, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. sxvii. p. 86 (1902) ; 



id. Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxs. p. 120 (1906) xuthophanes. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd ratber long ; frons smooth with 

 tuft of hair, a projecting corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennse 

 of male bipectinate with long branches, the apex ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly 

 with scales and with dorsal ridge-like crest ; build rather slender ; mid and 

 hind tibise with tufts of hair at middle and extreuiity ; abdomen without crests, 

 long. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 frora 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3583. Eccleta xutliophanes. 



Eccleta xuthophanes, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxvii. p. 87 (1902), 



S . Head and thorax rufous mixed with blackish; palpi blackish; 

 tibiae and tarsi blackish banded with grey ; abdomen pale orange- 

 red at base, brownish at extremity and on ventral surface. Pore 

 wing grey, largely irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown, the 

 discal and submedian folds tinged with reddish ; subbasal line 



represented by double dark striae from costa ; antemediai line indis- 

 tinct, double, slightly waved and oblique ; orbicular and reniform 

 minute, defined by black, the former round with grey point in 



