EUCEREON. 



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with some whitish scales at base and extremity ; obscure series of 

 white lateral spots and ventral bands. Fore wing whitish, thinly 

 scaled ; a short reddish-brown svibbasal band from costa ; two 

 obliquely curved and irregularly dentate antemedial lines ; a pale- 

 centred figure-of-8 shaped discoidal patch extouding to costa ; two 

 irregularly dentate and obliquely curved postmedial lines, the outer 

 expanding into patches towards costa and inner margin ; an obscure 

 irregularly dentate subterminal line expanding into patches at 

 costa, middle and inner margin : some terminal points on the 

 veins and a terminal line. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and 

 terminal line brownish. 



Hah. Ecuador, Loja ; Bolivia, Chaco ((rarZ^j^j/O? 1 d« Exp. 46 

 millim. 



llr?l. Eucereon discolor. 



Eucerea discolor, Wlk. vii. 1040 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 201. 

 Eucereon ruhuha, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xv. p. 46 (1895) ; id. Biol. Ceiitr.- 

 Ara., Het. ii. p. 364, pi. 73. f. 17. 



S . Head black-brown ; frons with metallic blue patch ; thorax 

 and base of abdomen greyish brown and black, the rest of abdomen 

 black, with pale ventral patches on first two segments. Fore wing 

 blackish brown, the inner area pale, conjoined to diffused paleante- 

 and postmedial bands ; a pale spot in end of cell ; obliquely curved 

 obscure dark antemedial, postmedial, and subterminal lines ; three 

 diffused pale spots on termen. Hind wing pale, the apical area 

 and termen suffused with fuscous. 



Fore wing with vein 6 from below angle of cell : hind wing with 

 vein 3 separate from 4, 5. 



Hah. Costa Rica {^Underwood), 1 (^ , type rw^tt^rt, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. ; Panama ; Brazil, Silo Paulo {Jones), 2 2 ? I^io Janeiro. 

 Exjj. 30-46 millim. Type t in Mus. Oxon. 



Subsp. 1. Greyer ; hind wing entirely white except apical area. 



Hah. Bolivia, R. Tanampaya {Garlepp)., 1 $ . Exp. 46 millim. 



*1132. Eucereon nebulosum. 



Eucereon nehulosum, Dognin, Lep. Loja, p. 49, pi. 4. f. 6 (1891) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 905. 



$ . Dark brown ; frons with blue hair ; abdomen paler. Fore 

 wing with diffused grey antemedial band ; a postmedial band some- 

 what curved from costa to vein 3, then interrupted to vein 2, where 

 it is retracted to below end of cell ; a greyish subterminal patch 

 above middle and two above tornus. Hind wing pale seraihyaline 

 brownish, the termen and apical area browner. 



Hah. Ecuador, Loja. Exp. 44 millim. Type t in Coll. Dognin. 



*1133. Eucereon merula. 



Theaqes menda, Dognin, Le Nat. (2) v. p. 278 (1891) ; id. Lep, Loja, pi. 8. 

 f. 9 ; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 905. 



(^ . Bluish grey ; vertex of head blackish ; palpi and patagia 



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