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forewmg is very long, the transverse vein oblique, rectilinear; the middle radial rising nearer to the lower one, 

 the lower median vein near the base, the upper one twice as far away from the latter as from the lower radial. 

 On the hindwing the middle radial is absent, the submedian vein terminates into the more or less long tail. A 

 great number of partly very similar species is distributed in Tropical America. About 80 forms are described; 

 the animals are throughout dark brown, mostly with an oblique row of discal hyaline spots in the forewing. 

 They very actively suck from flowers of all kinds and are, as a rule, not timid. Their flight, however, is very 

 rapid. In sitting on a blossom, they always keep their wings half opened. Many are rather common. 



E. dorantes Stoll (= amisus Heiv., protillus H.-Schdff., rautenbergi Skinn., kefersteini Plotz) (160 a). dorantes. 

 A rather variable species, above olive-grey with a more or less brown tinge, in the disk with 5 square, yellowish 

 hyahne spots, the 4 proximal ones of which extend in a line from the middle of the costal margin to the proxi- 

 mal angle and occasionally form almost a band; near the apex there are besides 3 minute hyaline dots, 

 mostly a fourth at some distance below them. The under surface is light greyish-brown, on the hindwing often 

 with violet or bluish-grey tints, 2 dark costal-marginal spots, 2 broader, undulate, antemedian and postmedian 

 transverse bands and one narrower, submarginal band. — In the form velinus Plotz (160 a) from Bahia, which velinus. 

 is not well reproduced by the figure, the hindwings beneath are of a darker violettish-grey with much narrower, 

 distinct transverse lines, the distal spot of the costal margin being absent, the submarginal band terminating 

 dark as far as into the border. Very widely distributed from Texas, Arizona, California, and Mexico to Venezuela: 

 everywhere very common. 



E. galbula Plotz (160 b) is a very similar species with narrower, more stretched wings; the middle rjalbula. 

 discal macular band is placed more steeply, the 5th spot is more remote from it, the fringes are more profusely 

 speckled light and dark. On the under surface the inner-marginal part of the forewing is almost white, the 

 bands of the hindwings are less dentate, the whole surface not so indeterminate, the border darkened in uniform 

 width. From Brazil. 



E. Santiago Luc. (= cariosa H.-Schdff.) (161 a). Above darker blackish-brown with much smaller, Santiago. 

 otherwise similar hyaline spots. The under surface is likewise much darker, particularly in the basal area almost 

 purple-black, the transverse bands are more dentate and extend to the costal margin, the proximal one being 

 united with the distal spot at the costal margin. — retractus Plotz from Venezuela, St. Vincent and Grenada, retracius. 

 is presumably of the same species, of a more compact shape, with a shorter tail, and above the discal spots 

 have almost disappeared. The typical form flies in Cuba. — larius Plotz (= corydon Btlr.) is said to differ lariws. 

 from typical Santiago by its broader wmgs, the row of vitreous spots being more complete. 



E. galapagensis Williams is quite similar to Santiago (161 a), but not quite so dark, and the spots are galapagen- 

 arranged the same, but mostly larger. Beneath the violet spot in Santiago is here of a lilac tint ; the tails of the ^^' 



hindwings are shorter (only 3 mm). Chatham Island, Galapagos; common, from January to April and again in 

 August; fond of resting in the shade of craggy rocks. 



E. cenis H.-Schdff. (160 a) is a species with shorter tails and a rounder costal angle of the hindwings ; cenis. 

 above similar to galbula (160 b), but the hyaline macular band is narrower, and on the hindwing there appears 

 a darker median band. Beneath likewise similar, but the inner-marginal area of the forewing is not so light. 

 Colombia. — athesis Hew. has grey fringes and a lighter under surface. afhesis. 



E. procerus Plotz (160 b). In this species the hyaline spots of the disc, which are here of a pm-e white, procerus. 

 not yellowish, are placed together in to a broad oblic^ue band, also the apical spots rather large, the fringes 

 of the hindwing yellowish, not speckled. Beneath similar as galbula (160 b), the proximal median band confined 

 to a dark cell-spot, both the costal-marginal spots are entirely absent, the distal band is interrupted in the lower 

 half. From Peru. 



E. athletes Fldr. is allied to proteus (160 f), but the wings are broader, hindwings in the anal area athletes. 

 less elongate, the tails more slender and of a smaller shape. Basal part of the wings above with olive hau-, 

 forewing with 4 discal spots arranged in one line, and with another distal one; 3 small ones near the apex. 

 Hindwings beneath brown, densely dusted violettish-grey ; double subcostal spots, 2 shortened bands blackish- 

 brown, dusted brown with grey margins and an obsolete, undulate submarginal stripe. Colombia and Brazil. 



E. proteus L. (= domingo Scudd.) (160 b) is a well-lcnown, common species, easily recognized by protons. 

 the green hairing of the basal part above particularly in the hindwing. The forewing exhibits a yellowish discal 

 oblique band which is almost extinct in the form proteoides Plotz from Florida and the Antilles. Beneath the proteoides. 

 hindwings exhibit, on the dark brown ground, 2 thick darlv transverse bands and mostly an isolated costal- 

 marginal spot between both. — estneraldus Btlr. is presumably only a large species with a brighter metallic esmeraUus. 

 green reflection on its body and base of the wings from more southern habitats, in -s^^hich the distal band of 

 the hindwing beneath is parted by white. • — proteus is found in North America in the Atlantic States and from 

 Mexico almost through the whole of South America. The larva is green, posteriorly reddish with a red-brown 

 head and light lateral stripes. It lives between two leaves of Glyciniae being joined together and on other Papi- 

 lionaceae. 



