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upright ; third slanting inward from the costa, less distinct and regu- 

 lar than the first and the second, and approaching very near the 

 latter on the interior border ; two indistinct and incomplete pale 

 purple bands between the first and second lines ; reniform mark dis- 

 tinguished by a brown streak ; a cinereous tinge along the exterior 

 border. Hind wings with a white band along most of the black 

 marginal line, interrupted by two deep black spots; two short white 

 black-bordered lines diverging from the outer spot to the disk. 

 Wings beneath with exterior and submarginal denticulated brown 

 lines, the latter broad and diffuse and containing a denticulated 

 whitish line. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Genus 2. EIVULA. 



Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi breves, porrecti, 

 compressi, pilosi ; articulus 3us conicus, minutus. Antennas sim- 

 plices, graciles, corporis diuiidio longiores. Thorax squamosus. 

 Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes squamosi, sat validi ; 

 tibiae posticas intus ciliata?, calcaribus mediis longissimis. Alae an- 

 ticae a pud costam vix convex ae, apice rectangulatae, margine exte- 

 riore subflexo, fimbria lata. 



Eivula, Guen. Belt, et Pyral. 47 ; Herr.-Schaff. 

 Metaxmeste, p., H'ubn. Verz. Schm. 352. 

 Margaritia, p., Steph. 



Body rather slender. Proboscis short. Palpi short, porrect, 

 compressed, pilose ; third joint conical, minute, not one-fourth of 

 the length of the second. Antennae simple, slender, more than half; 

 the length of the body. Thorax squamous. Abdomen not 

 extending beyond the hind wings. Legs bare, moderately stout ; 

 hind tibiae ciliated on the inner side, with very long middle spurs. 

 Wings moderate. Fore wings hardly convex along the costa, rect- 

 angular at the tips ; exterior border very slightly bent in the middle ; 

 fringe broad. 



1. Eivula sericealis. 

 Sordide albida, subsericea ; alee anticce pallide lutescentes, lineis 

 interiore et exleriore obscurioribus undulatis indistinctis, 

 reniformi cinerca nigro notata, margine exterior e fuscescente, 

 punctis marginal lb us albis fusco notatis. 



