ECHENAIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 707 



E. eudocia G. d- S. from Mexico resembles tinea, but it is often still somewhat smaller and darker, eudocia. 

 quite unioolorous, with black markings, the light spotted margins scarcely appreciable, the dark fringes of 

 the forewings at 3 places interrupted by white. 



E. lampros Bat. is a little larger than the preceding, recognizable by the more violettish-brown himpros. 

 colour Oi the forewings and the entirely violettish-blue hindwings of the ^. From Teffe on the Amazon. 



E. leucophaea Hbn. (138 i) dirty dark j'^ellowish-brown, the upper surface copiously decorated with leur-ophaea. 

 punctiform streaks, in ftont of the border of the forewing rows of black spots; there are mostly 2 of them, but 

 the submarginal spots may also be single; such a $ was likewise figured, but erroneously termed tinea. Brazil, 

 in sonie districts common; it approximates the following species. 



E. aristus StoU (138 f). Ceamers figure is not distinct, but it seems to represent the most common aristns. 

 species in Surinam, which we figure. Forewings almost like in tinea, dark, indistinctly marked in black, in 

 front of the border a lighter line being particularly distinct in the 2. Hindwings posteriorly white; this white 

 colovu- may be narrower than on our figure (= aristus-'^. E. Sh., cretnta Stick.). 



E. hiibneri Btb-. (138 f), according to Stichel unlike the preceding, has blue-marked fringed) fore- htibne-ri. 

 wings and the ^ exhibits the greater half of the hindwing white; Amazon. — In sordida Btlr. the othermse sordida. 

 bluish marking is darkened. Amazon, Cuiana. — pauxilla Stick, from Peru is said to be smaller and of intense ■panxilla. 

 colours. 



E. alector Btlr. (= violacea Btlr.) (138g, as violacens). Entirely like the figured form mollis Btlr. alector. 

 (138 g) except that in the ^J the disc of the forewing above is t^-aversed yet by a transverse macula.r band; in ""'''"'■ 

 the 9 of alector only the small white band of the forewing is somewhat darker and narrower than in the figured 5 

 of mollis. — glaucobithris Stick, is said to be a ,, transition" of the two, ,,but without the white hinder-marginal glaucohi- 

 diffuse spot of the forewing". The species, moreover, greatly varies, particularly in the intensity and extent ilin.s. 



of the violettish-bhie colour of the ^ upper surface and in the shape of the small white band of the forewing 

 in the 2. From the Amazon to Bolivia, mostly common; in asemna Stick, the violet is almost entirely absent a.semna. 

 on the upper surface. 



E, leucocyana Hlm.-G. This common species from Guiana and the Amazon forms the intermediary leucocyana. 

 between the two preceding species: in the (J the lower half of the hindwing is white, in the 9 not. This form 

 differs from alector-^ by its smaller size, more brownish forewings and by scarcely half of the hindwing being 

 white, not as in alector the greatest part; the 2 resembles a leucopkaea-'^, but it is lighter brown. 



E. hemileuca Bat. Like the preceding, but with narrower wings, lighter greyish-brown, and only the hemUeuca. 

 lower part of the hindwing of the (J white. The transition-area from brown to the white colour is tinged bluish. 

 It is said to occur beside leucocyana in Guiana; it is presumably only a local deviation from the preceding. — 

 Stichel denominates another side-form from the Amazon epixanthe the hindwings of which are broAvn. like epi.m)tthe. 

 the forewings marked in violet. 



E. aminias Heiv. (138 f, as alector). Immediately recognizable by the forewing and hindwing being aminias. 

 of the same design. A violet median band runs broadly through both the wings, being finely dotted and streaked 

 in black. We figure the species from Venezuela, in which the violet is somewhat clearer, the black spottmg 

 of the median band somewhat scarcer than in the type from the Amazon. — From this, on the other hand, 

 the form figured as „catenifera'' (138 h) differs; it is darker than the figure of aminias with Hewitsoi^, the violet 

 colour very dim, the animal itself larger. The comparison with the type, however, resulted in these differences 

 being insignificant, for which reason the name chosen in the table {catenifera) is better not introduced, but 

 replaced by aminias. 



E. balista Hew. (142 f). Dark-brown with black, sparse punctiform streaks and a lighter, black-dotted baUsfa. 

 margin. Beneath greyish-brown, the dotting in the disc more copious, the dots in front of the border with lighter 

 rings around them. Upper Amazon, Ecuador. 



E. argiella Bat. is known to me only from the author's description; apparently exactly like the argiella. 

 preceding, also of the same size, but also above more copiously spotted ; instead of the light, black-dotted marginal 

 band, a series of light, dark-centred rings stands in front of the border. South Brazil. 



E. sejuncta Stick. Unknown to me; it is said to originate from Neu-Freyburg and Rio, allied to hiibneri, sejtnicla. 

 smaller, forewings relatively shorter. (^ above greyish-brown, faintly tinged in a rusty red, towards the margin 

 lighter and redder, spotted like the allied species. Forewings beneath greyish-brown, the spots surrounded 

 by a light tinge, the median row only distally shaded in white; hindwings similarly spotted, the S2>ots in the 

 median area placed together to a zigza.g-line. 2 above somewhat lighter greyish-brown, the marking as in the 

 (J, forewings beneath very much powdered with white. Fringes greyish-brown. 

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E. maUa Scks. is similar, but it differs by the hindwings of the ^ being white in the lower half, and malea. 



by spots above, in the middle of the forewing, forming a dark nebulous band. Panama to Rio de Janeiro. 



