EUDAMUS. By Dr. M. Dratidt. 855 



it. Body beneath haired greenish-yellow. Porto Cabello. 



E. callicina Schs. is very closely allied to the preceding and is marked the same, above brown, towards ralluAna. 

 the base and at the proximal margin of the hindwing haired olive-yellow; hindwings with traces of 2 darker 

 transverse bands; fringes white. Beneath the forewings are brown with a lighter proximal margin, the hindwings 

 brown, tinted violettish, a proximal, dark, narrow band broken up into spots, and a slightly curved, distal, 

 short band. Expanse of wings: 46 mm. Honduras. 



E. juanita Schs. seems to be closely allied to stylites (160 c), distinguished by lighter, dark speckled juaniia. 

 fringes; the vitreous spots are arranged like there, whitish. Hindwings haired olive. Under surface also like 

 in stylites, but at the costal margin near the base of the hindwing there is yet a brown spot, and the distal 

 band is more undulate. Expanse of wings: 38 mm. Rio de Janeira. 



E. platowi Plotz (160 c) is larger than stylites, above similarly marked, but with larger purely white platovn. 

 hyaline spots, of a deeper black ground-colour and extensive olive-green hairing on the body and bases of the 

 wings. Fringes of the hindwings whitish, speckled dark. Beneath easily chscernible by the large, browTiish- 

 black discal area being distally irregularly defined, containing a whitish middle luna and being bordered towards 

 the proximal angle by a whitish, short band. Patria unknown. Perhaps an aberration from proteus. 



E. megaeles Mab. is very closely allied to 'platowi and exhibits the same hyaline spots. Druce takes megaeles. 

 be it to a form of esmeraldus with confluent spots on the hindwings beneath; forewings below the apex sharply 

 angled, fringes of the hindwings unicolorously dirty grey, hindwings blackish as far as the costal margin with 

 a light middle luna and the marginal area tinged light yellowish-green and lilac. Brazil. 



E. metophis Latr. (160 d) is above not unlike proteus (160 b), but with a shorter, broad tail and mostly metophis. 

 only 2 or 3 discal hyaline spots. Hindwings extensively haired olive-green. Beneath brown with a light proximal 

 margin of the f orewing ; hindwings dark brown with white fringes and a yellowish-white, narrow band parallel 

 to the border, touching neither the costal nor proximal margin. Distributed in South America. 



E. jethyra Btlr. (160 e) is not be mistaken for any other species owing to the extensive ochreous colon- jethyra. 

 ring above and the large ochreous-yellow discal spots; also the fringes of the hindwings are yellow, speckled 

 darker. On the under surface allied to zilpa. From Peru. 



E. harpagus Fld7\ (160 e) is probably the largest species, on the body and base of the hindwings Jiarpagus. 

 haired slate-blue. Under surface of hindwings of a deep blackish-brown with a violettish-grey distal area parted 

 by a band of the groundcolour with 3 proximally projecting teeth. Colombia. 



E. albofasciatus Heiu. (160 d). Above like zilpa, but the angle below the apex of the forewing does not aTbofascia- 

 project so much; beneath unmistakable by the broad, silvery white transverse band. In Central America wide- '"*• 



spread and mostly common; to the north as far as Texas and Arizona. 



E. simplicius Stoll (= pilatus Plotz, procne Plotz) (160 e) is the most common and most insignificant runpUcius. 

 species, above miicolorously blackish-brown, without any spots, beneath likewise brown, on the forewing with 

 2 light costal-marginal spots, and on the hindwing with 2 partly interrupted blackish diffuse bands and an 

 isolated spot at the costal margin near the base. — eurycles Latr. (= zagorus Plotz, zalanthus Plotz, sumich- eurydes. 

 rasti Scdd.) (160 e) is certainly only a subform differing by the presence of a narrow, yellowish- white oblique 

 band and 3 or 4 small apical streak-spots. There are numerous transitions. From Texas through the whole 

 of Central and South America. — ab. latipetinis Mab. is larger, the wings broad and lustrous. The median Jatipennis. 

 band composed of 5 spots, broader, before the apex 4 or 5 punctiform spots in one line; hmdwing beneath at 

 the base with 2 very small spots and the fringes almost white; the tail is broad and very long; the (J without 

 a costal fold. Colombia and Guiana. 



E. gracilicanda Plotz (161 e, f) is like simplicius above and beneath brownish-grey, without any hyaline gmcili- 

 spots, with a finer, longer tail. Beneath the proximal margin of the forewing is lighter, on the hmdwing the canda. 



costal-marginal spots are absent, the 2 transverse bands are passing through to the costal margin, the proximal 

 margin darkened. Patria unknown. 



E. carmelita H.-Schdff. (161 b) greatly resembles eurycles, above different by a somewhat broader carmeUta. 

 white band and a small spot outside in the middle of it in the angle between the median and radial vein. Beneath 

 the hindwing exhibits an antemarginal violettish-grey baiid as broad as the similarly colom-ed fringes. Erom 

 Brazil. ■ — trebia Mschlr. (161 b, c) is quite similar, but of a blacker ground-colour, the median band broader, trehia. 

 more coherent, the apical and subapical dots, 6 in number, form a curved line. Hindwing with a white band 

 extending from the costal angle to the tail-appendage; hardly separable from carmelita. — nigricauda G. d: S. nigricauda. 

 differs from typical carmelita by the hyaline band of the forewing being straight, coherent and broader, from 

 trebia by 5 subapical dots arranged in a straight line running parallel to the median band. Beneath the -nhite 

 band of the hindwing is broader than above. 



