228 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



joint very small, conical, not one-fourth of the length of the second. 

 Antennae minutely pectinated, white above towards the tips where 

 they are serrated. Pectus with white spots on each side. Wings 

 long. Fore wings with a white spot at the base, and with four white 

 hyaline spots in the disk ; first spot (from the base) and fourth 

 towards the hind border; second and third smaller and near the 

 fore border; under side and hind wings brownish black, the latter 

 with a single white spot in the disk. Abdomen long, linear, with 

 two white spots above at the base, with two on each side in the 

 middle, and with four beneath towards the base ; tip a little broader, 

 deep red ; appendages testaceous, small. Legs rather long ; coxae 

 and knees with dots of white tomentum ; hind tarsi white, except at 

 the base; fore tibiae dentate beneath ; middle and apical spurs of 

 the hind tibiae moderately long. Length of the body 9 lines ; 

 of the wings 23 lines. 



a, b. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Group 11. ENDEEA. 



Color ad partem metallicus. Corpus sublineare, non latum. 

 Palpi longitudine mediocres ; articulus 2us sat brevis. Alae anticae 

 longae, subangustae, maculis limpidis ; posticae non angulatae. 

 Pedes longiusculi, subgraciles; tibiae posticae calcaribus sat longis. 



Euchromia, p., Hubn. Verz. Schmelt. 121. 



Colour partly metallic. Body nearly linear, not broad. Palpi 

 moderately long ; second joint rather short. Antennae pectiuated to 

 the tips. Wings long, rather narrow, with limpid spots. Hind 

 wings not angular. Legs rather long and slender ; hind tibiae with 

 two moderately long spurs ; first at three-quarters of the length ; 

 second at the tip. 



43. Euchromia Vulcanus. 



Nigra ; thorax albo bimaculatus, subtus albo fasciatus ; abdomen 

 e maculis a/bis quadrivittatum, apice rufo subhirtum ; alee 

 anticce gulta basali alba maculisque octo limpidis, posticce ma- 

 culis tribus limpidis ; femora antica rufo-hirta. 



Euchromia Vulcanus, MSS. 



Black, clothed with black hairs. Thorax with a white spot on 

 each side, and with a white band on the hinder part beneath. Fore 

 wings with a white dot on each side at the base, and with eight lim- 

 pid spots; two near the base ; two in the disk, and four forming a 



