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arcuate stripe, and behind tliis a series of small dark subniarginal spots. The hindA\ing exhibits at the end 

 ef the upper mediaa vein an angle, a small tooth or even a stronger tooth. Guiana, Colombia and Lower Amazon 

 (Santarem), not common. • — Tailed specimens from Muzo (Colombia) already form a transition to the very 

 similar, likewise one-coloured dark-brown angulata Bates (122 e) from the Upper Amazon; here the tooth of anguMa. 

 the hindwing is protracted in the shape of a lobe and also the border of the forewing is drawn forth angularly 

 Eare. — clesa Heio. (122 e) is the largest form of the species; it lies before me in but one ^ from Rio de Janeiro desa. 

 where it is apparently very rare. The hindwing is broken almost rectangularly, with a very strong canine tooth, 

 on the under surface the shadowy thransverse line is thinner, the one between it and the border of the hind- 

 wing is absent altogether, as well as the spots before the margin. 



E. modesta Bates from the Rio Tapajoz is known to me only from the description; it is above darker, modeslu. 

 beneath lighter brown, the forewing clipped at the apex, behind the middle somewhat brighter; hind-«ing 

 rounded at the anal angle. The transverse line beneath is somewhat darker than the ground-colom'. Size of 

 angulata. 



E. amphidecta G. and 8. (122 b). The upper surface has large red-brown, discal, diffuse spots the amphidecta. 

 shape and distribution of which remind us of the yellowish-red of labdacus, but the under siirface is marked 

 almost like in crotopus or angulata, of a yellowish colour, with a transverse stripe running parallel to the border. 

 The ^ is no rarity in the southern parts of Central America (Veragua, Chiriqui) and Colombia (Muzo, Cundina- 

 marca). The 5 is not yet known, and it is, therefore, not unlikely that it is a (J-form of the following species 

 flying at the same places (for instance, on the Chiriqui). 



E. euploea Heiv. Size and shape like amphidecta, the under surface also similar, but the upper surface euptoea. 

 in the (J of a fiery red-yellow as in labdacus (122 b); on the border of the hindwing, between the veins, there 

 rest the bases of black triangles the points of which show in the direction of the base. Amazon. Not before me. 



E. cucuta Schs. Forewing dark brown; a large, dark red spot extending somewhat mto the cell and cucuta. 

 along the vein 3, but not reaching the distal margin; beneath the subcostal, at the base of the cell, a short 

 red streak. Hindwings dark red, costal margin and inner margin brown. Under surface bro-miish grey, a 

 reddish median line being bordered in black and cruved near the inner margin of the hind^ning; before the 

 border a narrow brownish shade. Hindwing with a light-brown distal margin; between the veins 3 and 4 a 

 black spot behind bordered in white; beneath the vein 2 two yellowish, black-speckled streaks ending in white, 

 a similar one above the anal angle; the outermost border darker, beneath vein 2 ochreous. 22 mm. Cucuta, 

 Venezuela. 



E. cheles G. and 8. (122 c) (as aurantiaca). Only the 5 is known and most variable. Above yello- cheles. 

 wish red with blackish margins of the forewings, the ground-colour with light spots in and behind the cell. 

 The under smrface is pale ochre-yellow, the brownish transverse stripe runs almost quite straight. Before me 

 from Venezuela. — aurantiaca G. and S., from Central America, with transitions from cheles, has much larger aurantiaca. 

 ?? the under surface of which exhibits the very same colours and markings as cheles, but which are above 

 more fiery red-yellow, with a blackish apex of all the wings; between this and the red-yellow basal part of the 

 fore\^ang there is a dark yello v/ oblique band. Godman and Salvin include in this latter form lying before me 

 from the Chiriqui, ^^ being above miniate, beneath earthy grey and looking almost like gyda-^ (122 c), though 

 they are redder and have a black apex of the hindwing. Rare. 



E. leucon 8chs. (142 c) from Costa Rica is somewhat smaller, the $ above dark brown with an orange- leucon. 

 yelloAv disc of the forewing, the (J with a black forewing being only at the base red-brown and a red-brown 

 hindwing with a black costal and distal margin. Under surface with an irregular dark median band and a 

 thinner, duller line traversing the distal area; before the middle of the border of the hin"d^™lg a black small 

 spot tinged with white. 



E. Julia Drc. Larger than leucon. Above the forewings are dark browii, shaded by red-brown from iidia. 

 the base to the middle. Hindwing dark red-brown with a brown distal margui. Under surface dull white, the 

 margins red-brown." Both wings are traversed by a coherent, curved, yellowish-red line which is slightly broken 

 near the inner margin of the hindwing. The forewing is traversed by a delicate brown subniarginal line. Hind- 

 wings with a subniarginal row of 5 black spots being very small except the one next to the costal margin. San- 

 tarem on the Amazon. 



E. labdacus Cr. (122 b). Wings above miniate with broad blackish-brown margins of variable shape*, labdacus. 

 Under surface yellowish- or silvery-white with several brGw^lish-yellow or black transverse lines, the one of 

 which, in the middle of the hindwing before the inner margin, forms a distinct W. Of the $ I only possess 

 one very bad specimen which seems to have been sulphurous, otherwise like the ^, but the under sm'face 

 is duller, yellowish, the transverse lines pale. Larva of a bright brick-red with broad blackish-green subcostal 

 stripes and white points behind the head; on Mammea americana. Pupa green, with brown markings. The 

 butterfly has a range from the northern coast of South America (Colombia, Guiana) to the south as far as 

 Bolivia; the ^(^ are locally not rare. 



E. argentea Hew. (122 g). Above blackish-brown with a red ray from the base of the hindwing as argenfca. 

 far as beyond the anal angle, almost exactly like in hieronymi, but beneath of quite a different appearance, 

 since argentea is beneath silvery with numerous transverse stripes and a yellowish-red anal angle of the hind- 

 wing. The 9 is beneath like the ^, but above blackish-brown with a large orange-j^ellow spot of the forewing 



