EUCEREON. 



491 



and metathorax with black spots ; abdomen black, with orange 

 lateral spots on segments 3 to 7. Fore wing black, with irregular 

 white basal patch ; an oblique antemedial bar with angled outer 

 edge from subcostal nervure to vein 1, with a small streak above it ; 

 a lunate medial mark on median nervure, almost conjoined to a 

 very irregular mark from vein 3 to inner margin, with a hamate 

 mark above it ; a point beyond upper angle of cell ; an irregular 

 curved postmedial band from costa to vein 2, with slight oblique 

 streak below it ; some small, irregularly placed, subterminal spots 

 and two larger spots on termen at apex and below vein 2. Hind 

 wing hyaline, the veins and a terminal band black, the latter 

 expanding towards costa ; vein 5 from above angle of cell. 



Hah. EcuADOE, Loja ; Bolivia, Chaco {Garlepp)^ 1 S- Ea2>. 

 44 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Abdomen with orange lateral spots on segments 3-5 

 only ; fore wing with the white markings more extensive. — Peeu, 

 Chanchamayo. Coll. Staudinger. 



*1078. Eucereon appunctatum. 



Eucereon appunciata, Dognin, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ix. p. clxxv (1892) ; id, 

 Lep. Loja, pi. 8. f. 8 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 905. 



5 . Black-brown ; neck with crimson ring ; abdomen crimson 

 above, the first two segments brown. Pore wing with the veins 

 paler ; a white spot below base of cell ; a small quadrate spot in 

 end of cell ; a reniform spot beyond the cell between veins 10 and 5 ; 

 an indistinct curved subterminal series of whitish points. Hind 

 wing fuscous, whitish towards base ; prominently so on underside. 



Hah. Ecuador, Loja. Ex^.'^A millim. Type t in Coil. Dognin. 



1079. Eucereon rosa. (Plate XVI. fig. 17.) 



Euchromia rosa, Wlk. i. 271 (1854) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 86; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 200. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown ; vertex of head with two crimson 

 points ; coxse orange-yellow ; abdomen crimson, with the 1st segment 

 brown and with lateral brown fasciae, the ventral surface yellow, 

 Eore wing dark red-brown ; the veins pale yellowish : a pale curved 

 antemedial line ; a pale spot in cell ; a pale postmedial line angled 

 at vein 6 and sending a spur to join the subterminal line at vein 7, 

 angled inwards on vein 5, excurved to vein 3, then strongly incurved 

 to middle of inner margin : a pale dentate subterminal line angled 

 outwards to margin at veins 5 and 2. Hind wing dark fuscous. 



Fore wing with vein 6 below angle ; hind wing with vein 5 from 

 above angle. 



Hah. Honduras, 1 $ type; Brazil, Castro Paraiia, 1 cS ^ Coll. 

 Schaus. Exp. 28 millim. The type has the fore Aving much ru])bed 

 near base. 



