EUCEREON. 499 



extending to 4th segment and followed by a more or less prominent 

 series of points, the terminal segment black, broad lateral black 

 fascia3, the ventral snrface pale crimson. Pore wing pale brown ; 

 the basal area with slight black streaks on costal half, prominent 

 streaks on each side of vein 1, and an oblique streak on inner margin ; 

 two antemedial small spots in cell and one on costa ; spots at middle 

 and upper angle of cell, and a streak or two spots in its lower part : 

 a streak below base of vein 2 and two wedge-shaped marks above 

 inner margin ; a series of spots beyond the cell, double between veins 

 7 and 3, then bent inwards and with a large elliptical spot above 

 vein 2 ; a postmedial series of streaks, becoming large dentate marks 

 above veins 2, 5, and 6 with whitish marks between them ; a sub- 

 terminal series of elongate spots and a terminal series of points on 

 the veins. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and terminal ai-ea broadly 

 and irregularly suffused with fuscous ; veins 3, 4 from angle. Under- 

 side of fore wing with white spot in cell, two beyond it, and two 

 between veins 3 and 5 nearer termen. 



Hah. Guatemala {Champion)-, Honduras (Blancaneaux) -, Panama 

 (Champio7i): Godman-Salvin Coll.; Venezuela; Amazons; Peru, 

 Lima. Eap. 38-42 millim. Type t from Para in Mus. Oxon. 



1096. Eucereon pilati. 



Sericaria sylvius, Sepp, Surin. Vlind. ii. pi. 71 (1848), nee Stoll. 

 Eiichrornia pilatli, "Wlk. i. 270 (1854) ; Driice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 86 ; Kirby, Cah. Het. p. 200. 

 Eucereon conjiinctimi, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 649, 



pi. viii. f. 17 (1877) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 200. 



Head and thorax brown ; neck with some crimson ; palpi marked 

 with black ; patagia edged with black ; abdomen crimson, with a 

 dorsal brown patch on first two or three segments followed by one 

 spot or a comj)lete series ; a lateral black fascia ; the terminal 

 segment black. Pore wing brown, with greyish streaks in the inter- 

 spaces ; four fine black streaks on basal area increasing in length 

 towards inner margin ; an oblique antemedial series of striae ; an 

 oblique striga from middle of costa with a spot below it in cell and 

 a streak in lower end of cell, sometimes divided into two spots ; two 

 series of strise in the interspaces beyond the cell, and obliquely 

 curved postmedial and subterminal series. Hind wing fuscous, with 

 the interspaces in, below, and beyond cell semihyaline ; veins 3, 4, 

 5 from angle. 



Hah. Mexico, Yucatan, type cT , Presidio (Forrer) ; Guatemala 

 {Rodriguez) : Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Honduras ; Surinam. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



1097. Eucereon maia. 



Eucereon maia, Druce, Biol. Ceatr.-Am., Het. i. p. 86, pi. 9. f. 13 (1884) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 200. 



Head and thorax pale brown mixed with dark brown ; abdomen 

 crimson above, with dorsal and lateral series of black points, the 

 terminal segment black above, the ventral surface brownish white. 



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